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The Privé Collection 2026 · A Private Experience

Octola

A private wilderness retreat in the forests of Finnish Lapland, taken by one group at a time, with its own woods, reindeer, huskies, and the northern lights overhead through the long winter dark.

A wilderness of your own
Lapland · Finland
Satopia Travel presents A cinematic travel experience In partnership with Octola Photography to come
The Retreat

A private lodge in a forest of its own, for one group at a time.

Octola is a single wilderness lodge set in its own tract of Lappish forest, taken exclusively, so the woods, the trails and the sauna belong to your group alone for as long as you are there.

It sits within easy reach of Rovaniemi yet feels a world away: pine and birch to the horizon, snow deep and silent in winter, the sky clear enough for the aurora to come and go through the night.

Overview The forests of Finnish Lapland
Setting
Forest, Finnish Lapland
Accommodation
10 en-suite bedrooms, sleeps 20–28
Exclusive use
Whole lodge & 700-hectare private wilderness
Getting there
25 min from Rovaniemi airport · helipad on site
In winter
Aurora, huskies, snow & sauna
Satopia experience
Tailor-made, end to end
The lodge in the forest · 4:5
Enquire

Every experience begins with a single click. Tell us when and with who and we'll design a world around you.

Guests The whole lodge, for your group
2
Nights Typically 3 to 6 nights
5
WhatsApp Email Satopia reservations
The Retreat

A lodge, a forest and a sky that puts on a show, and while you are here it is all yours and no one else can come.

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01 Accommodation

A single lodge, private suites, and the fire always lit.

The lodge holds a handful of large suites around shared living rooms, a fire and a table, warm and quiet against the cold outside, with big windows onto the forest and the snow. The lodge holds ten en-suite bedrooms, alongside a two-bedroom Supersuite Villa and the one-bedroom Exclusive Glass Igloo Suite.

You take the whole place exclusively, so there are no other guests, no schedules but your own, just your group, the woods and the long northern light.

The lodge
Private suites, taken as one
Gathering
Fire, table & living rooms
Use
Exclusive, your group only
Around it
Its own tract of forest
A bed with a view · 4:5
02 Culinary

A private chef, and Lapland on the plate.

A chef cooks for your group alone, drawing on the north: fish from the lakes, reindeer and game, berries and mushrooms from the forest, long dinners by the fire after a day out in the cold.

Everything is arranged around your tastes and your timing, with a cellar to match and breakfasts that run as late as the night before demands.

In the lodge
Private chef, full board
On the plate
Fish, game & forest
Candlelit private dining · 4:5
03 Experiences

Huskies, snowmobiles, and the lights overhead.

Winter days are yours to fill: a husky team through the forest, a snowmobile across frozen lakes, cross-country skis, ice fishing, or a still evening waiting out under the stars for the aurora to arrive.

In the light half of the year the same forest turns green and gold, for hiking, paddling and the endless midnight sun.

In winter
Huskies · snowmobiles · aurora
In summer
Hiking, water & midnight sun
Under the northern lights · 4:5
04 Wellness

Sauna, snow and silence, the Finnish cure.

Wellness here is the oldest Finnish ritual: the sauna hot, the snow or the icy lake a few steps away, and the deep quiet of the forest doing the rest. It resets something that city life winds too tight.

Between the heat and the cold and the clean, dark nights, most people sleep as they have not slept in years.

The ritual
Sauna & snow
The setting
Deep forest silence
Sauna over snow · 4:5
05 Service

A small team, and one designer over it all.

At the lodge a private team looks after everything with quiet Finnish ease: the chef, the guides, the person who keeps the fire and the sauna ready whenever you want them.

Behind them sits your Satopia travel designer, who holds the lodge on your dates, arranges the flights and the season, and stays one call away throughout.

At the lodge
A private team & guides
Behind it
One Satopia travel designer
Harnessed and waiting · 4:5
06 Setting

The quiet top of Europe, kept wild.

Lapland is where Europe thins out into forest, lake and reindeer country, a vast, sparsely peopled north that still keeps its old silence and its dark, star-filled skies.

Octola sits inside that stillness with a light footprint, close enough to reach easily, far enough to feel like the edge of the map.

Around you
Forest, lake & snow
The north
Wild & quiet
The Lappish forest · 4:5
Moments

The forest, in motion.

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The lodge glowing against the snow.
A husky team through the trees.
The aurora over the forest.
Sauna, then straight into the snow.
Plan your Experience

What's the forecast?

Everything here is to help you picture it. Your travel designer handles the arranging: the flight and drive from Rovaniemi, the lodge held for you alone, the season chosen to match what you want to see.

When to go
Best · December – March for aurora & snow, June – August for the midnight sun
-13°
Jan
-12°
Feb
-7°
Mar
-1°
Apr
6°
May
13°
Jun
16°
Jul
13°
Aug
7°
Sep
0°
Oct
-7°
Nov
-11°
Dec
RainfallDriest March · wettest July
Aurora & snow · ideal Midnight sun · long days Rainfall trend
For the aurora

The lights, in private.

Your own forest and a dark, clear sky, with nothing to do but wait for the aurora and a sauna for while you do.

For the whole family

A winter wonderland.

Huskies, snow and the magic of the far north, with the whole lodge to yourselves and the children at the centre of it.

For a private group

The lodge, exclusively.

Take Octola for family or friends, with a chef, guides and the forest arranged entirely around your party.

For the summer traveller

The midnight sun.

The other Lapland: green forest, still lakes and endless light, for hiking, paddling and long, bright evenings.

Plan your journey

How far is it from you?

Choose where you would set out from. We'll estimate the flight and how much the time change is likely to ask of you.

The Satopia Advantage™

You choose the place.
We'll do all the planning.

We hold the relationship with Octola, so we can take the whole lodge on your dates and join it to everything around it. From there a single travel designer composes the days end to end. You simply arrive.

What we secure

Exclusive use of the lodge on your dates, the transfer from Rovaniemi, and the winter or summer activities you want.

What we arrange

Every link composed by one travel designer: the flights, the season, the guiding and each day, arranged around your group.

People we bring to you, on request
Wilderness guides
Husky & snowmobile teams
Private chefs
Aurora photographers
Drivers
Lapland fixers

When you're ready, we'll take it from here.

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Satopia Insider

A few things worth knowing.

Drawn from recent guests.

Leave your heavy boots behind

Fly into Rovaniemi and settle into the private transfer vehicle for a quiet drive through the snow-covered forest tracks. Leave your winter wardrobe at home because an entire Arctic outfit is supplied for you here.

Prepare for the ice lake plunge

Make time for an evening at the forest sauna lodge beside the frozen lake. After sitting in the intense heat, step outside into the snow and lower yourself briefly into the icy water.

Extend your stay

Want to make more of it? We'll plan that too.

Octola begins and ends near Rovaniemi, so some travellers make a wider northern journey of it. A few we would pair it with, each arranged as one seamless experience.

Image slotHelsinki · 9:16
Finland

Helsinki, by design

A night or two in the Finnish capital either side: design, sauna culture and the Baltic, an easy bookend to the forest.

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Image slotThe Norwegian fjords · 9:16
Norway

The fjords & coast

West to Norway: the fjords and the coastal light, or the winter hunt for whales off the northern shore.

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Sweden

Across to Swedish Lapland

Over the border for another face of the north: ice, design and the wide Arctic wilderness of Sweden.

Add to your enquiry
Enquire · The Privé Collection 2026

Every experience begins with a conversation.

Tell us who is coming and your dates. We will shape the rest around you. Nothing is booked yet, and we reply within a day.

01

When would you like to come?

Choose one or more months, or tell us you're flexible on dates.

Prime · December to March for snow and aurora, June to August for the midnight sun

02

What's the occasion?

Choose any that apply.

03

An indicative budget?

An estimate of your budget for the whole stay helps us plan your experience. Below is an estimated nightly rate, excluding experience budget, to help you plan.

04

Who shall we reply to?

Included in your experience
  • Exclusive use of the lodge, full board and the cellar
  • The private transfer from Rovaniemi
  • Guided activities, with all cold-weather kit
  • Your Satopia travel designer, throughout
Arranged separately
  • International and domestic flights
  • Some private guiding and special activities
  • Any wider Nordic extension
  • Travel insurance

Octola is taken on exclusive use and priced by the lodge, the season and group size.
We confirm the exact figure for your dates, live, at enquiry.

Private & tailor-made · the whole wilderness lodge Enquire
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