Magic moment ✨ - We thank Creative Vacations and especially Kevin, our French Guide, for these magical moments in Tromsø under the Northern Lights! Memorable evening by the water, at the foot of the mountains with a sky full of aurora borealis from 7.30pm: magnificent! Thanks to Kevin's explanations and the very friendly campfire 🔥 We have stars full of eyes!

Highly recommended - The search for the Northern Lights can be complicated. You get frustrated when you don't see them and that happened to us for five nights in northern Norway. The sixth one we saw spectacular from Creative Vacations. A bit may be luck but another bit (quite) was the handling of the apps that indicated the best place to see them (we went 100 kilometers from where we were) and know how to interpret that data, something that the Guide, Vidar, did very well. And having professional photos taken with the aurora behind you -if you are lucky to find it- is an important plus!

Advantage of a family business. - Family business, very serious. Sylvia is very responsive to our questions. Sylvia greeted us very warmly.pret of Wetsuits and high quality shoes.tripod loan. Small group We were 2 minibuses of 10 people in total Vidar and Kevin take the time to show you the stars and the galaxy... because despite a very clear weather there was very little activity. Vidar chose two sites to do the best with this low activity. Kevin also helps us set our phones. Kevin is French and Vidar speaks it very well.

Remarkable experience - Very good experience, tour with possibility of varied languages and a lot of knowledge of the area and phenomenon of Northern Lights. They give themselves the time to take pictures, wait and search Top-rated places to get the best possible experience. I highly recommend them.

Unforgettable day that remained in my memories - For me, traveling is not only about knowing unknown places, for me traveling is about meeting the people of the country I visit. Both Silvia and Vidar are two excellent people who know and love their land. I'll never forget yesterday. In the morning with Silvia touring the incredible nature surrounding the city of Tromso and in the afternoon night and early morning with Vidar to the "hunt for the auroras" that we finally find. Without a doubt, it is highly recommended to do any activity with them.

Great experiencie And guys - Very friendly And professional guys. I’ll go another time with them. They look for the northern lights till they get it. Very cool.

This tour is quite an experience! - We went on more than one aurora tour and this was more than just a tour, it was an experience! Starting with the place where they took us, a magical spot where we saw a northern lights show! Our guide Vidar made sure that we were informed about everything, took professional photos and even had a delicious dinner in front of a campfire. Vidar is an excellent person and was instrumental in making this experience unforgettable! Thanks for everything!!

Wonderful experience with the aurora - It was an amazing experience! I could not imagine that I could see the aurora in person at my first trial! They are experienced a lot and know the right and perfect spot to observe the aurora. Thanks to them, I could see the aurora and fjord in the calm, peaceful, and even beautiful space. I enjoyed the time we had in front of the wonderful nature. Additionally, He knows a lot not only about the aurora but also traditions and history of Norway. I also enjoyed the story that he told. Thank you so much :)

Amazing experience!! - Thanks to our guides for this wonderful and unique experience. Very professional, friendly and well prepared. Our guides provided us with warm clothing and a hot meal and drinks, as well as tripods for our photo equipment. They chose the perfect spot to wait for the aurora and it wasn’t long until we got to see the beautiful colors in the night sky. I totally recomment the aurora experience with them! It was perfect!

Very poorly planned, 11 hours of wasted vacation time and lost sleep - Let me preface this by saying that I think our experience was particularly poor and that I doubt that Vidar and Sylvia had any bad intentions in making this such a terrible time. It ranks among the worst tours I've ever experienced in my life. However, I feel the need to post this because I want to set the expectation that this could happen to you. I did tours with 2 other companies and learned quite a bit about aurora hunting so knowing what I know now, I don't think my tour should have gone this way, but also, I am so upset by what happened that I feel very compelled to share my experience. Our tour started at 5:30PM and we were back at our hotel at 4:25AM. That's almost 11 hours. First of all, the website states that the tour should end at 3:00AM. And you can imagine how tired we were at the end. Dumb idea on my part, considering we had a 10AM flight the next morning. We piled into the van and per the website we were to drive to their studio which took about 45 minutes (yes, we timed this). Since we weren't briefed on the plan for the evening, we asked where we were planning on going given that it was going to be cloudy pretty much everywhere within a 2 hour drive. Our driver told us we were likely going to end up driving to Finland. Once we were at the studio, we spent about an hour taking a bathroom break and then introducing ourselves, getting cameras set up, and getting sized for thermal suits. This was odd to me because other companies didn't waste any time - they simply asked for our sizes, loaded them into the vehicle, and started chasing right away. This was in the itinerary so I wasn't surprised, but bear that there is a 1.5-2 hour period of time where you're not doing any chasing. In any case, because we were going to Finland for the night, we had already been with the group for almost 2 hours. We passed BACK into Tromsø -- near our starting point -- at 7:15 which put us back at square one. As you can probably imagine, sitting in a cramped van with thermal suits on is not very comfortable, and definitely not for 3.5 hours into Finland. We literally drove to Saarikoski. I have the google map history for this. Saarikoski is 2.5 hours from Tromsø, but 3 hours from their studio. We did stop once for a bathroom break. Meanwhile, we kept asking our driver for more details on the plan. At one point, we asked her how much more driving there would be, and she said about 30 minutes. It ended up being over an hour. By the time we got to the spot where we were going to wait and get the fire set up, it was 10:15PM Tromsø time. Anyway, it was much colder inland, but the skies did end up clearing up over the course of the evening. Too bad though, the Bz value stayed stubbornly high, so there was basically no auroral activity to be seen. We did have nice chicken curry to eat and cookies, but honestly, after so many hours of being cold and tired and frustrated, I was just not in the highest spirits. We left at 1:00AM -- Tromsø time. Even when we got back to Tromsø, they dropped us off in the most bizarre order. We dropped off people in Tromsø, then went past downtown to drop off someone else, then back into downtown again to drop us off which added 20 minutes. We could've walked 5 minutes to our hotel instead, so this made absolutely no sense, given that their studio was already in the direction of the 3rd dropoff. To their credit, I'm sure they were tired too. Looking back, I should've noticed all the red flags. We were told that we should shoot at 8000 ISO, which in my experience and from advice elsewhere will yield an extremely noisy exposure. I don't want a dot matrix for a photo. Second, you cannot possibly focus your camera without something to focus on. I was asked to "prefocus" at the studio and then tape down my focus ring. That's not how you focus for night photos. Yes, you can't be 100% exact because even in the field there is focus drift and whatnot. Third, THE SKIES WERE CLEAR AT TROMSØ when we returned, AND we saw an aurora FROM THE CAR on the way back. WHY didn't we just stay close by? The worst part that this followed the ICON-EU cloud forecast for the evening. WHY weren't they checking that throughout the evening? MAYBE we could have simply started driving back earlier and stopping somewhere instead of wasting our entire evening. We believe that both Vidar and Sylvia have good intentions and know what they’re doing, and while I’m sure that other outings from Creative Vacations have gone better, I can unfortunately only review the experience that I was given.