Karelia greets its guests with crunch of snow, light frost, clean air and winter fun. We will tell you how to spend the New Year's holidays in 2021 in the republic, as well as give prices for cottages and recreation centers, food and excursions.
The nature of Karelia is beautiful at any time of the year. During the New Year holidays, tourists have the opportunity to visit the Karelian Santa Claus in his residence, and the most courageous can feel like real travelers by going on a snowmobile safari to the White Sea. If adventures do not appeal to you, you can always rent a cottage and celebrate the New Year in a quiet family circle in a secluded corner of Karelia.
How to celebrate the New Year in Karelia
There are usually two options for tourists. First - rent a cottage in Karelia for the New Year or settle in a country recreation center and enjoy daily walks to the accompaniment of crunching snow underfoot. In the afternoon - sleigh rides, cheesecakes, snowmobiles or dog sledding, excursions to local attractions. In the evening - family tea-drinking by the fireside after a hot bathhouse. The New Year itself, as a rule, is celebrated in one of the restaurants in the best traditions of the Russian feast, with dances and fun contests.
The second option is hotel accommodation Petrozavodsk is suitable for those who prefer to spend time on educational excursions. In Petrozavodsk, you can walk along the beautiful embankment, go to museums. From there it is convenient to make any voyages around the republic, for example, to go to the Ruskeala mountain park or to the Kivach waterfall, with children - to visit Santa Claus or to the wild animals of the Three Bears zoo complex. In winter, Kizhi Island can be reached by helicopter or by hovercraft.
Very beautiful at this time in Ruskeala park in the evening - until 22 o'clock the complex is illuminated by artistic illumination. In the hole, an exhibition of ice sculptures is organized, an ice rink is flooded, where you can ride, renting skates.
If you have chosen the capital of Karelia for New Year's 2021 holiday, you can take part in traditional folk festivals. On New Year's Eve, an entertainment program with festive fireworks is organized on Kirov Square. It is interesting for children and adults to visit the Doll House, where the most colorful and funny characters of Russian fairy tales are collected.
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Weather in Karelia in winter
Winter in Karelia is real - with snow and frost, but capricious and changeable. As a rule, the temperature in January in the afternoon is -10 ... -15 ° С, it can drop to -30 ° С. If the wind blows from the Arctic, then dry frosty weather sets in, while Atlantic cyclones often bring thaws and precipitation.
In general, precipitation in Karelia is a frequent occurrence, with more than 80% of wet days a year. Daylight hours are short, only from 10 am to 15 pm. It is always slightly colder in the lowlands and near the lakes than in the highlands. The warmest region is Sortavala.
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Prices in Karelia for the New Year - 2021
Housing prices. The cheapest room in the Petrozavodsk guesthouse can be found from 1100 rubles per day for two, but such offers are sold out very quickly. The average price range for a double standard is from 3 to 7 thousand per day. You can rent a house or a cottage in Karelia for the New Year from 7 thousand rubles, the price depends on the area of the house, the level of comfort and the area. Most often, you can rent a cottage for 5-10 people on New Year's holidays for 15-30 thousand rubles a day. Remember that house prices go up during the New Year period, so it is worth booking hotels in advance. We advise you to look for cottages and hotels on the services of Hotellook and Rumguru.
Food prices in Karelia for the New Year - 2021 the following: you can dine in a budget cafe like a canteen for 500-600 rubles together, in a higher-level institution - for 1000 rubles. Dinner in a good restaurant with alcoholic beverages will cost 4.5-5 thousand rubles for two. A New Year's banquet usually costs from 5000 rubles per person.
Excursion prices start at 2,000 rubles per person (Marble Canyon, Kivach, zoo complex), snowmobiling and dog sledding costs, respectively, from 2 and 3.5 thousand rubles. per person for two hours. Tickets to the Museum of Fine Arts and the National Museum of the Republic of Karelia cost 150 rubles, 400-500 rubles. as part of the excursion.
Recreation centers and hotels in Karelia for the New Year - 2021
In order to successfully celebrate the New Year - 2021 in Karelia, we advise you to take care of housing in advance, because a correctly chosen hotel or recreation center often determines the mood. Tourists usually prefer to rent a cottage or a holiday home. We have selected several budget, but at the same time, good, according to tourists' reviews, options in different places of Karelia. All bases and hotels were found on the services of Hotellook and Rumguru - if these options have already been booked, we advise you to look for similar ones there.
This is not the whole list of housing - we have a separate article dedicated to inexpensive recreation centers in Karelia. In it you can find a decent option with a good price-quality ratio.
Hotel "Verkhovye"
Many tourists come to the Verkhovye Hotel, because there is everything for organizing a vacation in Karelia. The hotel is located 25 km from Petrozavodsk, the journey by car takes about 20 minutes. Townhouses are fully landscaped, with a kitchenette, a separate entrance with their own veranda and free secure parking. On the territory there is a cafe, a small playground, a Russian bathhouse - you can steam with birch or oak brooms, next to an outdoor summer pool and gazebos. The hotel has a tour desk - excursions to Kizhi island, Ruskeala canyon, Valaam, Kivach waterfall, Marcial waters, Girvas volcano are especially popular.
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Hotel "Horseshoe"
Do you want to celebrate the new year 2021 in the forests of Karelia, in silence and solitude? The small forest hotel "Horseshoe" (there are only 15 rooms) is perfect. It is located a few kilometers from Kostomuksha on the shore of the lake, but the city can be reached by taxi in 10 minutes for only 100 rubles. Very quiet and clean, you can eat at a local restaurant, there is internet. Entertainment - hiking, fishing. Accommodation is quite budget - from 3,300 rubles per night per room on New Year's Eve.
Recreation center "Denisov Mys"
Another "forest" option for celebrating the New Year in Karelia: the recreation center is located in a pine forest near the village of Alekka, 70 km from Petrozavodsk. According to tourists, this is a good place for a family vacation. A beautiful well-groomed area with modern buildings and neat paths, there is a lake below. There is a zoo 15 km from the base. The rooms are spacious and warm, meals in the restaurant, the average bill with alcohol is 1000 rubles for two. You can cook yourself in the cottages. Entertainment - fishing, billiards, sauna and excursions. A simple double room costs from 2500 rubles per day, a family cottage - from 6 thousand rubles.
Hotel "Onego Palace"
The hotel in Petrozavodsk has a convenient location: you can walk to the Karelian Museum of Local Lore, a little further there is the National Theater and the Museum of Fine Arts. It takes 10 minutes to get to the railway station. The hotel has a good number of rooms, a restaurant, a sauna and a beauty salon, buffet breakfasts. The cost of living together is from 4000 rubles per day.
Reviews about the rest in Karelia for the New Year - 2021
Of course, wonderful nature is already a guarantee of a good rest, but for complete pleasure it would not hurt to add quality service. And with this we are not doing so well, at least not everywhere.
According to the reviews of tourists vacationing in Karelia for the New Year - 2021, there are overlaps with the organization of excursions, problems with food, heating the room and other annoying little things. Hence the conclusion: you need to carefully choose a cottage or a recreation center, reading reviews on various sources and finding out various household trifles. All the same, New Year, and I would like to get maximum pleasure for my money, by the way, considerable.
Those tourists who were lucky with the organization of their vacation were very pleased with their trip: clean air, from which it is so good and easy to sleep, new and tasty food, many interesting places and new impressions. Karelia is gorgeous, and it is simply impossible not to fall in love with it.
