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How much does ice skating cost in Levi, and where is it free?

How much does ice skating cost around Levi? Anything from a public rink with your own skates to a guided session on a lit forest trail. Here are the from-prices of the bookable sessions, what rentals add, and where the ice costs nothing.

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Editorial team, iceskatinglevi.comUpdated October 22, 20266 min read32 sources

The tour for this guide Levi forest ice skating, 1 km lit trail 4.3 (202 reviews) 2 hours1 km lit trail through the forestSkates, helmet and hot drinks included from$80per person Check availabilityCancel for free up to 24 hrs ahead

The quick answer

01Guided forest trail: From $80 per person for 2 hours, skates and helmet included.
02Village rink: Open to everyone with their own or rented skates.¹
03Rental: Zero Point Rental rents skates by the hour, day or week.² ³
04Free in Rovaniemi: The city's park rinks are free of charge.⁴
05Free for kids: Helmets at Zero Point Rental are free for children under 12.⁵

What decides the price of skating

How much ice skating costs depends on three things: whether someone has prepared the ice for you, whether you bring your own skates, and whether a guide and transport come with it. A public rink with your own skates costs least; a guided session with transfers, gear, drinks and a warm hut costs most. Season and place add a fourth factor: in Lapland the ice is free to look at for months, but the prepared ice, the kind a beginner can enjoy, exists only where someone keeps it.

The guided session this site recommends sits at the full-service end. From $80 per person, it includes the shuttle from the Levi Tourist Office and back, ice skates and helmets, a kicksled for those who cannot skate, hot drinks, a guided session and a kota to shelter in, over 2 hours on a 1 km lit trail of natural ice.

Be clear-eyed about value. On GetYourGuide the session is rated 4.32 from 202 reviews, and guests score its value for money at 3.7, lower than its overall rating. Read recent reviews on the booking page, and set expectations: a short, beautiful session on natural ice rather than hours of open skating.

What you pay for

The guided forest session, step by step

Start

Levi Tourist Office

The shuttle leaves from here.
Ride

About 10 minutes

By bus or van into the forest.
Gear up

Heated changing room

Skates and helmets are included.
On the ice

1 km lit trail

Several natural rinks, kicksleds for non-skaters.
Warm up

Kota and hot drinks

A log cabin to shelter from the cold.

Guided skating sessions in Lapland, priced

On GetYourGuide, guided skating in Lapland comes down to a handful of listings. Near Levi, the forest trail runs from $80. From Saariselkä, a guided session on natural ice on Lake Inari runs from $103, rated 4.68 from 128 reviews, with skates, helmet and balaclava included and a transfer that costs extra.

Rovaniemi's listings cost more and have little track record. The Aurora Ice Skating Tour runs from $220 for 3.5 hours, and is rated 2.6 from 5 reviews. A private skating session with a professional photographer runs from $403 for 2 hours, with no reviews yet.

GetYourGuide updates each of these from-prices live, and the calculator below multiplies them by your group. Each of these listings offers free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Guest scores

How guests rate Lapland's guided skating

rating

Average GetYourGuide ratings: 128, 202 and 5 reviews; the private photo session has none yet.

Compared

Ways to skate around Levi and in Lapland, by cost

Option	What you pay for	From	Notes
Levi forest trail	Shuttle, skates, helmet, drinks, kota	from $80	2 hrs
Lake Inari session	Skates, helmet, balaclava	from $103	Transfer extra
Rovaniemi aurora tour	Pickup, warm drink, cookies	from $220	Few reviews
Levi village rink	Skate rental only	Rental rates	Own skates: no rental
Rovaniemi park rinks	Nothing	Free	20 rinks

From the listings' own terms and the official sites of Levi and the City of Rovaniemi; from-prices update live.¹ ⁶ ⁴

Three budgets

Guided, rented or free

Levi: Lovimainas Arctic Forest Ice Skating (1km)

Full service

Guided forest trail

All-inclusive session

Session: 2 hrs
Included: Skates, helmet, drinks
Cancel: Up to 24 hrs

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Pay for skates

Village rink and rental

Front Slopes, Levi

Open: End Jan to week 10
Skates: Zero Point Rental
Helmet, under 12: Free

See the options

Free

Rovaniemi park rinks

20 city rinks

Entry: Free of charge
Season: Nov or Dec to Mar
Use: Learning, hockey

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Decision helper

Pay for a session, or skate for free?

Match the budget to the outing you want

Own skates, tight budget No skates, a short visit Children who cannot skate Staying in Rovaniemi Indoor ice on a weekday

Levi village rink

Open to everyone with their own skates.¹

Rent at Zero Point

Skates by the hour beside the rink.² ⁷

Guided forest trail

Kicksleds and helmets come with the session.

City park rinks

Free of charge, in the central area.⁴ ⁶

Kittilä ice hall

Public skating Monday to Friday, 15.00 to 16.30.⁸

In Levi, there is an ice skating rink open to everyone, where you can ice skate with your own skates or rent them on-site.

Levi (levi.fi, Levi Ski Resort)Source 1

Is ice skating free in Levi?

Levi does have a public rink. Its tourism site describes a small natural-ice rink in the fell pond at the foot of the Front Slopes, open to everyone with their own skates or rented ones, from the end of January until week 10, weather permitting, and around the clock once it opens.¹ ⁹ ¹⁰ The page names no entry charge for the rink itself.¹¹

The costs there are the gear. Zero Point Rental, on the Front Slopes at Hissitie 8, rents skates by the hour, for 2 or 3 hours, by the day and for several days, and rents helmets too.⁷ ² ³ ¹² Helmets are free of charge for children under 12.⁵ Bring your own skates and the rink costs you nothing but the walk.

So is ice skating free? On a public rink with your own skates, usually yes; Visit Finland notes that many Finnish cities have rinks where you can also rent skates.¹³ What costs money is everything that makes skating easier for a visitor: rental skates, transport into the forest, a guide, lights on a long trail, and a warm kota at the end.

Checklist

Keeping the cost of skating down

Before you go

Bring your own skates if you own a pair
Book guided sessions with free cancellation
Compare the from-prices in the calculator

On the spot

Children under 12: free helmets at Zero Point⁵
Rent by the hour for a short skate
Use free public rinks where they exist

Cost calculator

Price guided skating for your group

Choose a session and the number of skaters.

Levi forest trail2 hrs, gear incl.from $80 Lake InariFrom Saariselkäfrom $103 Rovaniemi aurora tour3.5 hrsfrom $220 Rovaniemi photo sessionPrivatefrom $403

People 2

Total from$159

per participant from $80

Check availabilityfree cancellation

Each sum multiplies the outing's lowest per-person GetYourGuide price by your group size and converts it at the ECB's daily rate; the checkout figure is the one that counts.

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Extras, refunds and the small print on the day

The from-price of the forest session covers the session itself, but not everything you might spend. Souvenirs are for sale at the site and are not included, and the listing asks you to bring your own warm clothing. If you need to rent a winter outfit for the trip, Levi has a rental listing for complete clothing sets over 1 to 10 days, from $54.

The booking terms protect your money against the weather. In extreme cold of -30°C or below the session may be rescheduled or fully refunded, free cancellation runs up to 24 hours before, and you can reserve now and pay later. That combination lets you book early in your trip and keep the date flexible.

Getting to the village rink costs nothing if you are staying in Levi: it sits at the foot of the Front Slopes, next to Zero Point Rental.¹⁰ From the 2026-2027 season the ski bus ticket is included in all Levi ski passes, which helps if you are staying further out and skiing anyway.¹⁴ For the forest session, the shuttle is already in the price.

Kittilä's ice hall and outdoor rink

Kittilä village, south of Levi, has the municipal Agnico Eagle ice hall at Havutie 5, completed in 1997 with seats for 200 spectators.¹⁵ ¹⁶ Public skating there is normally Monday to Friday from 15.00 to 16.30.⁸

Outside those sessions the hall is freely open to skaters whenever no school, club or other group has booked it, the municipality says, and private time slots can be reserved for a fee.¹⁷ ¹⁸ Kittilä also makes an outdoor rink on the artificial turf of the village ball field.¹⁹

A past municipal family skating event at the Kittilä outdoor rink was free, with participants asked to bring their own helmets and skates.²⁰ For a family staying in Levi with a car, a weekday afternoon in Kittilä adds indoor ice to the options; check the municipality's notices for the current timetable before you drive.

Free skating in Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi is the clearest answer to whether ice skating can be free. The city has 20 skating rinks in parks in the central area, freely available for everyone with no limit on users, and the Suomi.fi listing for the service says it is free of charge.⁶ ²¹ ⁴

The rinks are meant for learning to skate and practising ice hockey, and ice-making begins in November or December depending on the weather, with the season ending by the end of March at the latest.²² ²³ In the city centre, Naava Café at Vanha tori rents skates and lets you use its outdoor rink as much as you like.²⁴

Rovaniemi's forest skating park, Kotatieva, sits 10 km from the city centre and charges a day ticket, open daily from December to March.²⁵ ²⁶ ²⁷ Its prices are set by the park itself; this site lists only the from-prices that GetYourGuide shows live.

Learning for free: skating schools and try-it days

If the aim is learning rather than a holiday outing, Finland has free starting points. The Finnish Figure Skating Association says its Hippo skating school is completely free of charge for participants, aimed at children of all ages, over four skating sessions.²⁸ ²⁹

The association also says that in January 2027 the Finnish Ice Sports Days offer free, low-threshold chances to try ice sports and develop skating skills.³⁰ More than 30 Finnish figure skating clubs run groups or courses for adults.³¹

Ice fishing, the other classic way onto Finnish ice, is free in the same spirit: Visit Finland says hook-and-line fishing is free for everyone under everyman's rights, as is ice fishing.³² The guided trips cost money for the guide, the gear, the transport and the fire, not for the right to fish.

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