Arcora Opens in Torassieppi, Finnish Lapland, in December 2026
Arcora Boutique Hotel & Villas opens on 14 December 2026 at Porotie 1 in Torassieppi, a lakeside village in Muonio, Finnish Lapland, about two kilometres from Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park. Suites inside the hotel and standalone villas in the trees, a restaurant built around the eight seasons of the Sámi year, a spa floor with a rooftop infinity pool, and huskies, reindeer and snowmobiles run on site by a family company that has been in Muonio since 1973. Packages start at €3,180 per person for three nights.
Arcora Boutique Hotel & Villas opens on 14 December 2026 at Porotie 1 in Torassieppi, a lakeside village in Muonio, Finnish Lapland. It has suites inside a single hotel building and standalone villas in the trees around it, a restaurant organised around the eight seasons of the Sámi year, a champagne bar, a bakery, a spa floor with a rooftop infinity pool, and a helipad. The EU-registered project budget is €25 million, of which €1.5 million is EU funding; Finnish press has reported the total investment as €30 million. Construction began in October 2025.
Where it is
The site sits about two kilometres from the boundary of Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park. Arcora says most guided experiences begin at or near the resort, with some requiring a short transfer. One long hotel building sits in a clearing, and the standalone villas are scattered through the trees around it rather than lined up along a shore.
The Finnish Meteorological Institute has measured atmospheric composition at Sammaltunturi, inside the same national park, since 1991, and the site is now one of roughly forty World Meteorological Organization Global Atmosphere Watch global stations. The WHO's ambient air quality database put Muonio at an annual mean of four micrograms of PM10 per cubic metre. The purest measured air lies within about a hundred kilometres of the research station, and Arcora is eight kilometres from it.
Muonio sits 50 kilometres west-northwest of Levi and about three hours' drive north of Rovaniemi. The closest airport is Kittilä, 65 kilometres away. Arcora includes return airport transfers in its packages.
The rooms
There are four categories: two suite types inside the hotel and two standalone villas outside it. The total is not settled: Arcora's press materials give 59 suites and villas, while its own homepage and the project's EU funding disclosure both describe a 42-room hotel plus 20 separate units.
Jr Suite Kalle is the entry room and the one every published rate is based on. Two of them interconnect into a 60 square metre two-room suite. Executive Suite Jussi adds a bedroom separate from the living area, plus a spa area of its own with a view sauna and a bathtub set toward the window. A Jussi joined to a Kalle makes a 73 square metre two-bedroom.
Deluxe Villa Jouni is a standalone building with a view sauna, a kitchenette and a private terrace with its own outdoor hot tub. It is the only category with a kitchen of any kind. Sky Villa Antti puts the bed on the second floor under a panoramic window that opens north and overhead, so the aurora, when it appears, is above you rather than out to one side.
Eating
Restaurant 8 is named for the eight seasons of the Sámi year rather than the four most of Europe uses, and the menu is meant to move with them. The culinary vision is led by Arto Rastas, a Finnish chef who has worked across restaurants, culinary education, consulting and food media, and who has represented Finland on its national culinary team. The signature format is an eight-course tasting menu.
Dinner is not confined to the dining room. The same company runs wilderness dinners out of timber kotas, cooked over open flame, and books them as a separate experience. There is also a champagne bar and a bakery on site.
The spa
The spa's centrepiece is a rooftop infinity pool, with saunas and an outdoor hot tub alongside it. Guests can also be taken to Arctic Sauna World, a lakeside sauna site a short transfer from the hotel.
What you can do
Arcora is being built by Harriniva Hotels & Safaris, a third-generation family company that has been in Muonio since 1973, when it started as a camping and caravan ground, and has run guided Arctic trips for decades since, including more than thirty years of husky operations. The kennels, the guides and the snowmobiles are already on the site, and the reindeer come from the Torassieppi farm on the same lake.
The programme covers husky sledding, reindeer sledding, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, ice fishing, aurora hunting and a visit to Santa. Overalls, boots, gloves, hats and safety equipment are included rather than rented at the door, and Arcora states that there are no separate equipment rentals.
What it costs
Arcora's headline product is a package rather than a room night. Three nights start at €3,180 per person and four nights at €4,200, both based on two people sharing a Jr Suite Kalle, for selected arrivals between 14 December 2026 and 18 April 2027. Both include return airport transfers, accommodation, all meals, selected non-alcoholic drinks, the winter clothing and equipment, the guided experiences and daily spa access. The four-night package adds a sixty-minute private sauna with a sixty-minute massage, and the eight-course signature dinner.
