My review is one of very mixed feelings. After all the excitement and anticipation we never saw the Aurora. Having spent so many months waiting to fulfil one of the trips on my wish list, that was very very disappointing but of course, is one of the risks one takes when booking this kind of trip but that does not mitigate the disappointment. As for the Mattaraakha Lodge, the hotel was as expected. The rooms were small but very clean and comfortable, nice and warm and slippers provided. Just a couple of small niggles. It would have been nice to have a robe for each guest in the bathroom and the two towels provided for each guest were minimal in size and could have been bigger. Now to my comments on the staff. ABSOLUTELY SUPERB FROM THE MOMENT WE ARRIVED AT KIRUNA TO BE MET BY LOUISE. They could not do enough for all of us who arrived at the same tim and nothing was too much trouble. All of the activities were excellent and the time flew by. Our highlights of the trip were the Husky Sled drive and falling off the Snowmobile into 2 metres of soft snow! Great fun and not to be missed.