These tours run after dark, with or without a sled ride. Each one ends with an eye on the sky.
Pick a day, or the first and last day you are in Tromsø. We check the booking calendar of each reindeer tour shown here and list the ones with places left, day and evening departures alike.
No sled ride
No sled ride
Sled ride: 15–20 min, per the operator
Sled ride: Up to 30 min, snow permitting
No sled ride
The evening tours bundle three things into one outing: the reindeer camp visit, dinner by the fire, and a real chance of northern lights overhead, because the camps sit outside the city lights and the season overlaps aurora season. On clear nights it happens; reviewers describe stepping out of the lavvu to a sky full of them. On cloudy nights it does not, and the same reviews say so just as plainly.
So book an evening tour for what is certain (the herd, the Sami dinner, the camp after dark) and treat auroras as the bonus. If a lights-less evening would feel like a wasted ticket to you, book a daytime camp visit and a dedicated aurora chase separately instead. The tours below split along one line: the sledding evenings include a ride, the feeding evening replaces it with more feeding time, a Sami dinner and a guided northern lights watch, and it is the cheapest of them.
Every option side by side, with the same facts for each. Open a card for the full tour details.
The evening without a sled: feed the herd, share a Sami dinner and join a guided northern lights watch at camp. It is the cheapest of the evening tours.
The evening tour without a sled ride: you feed the herd at the Tromsø Lapland Sami camp, share a Sami dinner, and join a guided northern lights watch from the camp. It is the feeding-and-dinner counterpart to the two sledding evening tours, and the cheapest way into an evening at a reindeer camp. As with every aurora tour, sightings depend on solar activity and clear skies, and no operator can guarantee one.
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The Tromsø Arctic Reindeer evening without a sled: feeding the herd, a three-course dinner around bidos in the gamme, stories about herding life and a joik. Back in town around 22:30.
The evening at Tromsø Arctic Reindeer without a sled ride. After 30 to 35 minutes on the bus you feed the herd and walk through the camp, warm up with hot drinks by the fire in a candle-lit lavvu, and step outside to watch for northern lights. Dinner is served in the gamme: smoked salmon salad, bidos with Sami bread, and chocolate cake with blueberries. Stories about herding life and a joik close the evening. The listing gives the season as 1 November to early April.
Bus Terminal Tromsø (Prostneset), pickup at 17:40. Back in the centre around 22:30.
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Sled ride and a three-course bidos dinner at camp after dark, with auroras possible overhead on clear nights in season.
The evening version of the sledding visit at Tromsø Arctic Reindeer: sled ride and a three-course dinner around bidos, the traditional Sami reindeer stew, timed so that the northern lights can appear over the camp on clear nights within the season. The lights are weather luck, not a promise: no operator can guarantee a sighting, and this site won't either.
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The evening tour with the longest ride: up to 30 minutes, snow permitting (partial refund if the ride cannot run). Note the 100 kg rider weight limit.
Tromsø Lapland's evening tour: a sled ride of up to 30 minutes (depending on snow conditions), plus dinner at camp and the chance of northern lights overhead. If the ride cannot run for lack of snow, the operator refunds that part of the tour. As with every aurora tour, the lights depend on solar activity and clear skies, not on the ticket you buy.
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The autumn evening: feeding the herd as daylight fades, bidos in the lavvu and snowsuits on loan. The staff switch off the camp lights if an aurora shows, which is a chance, not a promise.
The autumn evening at the Tromsø Lapland camp, before the polar night begins. You arrive as daylight turns to dark, feed the herd and eat bidos in the lavvu while the hosts talk about Sami life. Overshoes and snowsuits are lent out, and the staff switch off the camp lights if an aurora appears. Sightings are possible on clear nights, not guaranteed.
Radisson Blu Hotel, Sjøgata 7, Tromsø. Pickup and return from this meeting point only.
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Every evening tour runs about 4.5 hours and includes dinner at camp. They differ in what fills the time in between.
The same logic as in daylight applies: the ride is short and snow-dependent, the feeding is neither. If the ride matters to you, take one of the sledding evenings knowing its length; if the animals and the dinner are the point, the feeding evening delivers both for less.
Two more evenings leave the sled out. Tromsø Arctic Reindeer runs one with feeding, a three-course dinner in the gamme, stories and a joik; the bus leaves the terminal at 17:40 and is back around 22:30. In autumn, before the polar night, Tromsø Lapland runs an earlier version of its feeding evening, when the herd is fed at dusk and the staff switch off the camp lights if an aurora shows.
Auroras depend on solar activity and clear skies, not on the ticket you buy. The camps are dark enough to see them when they come, and one April reviewer describes exactly that: a cloudless night and northern lights over the camp. A March reviewer on the same tour got clouds and rain and saw nothing. Both gave five stars, because they booked the evening for the camp and dinner and took the sky as it came.
Traditional and simple, eaten at camp: reindeer stew is the standard (on the Tromsø Arctic Reindeer evening as a three-course menu around bidos, the traditional Sami stew), and reviews confirm a vegetable soup can be requested instead. It is a campfire meal in a lavvu, not a restaurant dinner; reviewers who expected the latter are the ones the food disappoints.
One scheduling note from the reviews: on busy evenings the programme can feel packed. One reviewer loved the cultural talk at the end but found it rushed. The evenings move through feeding, dinner and sky-watching on a schedule; if you want the unhurried version of a camp visit, that is what the daytime tours are for.
Sorted by review count, most-reviewed first.
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Evening: sledding + dinner + aurora | Sled ride, 3-course bidos dinner, northern lights chance · 4.5 h | ★ 4.6 (2,809) | €201 per person | Book now |
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Evening: feeding + Sami dinner + aurora | Feeding, Sami dinner, guided northern lights watch (no sledding) · 4.5 h | ★ 4.5 (1,560) | €163 per person | Book now |
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Evening: sledding + aurora + dinner | Sled ride (up to 30 min), dinner, northern lights chance · 4.5 h | ★ 4.5 (1,018) | €211 per person | Book now |
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Evening: feeding + 3-course dinner + aurora | Feeding, 3-course bidos dinner, joik, northern lights chance (no sledding) · 4.5 h | ★ 4.7 (942) | €188 per person | Book now |
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Autumn evening: feeding + dinner + aurora | Feeding, bidos dinner, northern lights chance (no sledding, autumn) · 4.5 h | ★ 4.5 (44) | €147 per person | Book now |
Reindeer tour prices load live from GetYourGuide with taxes and booking fees included, so a camp visit costs at checkout what this table shows. “What’s in it” summarises the product title. The full inclusions are on the product page.
Real traveller reviews from GetYourGuide.
★ 4.5 (1,560 reviews)
“The bus departed on time. We had enough time to spend with the reindeers … The most unexpected thing were the Northern Lights. There was no single cloud in the sky …”
“… They allowed us ample time to feed the reindeer … After feeding the reindeer they feed you reindeer stew or you can ask for vegetable soup.”
“… Shortly after eating, we even had the chance to see the Northern Lights. At the end, a Sami woman told us a bit more about her culture. Unfortunately, this was a bit rushed … we did find the price a bit high.”
“Feeding the reindeer was awesome. Due to the weather conditions (cloudy and rainy), no northern lights were visible.”
Reviewers rate the evening highly for the time with the herd, Sami stories, warm food, and on clear nights sometimes the northern lights. Two things to weigh: this is the tour where value for money falls behind in the reviews, with several reviewers calling the price high, and busy evenings can mean some waiting. The operator replies publicly to almost every review.
Reviews collected from the tours' GetYourGuide pages. Shortened for length (marked with …), wording unchanged; names reduced to first name and country.
Maybe. No operator can promise it, and neither can we. The camps sit outside the city lights and the season overlaps aurora season, so on clear nights the chance is real; reviewers report both spectacular sightings and fully clouded evenings. Book for the camp evening and dinner, and treat the lights as a bonus.
The feeding + Sami dinner evening at Tromsø Lapland. It leaves out the sled ride, which is the most expensive part of an evening tour, and comes in below the sledding evenings. Current prices are on the cards above and in the table.
It is a different product. A chase drives wherever the sky is clearest; the camp stays put, so cloud cover decides your evening. The evening tour wins on efficiency, with dinner, reindeer and an aurora chance in one outing. If seeing the lights is your top priority, a dedicated chase gives better odds; if the camp evening would be worth it alone, the tour is the better buy.
The traditional Sami reindeer stew, the dish the Tromsø Arctic Reindeer evening builds its three-course dinner around. On the other evenings, expect reindeer stew as the standard meal, with a vegetable soup available on request.
The sledding evenings do: Tromsø Arctic Reindeer, and Tromsø Lapland with the longest ride of up to 30 minutes, snow permitting. The feeding + Sami dinner evening deliberately has none. Each runs about 4.5 hours.
Colder than the daytime visits, since you are outdoors after dark in a Tromsø winter, standing still while feeding and sky-watching. Dress in serious layers; our what-to-wear page covers the details, and the lavvu fire is there to thaw you between rounds.
