Erika Benke

We are in a Santa Claus holiday village in Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland, right on the Arctic Circle. I'm at the gate with Johan Ekonen. He's one of the managers here, managing the hotel. Would you say that this is one of Finland's top tourism attractions?

Shall we just walk on a little bit in this nice, fresh, powdery snow?

It really is. There's so many twinkling lights along the pathways. Lots of little log cabins scattered around in the forest.

All these activities, all this fun that people are having here, of course it costs them money. But how much money is it making to you?

There's a lot of excited children throwing, making snowballs and throwing them at each other and at other visitors.

So you're spending four days here all together? Yes.

What brings a young adult couple here without children?

Well, one place to spend a little more money is Santa's official post office. If you send a card or a letter from here, the elves will stamp it with Santa's official postmark.

After all this excitement about Santa, his letters and his gifts, I couldn't wait to finally meet the man himself.

And we are very happy to have you, to have somebody to trust.