Northern Lights Husky Visit with Dinner at an Aurora Camp

The $194.82 per person ticket is sold as a complete package, and the price stays the same even if you choose to drive yourself to the camp instead of taking the bus. Everything for the evening is bundled in, so there is nothing to add at the camp apart from gratuities, which are not included and are up to you.

What is included

The listing is explicit about the inclusions, which are broader than most daytime sled tours offer at this price:

• Warm clothes lent for the evening
• Bus transport, 25 minutes one way
• Dinner, with a vegetarian option on request
• Coffee and/or tea
• Hotel pickup and drop-off, but only at the Radisson Blu Hotel
• Local taxes
• A professional guide for the evening

What is not included

Three things are listed as exclusions, and they shape who this evening is for. Dog sledding is not part of it, so there is no sled ride at any point. There is also no northern lights chase, meaning the bus will not move you around looking for clear skies, and gratuities are left to you.

If sledding matters, look at the self-drive and guided sled tours in the comparison table near the end of this page instead.

Why people still book it

This is the honest edge of the listing and the thing to settle before booking. The evening is a visit, not a mushing trip. You meet the dogs at the yard, you meet the puppies, you eat a warm dinner, and you stand in a good spot to watch the sky.

The dogs do not pull you anywhere. The operator describes it as a trip out to their aurora camp with professional guides, a great vantage point for the aurora borealis, and a dog yard and puppy visit included. That is the whole shape of the night.

Because it asks almost nothing of you. The catalog's daytime sled tours have fitness rules, age minimums of 7 or 16, weight limits and balance requirements, and two of them warn that you may need to push the sled uphill. This evening has none of that.

It is wheelchair accessible, infants can come along in a pram or stroller, all fitness levels are welcome, and children ride with an adult. If a family member cannot meet sled tour rules, or you simply want a quiet Arctic evening with huskies around you, this fills that slot at a lower price than any sled tour in the catalog.

The heart of the visit is time with the dogs. You walk through the dog yard with a guide and meet the huskies that work the winter trails, then spend time with the puppies, which is reliably the part guests talk about afterwards. Guides are on hand through the evening, and the listing's own description puts the yard and puppy visit alongside the aurora watching as the two things you come for.

The camp sits on Kvaløya, the large island west of Tromsø, about 25 minutes by bus from the city. The same island hosts the kennels used by the daytime sledding tours, so the dogs you meet are working sled dogs at a real camp rather than a petting setup. If the puppy part is what draws you and you are travelling outside the snow season, note that the kennel also runs a summer program where you can help handlers train the youngest dogs.

Compare our page on Summer Puppy Training at a Husky Farm in Tromsø with Lunch for that.

After the dog yard you sit down to dinner at the camp, with coffee or tea included. A vegetarian option exists but you must ask for it at the time of booking, not on the night. Warm clothes are lent, which matters because you will spend part of the evening outside looking up.

The aurora question

The camp is chosen as a good vantage point for the aurora borealis, and professional guides host the evening. But the lights are a natural phenomenon and not guaranteed on any tour in Tromsø, this one included. There is also no chase: if the sky stays clouded over the camp, the bus does not go hunting for a gap in the clouds elsewhere.

You watch from where you are. Set expectations accordingly. The dinner, the dogs and the camp fire are the guaranteed part of the ticket, and the lights are the bonus.

What to know before you go

• Bring your own child seat if you need a guaranteed one for a small child, because availability cannot be promised in the transport
• Children must be accompanied by an adult
• Advise the operator at booking if you need the vegetarian dinner
• Keep your phone in an inner pocket, as batteries drain fast in the cold

Dark-season light and the polar night dates are covered in the Tromsø climate and daylight section.

This is the easiest husky evening in the catalog and it fits a specific set of travellers. Families with infants or small children come first: prams and strollers are fine, there is no minimum fitness, no age minimum beyond being with an adult, and no weight limits to worry about. Wheelchair users are actively catered for, which no sled tour in our comparison manages.

It also fits mixed groups where some members want huskies but nobody wants to stand on sled runners in the cold, and budget travellers, since $194.82 undercuts every winter sled tour we list.

Practical rules

It fits less well if sledding is the point of your trip. For a first proper mushing experience at a slightly higher price, Husky Experience with a Short Self-Drive Dog Sled Ride from Tromsø adds up to 30 minutes of self-drive sledding. To drive a full trail yourself, Self-Drive Husky Dog Sledding Adventure on Kvaløya gives the longest sled time of the half-day options.

A common pattern is to pair this evening with a daytime sled tour: dogs and dinner at night, real mushing during the day.

• Runs with a minimum of 2 people, up to 48 guests
• Pickup and drop-off only at the Radisson Blu Hotel
• Arrive 15 minutes before departure, a missed departure is a no-show with no refund
• Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start
• Using your own transport is optional but the price remains the same

To plan a sled day and an aurora night on the same trip, see dog sledding and the northern lights in Tromsø.

The table below puts this evening next to the most relevant alternatives in the catalog, from the cheapest short sled ride to a full day inland. The defining difference is sled time: this listing has none, and every alternative has at least some. If you are weighing price against trail time, that single column usually decides it.

Figures current for Q4 2026.