Northern Lights and Chena Hot Springs Tour from Fairbanks in Fairbanks booking from $195.00

Northern Lights and Chena Hot Springs Tour from Fairbanks

Overview

Discover the ethereal beauty of Alaska’s famous celestial display, impressive ice sculptures and the state’s ancient healing waters on an evening trip from Fairbanks. Throughout the night, admire the artwork inside Aurora Ice Museum and a dip into Chena Hot Spring Resort’s outdoor mineral water baths before chasing the lights. Your guide will lead your small group out to ideal northern lights viewing locations, where you’ll wait with warm beverages for a chance at glimpsing the multicolored display in the sky. Round-trip transport from Fairbanks or North Pole hotels is included.

City: Fairbanks

Thu 26 Dec

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What's Included

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Local Guide

Access to Chena Hot Springs Resort's hot springs, hot tubs and swimming area

Additional Info

Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Operates in cold weather conditions; please dress appropriately
Please don't forget to bring bathing suits, bath towels, at least 2 quarter for each locker and a photo id for the cocktail in the ice museum. (has to be purchased separately)
The outside rock pool is only allowed for Adults 18 years and up. However, children are allowed in the inside pool.
Pregnant travelers are not allowed in the outside rock pool.
We have enough room for a foldable wheelchair. The hot springs are wheelchair accessible.
We can only pick up from inside the city limits of Fairbanks or North Pole. For other locations, you will need to go to an agreed location (eg Walmart), please contact our office to discuss if you are staying outside the city limits.
Face masks provided for travellers
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
To be in compliance with the CDC and the State of Alaska: Guests are not required to wear face masks, but may if they wish. We also urge you to review the updated Health Advisory Number 2 at https://covid19.alaska.gov/health-advisories/ .

What To Expect

Chena Hot Springs Resort

After wandering through the cool museum, don your bathing suit and enjoy the resort’s legendary namesake. The revitalizing mineral water soothes muscles with its warm temperatures of 106 degrees F (41 degrees C) year-round. You can also soak under the stars in an outdoor hot tub, or indoors in the heated pool. In between, slip away to the Aurora Café or the historic Resort Restaurant, where you can purchase meals, snacks, or beverages. When ready, join your expert guide for a small-group outing to view the Aurora Borealis. Your guide will lead you through one of the best places on earth to witness the green and purple illuminations loop across the night sky. Wait and witness the celestial wonder with hot beverages in the late evening, when viewing opportunities are the highest. The lights are also visible inside the cafe's Aurora Room, which serves as a comfortable and warm location for viewings. Note: We can never guarantee the Northern lights sighting.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (460)

Linda C

Sep 2017

Absolutely amazing. Indescribable. Didn't actually do the hot springs part. I ate dinner and watched the sky!

Niriha K

Sep 2017

The trip was good. Our guide's commentary was valuable and helped us understand the town better. He set the right expectations for us as far as what to expect from the northern lights. There are few things that the company could possible consider, given the of the trip.
Guide should have a camera that can capture the northern lights and possible get the group a picture against it. For the price, i think this would have been a nice memorabilia.

If you choose to do the Chena hot springs yourself and chase the lights on your own, you may save yourself some . we preferred to go with the tour, since we did not want to drive so late in the night and also wanted to catch a snooze inbetween rides. After the hot springs, you really will want to..lol

Kathryn B

Sep 2017

Tour was great! We were picked up promptly at our scheduled time from our hotel and taken the 60 miles by van to the Chena Hot Springs Resort by our tour guide, Clark. We were admitted to the 7:00pm tour of the Ice Museum which was fantastic!!! So excited we got to see this. The Appletini's were delicious and the ice sculptures were stunning. Our guide for this portion of the tour, Kathryn, was great! She was very energetic, super funny, and made sure we all had a good time. Next we ate dinner at the restaurant which was good and took a dip in the hot springs. It was a little crowded so we only spent about 45 mins here but it was still a cool experience. This is the only thing I would knock 1 star off for I appreciated that we didn't have to stay with our group and we could do our own thing but we didn't have a set meeting time to find our guide after the springs so we walked the grounds quite a bit in the dark to locate him and the rest of the group. But no big deal really, we still had a great time. After that we all met at the van and looked for the lights.. didn't take long, about 11:00pm we could see some faint green color forming behind the trees and then steadily get brighter. We were so fortunate to see them this early in the season! We saw the green lights dance and move for about 40 mins or so before it got cloudy but it was more than enough time to catch some really great photos! So excited we can check this off our bucket list!! The clouds rolled in and other members of our group were ready to make the drive back, which was fine, so we headed back a little early. Clark agreed to stop if we saw the clouds clear up and he made a couple stops on the way back which I really appreciated. He genuinely cared about us catching the lights. This tour was definitely worth the money! We have so amazing photos and memories to take back with us!

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