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

Tue 01 Oct

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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)

ApaAquino

Aug 2022

Soaking in the Hotspring, under the stars in Alaska was an experience worth doing! Susi our guide was great and we even saw a moose on the way back. The aurora lights were still faint but we did got the glimpse of it

SallyW2287

Aug 2022

We booked Northern Lights & Chena Hot Springs for 3. $195/person. The overall experience is not so great. We decided to drive instead of getting picked up by bus. We went check in at front desk 6:15pm, they told us to go to the activity center. We went to activity center, the guy there said there is no need to check in right now, you can go eat dinner, enjoy your hot spring and come back at 10pm to go see the northern light. We went to the restaurant, they say 40 minutes wait time. While waiting, I talked to the front desk again, she looked up my booking number, and said the tour is starting soon, your tour guide will be at the activity center. But we just came back from there few minutes ago. Anyway, we went back, met a lady to be our tour guide and told us the 'Ice Museum' tour starts in 5 minutes, at 7pm. we got a hanging tag for the ice museum tour and hot spring entrance. We did the ice museum tour, came out, ate dinner (good food/expensive), went to hot spring, and met the tour guide lady in the waiting room, exchanged greetings and she left. Around 10 pm, a big group of tourists came out, getting on buses and left. We freak out, ran around everywhere and could not find our tour guide. We asked the front desk and the visitor center, two different people are in the visitor center at this time, looked into the computer and could not find our reservation (they looked up by name and booking number). then told us your reservation does not include the tour to view the northern lights. There was another tour guide there was super nice to help us run around the whole place to look for our tour guide lady and still could not find her. But he told us to wait for her, her tour and his are very similar, they should depart for the northern lights at midnight. At that time, I realized this tour are not related to the Chena hot springs but from a third party. those staff in Chena hot springs had no idea what is going on and kept giving out false information. We almost go home because they said what we have paid for did not include the northern lights and we could not find our tour guide for over half an hour. Then, I talked another couple who are in the same tour, they took the bus up from Fairbanks. They told me the tour guide had never given any detail of the tour during the entire drive (~1h30') and they also have been looking for her a while now. At 10:55pm, we decided to go home, more people came out to the bus and said just met the tour guide, we would depart to see northern light at 11:10pm. So we waited, she guided us to walk about 15 minutes up to a viewing place. We stayed there maybe 40minutes, could not see the light and tour ended. The tour was super unorganized, the Chena Hot springs staff mislead tourists, it was unpleasant. The tour guide should have some proper training. She should at least tell the tourists what is coming next, where/when to meet or where to find her if needed. Not recommended.

Apa A

Aug 2022

It was a fun experience since our tour guide Susi made sure we enjoyed it. She shared quite a number of stories as we drove thru the place and she tried her best for us to hunt down the Aurora.

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