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 Sep

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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)

797danit

Aug 2021

Overall this experience was wonderful. We had a great time at the resort - it was just the right amount of time to do the ice museum, hot springs, eat, and check out the resort. We didn't get to see the aurora, but the act of chasing it was fun and our guide was super informative and a great host for the night!

Robert_F

Aug 2021

This guide was great but the facilities at the hot springs were filthy. Chena Hot springs is run down and in need of cleaning and major repair. The tour of the ice museum was a joke. There was one guide (from Chena) who walked 60 people through the ice castle and you could not hear him. People were yelling at the guide and demanded he do it over. It was completely managed wrong and a huge disappoint. The tour gets a two only because our guide made the best of a very bad tour. Plan to do nothing for hours. Probably the worst tour I have ever taken

Benjamin_R

Aug 2021

If you have a car, there is no value to this tour. What you are paying for is really just transportation to/from the resort. The resort owns the hot springs and ice museum. Your tour fee does cover the entrance to both. Around $15 each. Our tour guide didn't provide us with any knowledge or information, but was merely a driver. He was very nice. He was new. The tour ended up being chaos. We didn't receive an itinerary and when asking our guide, we never got a clear instructions regarding timings, meeting locations, expectations etc. Upon arriving to the resort we had to stand around for 45 minutes waiting for the ice museum tour which you take with a much larger group from different tours, and guests of the resort. The ice museum tour guide is a resort employee. The museum is fairly small and poorly maintained. The martini glass made of ice was cool! After exiting the ice museum (only about 30 minutes) we were told we needed to have dinner in the restaurant and our whole group needed to be there. We waited for a table for 90 minutes and then food took another 90 minutes. This only left us with 30 minutes in the hot springs. The resort was understaffed, the food was adequate. Not worth the wait. In hindsight, bring your own dinner and skip the restaurant. You do pay for your own food. We left the resort atround midnight and went looking for lights. The guide did drop us off directly at our Airbnb, which was nice on the way home. We arrived back around 2am. We did bond with the 9 other people in the tour with us as it was about 10 hours with them.

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