Elves Village Hotel in Kongas

Honestly One of the Creepiest Hotel Experiences of Our Lives. I honestly cannot believe this place is advertised as a hotel. Our experience at Elves Village in Lapland was so shockingly bad that we left faster than we arrived. First insult: after 6 PM you can’t check in at the actual hotel. No you have to drive 15 minutes to another hotel just to pick up a key. Completely ridiculous and incredibly inconvenient. But then came the real problem. When we opened the hotel door, we walked straight into absolute darkness. I’m not talking about “romantic dim lighting.” I mean pitch black, can’t-see-your-own-hand dark. The kind of darkness that makes you question if you’ve just broken into an abandoned property. We had to use our phone torches just to figure out what the building even was. Only then did we realize: the black void we stepped into was the lobby, the shadowy corridor was the hallway, and the huge dark room hiding a piano was apparently the dining room. Nothing looked welcoming. It all looked deserted, eerie, and honestly straight-up creepy. The whole atmosphere hit us like a warning sign. We tried to go back a second time just to return the key ,and even that was too much. It was still pitch dark, still unsettling, still giving horror-movie energy. We didn’t dare walk deeper inside. We dropped the key on the nearest table and walked out immediately. That’s how uncomfortable this place was. We ended up booking another hotel in a panic, late at night, in the freezing cold, because staying there wasn’t even an option. Not for a single minute. This wasn’t a “bad stay.” This was a get-out-now experience. Unless they fix the lighting, improve the atmosphere, and make the place actually feel alive and safe, I wouldn’t recommend this hotel to anyone.