Kiruna Transportation

You can book taxi 24 hours a day at +46(0)980-120 20
I recommend you booking taxi in advance because when we arrived the airport at 6pm , we could find one...I had to ask the taxi which was booked in advance to call the other for us...We waited at the airport 30 mins...it's almost empty and very quite.

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'Fly Nordic' is 'Low Cost' airline because it says
- We just fly, nothing else.
- We fly point to point only.
- We are not part of a costly alliance or do not offer expensive frequent flyer programs.
- We do not use paper tickets or plastic cards.
- Ticket sales and booking is done mainly on the internet.
- Service on board is available to those who wish to pay extra.
- Our administration is minimal.

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We took a flight from Stockholm to Kiruna with SAS rather than get the train. The flight took 1.5 hours and it was really nice to get there so quickly compared to the train which takes about 24 hours. The flight was also at the time the same price as the train, about 600 krona. The only problem with getting the flight is getting from the airport into the town to your accommodation. There is only one taxi company and they have a monopoly on the market so charge a ridiculous price to get to the town. But do try and bargain with them (we did).

Sure, you can whizz to Kiruna by plane from Stockholm but why kill all the fun? Going by train from Stockholm (also possible from Göteborg further south west) takes 16 hours! This makes you realise how oblong this country really is and if you go in summer, you won't be able to sleep as the gorgeous northern farmsteads and great rivers unfold outside your window in the never setting sun. If you travel during winter, you will never sleep as you look out in the middle of the night and see a tiny village with a peculiar name, where the train has stopped as this is the only "lifeline" to the world and two people might get off and disappear into the snow. Then as dawn comes, the sky take on a fantastic set of colours and you can start to spot the elks (moose) and reindeer in the snow along the line...The line up north is what brings our iron to the rest of the world and therefore a piece of railway people died to construct in harsh conditions. There is a buffet car on board with evening meals and breakfast buffet. As for sleeping comfort - you WILL eventually sleep. There are seats, couchettes and sleepers...the latter quite comfy as the train makes fewer stops than most night trains.

Kiruna is a small town, so I don't think it has a public transportation system. Aside from the bus that took us to the ice hotel and the vans that took us on our moose safari, we just walked everywhere we went.

To get to Kiruna, we took the train. We left Sundsvall in the evening, and arrived the next morning. We ended up with ridiculously cheap train tickets (don't ask me how, I have no idea!), so we were happy about that. The train wasn't too bad. We played a few games, chatted, and slept.

SAS provide cheap flights to Kiruna from Stockholm. approx. 80 euro return. The flight takes 1.5 hours.

Beware the cost of a taxi from the airport to Kiruna town. Could be between 20 and 30 euro and its not far. Try to share taxi if you can.

Flying has a bit higher price than the train, but is more easy.
Do not get desperate when you leave, if you have not seen all. How nice isn´t to leave something to see for the next time.
There always be a next time!