Hiring a car

Do many people bother hiring a car, i was thinking we could hire one for a few days to go to levi and have a look around.

Would it be easy to drive from yllas to levi or should we get a taxi?

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Hi Debbie

We thought about it but didn%26#39;t fancy driving in the snow and ice. There is a bus that goes to Levi from Yllas on a Tuesday - I got the times from the tourist information, but I can%26#39;t remember them - I think it was to go about 9am and return about 4pm?

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Thanks sarah thats really handy to know about the bus, I fancy going for the day to have a nosy! Thats if we have time with everything we have planned

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We got a quote for a taxi from Levi to Yylas 200Euros - its much cheaper to hire a car.

Shell

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We hire cars, the driving is no problem at all, it takes about 45 mins to drive to Levi from Akaslompolo and about 30 mins from yllasjarvi.

There is a place in the village you can hire a car, other than that it would be from Kittila Airport.

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Thats great, we are definatly going to hire a car, I think it will be handy and they dont seem that expensive, do you know the name of the hire place in the village tb? do you have to pre-book or just book when you get there?

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Hiring a car would certainly make the wider area more accessible to you. Be aware that the roads are well gritted but still very icy/ slippy. A lot of the locals are used to driving in those conditions but you would need to get used to slowing down with gears rather than brakes.

Paula

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If you are hiring from the village the company to use is yllasexpress, if you can hire from the airport go to atlaschoice.com they are much cheaper.

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Thanks everyone, and thanks tb thats great I will check them out

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We got back from Levi this morning. We hired a car just for one day which was 78 euros. We arranged it in the tourist office and picked it up from a local hotel, it was Europcar. Driving was fine as long as you%26#39;re careful - theres not much traffic on the road. Its an easy route between Levi and Yllas with the Snow Village, Lainio, in between which is well worth a visit. We wish we%26#39;d had the car longer really as the temperature dropped to minus 19 on a couple of days which was freeeeezing even with hundreds of layers! Definately nice to be able to explore though!

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Thanks katet,

Ive decided we are definatly going to hire a car, we can get a reasonably sized one for around £300 for the week so we will probably go for that