Ok so I checked the price of everything that was included... I guess it matches the price if you had taken everything yourself. However, you have to know what you get for that price, because their website is NOT transparent about it.First of all, the accommodations: You sleep in hoStels, with room of 6 to 12 persons, public bathrooms. This is valid both for Stockholm and Absiko.For the train, do not expect anything better, it's super small cabins of 6 people, some had trouble fitting their suitcases and slept at 2 on one bench...The hostel in Stockholm, I didn't even go. I ended up taking my own hotel room somewhere else because it was looking awful. For Abisko, I was shocked. You have ONE toilet for the whole floor and the showers are OUTSIDE where you sleep. Also, it's of course public showers, and you can't lock the door. When you are under the shower, if somebody opens the door, you can be seen directly from the hallway, which is mixed !! It was crazy how you have 0 privacy during this whole trip, very uncomfortable.But what shocked me the most is that the trip promises you 2 nights of aurora chasing. However, once you receive the planning, you'll see that there is actually only ONE night of chasing. And when that night arrived, I asked the guide how we were going to chase the auroras (hike ? snowmobile ? Huskies?). Well he answered me that we had to chase it OURSELVES and that he was TIRED and went to bed !!!!! So actually, there is 0 aurora chasing planned, nor with the Yes-Trip guide, nor with a guide from there. The MAIN event of this trip is the auroras so this is for me unforgivable and a straight rip-off.So we had to figure it out ourselves. Some people paid extra on the spot to reserve guides from there... The extra activities that you can get optionally are also extremely expensive, more then what you can find by yourself on the internet. So I think they put part of it in their pockets.Talking about the guide, you would expect somebody from there, right? No. You get a random guy from Spain for whom this is NOT his main job and just have his holidays paid from the organizers of Yes-Trip I guess in exchange for doing this. The city tour in Stockholm? Made by him. Not a local either. And it was the first time that guy was even going to Stockholm so this is so BS.We had issue at some point with the people from the extra activity that were not coming, and we didn't know who to call, we didn't even know with which company it was, and the "guide" was not reachable because he was himself dogsledding...I need to give a positive point to them tho that my partner and I got a private room in Abisko because I complained before the trip. So they went beyond to try to accommodate us, which is nice of them. But that doesn't make up for the rest.Overall I would recommend people to just do all the reservations themselves, not go through Yes-Trip, and take whatever you want with your budget: It won't be more expensive then going through Yes=Trip, for the same accommodations.
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