If your bucket list dreams include seeing the Northern Lights in the heart of the Arctic Circle, this small group experience is your opportunity to enjoy Mother Nature’s glamorous show at a comfortable pace. It's a long, long, long weekend Chasing the Aurora! (6 days/5 nights)

You arrive Fairbanks, and settle in to your very 'Alaskan' resort on the river. Keep an look out for a Moose or two on the river, and we'll be sure to add you to the Northern Light call alert. From Fairbanks, head another 60 miles north to settle in beneath the Arctic Circle for three nights, and lastly return to Fairbanks with memories of a lifetime for the final night before depart Alaska for home.

Winter in Alaska isn’t for everyone – but those with a sense of adventure (and layers of warm clothing) are rewarded with a true winter wonderland.

This trip is open to all adventurers! Double and Single Occupancy participation at no additional cost for a single occupancy registration.

Please note that this tour is curated for a minimus of 4 guests and limited to 12 guests total.

• • In the event that we do not meet the minimum capacity for travel, you will have the option to pay a supplemental fee for a private, customized tour. This decision will be made with your approval

Well, not a single person can guarantee the Northern Lights will make an appearance on any night of the year. Mother Nature makes that call. However, we can stack the odds in your favor!

• We have selected resorts situated right under the auroral oval, giving you some of the highest viewing frequencies on earth.

• While daylight hours start to make a comeback in mid-February (approximately 8-9 hrs) the long hours of nighttime darkness provide the necessary window for the lights to shine.

• Late winter often brings stable, dry high-pressure systems that favor clear skies over cloudy ones. February is officially late winter.

• Experts say that staying 3 nights brings your statistical chance of seeing the aurora to over 90%. We are weighing the odds in your favor, and spending five nights snuggly nestled in the Aurora Zone of the Arctic Circle.

• Arrive Fairbanks

• Transfer to hotel with shuttle

• Rest up and prepare for an adventure of a lifetime

• Please let us know your flight details ASAP so we can make arrangements for your arrival

The Chena Hot Springs Resort is thirty miles up the road from public electricity. But no worries, you will enjoy the electricity generated by the property directly from the hot springs. Today take a tour of the Geothermal Energy 'Plant' and the Greenhouse that grows the restaurant's salad fixing year round and in temperatures well below zero in the winter (among other things in the summer).

Once you're in awe of the off-grid comforts of roughing it, visit the Aurora Ice Museum. BTW...your level of roughing it is not much. We've selected rooms with private bathrooms, but if you'd like to try an adorable dry cabin-meaning no bathroom inside, but an outhouse-just let us know and we'll make the change and adjust the price of your package. (It's more $$ for an outhouse.😱)

Take a dip in the hot springs, which are 102F, or schedule a massage, just take it easy and with calm because the night is when the excitement explodes in the sky with the Northern Lights (weather cooperating of course).

The exhilarating Dog Sled Tour will give you an appreciation for these incredible, strong and loyal canines. So get ready to snuggle close with others, warm and covered beneath a sleeping bag, while the winter wonder of the trees decorated in a beautiful white unfolds around you.

Did you bring a book or a board game while you wait for the sun to set and the sky to go dark? The Aurora Viewing is a late night event, so be sure to get some rest during the day!

PS: There are spots to see the Aurora Borealis at the base of the resort! So be prepared at any moment to bundle up and head outside to enjoy the show...when Mother Nature feels like spoiling us with the Northern Lights dancing in the night sky.

Dog Sled Tour

Ice Museum Experience

Geothermal Energy & Greenhouse Introduction

Aurora Night Viewing Excursion

Also available but not included in package, and these should be arranged ahead of time if you wish to assure participation:

Massages and Therapeutic Sessions at Hot Springs Resort

Dog Kennel Tour

Snow Mobile Experience

Sunset on the Dome

Ice Fishing

Gear and some equipment is available for rent at resort

We leave Chena Hot Springs and make our way to Fairbanks with a visit to Santa's House in North Pole, AK and a stop at the Gas Line Pump Station.

Check-in to resort by the Chena River, get some rest, for it's one more opportunity on this night to Chase the Northern Lights with your specially curated late-night experience.

Please note that many (not all) flights depart Fairbanks for the Lower 48 in the early AM hours. Choose your flights carefully to fit your schedule, however So you'd like to enjoy an extra day of exploration on your own in Alaska, you can arrange your airline booking for the early morning of the next day (February 24th...probable around 1AM).

The hotel shuttle will get you to the airport at desired time.

Thank you for choosing Insiders Tours for memories of a lifetime.

We do not say goodbye, rather we say...till we meet again!