Jongunjoen Matkailu

I tried to ask for a quote for a boat tour advertised on the web page, but the service provider was busy with another client and asked me to call again. I called again another time and asked for the quote, but the man said he would email it to me. So I email him and explained what I was after, how many people etc. No reply. I called again and asked what's up - he said that he will call me "today or tomorrow" to let me know if the service is even available on the dates that I would be in Lieksa. Now I've waited for a week from my initial contact and have not been told how much the service would cost, or if it is indeed available on the dates I provided. Maybe they will contact me or maybe the won't - but I will have to book something else with another provider to make sure we have stuff to do on my holiday.

The times that you stumble across a holiday that really is just perfect for your whole family can be quite rare. For us this year we really hit the spot with Jarkko and Victoria’s special place on the edge of a beautiful lake where we literally didn’t see another soul. We really wanted this part of our trip to be the part where we could totally relax and focus on being together, to not have to think about what we are doing or what we are eating or anything, just to be looked after for a few days and it was a bit of an unknown leap of faith we took as we had found the place completely by chance and didn’t really know what to expect. From the minute we arrived we were warmly welcomed, fed delicious hearty home cooked meals including home made salmon pizza, finish meat pies cooked on the fire, perfectly cooked chicken and salad from the garden. We did lots of gentle adventures that we agreed with Jarkko before we arrived and they were perfectly suited to our son indy who is 8 and autistic and we felt that Jarkko totally understood how to connect with him and what would work best and by the end of the trip they were firm friends. We kayaked and SUPed in the lake walked through the local forest picking wild berries on the way to a lovely little camp, swam in rivers, had an overnight stay in a bear hide, had saunas and hot tubs and fires right by the lake which we all swam in every day and indy learnt to fish for the first time. Jarkko even presented indy with his very own fishing rod at the end as a gift to go home with! Victoria was lovely and warm too and the whole place gave us a happy glow. We highly recommend it and especially the all inclusive option because there was something just so nice about letting go and being taken care of so we could focus on each other and the world around us. We stayed in the cottage which is a flexible space with a kitchen and lots if beds and pretty big for just us 3 but it worked perfectly for us and was clean and had everything we needed to have a comfy stay and seemed good value to have our own space which can be such a game changer when you have a neuro diverse family. We then ate in the big main building - it is not a trendy, bare light bulb, stripped pine rustic chic kind of place, it’s a really well run, sparkling clean, humble and refreshingly traditional spot where you feel like you are drifting back in time. It was a real good un! Hence the long review.