Bear Centre

The place where Wild Brown Bear locates is called Bear Centre. All following services you can reach with Wild Brown Bear.

Restaurant for 50 people

Auditorium for 50 people

Rooms for 24 people

Reception
When you arrive to Wild Brown Bear, go for check-in to the Reception. You´ll find Reception in the building which is closer the lake, you can see the Reception building in the image below.

Reception is open every day:

1st April - 30th April
8.30 - 10.00 am      and      14.00 - 16.00 pm

1st May - 31st July
7.30 - 9.00 am      and      15.00 - 17.00 pm

1st August - 31st August
8.00 - 9.30 am     and      14.30 - 16.30 pm

1st September - 30th September
8.30 - 10.00 am      and      14.00 - 16.00 pm

When you arrive other time, if possible, let company know the arrival time, so we know to wait you.

Other time you can have a cup of coffee or tea while you wait or take a look around. Personnel will arrive.
Accommodation
Sleeping is possible in the hides, but when photographing, it is not recommendable to sleep since bears may come at any time. Accommodation reservation allows sleeping during the day after spending the night inside the hide. Especially in summer it is best to stay awake in the hide and sleep by day.

In addition of sleeping, by day it’s possible to walk outdoors and surrounding area to observe views and perhaps make use of Bird hide.

When people arrive and have check in, they receive their room and often go to the hide same afternoon. Arriving time to Vartius should be before 3 or 4 pm, depending the month, to make it possible going to hide same afternoon.

Sometimes the flights from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport to Kajaani Airport have time that makes it not possible going to hide same day. These flights arrive to Kajaani late afternoon or evening when it is possible to have one accommodation night before going to hide. Sometimes it might be also better to have a day to rest before going to hide.

Notice changing timetable here
- 13 rooms
- Rooms for 24 people
- 2 and 3 people rooms
- Room for 1 person is possible
- Private or common toilets and showers
Restaurant
Restaurant for 50 people

In restaurant you can enjoy the dinner before going to hide and in the morning after exciting night you can join to the breakfast. Let us know in advance if you want to have separate dinner or breakfast, so we know to prepare correct amount of food

Notice changing timetable here

Restaurant is open every day from April 1st to 30th September. In February, March and October restaurant is open when service is needed.
Auditorium
Auditorium for 50 people

It is possible to use our auditorium, enquire the use of auditorium in advance.

Here 1st time visitors have their Info for the Bear Night at the announced time.
Shop
In Bear Centre you´ll find also a small shop to buy snacks, drinks and some small things you may need during your stay.

If you notice you need to buy something, just ask personnel and we try to get it for you.
Smoke Sauna
In Bear Centre we have smoke sauna what is possible to use. Notice that warming smoke sauna takes many hours, 6-9 hours.
Coming in Future
In autumn 2017 at Bear Centre is been started to build 5 cottages for accommodation, these should be ready in 2018. Also, in Bear Centre will be campsite for caravans and motor-homes. Cottages and Campsite are part of Bear Camping.
Wild Brown Bear builds more Bird Hides for season 2019. Bird hides will be for Confiferus Forest Birds, Waterfowl, Shore Birds.

Wild Brown Bear Ltd

Kostamustie 5644

88930 Lentiira (Vartius)

Finland

Tel +358 40 5469008

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