Country Info
- Helsinki
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
- Currency
- 5,175,783
- Population
- FI
- Country Code
Finland Slideshow
Top Hotels in Finland
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Sokos Ilves Tampere
58 reviews -
Holiday Inn Helsinki-Vantaa Airport
88 reviews -
Crowne Plaza Helsinki
203 reviews
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Radisson Sas Seaside Hotel Helsinki
365 reviews
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Helsinki Grand Marina Scandic
458 reviews
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Sokos Hamburger And City Bors Turku
37 reviews
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Radisson Sas Plaza Helsinki
423 reviews
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Scandic Marski Helsinki
231 reviews
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Cumulus Airport Vantaa
67 reviews
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Hotel Holiday Inn Helsinki
36 reviews
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Sokos Vaakuna Helsinki
138 reviews
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Ramada Hotel Airport Vantaa
61 reviews
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Sokos Hotel Vantaa Helsinki
27 reviews -
Radisson Sas Royal Hotel Helsinki
380 reviews
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Sokos Flamingo Vantaa
47 reviews
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Hilton Helsinki-Vantaa Airpor
233 reviews
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Scandic Continental Helsinki
295 reviews
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Hotel Simonkentta Helsinki Scandic
278 reviews
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Radisson Sas Royal Vaasa
60 reviews
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Holiday Club Spa Hotel Katinkulta Kajaani
10 reviews
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Hotel Sokos Presidentti Helsinki
207 reviews
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Holiday Inn Helsinki City-West
102 reviews
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Cumulus Hotel Koskikatu Tampere
55 reviews
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Naantali Spa Hotel
54 reviews
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Radisson Sas Hotel Oulu
63 reviews -
Holiday Inn Hotel Turku
71 reviews
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Scandic Tampere
74 reviews
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Tunturi Lapland
56 reviews
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Rantasipi Aulanko Haemeenlinna
14 reviews
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Radisson Sas Espoo
74 reviews
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Cumulus Jyväskylä
18 reviews
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Sokos Arina Oulu
21 reviews
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Sokos Helsinki
116 reviews
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Kajanus Kajaani Scandic
11 reviews
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Rantasipi Ruka Kuusamo
21 reviews
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Lapland Hotel Sirkantaehti Sirkka
24 reviews
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Kamp Helsinki
329 reviews
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Sokos Puijonsarvi Kuopio
26 reviews
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Airport Hotel Bonus Inn Helsinki
50 reviews
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Lapland Hotel Riekonlinna Saariselka
34 reviews
Finland
Travel Blogs from Finland
departure time
This is a top pick! ... very busy, fair enough, it is early evening, everything pretty straightforward, passport control, (our visas had been obtained in Finland), then it was off to claim our baggage. First encounter with a Bakseesh collector, he wanted to collect the case I ...
Silja Line Ferry from Helsinki to Stockholm
This is a top pick! I'm taking off today and can't wait to hit up Sweden!!! Finland was entirely uneventful and I wish I had used the opportunity to get better rested but it was cool to see a familiar face after Russia. Yan joins me for breakfast at the local ...
Helsinki
This is a top pick! I have a sleeper cabin so I'm out like Janet Jackson's nipple... yeah, I know that was bad! Anyways, I slept like a baby and woke up just a few kilometers out of Helsinki. I resurface at the Helsinki train station around mid-day, well ...
One more day in Finland...
This is a top pick! ... a local pizzeria that makes a great 'za. We head back to his house and hit the sauna, because apparently every house in Finland has a sauna inside. I can only imagine how amazing that is in the dead of winter when its colder than ice ...
Helsinki
This is a top pick! ... . All the transport signs here are written in Swedish and Finnish. Finland is also referred to as Suomi, and Helsinki as Helsingfors. Finland was once owned by Sweden, then by Russia. Now it's independent. It joined the EU in 1995 and adopted the Euro ...
Helsinki and Poorvoo
This is a top pick! We took the ferry across from Tallinn to Helsinki where we met up with Nick´s friend Noel for a stroll around the beautiful harbour and later for dinner. The next day we couldn´t find accommodation anywhere in Helsinki, so stayed in a little town ...
Rastila Caravan Park
This is a top pick! We arrived in Finland on the morning of the 18th of June after a very pleasant ferry crossing from Sweden to Finland passing many, many islands belonging to both countries. It reminded me of cruising through the heads in Sydney. Lots of photos and a late, ...
Chillin in Helsinki
This is a top pick! Waking up late we make ourselves a nice breakfast and head downtown to do a walking tour of Helsinki. We check out the local market where we try some local sweets and then head over to Suomen Linna island to play around in the old fort and ...
Helsinki
This is a top pick! Flight to Helsinki went really smoothly. I slept most of the way... and it was a pretty long flight. It seemed shorter than Hobart to Sydney. Who needs first class? There they'd just be waking me up all the time for the free champagne. Helsinki from ...
If You cant Beat 'em, Join 'em
This is a top pick! ... sleeping in the hostel. Rick couldn't wipe the grin off his face. We caught our ritziest mode of transport yet across to Finland, a short three hour cruise ship ride away. On boarding what we thought was going to be a boring ferry we were surprised ...
Barcelona to Helsinki overland
This is a top pick! ... , but it is also the most expensive of the three Baltic capital cities. The next day we caught the ferry over to Finland. We didn't think Helsinki was an especially interesting nor attractive city, so we spent the time shopping to stock up on supplies ...
Off to Russia
This is a top pick! ... fuzz about our luggage. Everything was a tad overweight especially our carry-ons, but luckily they did not check those. In Finland we booked the Best Western Katajanokka hotel. This hotel is a converted prison, something different we thought. My o ...
Are we still travelling
This is a top pick! ... here in the north for over three weeks now after spending a week in the south visiting friends and seeing some of eastern Finland. The moment we pulled off the ferry in Helsinki we burst out laughing because the dozens of times we have been in ...
Berry delicious Finland
This is a top pick! Finland is famous for its lakes and Santa Claus. We chose to visit the lakes... We found a cheap hut in the small town of Oravi adjacent Linnasarri National Park, a network of over 100 islands. Unfortunately we booked to arrive on the only day the bus ...
Helsinki there are two ferry services from ...
This is a top pick! ... every building we saw, our Finnish lady guide had a story to tell about it where the hero was a woman. Not only does Finland have a women president (Tarja Halonen), but women also comprise of 60% of the population. One of the strangest things we saw ...
Where everything works
This is a top pick! We arrived in Helsinki after a pleasant cruise across the Baltic Sea and checked into our hostel in the former 1952 Olympic Stadium (soon to host the 2005 World Athletic Championships). Helsinki is a superclean and functioning city. After travelling ...
Fast Fun in Finland
This is a top pick! ... , I jumped on another boat and took a three hour ride to old Porvoo, so that I would see at least one other town in Finland. It was worth the effort to get up early to catch another boat, because it brought me through the vast archipeligo that makes up ...
Finnish Countryside Sights.
This is a top pick! ... the highest reputation for their product, which was used for book covers, cigar boxes and high quality cardboard. Outside of Finland, the finished product was sold to Russia and Central Europe. The processing plant was only closed in the 1960 's ...
Lost in Helsinki
This is a top pick! ... like it, it was so different, so we did the touristy thing, took the snaps, and moved on out of there. As we were in Finland, Lucy finally found the one thing she wanted to do, and that was skate on an outside rink, and as an added bonus it was snowing ...
Euroland. A fleeting glimpse
This is a top pick! ... to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move - Robert Louis Stevenson · Helsinki, Finland. · Prague time +1hr · Days to get to Prague - 7 Slow down Whenever I think back to Helsinki I seem to ...
Thieves go to Hell!
This is a top pick! We set the alarm early so we could enjoy a sauna before checking out Helsinki and found the separate male and female saunas to be very, well ....intimate. Nudity all round as Megs had flash backs of Luang Prabang. These Nordic people definitely aren't ...
Walking the Streets with Steed & Mrs Peel
This is a top pick! ... offering my services as an immigration consultant. I stated in my plan to the Immigration Minister that within five short years I could populate Finland with an equal number of brown, black and red haired people. It's been better than a week now and I've ...
Finland baby
This is a top pick! Moi The last week or so has flown by along with the kms. After Poland we headed to Vilnius Lithuania, nice quaint city with spectacular churches (more churches than people I think). In the evening we visited the hill of crosses which was a moving ...
Finnish Sauna.
This is a top pick! ... a year, after a glacial meltdown 10,000 yeas ago. It is estimated that in 2,000 years there will be a land bridge between Finland and Sweden, at this place due to the rising islands and land on both sides. The phenominan has been caused by the ...
Turku
This is a top pick! I managed to scrape together a few precious hours sleep on the ferry before making into Turku in Finland by 8am. Once there I caught the bus into the fresh looking local town square that had a massive market bustling. I strolled around here down by the ...
A Finnish Fortress.
This is a top pick! ... to protect the Eastern part of the empire against Russia when Finland was part of the Kingdom of Sweden. However in 1808 Finland became part of Russia, after the Finnish War and the fortress housed a Russian garrison for over a 100 years. Today it ...
Corny
This is a top pick! In Helsinki I was fortunate to find a cool hostel near the centre. I took to the streets immediately to check out the sights. The most impressive was the Tuomiokirkko a huge presence of a cathedral in the main square. Helsinki like Turku also housed a ...
Suomi
This is a top pick! ... isn't! It's very expensive and in my mind more suited to a romantic weekend or maybe part of an actual 'holiday' in Finland, while exploring Tampere and Turku. I docked in a city full of beautiful blonde women, expensive restaurants, high line fashion ...