Country Info
- Helsinki
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
- Currency
- 5,175,783
- Population
- FI
- Country Code
Helsinki Slideshow
Top Hotels in Helsinki
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Crowne Plaza Helsinki
203 reviews -
Radisson Sas Seaside Hotel Helsinki
365 reviews
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Helsinki Grand Marina Scandic
458 reviews
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Radisson Sas Plaza Helsinki
423 reviews
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Scandic Marski Helsinki
231 reviews
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Hotel Holiday Inn Helsinki
36 reviews
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Sokos Vaakuna Helsinki
138 reviews
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Radisson Sas Royal Hotel Helsinki
380 reviews
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Hilton Helsinki-Vantaa Airpor
233 reviews
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Scandic Continental Helsinki
295 reviews -
Hotel Simonkentta Helsinki Scandic
278 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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Sokos Helsinki
116 reviews
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Airport Hotel Bonus Inn Helsinki
50 reviews
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Kamp Helsinki
329 reviews -
Hotel Sokos Pasila Helsinki
24 reviews
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Holiday Inn Helsinki City Center
136 reviews
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Helka Hotel Helsinki
276 reviews
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Hilton Helsinki Strand
262 reviews
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Sokos Torni Hotel Helsinki
133 reviews
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Sokos Hotel Aleksanteri Helsinki
75 reviews
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Arthur Helsinki
205 reviews
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Hotel Glo Helsinki
653 reviews
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Klaus K Hotal Helsinki
256 reviews
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Cumulus Seurahuone Hotel Helsinki
211 reviews
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Comfort Hotel Pilotti Helsinki
31 reviews
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Olympia Hotel Helsinki
37 reviews
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Best Western Premier Htl Katajanokka Helsinki
342 reviews
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Sokos Hotel Albert Helsinki
63 reviews
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Cumulus Kaisaniemi Helsinki
74 reviews
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Best Western Hotel Haaga Helsinki
42 reviews
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Kuninkaantie Helsinki
17 reviews
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Rantapuisto Helsinki
58 reviews
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Hotel Rivoli Jardin Helsinki
124 reviews
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Accome Hotel Apartments Skatudden Helsinki
26 reviews
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Anna Helsinki
32 reviews
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Ava Hotel Helsinki
26 reviews
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Kulttuurikeskus Sofia Helsinki
3 reviews
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Palace Linna Helsinki
199 reviews
Helsinki
Travel Blogs from Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki
This is a top pick! ... We leave my luggage in the train station baggage hold and head to a traditional Finnish summer festival in a park in downtown Helsinki. The festival is pretty cool and we get to catch some live Finnish music, eat some Finnish food, and mingle ...
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! ... had their health. 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 ...
Helsinki and Poorvoo
This is a top pick! ... 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 called Poorvoo, some of which dates from the ...
Rastila Caravan Park
This is a top pick! ... before bed and we were gently rocked to sleep. We took the scenic route to Rastila Caravan Park and oriented ourselves with Helsinki (unintentionally). We did a total of 6 loads of washing while Des washed the car and Lou chilled. Swiss Michael and ...
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! ... 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 the air looked just like the cover of my Finnish grammar ...
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! ... 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 before ...
Off to Russia
This is a top pick! ... convenience store close to the hotel. We quickly went back as the rain got worse and worse. We concluded that the stay in Helsinki was interesting but actually quite a waste of money. The next morning we headed out to St Petersburg, our first stop in ...
Helsinki there are two ferry services from ...
This is a top pick! ... Helsink... It was actually the Temppelioukio Church, built into a pile of rocks. Other highlighs of Helsinki included:- The Uspenski Cathederal Senate Square Helsinki University The Presidential Palace Paul had read that films in ...
Where everything works
This is a top pick! ... 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 through Asia and India for so long we found the helpful tourist ...
Fast Fun in Finland
This is a top pick! ... this was admittedly a quick visit. I took the fast ferry, just one and a half hours from Tallinn and spent two nights in Helsinki. The morning after I arrived into the u-shaped harbor, I jumped on another boat and took a three hour ride to old Porvoo, so ...
Lost in Helsinki
This is a top pick! ... cope, one that received loads of snow, so I did the usual and booked a couple of flights out of here, with the destination being Helsinki Day 1 - GPS Link As this is the UK, snow started to fall at Gatwick, so the Captain told us that we had to leave now ...
Euroland. A fleeting glimpse
This is a top pick! ... not 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! ... about a $100,000 a month to be a able to provide her with the standard of living that she has become accustomed to. Helsinki airport is around 20 kilometres from town. For almost the entire distance you drive past Parry Sound-like rock and forest. Jim, ...
Finland baby
This is a top pick! ... Parnu, Estonia enjoying the fine sandy beaches and much more tolerable temperatures. Tallinn was our final stop over before heading to Helsinki. Our last night in the Baltic was spent in the old town in a medieval restaurant enjoying the massive Deer ...
Suomi
This is a top pick! Helsinki, Finland - Right, let's be honest, Helsinki is not a backpackers city. It really 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 ...
A Finnish Fortress.
This is a top pick! ... in Estonia sailed right close to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Suomenlinna and into the very beautiful Helsinki Harbour. Helsinki, with only a population of 568,000, is a "low rise" city unspoilt by giant modern skyscrapers, but blessed ...
Corny
This is a top pick! ... 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 market, this time on the docks that was very colourful and full of life. I ended up ...
This is a top pick! 
Hello Helsinki ... Hello Rain
... back into the Café Esplande on our way back and got Jim a Cinnamon Roll - so he would at least have a little something to remember Finland by. He enjoyed his day on a quiet ship - he went to the gym, relaxed on the balcony and started reading a new ...
Helsinki
... up Pohjoisesplanadi, past the Presidential Palace & then hit the City Museum on Sofiankatu where there's a permanent exhibition entitled "Helsinki Horizons" which creates an overall picture of the city in three realms - the Swedish era, the Russian era ...
Still before the storm..
090209 Helsinki. Finland. Viimeiset valmistelut stadissa ja Memmulla parin paivan piinaava odotus.. Lahdon ajankohta loppuun asti epaselva joten moikattiin viela kavereita ennen h-hetkea. Torstaina sitten viimein Helsinki-Vantaalle ja odottamaan jo ...
Behind the scenes
Jokainen seikkailu alkaa askeleesta. Askeleesta kohti tuntematonta. Tulevana keskiviikkona tuo askel otetaan. Oltiin tammikuun lopussa remontoimassa Antin kämppää, kun Anna-Marian kanssa aloimme keskustelemaan hänen vuoden matkastaan Australiassa. ...
Sweating in Helsinki
... Finnish company produced rubber boots - useful trivia for a pub quiz, eh? All I knew about this country when I touched down at Helsinki airport, was its geographical location and the fact that its far north is home to a portly, bearded old man in a red ...
Helsinki
... African guy who will be on the same exact train as us from Moscow to Mongolia, pretty random. We took the ferry to Helsinki, got here yesterday around 4 PM. Everything weve heard about Helsinki is that its not very fun, so were not planning on doing ...
Helsinki
... Finland gained its independence in 1917, after under the Russian rule for 110 years. Prior to that, Finland was ruled by Sweden for some 750 years. Helsinki (population of Greater Helskinki 1.2M) is the capital city, across the Gulf of Finland ...