Helsinki Hostels - Reviews and Rates

I spent the night in Helsinki, Finland. It is 9:45 AM here. I made a mistake with my connecting flight. I misread the layover time when I booked the flight - lesson learned - Read the fine print carefully. The woman at the travel desk in Helsinki airport was wonderful - I explained my goof, she made a quick phone call, booked a room for me close...

So...at this point, I still have a whole week left here in Helsinki! Pauliina has to work this week, so it's on me to wander around as I please... I feel like I'm not going to do too much though... Trying not to spend money is hard work, AND I'm exhausted.

Saturday night, Pauliina took me to this club called Apollo. The reason I mention i...

Barn and I spent one week in beautiful, peaceful Finland. We visited Helsinki in the south and Jyvaskyla and Kuopio in the central lakelands. Finland is home to the sauna (25% of all homes have a sauna), reindeers, Nokia, The Moomins (very cute cartoon characters), cloud berries (yellow berries from Lapland, 4 times more vitamin C than oranges) ...

finland has been ruled by russia and sweden for hundreds of years and has just celebrated its 100 years of independence. it is a growing nation with very bright and friendly people.

The trip to seinäjoki was arranged by y girlfriend and we travelled whit some people we did not know from before, Theese people my girlfriend met on a internet community wich is dedicated to arranging transportation from a point to another. there was another cuple and the girl who drove the car and al our camping stuff... this was quite early on...

Night ferry to Helsinki was pretty wikked... cozy little rooms, a little roomier than the night trains... the ferry is equipped with a pub with good live music, a nightclub (kinda lame), a resturant, casino and duty free store... its like a damn mini mall... oddly enough they were playing the game 1 of the stanley cup playoffs... probably the l...

Hello! We arrived in Finland via a cruise ship! I was quite excited as it was my first night spent on a boat...however we were relegated to the furthest lowest cabin on the boat! Twas terrifying! I couldn't sleep the night because I kept worrying that we would crash and I would drown on the boat! We are nearing our end in Scandinavia and hopeful...

Today was my chance to get away from the rest of the crowd and head over to Helsinki on a day trip. The others decided that they wanted to stay over in Estonia and do a little more sightseeing, I however wanted to head over the Baltic Sea to Finland and do some exploring on my own before we headed on up to Lapland. *** Note: I will steal a diary...