Helsinki Hotels - Reviews and Rates

For my summer vacation, I decided to take a trip to visit my friend Pauliina in Helsinki, Finland. Last year, she came to me, so I decided to go to her this year.

The trip there was fairly uneventful, except... DID YOU KNOW...??? That there are no ATMs in "duty free" zones in the airport??? Can anyone explain to me why this is?? I've nev...

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It was a particularly stressful time in the lead up to our departure with packing boxes, moving out of the flat and more than...

A 9h55 je débarque a Helsinki sous son manteau blanc... tout comme le mien (qui est rouge normalement)! Je pars dans cette nouvelle aventure urbaine avec mon fidèle plan, je visite les principaux monuments et remonte les grands axes, parcs et passages de mer gelée (:juste les bras s´enfoncant dans les terres). La Baltique n´est pas gelée cette s...

I took alot of pictures, but again, it felt more like a duty than it did enjoying the scenery around. I was getting burnt out by the weather, seeing that it was starting to sprinkle. I can take cold and I can take wind, but add wetness, and it is a dangerous trio. I had my book, which had been burning a hole in my backpack since I had really st...

Nie liczac drobnych incydentow z zamiana miejsc i woda kapiaca z sufitu lot minal spokojnie. Na lotnisku w Helskinach bylismy o 7 rano. Tam czekala na nas niemila niespodzianka: termometr wskazywal 3 stopnie Celsjusza a my nie bylismy przygotowani na az taka zmiane temperatury. Mimo tego postanowilismy wykorzystac kilka godzin do nastepnego samo...

So the luck of the Irish has stayed with us and we ended up getting a ferry from Stockholm to Turku for only £45 which was a bargain considering it was a 14hr trip. We expected to just see open ocean the whole way but in fact, we were sailing past islands the whole trip. When we arrived in Turku we secured a place on the ferry to Tallin and this...

Yup, we landed safely in Helsinki at around 16:00 local time. We got quickly out of the plane and suddenly had 3 hours to kill. So we decided to take a quick trip down town and see what they had there to show us. We rushed out of the airport and jumped on the first bus with "City" marked on it after having taken out a few €uros. The bust on...

Another small piece of Helsinki walking around in a slow morning and then I took a bus to Porvoo, to see the old town there. A nice place, but really small too, that was the touristic map with the smallest scale I have ever seen. If you get distracted for a short while when following a street you lose your track, and what looks like a long dista...

We went again into Helsinki (there is so much to see) on an extremely hot day, walked around Toolonlahtki, a body of water near where the Finnish National Opera and Finlandia Hall are. I believe the Finnish Opera House is faced with marble which has not survived the Finnish weather terribly well and is curving outwards and has had to be replaced...

Tallin. What a wonderful place. Photos will follow later :-). You can just stay there for one or two days and chill. The hostel was like a home :-). From Tallin on to Helsinki on a Finnish ferry boat. --------------------------------------- --------------------- ------------- NEED HIGH QUALITY PHOTOS OF HELSINKI? --------------------------------...