Helisinki, A Totally Different Style City

Trip Start Aug 19, 2005
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Trip End Aug 28, 2005


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Friday, August 26, 2005

Since we could not take ship from Bergen to Narvik, we decided to take the ship from Stockholm to Helsinki.

However, how high the price of ship ticket is?  For some stupid reasons, we had only a little cash in our pockets.  And, none of us had VISA or Master Card.  Thus, maybe we could not afford the tickets.

I went to the desk of Viking to ask the price.  A beautiful Sweden girl received me.  Here, I should say Sweden girls are the most beautiful in Northern Europe, in my opinion.  The lovely girl told me the price is 2200 Kr per person.  By a simple calculation, I knew the total price was 6600 Kr, about 700 euros.  We could not bear it.  So, I asked if I could get a discount.  I had international student card and Scandinavian Pass.  In general, the two cards could bring us some discount Island before Port
Island before Port
 .  The girl checked my cards and told me there might be a one-third discount.  Hmm... it was still too high.  Must we give the plan again?  Must we spend the left 2 days in Stockholm before we can take the return plane?  It seemed that we were falling into a big trouble.

The girl gave me an advice if we could take the ship to Helsinki today and take the same one back tomorrow, in the same cabinet, she could offer me a price at 650 Kr.  Well, it was really a big discount.  But the total amount, according to my calculation, should be almost 2000 Kr.  It was still a little high for us.  We should save some money for 2 days meals and the fee from Stockholm to airport.  But I could not say that to the girl directly since the discount was so big.  So I told her if she could keep the tickets for me to discuss with my friends.  She accepted my request to keep it until 13 o'clock.

After discussing, we thought the price was unacceptable.  So I went back to the desk to refuse the price.  The girl was really surprise when she heard the price was too high.  She asked me why I thought 650 Kr was a high price.  I said 650 Kr might be not but 2000 Kr is.  I believed I must make her crazy.  After several second, she pointed out my mistake, which is the 650 Kr was for all of 3 persons.  Wow!  How stupid I was!  It was really cheap, only about 70 euros for 3 persons 2 nights!  Certainly, we accepted the price immediatly.

In fact, some friend in Sweden told me there might be the total free tickets in the ship everyday~
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