Budget Hotels & Hostels
Apartments
Guesthouses and B&Bs
Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Helsinki
This striking modern pair of buildings is popular for business conferences, which makes rates more affordable on weekends. A good terrace and a breakfast buffet, with an array of options, are also good selling points.
Radisson Blu Hotel, Oulu
This business hotel is ideally located near the waterfront and kauppatori. Standard rooms are spacious and airy, with good bathrooms; superior and business rooms add extras and views, and there’s a tempting suite with magnificent perspectives.
Solo Sokos Hotel Torni
In 1931 this building became Finland’s Empire State building and although no longer the country’s tallest building, it still boasts excellent views, especially from Ateljee Bar...
Sokos Hotel Ilves
This huge tower hotel has over three hundred rooms, bright with turquoise paint and light wood, and offering excellent views over the heart of town or the Tammerkoski below...
Sokos Hotel Vaakuna
Across the river from the town centre and very near the train station, this attractive modern hotel has been designed to echo Häme Castle...
Sokos Hotel Eden
This excellent spa hotel by the beach on Hietasaari offers great watery facilities – slides, intricate indoor pools, saunas – and massage treatments...
City Hotel
There’s something pleasing about this place, cheerfully tucked between the convivial ambience of its own restaurant and bar...
Hotel Hullu Poro
The ‘Crazy Reindeer’ keeps expanding, and now seems like a small city of its own...
Sokos Hotel Albert
A boutique-style hotel from this hotel chain that’s well-located for clubbing in Punavuori. Rooms are compact with flatscreen TVs and computers and there’s a public sauna...
Hotel Arthur
This reliable spot close to the railway station and Kaisaniemi Park provides fine standard rooms with double doors and thick curtains to ensure a good night’s rest before catching that early train...
Hotelli Seurahuone Helsinki
Since 1914 this seurahuone (literally ‘club room’) has been a meeting place for high society, where visiting officers, gentlemen and ladies came to stay, and a venue for concerts and ballroom dances...
Crowne Plaza Helsinki
From the grand lobby and lakeside locales you can expect a first-class hotel.
Rantasipi Imatran Valtionhotelli
With art-nouveau furnishings and flamboyant turrets, this is definitely the top of the town with some rooms even affording views of the rapids...
Cumulus Imatra
A central option with good pub and swimming pool.
Sokos Hotel Presidentti
Right near Kamppi metro station, this gargantuan revamped hotel sports close to 500 rooms including several large suites. It’s one of the more affordable and central options.
Cumulus Pinja
Around the corner from the cathedral, this elegant art nouveau choice features compact, recently renovated rooms and an intimate feel that’s complemented by the quiet, appealing district and friendly, personal service...
Glo Hotel Art
Linna is Finnish for ‘castle’ and the turreted facade and courtly service give you the royal treatment...
Radisson Blu Marina Palace Hotel, Turku
Reconditioned in 2006, this modern affair is Turku’s top of the town with service laid on for busy executives...
Hotel Kamp
If Helsinki is the daughter of the Baltic then this grand hotel is her most dashing suitor...
Rivoli Jardin Hotel
This beautiful boutique hotel is a stylish welcome to the Finnish capital...
Holiday Inn Oulu
With a satisfying location overlooking the cathedral, this is one of Oulu's better choices. There are three grades of room; many with balconies; the 'business comfort' rooms cost more but come with either their own sauna or Jacuzzi...
Holiday Inn Turku
Good central place that caters to a family crowd.