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Boats & Ferries Helsinki
84 Reviews Suomenlinna is an Island that is only accessible by water. It is very easy to reach, as there is a regular Ferry service running to and from the Island. We had our Helsinki card, so could travel for...
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A Cheap Flight=Ryanair&air Baltic Tampere
10 Reviews Ryanair flights from Stansted are served with an airport bus to both Tampere (6 euro each way) and Helsinki (25 euro each way). The bus back from Helsinki leaves about 4 hours before the flight from...
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Helsinki-Vantaa Airport Helsinki
25 Reviews There are two bus connections between the main railway station and Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Finnair shuttle bus leaves from platform 30 in Elielin aukio which is - looking from the south - on the left...
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Train Tampere
5 Reviews When I was in Finland I had a railpass (valid for 3 countries - Finland, Sweden and Norway, for any five days travel over 2 months). If you're trying to travel cheaply, then rail passes are a great...
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City Public Transport Helsinki
68 Reviews Helsinki has well organised public transfer, buses, trams, metro, local trains. Metro route from 2011 is simple : letter Y, first 11 stops then 3 stops at both sides. Metro is very reliable. Only...
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Local Bus Tampere
5 Reviews Tampere's local buses are clean and, although more expensive than in many other cities around the world, dirt cheap compared to taxis or rental cars. If you're planning to see some of the city by bus...
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Trains & Commuter strains Helsinki
37 Reviews There are so many trains leaving from Helsinki each day, it is a perfect way to leave and enter the city. The trainstation is also very central. It is easy to get anywhere from here. In the hall of...
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Finnair Helsinki
12 Reviews The Finnair bus service is excellent, it takes you from both terminals at Helsinki-Vantaa airport into the heart of Helsinki City Centre, terminating outside of the main railway station. The service...
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Pub Tram Helsinki
12 Reviews The 3T tram runs in a figure of eight around some of the top tourist sights of Helsinki. We had purchased the Stockholm card, and used this on the Tram. As it happened, we did sit on the right hand...
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City Bikes Helsinki
12 Reviews If you don't want to walk around the city, you could lend a Citybike in the summer. There are 26 stands in the centre of Helsinki from where you can get a Citybike for your own use by paying a deposit...
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In central Helsinki, every car park costs money, as much as €2 per hour. Some parking spaces in Helsinki and elsewhere require drivers to set a small cardboard parking clock (pysäköintikiekko, lierally meaning 'parking puck') on the dashboard to indicate what time the car arrived, and signs will tell you how long you can park there.
Driving around in Finland is hassle-free. Finnish drivers are remarkably considerate and polite - rarely will you hear a horn blast in anger and 'road rage' is almost an unknown phenomenon.Finland's road network is excellent between centers - although there are only few motorways around major cities - and well signposted. When approaching a town or city, look for signs saying 'keskusta' (center) or 'kauppatori' (market square), where you can usually (!!) find parking. There are no road tolls.
Direct flights to Finland are not the cheapest in Europe, though there are good flight connections. Check out the website of Ryan Air, which serves Tampere-Pirkkala airport from Frankfurt Hahn - the cheapest way to get from Germany to Finland, if you get a bargain.Attention: The airport Frankfurt-Hahn actually has got NOTHING to do with Frankfurt, a bus from Frankfurt Central Station takes you there in about two hours (cost: 12€ one-way per person).
This is the best way to travel from Stockholm to Finland, in my opinion...not the fastest maybe, but the only one that allows you to see this !I say it many times again in my pages, but really, this is beautiful !! If you like the sea, you'll enjoy those landscapes...
The ferries are fun way to arrive in Finland. Silja Line , Viking Line and Tallink are the biggest companies operating on the Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia.
There are several lines with routes to Helsinki & Turku, Finland & Tallinn, Estonia. Check Viking Line & Silja Line. Enjoy!
Driving is kinda terrible in Finland to be honest. In the south you will find some motorways so you can get from A to B quite quickly. But as soon as you have to use a normal route instead of a motorway it can get a) slow (because you can only drive 80 and maybe the truck in front of you goes only 60 ;)b) dangerous (because some people don't know how to overtake)c) a pain in the arse (because it takes ages to get from A to B)So for longer trips through Finland I'd take a train maybe?!
We checked some prices of car rentals because we wanted to rent a car for 3 days. When we found the quote from wwww.budget.com we couldn't believe our eyes how cheap it was and thought that there must be a trick somewhere. There wasn't. We paid 111 Euro (incl. insurance and free mileage) for the smallest car for three days from the Budget station in Helsinki's Malminkatu. We got a huge Ford Mondeo even because there wasn't a small car available. So when you are searching for a rental car I can only recommend checking www.budget.com first!!!
A night train is always an interesting option to consider - you save time and on accomodation. An overnight trip from Helsinki to Rovaniemi costed me some 70 EUR (not very cheap), but I was lucky to be the only person in a 6 person compartiment, and I still could meet some people in the bar and have a drink there...
It is totally clear as mud to any Stadilainen (person from H:ki) that:you have to flag down your bus, otherwise it'll speed past your stopyou enter a bus by the front door onlyyou exit only thru one of the other doorsyou hold on tight because those bus drivers are all close relatives of either Mika Hakkinen, Kimi Raikkonen or Juha Kankunen
Hotel Kamp Helsinki
16 Reviews and 332 Opinions Located on Pohjoisesplanadi, in the heart of Helsinki, Hotel Kämp is one of the city's most...
Sokos Hotel Ilves Tampere
5 Reviews and 59 Opinions I stayed at Sokos Hotel Ilves for one night in July 2011 and had a very pleasant stay in this 4 star...
Radisson Blu Marina Palace Hotel Turku Turku
4 Reviews and 125 Opinions We had never stayed in Radison hotels before, because they are allways more expensive than any other...
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Q: Right - here's the brief. I've got a maximum of three days, and am going to pick up a car from either Helsinki or Tampere....
A: go to the koli national park. thats not too far so you can get to see something in 3 days, and its one of the most beautiful landscapes in finland.
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