Helsinki travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

Helsinki is one of the most vibrant and prosperous cities in the world with very high standards of living. With all its bays, inlets and shore islands, Helsinki is almost surrounded by water. The city grew up around a natural harbor overlooking the Gulf of Finland.

Helsinki’s offerings are seen best in summer, when the sidewalk cafes and the waterside markets are thronged by handsome, hardy people basking in the glow of plentiful daylight. As well as during this time visitors and residents gather on the steps of Senate Square to soak in the evening.There is summer sunlight in Helsinki 20 hours a day.

Helsinki may be the world’s second most northerly capital city, after Reykjavik, and it may be lapped by the Baltic, but it can feel almost Mediterranean on a fine August day, with soft, golden light bathing the pastel-colored Italianate buildings around Senate Square, a legacy from Russian rule in the 19th century, and ferries, cruise ships and trawlers filling in a lively marine backdrop.

Klaus K hotel is located on the three lined street Bulevardi in Helsinki very close to the cruise ship harbor, train station and less than 20 km to the Helsinki airport by car. The hotel is housed in a 19-th century structure and has really contemporary interior design inspired by the outlook of Finland.

The hotel consist ballroom for up to 120 people, a smaller meeting room and offers a wide range of class food & drinks for every guests specific moods.

But when you get tired from too much drinks and food, the hotel also offers refreshment procidures at the Helsinki Day Spa with an excellent variety of body treatments and beauty programmes. The Klaus K hotel owns 137 rooms, each one with custom beds, comfort designed workspace, air conditioning, LCD TV movies, CD/DVD players, games, easy high speed intenet access (wireless or wired), safe, bar, exclusive bath amenities, robe.

Linnanmaki is great fun! It’s an amusement park in the middle of the city of Helsinki. Linnanmaki is a perfect place to spend time watching people rush by and listening to the shrieks of joy and excitement, while you’re taking a break from hilarious rides or thrilling games yourself. It was founded in 27.8.1950. Linnanmaki is more than 50 years old. There have been more than million visitors this year. It is the biggest amusement park in Finland. Linnanmaki is a very nice place. There are very many polite people.

Linnanmaki also has many other big attractions, including Raketti, or “Rocket” (formerly Space Shot ), which is a standard upwards-launched free fall tower, built in 1999 by S Power. Other roller coasters in the park include Tulireki, Linnunrata (an indoor roller coaster built inside a water tower, with a space theme), Pikajuna, and Finland’s first water coaster, Vonkaputous.
The park also contains the “Peacock Teatteri”, known for its musical productions. In addition to the park itself, guests can also visit a Sea Life Centre. Kieppi was placed to a new area Linnanmaki had bought near the southern entrance gate. A kiddie-ride was also placed next to Kieppi and the Hip Hop was moved to that same area in 2004 to make room for Tulireki.

Linnanmaki is now even more fun than before and colours play an important role in attracting people to come there. This is in good agreement with Tikkurila’s business idea. Moreover, the yield from the fun park goes to support child welfare.
There are many restaurants and shops at Linnanmaki, from cheap to expensive ones. You can find a toy museum too – in Helsinki a year ago, they had a really cool Barbie exhibition there. There’s also a theatre at Linnanmaki. Every year they perform a musical there with many famous Finnish artists – nothing special if you don’t speak Finnish well, but otherwise usually rather good.