The best spa hotel in Scandinavia and other Finland Hotel/Accommodation Reviews

Unique Qualities: -The most splendid spa in the Nordic coutries.

-A Member of Royal Spas of Europe.

-A new and luxurious Sunborn Yacht.

-You can stay overnight in Spa Hotel, Suite Hotel, Sunborn Yacht Hotel or Summer Hotel.

-Also day packages without overnight stayings.

-Spa and beauty treatments.

-Good saunas, also special beauty sauna and peat sauna bathing.

-Good pools: two Roman pools (+37 degrees Celsius), two recreation pools (+27), one outdoor pool (+30).

-Good possibilities for playing golf.

-Good possibilities for weddings & celebrations (special packages).

Welcome to relax!

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Comparison: more expensive than average
Prices: US$80-120  » Currency Converter
Phone: +358 (0)2 4455100
Address: Matkailijantie 2, 21100 Naantali
Website: http://www.naantalispa.fi, http://www.sagahotels.fi
Other Contact: info@naantalispa.fi

Unique Qualities: Groups may stay in the dired pine hut, in the fisherman´s hut, in the hammock´s or in the luxurious birdbox (!) in a tree. See the pictures on Herrankukkaro´s home page! Many kind of activities.

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Phone: +358 (0)2 5153300
Address: Rymättylä, Turku archipelago
Website: http://www.herrankukkaro.fi/en.php?sivu=main&cur=main
Other Contact: myyntipalvelu@herrankukkaro.fi

The biggest snow castle in the world (in Kemi in Finland). It is enormous: the Snow Hotel, the Castle Courtyard, the Snow Restaurant and the Chapel for weddings etc. The total area is about 8,000 square meters! A special experience for honeymoon, too. The snowcastle has already been built in ten winters.


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Phone: +358 (0)16 259 502
Website: http://www.snowcastle.net, http://www.kemi.fi/english/index.html

Snow Land: the possibility of overnight stays in snow igloos.

Unique Qualities: The igloo restaurant for 250 persons with ice tables, an arctic disco and starlit sky. Snow buildings and the chance to make snow sculptures. A possibility for wedding ceremonies.

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Address: Rovaniemi
Website: http://www.snowland.fi

A Finnish film director Aki Kaurismaki (Kaurismaeki, Kaurismäki) was named the film producer of the year by the Film Producers Association on September 5th, 2002. Aki Kaurismaki also got the Douglas Sirk Award 2002 in Hamburg on September 27th. Aki Kaurismaki film named "Mies vailla menneisyytta" (The Man Without a Past) was also awarded the Grand Prix of the 2002 Cannes Film Festival in May 2002. Kati Outinen received the award for the best performance by an actress for leading roll in that film. The Man without a Past was awarded the film prize of the Ecumenical Jury, too. Aki Kaurismaki got also these awards: the best film Grand Prix in Flanders, Belgium, and the Nordic Council Film Prize 2002. He has also got many other prizes.

Bangkok International Film Festival was in Thailand in January 2003. The first annual Golden Kinnaree Competition gave more success to Aki Kaurismaki. This is the most highly regarded prize for film making in Southeastern Asia and the competitition should be the equivalent of Cannes Palme d?Or in Europe. Aki Kaurismaki film The Man Without a Past got the Best Screenplay Prize and Kati Outinen (from this film) got the Best Actress Prize. In the beginning of February Finnish Aki Kaurismaki got the Guldbagge Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in Sweden.

Aki Kaurismaki owns a hotel-restaurant named Oiva in Nummi-Pusula (Ikkala), 65 kilometers from Helsinki. You can see the atmosphere of his films in this cozy hotel with old styled furniture! Cool!

N.B. Unfortunately this hotel is closed now!


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Address: Ikkala, Nummi-Pusula
Website: http://www.nummi-pusula.fi/TourismENG.asp

Bengtskar Lighthouse is the highest (52 meters) lighthouse in the Nordic countries. It was built in 1906 and it is the first lighthouse museum in Finland. You can stay overnight in the old home of the lighthouse keeper! All rooms have a sea view. Prices 55-100 euros per night including breakfast and sauna. The accomodation must be booked in advance.

Bengtskar is the most southern inhabited place in Finland. The nearest village is Rosala, about 18 kilometers north of Bengtskar. There is Rosala Viking Centre there. Take a ferry from Kasnas to Bengtskar and on the way you can visit Rosala Viking Centre.


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Prices: US$40-80  » Currency Converter
Phone: +358 (0)2 4667 227
Address: Bengtskar Island, 25950 Rosala
Directions: Bengtskar Lighthouse is situated 25 kilometers southwest of Hanko. The nearest village is Rosala, about 18 kilometers north of Bengtskar. Boats from the harbour of Hanko (a city quite near to Helsinki) or from Kasnas.
Website: http://www.bengtskar.fi, http://www.bengtskar.com, http://www.rosita.fi, http://www.hk-service.fi, http://www.kasnas.com
Other Contact: info@bengtskar.fi