8/10 Very Good
May 17, 2022
A few gripes but a great location trumps them
The hotel is the converted former headquarters of the Finnish national railway, and has been developed in a style which is modern but sympathetic to the early 20th century origins of the building - and you really can't get a better location if you're coming in to the city by train as we did (fantastic clean, efficient and cheap train service from the airport)
If our experience is anything to go by, I'd recommend checking in online if you can. It took us longer to check in than it had to get through passport control at Helsinki airport.
We had a room in a new wing of the hotel, overlooking the tracks of the central station, and there was extensive construction work going on directly below us. However, the sound-proofing is very impressive and you literally couldn't hear a thing.
The room itself was stylish, but had a few annoying features. There is very limited storage space, no hooks to hang a coat, no shelf to put your own toiletries in the shower cubicle, wall-lights that I kept banging my head on, no functioning temperature controls (the room was very warm). i.e. The kind of things that betray the fact that the designer has never actually spent a night in one of their rooms.
Worst of all (for a British person anyway) there are no in-room tea/coffee making facilities!
Breakfast is very good, but something of a free-for-all. Don’t expect anyone to guide you to a table, or tell you how things work.
Iain, 3-night trip
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