Helsinki in Nutshell: Suomenlinna & City Highlights by Eco-Friendly Ways
Description
Sustainability is a key issue nowadays, and Helsinki, the model city of sustainable development, encourages environmentally-friendly lifestyle and embeds ecological thinking strongly in everyday life. In this tour, you will experience this eco-thinking lifestyle by exploring this city and its sea fortress, Suomenlinna, with eco-friendly ways of transportations, including the city tram, ferry, and walk. Starts from meeting-up you in the Central Railway Station, your guide will take you to the most must-not-miss popular spots of Helsinki. After a lunch break, you will continue the tour by a ferry to Suomenlinna, listed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is one of the world's largest sea fortresses that sprawls across a series of six small islands. This tour will end up at Helsinki Market Square, and you may continue the journey of city exploration on your own. Kindly Note: Sightseeing spots will be arranged according to the seasons and opening hours of each spot.
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As the Central Station of the capital of Finland, it is the busiest station and provides services to approximately 400,000 people each day, Your city tour by tram will start from here!
Helsingin Olympiastadion just finished its renovation and re-opened to the public in 2020
You will visit the Sibelius Park to witness the inspirations and creativities of Sibelius, the Father of Finnish Music.
Visit and learn about history
Visit and learn about history. PS, sometimes the Cathedral might not be entered due to the service.
Visit and explore the Orthodox church specialty
Take a walk along this beautiful park locates in the most prosperous area of Helsinki
Drop by at the little mermaid, i.e., the Amanda statue, and know more about her from stories told by your guide
The Old Market Hall in Helsinki has served its customers since 1889. Merchants sell everything from cheese, fish, shellfish, vegetable, fruit and cakes to spices, coffee, and tea. They are also more than happy to help with any special orders.
Suomenlinna is well-known by its important military role as a sea fortress of Finland. You will go inside the heavy wall of the fortress, hear the histories, and feel the moments of old days here.
During the visit to Suomenlinna, you will drop by the Suomenlinna Church and hear the stories and facts of it from your guide.
Kauppatori means the "market square" in Finnish. After returning from Suomenlinna by ferry, this trip will end up here, and you may spend some own free time to visit each lovely vender at the Market Square and enjoy the rest of the day.
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(27)
We had a wonderful five hour tour of Helsinki and surrounds. Our guides - Harry and Christina - were excellent. They were very knowledgeable about the history of Helsinki and Finland in general. They were very professional and friendly
Perfect guiding by Daniella. Friendly, had good knowledge of the city and its history. We had a wonderful day!
Bilingual English French guide very appreciable because among us 4, one person understands little English
It was an educating tour. Our tour guide Christina was very knowledgeable of the history surrounding Finland. She provided so much background and stories to complement our tour around Suomenlinna. She showed me ways to explore Helsinki as well. Very lovely lady! They also upgraded me to car-ride and pick-up your which is definitely a plus. The weather was so-so but I certainly learnt a lot.
This tour was supposed to be a walking tour, but was upgraded with hotel pick-up and drive to the various attractions which made me happy considering it was a very cold day in Helsinki. Our first guide Henry, was a cautious driver and provided us with adequate information about the sites and enough time for us to walk around on our own. Our other guide at the Suomenlinna was Christina who was a wealth on information. She pointed out important areas of the fortress and history of the attraction. My husband & I enjoyed the tour including the ferry going to Suomenlinna.
Very nice day viewing sights of Helsinki. It would have been difficult to see all these sights in a day without the tour. Our tour guide was knowledgeable and personable.
It was pouring snow in Helsinki but Harry made sure we still saw the city. We had a driver for the first part of our trip around Sibelius park, the churches and Old Market Hall, then we walked briefly to the ferry terminal and went over to Suomenlinna where we had an additional second guide who is specific to the island. Even in the cold and snow it was a beautiful day!
We were upgraded to a luxury mini van with hotel pick up and an awesome tour guide. Cesar was delightful with so much local knowledge and explained the culture and history of Helsinki and Finland. Our group of 12 were enjoying Suomenlinna so much our island tour guided extended the tour for another hour. It was a fantastic tour and we highly recommend . There were young children and teenagers in our group and they were well catered for.
We only had two days to spend in Helsinki so this was a wonderful way to soak up the highlights of this city. We never felt rushed. We had a spectacular autumn day and our wonderful guide, Francisco was very knowledgeable.
Exactly as described. Sergio & Harry our guides were both excellent. Van was new & clean. Trip we'll organized.
