Scandic Simonkenttä

friendly staff, very tasty breakfasts, room was clean :) perfect location in City Centre

room was a bit too tiny for two big males :)

Location

Noise of the tram. Breakfast.

i asked for a room to see the New Year fireworks and the hotel arranged this. The room and bed was very clean and comfortable. The breakfast was very good. The hotel shampoo is really good but there was no conditioner (on my 2nd stay there was conditioner and body lotion too in an identical grade room so I think the refillable containers in my first room broke and weren’t replaced). The location close to the main railway station was great - if you don’t want to walk up a small hill for 5 mins you can catch the tram No’s 7 & 9 which stop outside the hotel or take the metro to Kamppi shopping centre next door to the hotel. The No 7 tram goes to the port where the Megastar departs so its convenient for this too. The hotel stored my luggage for a few days until I returned. NB: this is at your own risk as the luggage room is opened to all guests who ask but there are lockers which I used for my tax-free parcels. I didn’t have any issues with security of my suitcase. I didn’t use it but the hotel has a sauna.

The hotel is large so has a lot of guests and service is rather impersonal. Check in was very slow. There was a long line and they ask you to fill in a long registration form with info you have already provided via booking.com. I stayed over the Christmas/ New Year period and the breakfast room was extremely crowded, making it difficult to get a table. NB: I stayed again after the holidays and it was much quieter. Some Scandic hotels have a self-service laundry but not this one. The laundry prices are eye wateringly expensive, e.g. 7.5 euros to wash a pair of underpants. I took my laundry to Sol around the corner and they washed and dried 1.8kg of laundry for 14 Euros for same day service. The hotel price would have been over 100 Euros.