Helsinki Vantaa - Europes Best?

Advantages: Easy structured
Disadvantages: Nothing I?d know

...My flight to Helsinki was the most adventurous in my life. It was my first flight on my own and I was about to stay 3 winter months in Finland for a traineeship. Until, I only knew the airport in Frankfurt / Germany which is not really famous for his clarity. You can imagine, I was nervous... There was no reason for my fear. The airport (lento-asema in finish by the way) is very small (some years ago it did win the price as the most clear airport in Europe) and very clear structured. In July 2003 the main terminal was finished and is about 1.000 m² big. The airport Helsinki-Vantaa is about 1/2 Stunde from the City of Helsinki (about 19 km) and about 25 km from Tapiola in Espoo. For 4,90 ? the bus takes you from the airport to the centre of Helsinki. And Helsinki is worth at least a weekend trip! Direct bus connections are...

Nicole78 03.09.2003 · Read review
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Review of Airport Helsinki-Vantaa

Disappear into Finnair

Advantages: New aircraft with on demand entertainment
Disadvantages: A stop in Helsinki for long haul trips

...I'd never flown with Finnair before, but recently they've been strongly advertising their fares to Asia and they are actually cheaper most of the time than other airlines. The only disadvantage is that you have to stop off in Helsinki, but that's fine with me if the airline is decent and it saves me some money. My trip took me from Amsterdam to Seoul and back. The Airline = Finnair are Finland's main airline, based at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. Founded in 1923 they are currently majority owned by the Finnish government. They are a member of the Oneworld alliance. Booking With Finnair being a major scheduled airline you can find them on all the usual online booking sites and they can of course be booked via a travel agent. I found that the cheapest way to book with them was directly via their website (this is not...

non_sense 23.11.2008 · Read review
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Scruffy Shoe Diaries NORDIC HIGH TEMPERATURE SHOCK

Advantages: Plenty to do if you're on a weekend city break
Disadvantages: Almost 3 quid for a 400 ml beer

...travellers alike. *** Dateline - September 2000. Helsinki was bright, warm and far too clean. Although I'm led to believe it's not always this warm. It took just a small amount of organisation to ensure that the airport bus (runs at regular intervals from Helsinki-Vantaa until late evening, costing around £1.50/2.5 Euro for a single ticket) dropped us off in the town centre. We were deposited outside the railway station; a spectacular building that looked for all the world as if it was from the Art Deco period. Not so, it was built in 1916. THE INEVITABLE FESTIVAL Inside the station it was drop dead gorgeous, like taking a step back in time. Wooden panelling, decorative touches on the walls, curly bits, fiddly bits (am I getting too technical for ya?) all harked back to a golden age of transportation. I like train travel - I tend to...

Paiceyjohn 24.10.2001 (04.05.2002) · Read review
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Review of Helsinki (Finland)

Thouse where the days my friend...

Advantages: Old facion style amusement park
Disadvantages: no wild rides!!!

...I wanted to review some of my favorite amusement parks back in Finland and Linnanmaki is one of those. *********************************************************************** *********************************** Location: Linnanmaki (Castle's Hill) is an amusement park in Helsinki. Helsinki is capital and largest city of Finland. Helsinki is located in the southern part of Finland on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Helsinki's capital region including the neighboring cities of Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen has a total population of approximately 997,291 citizens. The Greater Helsinki area contains several more neighboring cities and has a population of approximately 1,293,093, which means that one out of every four Finns lives in the Greater Helsinki area. History of Helsinki: Helsingfors is the original name of the modern...

Winterangel76 03.02.2007 (22.02.2007) · Read review
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Review of Linnanmaki amusement park

Snuggle against your neighbour...

Advantages: friendly staff, partly a modern fleet, i felt really safe
Disadvantages: a bit cramped

...This is my very first review on Ciao UK, I hope you like it. Last Wednesday I returned home from a short trip to Helsinki. We flew there, and naturally also back again, with the Finnair, the national carrier of Finland and around those is to be today in my review. 1. First of all...some general information As said, Finnair is the national carrier of Finland. 60% the Finnair belong also to the state. The home airport is the airport Helsinki Vantaa and the IATA code, which one finds before the flight number of each Finnair flight, reads AY. Official name of the Finnair is today Finnair Oyj. in former times, at present their establishment in the year 1923 was called it still aero O/Y, since 1953 carries it only for the names Finnair. It is by the way the fifth-oldest airline of the world. The first flight went 1923 from Helsinki...

squirrel123 01.10.2005 (02.10.2005) · Read review
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Review of Finnair