On 8 Oct 2003 22:02:07 GMT, Heikki Kantola wrote:

Jens Jakob Andersen informed
rec.travel.europe with the following:
I need recommandation for a nice hotel in Helsinki at a nice weekend
rate for a weekend in november.

I know the Scandin Simonkenta, and am tempted. I also know the Helka,
but I think the rooms are too small...

What do you suggest?

I am certainly not the best possible person to suggest a hotel in
Helsinki as my last hotel visit¹ here was something like 12 years ago,
but I noticed that URL:http://www.helsinkiexpert.fi/document.asp?
intSiteID=2&intDocID=276 offers quite good tables for hotel prices and
facility to book a hotel room.

¹ If you insist to know, it was Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, which if my memory
serves correctly had quite nice facities and at least it still has the
very central location opposite of Helsinki main railway station.

In a slightly related issue, I'll be passing through Helsinki airport
the week before Christmas and unfortunately have about 8 hours (8.30
am to 17.00 pm) between my incoming domestic flight from Lapland, and
my onward connection to London. Is there anything I can do,
particularly either at the airport, or nearby, to keep a 7 year old
child entertained for that long?

Thanks

Brian