Special Offer at Stadion Hostel in Helsinki - also your last chance to experience a hostel stay in Helsinki Olympic Stadium

Time is running out! Stadion Hostel at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium will close its doors for good at the end of September due to extensive renovations at the stadium. If you still wish to experience this unique location and traditional hostel atmosphere, we have a great offer for you.

With a Hostelling International membership, you get a 20% discount
when mentioning the code LAST CHANCE.

Bookings must be made directly to Stadion Hostel, either by phone +358 9 477 8480 or email info@stadionhostel.fi

Conditions:

• Bookings directly to the hostel
• The offer is valid with a valid Hostelling International membership. Membership will be checked on arrival.
• The offer is valid for stays that take place by 30 April 2015.
• The offer is only valid for new bookings.
• The discount is calculated from normal rates and it cannot be combined with any other offer.

Eurohostel's intern Satu shares her tips of things to do in late summer Helsinki

Since beginning of June, you've been able to find Satu at the reception of Eurohostel. Satu is a third year Bachelor of Hospitality Management student and her internship is a part of her studies at University of Applied Sciences of Satakunta. 

Satu ended up applying to Eurohostel through Google: ”I specifically wanted to do my internship in a hostel. Eurohostel has an open search for interns, which encouraged applying here.” 

Big city and it’s variety of activities has made an impression on Satu. Now she shares her tips to enjoy last summer days in Helsinki:

1. Picnic at World Heritage Site Suomenlinna on a sunny day
2. Helsinki Zoo and its funny animals 
3. A quick escape to Tallinn by different types of ships

Suomenlinna © Visit Finland

About Eurohostel

Eurohostel is one of the largest hostels in Scandinavia open all year round. The hostel is located in central Helsinki in a unique part of the town close to the Market Square. It is surrounded by Jugendstil buildings and old red brick warehouses. Sights, shops and restaurants of the city centre are all within walking distance and passenger ferries to Stockholm is only a few steps away. Eurohostel is easy to reach, trams from the centre arrive just next to the hostel.

Restaurant Day Helsinki: Cheesecake bar Cupton on Stadion Hostel

Restaurant Day sprouted from Helsinki, is a food carneval when anyone can set up a restaurant, anywhere, for a day. The idea is simply to have fun, share new food experiences and enjoy common living environments together.

The next Restaurant Day takes place this Sunday 17 August and Stadion Hostel provides the setting for Heidi and Anna’s cheesecake bar Cupton.

There are three different flavours to choose from:

Call of Home Garden – currant
Voodoo Temptation – kiwi, passion fruit, coconut
Persian Dream – mint, cookie, chocolate

To accompany the cheesecakes try homemade rhubarb juice.

The cheesecake cups will be served at the north end of the Olympic Stadium, just outside Stadion Hostel, where you can sit down and relax while enjoying a sweet moment.

Oh bliss, see you there folks!

Cupton - Cheesecakes in a cup
On Restaurant Day 17 August, 10 am - 2 pm
Stadion Hostel, Olympic Stadium
Pohjoinen Stadiontie 4, Helsinki

Peruvian travel blogger enjoyed Finnish winter exotics

International travel bloggers were taken to the most intriguing destinations in Finland by the Nordic Bloggers’ Experience which is the largest travel blogger event ever organised in Finland. The NBE was organised by the Nordic Travel Fair Matka, Visit Helsinki and Visit Finland in January.

From over 100 applicants the chosen 40 travel bloggers visited Finland for one week. The bloggers were divided into three groups according to their interests: food and culture, fashion and design, nature and adventure.

HI Hostels in Helsinki had the pleasure to accommodate Peruvian Nelson. He visited Stadion Hostel, Hostel Suomenlinna, Hostel Erottajanpuisto and Eurohostel.

Despite the cold temperatures, Nelson enjoyed Finland.

“Helsinki was like a cold paradise. I never expected to find what I found: a vibrant city full of life surrounded by nature. I was expecting something more usual and similar to many European cities, but Helsinki definitely has a special spirit. Despite the cold weather people are warm and kind. What I like the most was those infinite frozen horizons, and the possibility to walk over the lakes. The National parks of Nuuksio and Sipoo were outstanding, the experiences I must repeat again.”

Nelson shares his travel stories in Spanish on his blog Mochileros.org as well as on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Cycling Suomi: Helsinki

 First days in Finland

1. Stadion Hostel Helsinki

Waiting at the airport

You might not believe it that I , with my 32 years on earth, had only been in the air 3 times before this flight which would bring us to from Amsterdam to Helsinki.

So the boarding  was already a big adventure for me, especially because we brought our bikes with us. With all eyes on me, I made the bikes ready for the transport. My hands were shaking and my body got uncomfortable warm, but I got it done.

Hmm does the way we packed our bikes tells something about our selves?

Marcia had a really hard time letting go of her bike at the 'Odd luggage' take in.  All that we could do after seeing our bikes disappear in a black hole,  is wait and hope that the bikes would come out in one piece in Helsinki.For me the whole boarding made me feel inexperienced and lost, but luckily Marcia was there to guide me.

  

Excited as a child I pointed everything that amazed me during the flight. Marcia, an experienced traveller with more than 20 flights on her name, had to laugh about this. For her flying has become as normal as travelling by train. 

I loved flying above the clouds and  the small t.v. with the flying information (height , the location and the temperature outside the plane). The time literary flew !

Helsinki airport!

After some impatient  waiting time in Helsinki airport, we received the bikes in one piece!
At least that's what we thought. While making them ready for the road we noticed that there were some small issues with them ( Marcia her bikes saddle came loose on one side,  her breaks had some adjusting issues, and my tire was damaged). Nothing I could fix or needed to be fixed to hit the road for this small trip to Helsinki centre. Tomorrow is a new day and we will try to find a bike shop, before getting on the road for real.

At the nearest petrol station we got help putting  air in our tires. As the kind petrol man Hannu said to us ;  "It doesn't matter with how many wheels you come here, two or four. My purpose is getting people on the road, no matter what". He even gave us a more detailed map to get to the centre.

  

Marcia and Hannu, the helpful petrolstation man

We cycled our first  27 kilometres in Finland by cycling to the  Hi Hostel 'Stadion Hostel' in Helsinki ! We , Dutchies, from the flattest country ever, were a bit surprised by the amount of hills and the steepness of it.We knew Finland wasn't flat, but this many hills...

We got also got lost a lot, could not understand any of the signs along the road , but luckily we met more kind and helpful people. ( We totally ignored  the rumour that  Fins are asocial people, and just asked people for help. But maybe our overwhelming happiness and enthousiasm made the Fins in such a shock, that they did forget to act asocial).  The map we got from Hannu combined with the directions we got, made us find the hostel.  We had conquered our first  monster, we found our  way!

The key to the storage for our bikes

And yes, this was also my first experience with sleeping in a hostel. Marcia is used to the hostel culture , not me. Again I felt a little inexperienced and naive when hearing stories from other travellers of their trips around the world. I really haven't seen much of the world (Yet).

It was very special to be at  Stadion Hostel.
We were in a euphoric state of mind: Hi Hostel is saying Hi!!! Welcome to Finland!!

Happy girls!

Sleeping on a double bed with 6 other people in the room was strange, but I was to tired to be bothered by the noizes of the others. I fell asleep while writing and drawing.

Breakfast!

Happy  and excited we woke up, but our enthousiasme disappeared a bit when we looked out the window: Rain........

So we were not that sad to spend half of the day in the bike shop ' Töölön Pyörä' Marcia spotted.
While we did some shopping for food and other necessities, our bikes got fixed!
Around 2 o clock we finally left Helsinki, to our first stage towards Turku!

 Goodbye Helsinki, Turku here we come!