Park Hotel Turku

If you like this sort of thing, the hotel was very, I don't know, "cozy"? Every wall is covered with pictures, photos, graduation certificates, and various other Finnish memorabilia. It's interesting for a foreigner to look at it all, and I assume generates of lot of nostalgia ("Remember gran used to have that same picture?") among the Finnish guests.

A truly astonishingly horrible WiFi experience. EVERY WiFi connection is a one per device. To connect each device you are given a tiny scrap of paper on which are printed, in low quality ink using minuscule low contrast fonts, a set of random characters for the both the user and the password. Good luck trying to decipher these, and you'll have to do it three separate times for your iPhone, iPad, and laptop!

Cosy room and lounge, helpful staff, excellent location, nice parrot

Pretty old building, good breakfast, clean room, free wifi

I loved the individual decor of my room - such a nice change from staying in the big chain hotels. I also enjoyed a wonderfully relaxing hot bath instead of the normal invigorating shower (I needed to relax after the walk from the ferry terminal). Staff were very friendly and helpful, and the tuneful parrot was good fun. A pleasant location too. I wish I had arranged to stay longer.

The hotel and garden terrace were beautiful and the staff was always accommodating and helpful. We loved sitting out with coffee in the morning and wine in the evening, watching for the garden hedgehog.

Although we liked that the hotel is situated in a quiet and pretty neighborhood a short walk from the train station, it is a long uphill climb to get back there in the evening from the city center.