Helsinki In Nutshell: Suomenlinna & City Highlights By Eco-friendly Ways

Fun and comprehensive. A great introduction to Helsinki! Wonderful guides. Easy to get around. Highly recommended.

We had a wonderful five hour tour of Helsinki and surrounds. Our guides - Harry and Christina - were excellent. They were very knowledgeable about the history of Helsinki and Finland in general. They were very professional and friendly

Perfect guiding by Daniella. Friendly, had good knowledge of the city and its history. We had a wonderful day!

It was an educating tour. Our tour guide Christina was very knowledgeable of the history surrounding Finland. She provided so much background and stories to complement our tour around Suomenlinna. She showed me ways to explore Helsinki as well. Very lovely lady! They also upgraded me to car-ride and pick-up your which is definitely a plus. The weather was so-so but I certainly learnt a lot.

This tour was supposed to be a walking tour, but was upgraded with hotel pick-up and drive to the various attractions which made me happy considering it was a very cold day in Helsinki. Our first guide Henry, was a cautious driver and provided us with adequate information about the sites and enough time for us to walk around on our own. Our other guide at the Suomenlinna was Christina who was a wealth on information. She pointed out important areas of the fortress and history of the attraction. My husband & I enjoyed the tour including the ferry going to Suomenlinna.

Very nice day viewing sights of Helsinki. It would have been difficult to see all these sights in a day without the tour. Our tour guide was knowledgeable and personable.

It was pouring snow in Helsinki but Harry made sure we still saw the city. We had a driver for the first part of our trip around Sibelius park, the churches and Old Market Hall, then we walked briefly to the ferry terminal and went over to Suomenlinna where we had an additional second guide who is specific to the island. Even in the cold and snow it was a beautiful day!

We were upgraded to a luxury mini van with hotel pick up and an awesome tour guide. Cesar was delightful with so much local knowledge and explained the culture and history of Helsinki and Finland. Our group of 12 were enjoying Suomenlinna so much our island tour guided extended the tour for another hour. It was a fantastic tour and we highly recommend . There were young children and teenagers in our group and they were well catered for.

We only had two days to spend in Helsinki so this was a wonderful way to soak up the highlights of this city. We never felt rushed. We had a spectacular autumn day and our wonderful guide, Francisco was very knowledgeable.

Exactly as described. Sergio & Harry our guides were both excellent. Van was new & clean. Trip we'll organized.

The rain did dampen the time on the island but Sanna was a mine of information and did lovely additional thinks like tasting tar sweets and Finnish chocolate to help illustrate elements of Finnish culture and social behavior that might seem strange to visitors.

Gary was great. Really insigntful and fun. 100% recomended. If you do this tour you can se everything you need to in the city.

Everything was very nice. Our guide was very friendly and knowledgeable. We can’t understand why it was so expensive, since there was no bus, and it did rain intermittently.

Harry was very knowledgeable and personable. He gave a wonderful understanding of the Finnish people and culture. (It would have been nice to know where other tour attendees were from.) We really enjoyed Harry’s knowledge of the history of Finland from Sweden to Russian to their independence and current affairs. The tour on Soumenlinna was ok, and we didn’t get to visit everything or walk around on our own. We recommend spending another full day to walk by the colorful houses and beautiful parks and explore the waterside of Helsinki.

Was a great tour! Our tour was up graded to half a vehicle tour and half of a walking tour. Our guide provided an excellent tour of the city highlights and many out of the way, points of interest. Could never have seen so much on our own. This tour is one I can highly recommend.

Harry was an awesome guide! We hit all the high points plus some. Suomenlinna is a must see. Well worth it!

Our guide Harry was very good - friendly, knowledgeable, multilingual. We really enjoyed learning about the history and people of Helsinki. Cathedrals and markets pretty and interesting. Suomenlinna also very good. Our only negative was the amount of ice on the trails there with no hand rails - sticks or ice treads recommended. Sköl!

Brilliant tour, great learning about the history of the city and seeing the amazing sights. Our guide Lily was amazing, very friendly, knowledgeable, answered all questions brilliantly. Felt like being shown around by a friend.

We were picked up at our hotel on time and given regular updates. Harry, our guide was extremely knowledgeable about all the sites we visited and the overall culture of Finland

Harry was a great tour guide. We made a couple of extra unexpected stops to see a bit more and still finished on time.

Our guide was Leticia and she was delightful. We had a lovely time roaming the city, first by bus, then by foot. We took a ferry to Suomenlinna which was a highlight. Highly recommend this as an excursion on your first day in Helsinki, to help inform the remainder of your trip.

Evy, our tour guide, was friendly and very knowledgeable. There was no question left unanswered. Her passion for & pride in her city of Helsinki was what made the whole tour memorable. It is one of the best walking tours we have experienced. Thank you Evy for sharing your city with us. Evy 5 stars!

I booked this tour several months ahead of our visit, and as the day drew closer, the tour operator contacted us to say we’d been upgraded to a bus tour with all the same stops. This was certainly fine with us and we did see all the wonderful sights in the city (except the rock church, which had sadly been taken off the itinerary without informing me in advance) as well as some free time in the market. The trip over to Suomenlinna, however, was quite rushed - it was not at all a leisurely stroll to learn about and appreciate the place, our guide was quite set on staying on schedule. Again, staying on schedule is understandable, but for us it was too rushed to feel comfortable. This, plus the change of itinerary without informing us, is the reason for 4 stars. Otherwise though, the guide was very knowledgeable and we enjoyed our day - for first time visitors, I might suggest skipping Suomenlinna unless you have at least 3 hours dedicated to that part of the day, plus more time for the city sights.

We had a wonderful tour guide, Georg. He was a walking encyclopedia about Finland. We learned so much. If you want to learn the history and cultural significance of the various point of interest, Georg is the right person for it.

The experience was great, Lukas really told us interesting things about the city, it was quite interesting.

Bilingual English French guide very appreciable because among us 4, one person understands little English

Helsinki is a beautiful Finnish town. From the seafront including food and souvenir markets, to the old city and its new part

We had a super fun 5 hour tour with Leticia. Combined with the Suomenlinna island by ferry. Her knowledge is perfectly complemented from start to finish with everything we visited!