Lietsu Boutique Aparthotel – Hotel with Karelian Charm in Joensuu, Eastern Finland

We offer service with a personal touch – Any request, big or small, we’re here to help!

Each of our hotel rooms has a unique design and is equipped to a high standard. The decorative details in each room tell stories about local history, culture and nature. You may book your stay with or without local Karelian breakfast.

Lietsu Boutique Aparthotel has 30 double rooms and one smaller, single room. Some of the rooms can be combined to make a larger space for example for a family stay. All the rooms have their own kitchen and bathroom and are equipped with air conditioning and heating. Our hotel doors are secured by code locks.

If you book your stay directly from the hotel or on our website www.lietsuhotel.fi, parking is included in the price. Also, in direct bookings the use of the gym is free and you are offered a private 1-hour Finnish sauna with a river view.

We are proud to have the audited EcoCompass certificate for our responsible environmental management system (EMS), and we have gained the Sustainable Travel Finland certificate. We also collaborate with the Joensuu Climate Block project and are engaged in the national Energy Efficiency Agreement for the hotel sector. Equality and accessibility – well, isn’t it obvious that everyone is equal and all should have equal access to services? We believe so and strive to make everyone’s stay comfortable and safe.

Come and enjoy the relaxing Lietsu atmosphere in North Karelia!

Koli National Park

Finland’s best loved national landscape

When you take in the marvellous view over Lake Pielinen from the top of Ukko-Koli hill, it’s easy to see why this spot has attracted so many Finnish artists, photographers and nature-lovers over the centuries. The splendid scenery always instills a sense of serenity and wonder in visitors. Koli’s hills and lakes provide fine settings for enjoyable outings and activities at any time of year.

In nature conservation areas, everyman’s rights do not apply in the normal way. Please always check the rules of the destination before making your trip.
National parks are nature reserves, whose key task is to safeguard biodiversity and enable people to enjoy and relax in nature on the terms of nature conservation.
All national parks in Finland are managed by Metsähallitus.

Break Sokos Hotel Koli Kylä

Outdoor adventures, cosy village life and stunning scenery. Welcome to our hotel in the centre of Koli village, the gateway to Koli National Park. Our warm and cosy hotel is a haven for active holidaymakers and curious adventurers.

Koli National Park is one of Finland’s most popular visitor destinations. And no wonder! The National Park offers plenty of activities and nature adventures around Lake Pielinen and the iconic views from the peaks of Koli. A unique landscape that simply cannot be experienced anywhere else!

The walking and hiking trails into the National Park start from our hotel. Lake Pielinen and Koli’s peaks are only a short distance away. Skiing tracks, hiking paths, the lake, ice swimming, hills – Koli offers endless opportunities for once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Hiking equipment is available for rent from our hotel and ski equipment from the Ukko-Koli ski resort – there is plenty to do and see to suit any inspiration.

The magical atmosphere of the hiking trails continues inside our village hotel, where the carefully selected natural materials and earthy colours echo the surrounding nature. Experience the four seasons of Koli, changing with each floor, from the misty spruce forests on spring mornings to the snowy peaks of Koli.

Tervaskanto restaurant and Puronmutka café provide authentic and delicious meals. Children can continue their adventures in the play area in the lobby and on the climbing wall, and even the rooms are equipped with wall bars. The perfect holiday is crowned by the luxury sauna on the top floor.

Discover the welcoming village of Koli and the breathtaking beauty of the Koli National Park!

Bomba House

Bomba House is a copy of a house built in Suojärvi, Russian Karelia. The original house was built by Jegor Bombin in 1855 for his son Dimitri Jegorov and it was built using long round logs. The original house had 27 rooms and you could even ride in with a horse.

After the Second World War the house was decided to be re-built to Bomba, Nurmes. This beautiful building represents traditional Karelian style architecture with its surrounding Karelian village. The building has a Restaurant Bomba, café and museum rooms.

Welcome to visit the Bomba House and explore more of the Karelian history of the area!

Original Sokos Hotel Puijonsarvi

Original Sokos Hotel Puijonsarvi – a lively hotel in the heart of Kuopio

The beauty of Kuopio’s life glows in nature, in the marketplace and in the people of Savonia. Puijonsarvi is the largest hotel in Eastern Finland, where the atmosphere is warm and cozy, with a relaxed atmosphere. The comfort of our guests is a passion for us, and we want you to feel like home by offering the best hospitality. Hotel is located in the middle of the city events, near by the most beautiful nature, Savo marketplace, and right in the vicinity of the bluish Kallavesi.

The legendary hotel has been known as a house of thousands of events and encounters since the 1870s. In the former Seurahuone, originally built in the 1870’s, now conference and event facility Puikkari highlights the beauty of the wooden building’s original shapes as well as the soulfulness of the stories. Puijonsarvi’s magnificent banquet and event facilities enables dinners for over 200 guests in a gorgeous surrounding in show & dinner style or e.g. a mini fair for nearly a thousand guests.

We create everyday life worth to celebrate and make your wishes come true. For us, across the Puijonsarvi staff, taking care of our guests is our passion and we want you to feel like home by offering heartfelt service.

The chefs of our cuisine at Frans&Sophie and Restaurant Ehta, create good moments for you with love, by favoring the local producers and seasons best flavours.

You are warmly welcome as our guest to Kuopio, the capital of good life!

Restaurant Villa

Stylish surroundings, immediate and warm service and, above all, good food – all this is Forssa’s own restaurant Villa. Our impeccable á la carte menu is built from good, domestic ingredients. Experienced cooks as well as lovers of traditional home cooking will find a dish they like from us, not forgetting children.

Forssa Museum Pattern Centre

Pattern Centre is the home of the Forssa museum’s collection of printed textiles. The space is divided into an exhibition space, museum shop, archive, and research facilities. The permanent exhibition opened its doors at the end of April 2022.

The exhibition includes information, illustrations, and photographs of designers and their time as well as printed textiles, made into textile installations. These installations have been created to showcase different styles and decades of Finnish printed textile design. You can learn about color layering, color theory, and textile printing in our exhibition that invites you to touch, feel and try for yourself!

Background in Finnish Textile History:
The new exhibition tells the story of Finnish textile printing, an industry that began in Forssa in the 1860s. Forssa maintained its status as a focal place of printmaking know-how and design, through the age of industrial textile printing in Finland, and continued onwards from the 1930s as an important part of Finlayson Co.

From the year 1951, the Forssa design studio hosted textile designers and artists who created patterns of different colors and designs: stripes, polka dots, florals, abstracts, and everything in between, always getting inspired by the movements of art, popular culture, architecture, and design of their time. These printed fabrics dressed our nation, decorated our homes, and spread across the border to international markets.

Opening hours for the summer season.
(1.6.-31.8.)
Mon: closed
Tue-Fri: 10-16
Sat-Sun: 12-16

Opening hours outside the summer season
(1.9.-31.5.)
Mon: closed
Tue-Fri: 10-16
Sat-Sun: open upon request, please contact us in advance.

Guided tours are available.

Forssa Museum

Forssa museum is located in the historic Spinning Mill Area which has been renovated into a vibrant cultural centre.

Our permanent exhibition the City of Colourful Cloth tells how Forssa evolved from a group of farming villages of the middle of the 19th century into a modern industrial city. It tells how Axel Wahren founded Forssa and how “cotton angels” came to work in the factory. It tells about the time when the river through the city got blue, green or red, depending on the dyeing plant. It also tells about later days when rotating machines produced kilometres of colourful cloth, and when houses were made of concrete.

The City of Forssa was established around textile industry. Swedish born Axel Wilhelm Wahren (1814-1885) founded a cotton spinning mill by the side of Kuhalankoski rapids in 1849. The mill was soon followed by a weaving mill, yarn dye works and Finlands first industrial fabric printing plant. In 1934 the Forssa Company founded by Wahren was merged with the Finlayson textile group from Tampere. From this merge a company named Finlayson-Forssa was born. Textile production in Forssa ended in 2009. The heritage of the textile factory is now stored in Forssa museum’s textile archive, which contains fabric samples, sketches and artifacts originating from between the 1800’s and 2000’s.

Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, Hämeenlinna

Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, Hämeenlinna – The happiest lake hotel in Finland!

Open the door from history to a modern hotel adventure

Travel through history along Hämeen Härkätie, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The journey was both dangerous and thrilling, making it essential to choose a reliable travel companion. You can reach your destination only through teamwork – something that this hotel experience is perfect for. Along the way you’ll come across glass, metal and wood, the materials of old-world trade.

Stay in a cosy inn, immersed in stories. Experience a touch of France on the lakeshore of Vanajavesi in our Le Blason restaurant. Immerse yourself in the experience of Finland’s happiest lakeside hotel and Hämeenlinna’s history, brought to life in a modern way at Sokos Hotel Vaakuna.

The hotel is next to the railway station. Nearby attractions include 13th-century Häme Castle, Aulanko nature reserve, the birthplace of composer Jean Sibelius, and various museums in the town centre. Vanajavesi offers excellent opportunities for a range of activities, and the surrounding nature is a delight for canoeists, cyclists and walkers alike.

We bid you welcome!

Hotel Emilia

The privately owned Hotel Emilia is located in the heart of the town of Hämeenlinna. Our hotel is recently renovated and we have 41 comfortable rooms, all equipped with individually controlled air conditioning, bathroom, TV, telephone and wireless internet access. Additionally, we have some pet rooms and a room specially designed for physically disabled people.
On the top floor we have minisuite, which has its own sauna and a balcony.

All our rooms have been decorated with Marimekko fabrics to create comfortable Scandinavian atmosphere.
Our hotel also has its own night club, Emilia Klubi, which is open on weekends. In the summer time you can enjoy breakfast, coffee or fresh drinks on our terrace.

Hotel Vanajanlinna

Hotel Vanajanlinna in Hämeenlinna is a full-service hotel and award-winning conference, event and banquet venue. There is a total of some 200 beds at Hotel Vanajanlinna and in the various other lodgings found on the grounds. Guests can stay in an elegant Main Building room, a modern suite or one of the Vanajanlinna Villas. Breakfast is included in the room rate. Vanajanlinna is also the site of one of the top golf courses in Finland – Linna Golf, which is the only European Tour Destinations in Finland.