We spent a whole week at sports hotel and experienced that the place is not aimed for private sports holiday. They seem to focus on athlete groups or groups of supported holidays. | |Room:|The maintenance personnel needed to visit our hotel room five times (!) during the week mainly due to different electricity reasons/faults. The soundproofing was unfortunate in the hotel room and in consequence remote work was not convenient at all. ||Sports facilities:|The pool is closed Sundays and during the week days it is open only either 5pm-9pm or 7:30am-9am which does not allow to go swimming during the day or twice a day. |They do have written rules for the swimming hall but based on our experience during the week the rules are not supervised. |How you may train swimming if there are kids playing tag in the pool - also on the swimming lanes - and they suddenly appear and stay in the middle of the lane. |Or how do you relax at jacuzzi when some other kids played water wars in the area of special pools and threw water from the ice-cold pool (+8C!) with a big bucket, which did not hit their own group, but directly on our backs. In their rules the said area is only for people from 12 years.||Food:|The quality of buffet food was poor (salad was brownish, sausage is not my understanding of proper food for athletes etc) also when compared to three other Finnish sports centers where we have spent holiday during past two years. ||The room, sports facilities, service or food did not achieve our expectations which we had based on several holidays spent in other sports centers.|This is absolutely the...
Read moreI stayed at Holiday Club Kuortane Sports Resort for 1 week as part of my RCI membership program. It was my first time to Finland and wanted to travel somewhere out of a city to explore. From Helsinki the resort was difficult to get to with public transport, after catching the train, there are limited bus services. Some days the bus didn't run at all so I checked out a day early otherwise there was no transport for me to a nearby town Seinäjoki to catch the train. The resort staff tried to find a person to take me, but it didn't align with anyone's working schedule. Alternatively, taxi from Seinäjoki to the resort would have been approx 90 EURO. Guests to the hotel can access the pool, sauna and spa services, but not the training facilities. The website does advertise ice skating and ice hockey come and try experiences however they don't have rental equipment so you need to bring your own equipment to benefit from this. Fast wifi and clean rooms. I had a twin bed room that even had a private sauna. The breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets were good value and provided vegetarian options, however it would have been good for better English signage as I needed to...
Read moreAs others have said this is a strange Holiday Club resort. The Holiday Club accommodation is a bolt-on to an Olympic Training Camp. Not that the other people here are all elite athletes - far from it.|The buffet restaurant is good value but the food is not great and the ambience resembles a school canteen.|We enjoyed using the resort bicycles to ride into the excellent town beach.|Other activities were hard to access and the excellent swimming pool complex was generally only open from 1700:to 2100.|Be warned that you need to register at the complex reception which is a long way away from the Holiday Club accommodation.|The rooms were modern and well-equipped. However we did not enjoy the single beds which resembled student dorms.|Now could we understand why such a resort made little attempt to communicate its information in English.|The resort complex is beautifully situated on the shores of a...
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