Hotel Homeland Tampere — Hotel in Tampere sub-region

I discovered this hotel a few years ago, in my attempts to find a quiet, simple place, close to both the city center and TAMK. Homeland has decent rooms, spacious enough, clean and also offers a small kitchen with stove, oven and all the necessities for which, in the absence of time, you need to prepare some meals. The breakfast is quite rich in offers (sure to stand about 6 times here I discovered that the products offered for breakfast are fixed the same every day, but most hotels do the same thing). At the will of the tenants, it is possible to program the use of the sauna at any time of the day. The staff is very friendly and offers casual help when requested. It is true that prices have increased year by year and most of the time it is preferable to make your reservation some time in advance, but this is similar to most hotels in the city.|Across the road from the hotel there is an open supermarket including Saturdays and Sundays and several other similar shops nearby but also various restaurants.|From Helsinky, Tampere can be reached by plane, train or bus. Tampere is a beautiful city, both in the cold and very cold seasons but also in the hot ones.|Personally, whenever I have the opportunity to come to Tampere, I will seek accommodation...

I reserved (from Porto, Portugal) and pre-payed four nights at Homeland-Tampere (28 August-01 September 2017). As I would arrive in Tampere very late I asked the Hotel to send me the code for the locker with the key to enter the Hotel and the room. ||As I did not receive the code and the date approached I insisted asking for the code by text messages and directly by phone and I was always assured that I would receive the code. I arrived at Homeland Hotel at 02 o’clock in the morning and no codes had been sent, the door was closed, and no one answered the phone or the doorbell.||I had to ask a taxi to try to find an hotel to spend the night (which was not easy since there was a big Conference in Tampere). I stayed at the Scandic Hotel-Tampere where I paid 174€. I had to work next the morning, at 08 a.m. During the 29th I had to interrupt work and to use a taxi to transfer from Scandic Hotel to Homeland Hotel. During the days I stayed in Tampere every day I asked several times to talk with the manager which was never possible. Homeland did not...

Three warnings for other travellers!||1. reception is closed from 19:00 until 07:00 so the hotel is unstaffed between those times. OK if you're checked in and can come and go, but some people are a bit wary of this. ||2. Be very careful indeed with the water - I've styed twice and in both rooms if you turn on the COLD tap it will run scalding hot (and I mean scalding hot) for a couple of minutes before the cold comes through. Children would need very careful supervision!||3. There's no Internet access in the rooms - they are supposedly upgrading the WiFi, but I didn't see any evidence of it. There's just a very slow and feeble router in reception||Otherwise, it's clean enough if rather scruffy and represents - by Finnish standards - reasonable value for money. The outside looks much worse than the interior - I parked outside and almost changed my mind about staying... ||Shower rooms are tiny, but adequate. Beds are acceptable and there's a decent blackout. ||Breakfast doiesn't start until 07:00 so I never had a...