Park Hotel Turku — Hotel in Turku sub-region

This must be the most beautiful hotel in Finland. Charming historical decoration and atmosphere is found both in the room and in the dining room. Breakfast was quite nice, adequate for 4 stars and it was enjoyable to dine in such a beautifully decorated room. The room was charming and the view from room to the park was nice and suited this place. ||This is more of a little garden than just a park, and the outside yard with flowers and plants was beautiful and serene on a summer evening. The garden is at its best during spring and summer months, when the plants are in bloom.||The staff were super friendly. I didn't expect to find such warmth in this cold country. I can recommend this hotel and Turku as a city for visitors as a hospitable alternative to Helsinki.||Location wasn't exactly in the city centre, but it was good enough and convenient to see all the main attractions of the centre:| 5 minutes walk to Orthodox church, Kauppahalli and central market square| 10 minutes walk to the restaurant river boats, "Linnankatu" restaurant street, the love lock theatre bridge and Qwensel house museum|15 minutes walk to the main cathedral and Sibelius/Ett hem museums|5 minutes walk to St. Michael's church and Port Arthur old town wooden district||There was no air-conditioning in the room, a small minus for this. They should at least provide a fan. So it can get a bit hot to sleep at night during summer, but with the window open it...

Imagine you are given a wonderful suite with beautiful furniture, two comfy chairs and a divan and enough storage to place two steamer trunks of luggage.||And then imagine that you cannot spend a single comfortable minute in the room.||Sadly, that was my experience in the suite in Room 401 on the top floor of the Park Hotel in Turku. The beds were placed so pillows were up against the windows, and there was NO way to close the window shades to avoid direct sunlight striking the bed. And Turku was going through a heat wave and there was no good way to place the fan provided in the room in a way that improved air circulation. Result - Greenhouse! Good for flowers but not for people. Every day, I descended from my room to the ground floor, cooling off significantly as I went down. Always cooler on the ground floor than on the top.||I slept badly every night I was there. Sweated profusely.||I can imagine someone writing a great novel in that room, during a cool spell. It is a magnificent room and the hotel is well-placed to the train station, not a long walk from the market and the river, the buffet is quirky but good (bacon was only available one day and no more was made, but the fruit bowl was always well stocked and the cheese and bread were delicious), staff were friendly.||But untenable during...

I have no idea what any of these other people are talking about with this hotel. I’m a solo woman who has travelled loads around the world and this is perhaps the worst value for money I have ever encountered. Absolutely horrific. While the building and courtyard were indeed charming and had character, this is basically a hostel with a private room. No A/C, no fans, no ventilation, no screens on the windows even to allow any air in without all the mosquitos in Turku. The room was so small I couldn’t move. The carpet was filthy, as was the poorly covered mattress. The only fridge was crammed full with minibar garbage. The neighborhood, except for the park itself, is a bunch of porn shops/XXX video stores and Soviet-looking blocks of flats. It is near nothing. The toilet ran all night. A car alarm in the parking alarm blared every 7 — oh I kept track — minutes from 2am to 4am. No shampoo. A hair dryer from the 1980s. Breakfast is not great. TV had maybe 2 working channels. Internet very poor. I have absolutely nothing good to say about this place. After one extremely sweaty and sleepless night, I packed up and moved hotels, hopefully getting a refund for this absolute...