In year 2008 upcoming design hotels will stimulate the Helsinki hotel scene: Former red-light brothel house (okay it was over 100 years ago) is renewed and new Hotel Helena (Pohjoisesplanadi 5) will be open in autumn 2008 (source: Kauppalehti, in Finnish). EDIT 2013: Olo (a Michelin star restaurant) will move in to Pohjoisesplanadi 5 in August 2013. The plans of Hotel Helena did not become reality at all.
Earlier I mentioned about the upcoming (fall 2009) loft-style rooms of Hotel Linna and alternatives to ordinary hotel stay (guest house Kolo & Maja). EDIT 2013: Hotel Linna is now GLO Art Hotel and loft-style rooms did not become reality? Maybe because of new hotels Haven and Fabian?
The largest private restaurant corporation in Finland Royal Ravintolat Ltd have noticed the demand for unique Hotels and is planning (article in Finnish) to launch a competitor to GLO, Klaus K and old prison Hotel Katajanokka. New hotel Haven will open during the year 2008 to Unioninkatu 17.
We'll see if the plans of the Alvar Aalto & Artek hotel (article in Finnish) will become real by the year 2010. Design hotel by world-class architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron would be a nice new landmark. EDIT 2013: Helsinki City Council rejected Katajanokka hotel project in 2010.
Other unique hotels to mention: Totally new concept was developed for Hotel Helka in 2006 - inspired by Finnish Design and Finnish nature. This theme can be experienced everywhere - in furnishing, service and music.
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