Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna Vaasa

The hotel is in the center of the city. You can easily take a bus to the airport, too. Breakfast is also nice.

Cycling friendly. Helpful receptionist that shared her local cycling knowledge and helped me to put my bike in the convenient storage room. Good food in the restaurant and a nice sauna. However, breakfast is let down by the lack of real milk. There are plenty of nuts, muesli, seeds, nice breads, and fruit, but if you are a lactophile you leave breakfast with an unsatisfied feeling. Also, bed is a bit soft which can make breathing a bit difficult if you tend towards the apneaic.

This hotel is located next to the marketplace in the Rewell shopping center. After staying one night in the Central Hotel, this hotel felt much more modern. We booked a Junior Suite. There are four of them with different themes: Cloud, Forest, Bridge, and Christmas. Beforehand I emailed the hotel and asked for the Forest one. The decor was very unique and you really got the forest feeling in this spacious room which was previously probably two separate rooms because there were two identical bathrooms, both with showers. Maybe there could have been done more renovation to get one bigger bathroom with both a tub and shower. Breakfast was served on the 2nd floor at Venn restaurant. It was a little bit confusing breakfast for a first-timer. The food selection was quite good and fresher than we had at Central the previous morning. There is also a Rosso restaurant next to Venn and the whole combination was quite confusing. We had dinner at Rosso and when coming from the lift you will come first at Venn and have to go through this restaurant to get to Rosso. Ilves Tampere offers the same kind of restaurant hassle which we don't like. On the 9th floor, you will find the Sky Bar with great views over Vaasa.

Basic city hotel in the heart of Vaasa, short walk from train station. Checked in on Sunday evening, very quiet everywhere and the only restaurant closing at 9.30pm. Standard room itself was small, bed was too high and soft. Didn't really like the room. What i liked was the breakfast, it was a full buffet.