Great location to be able to walk all over Helsinki and close to public transportation. The water is nice and "sanitation hot" for the dishes, and the laundry machines did a nice job too. There were the unescapable city noises outside and the front of the hotel is very "inner city urban", but the inside is well kept, clean, and one feels safe. A good portion of Helsinki has a sort of Blade Runner vibe to it as it loses it "old European architecture charm" to brutalist and boring boxes architecture "to cheer people through the long dark winters". So the "outside look of the hotel is the norm for Helsinki". I think it would assist alleviating the winter depression problems if they went back to making more charming, visually uplifting architecture or at least painting the gray things more bright cheerful colors. "The stoic modern brutalist" stuff affects one soul with the long dark, cold survival months.