25.-26.06.2025
Vaasa
Hotel Astor Wasa
26.-28.06.2025
Kokkola
Original Sokos Hotel Kaarle
28.-29.06.2025
Vaasa
Original Sokos Hotel Royal Vaasa
Credits: Ann-Britt Pada
Fully Hosted Vaasa culture fam trip
For tour operators from Germany, France and Spain
25.-26.06.2025
Vaasa
Hotel Astor Wasa
26.-28.06.2025
Kokkola
Original Sokos Hotel Kaarle
28.-29.06.2025
Vaasa
Original Sokos Hotel Royal Vaasa
Finnair operated flight details TBC
Comfortable and weatherproof outdoor clothing
(including good walking shoes).
Swimsuit for the sauna.
Happy mood!
In the Vaasa region, you won’t need to choose one or the other, as beautiful nature and urban city life can be easily combined on a single visit. Everything in the Vaasa region is close by, and moving from one sort of atmosphere and experience to another is effortless.
The unique Kvarken Archipelago is Finland's only Natural World Heritage Site on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Together with Sweden's High Coast, the Kvarken Archipelago is the best place in the world to experience and understand the land uplift phenomenon caused by the last Ice Age.
Your flights to Helsinki
16.10 Finnair flight to Vaasa
17.10 Arriving in Vaasa
Transportation from airport to Hotel
18.00 Check in Hotel Astor
Charming Hotel Astor is located in the centre of Vaasa. The privately owned hotel is of a high standard and all 49 rooms are individually decorated and all rooms are unique. As is the Finnish tradition, many rooms have their own sauna (superior room). The famous breakfast and brunch are served in the Gustavian-style decorated breakfast room.
Mostly local products are used for our breakfast and brunch and oven-baked homemade cakes and pastries spread wonderful scents. The hotel’s quiet location and the customer focused service offered by the small family hotel is our strength.
18.40 Walk trough Vaasa centre
19.00 Dinner at Strampen by the sea
Restaurant Strampen is located by the beautiful inner harbour in Vaasa, and is one of Finland's oldest restaurants with its over 150 year old history. The restaurant seats 220 people inside, and during summer we have an additional 400 seats on the terrace.
07:00 Check-out from hotel
Transportation from hotel to Port of Vaasa
08.00 -16.00 Cruising Aurora Botnia Wasaline. On board information about Vaasaregion, Wasaline, and little about Sweden.
Wasaline is the northernmost shipping line in the world, which transports passengers and freight daily between Vaasa in Finland and Umeå in Sweden. The journey between Umeå and Vaasa takes only 3.5-4 hours with the new environmentally friendly Aurora Botnia.
12.00 Lunch
16.00 Port of Vaasa
16.20 Bus transportation to Kokkola via Café Bryggan and Hickarö Resort for refreshments
19.00 Check in at Original Sokos Hotel Kaarle
19.30 Dinner at Nera Garden in old town
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Guided walk in Kokkola old wooden town and historical centre
10:30 Leave from hotel to the harbour
11:00-17:00 Archipelago cruise and visit at Tankar lighthouse island
Guided island walk and lighthouse visit, lunch at Café Tankar.
The picturesque Tankar, located about 15 kilometres off the coast of Kokkola, is a unique destination where historical seascapes and nature experiences are combined.
17:30 Back at the hotel
18:30 Easy coastal biking tour to dinner at Mustakari Sailing Yacht Club
8.00 Check-out and breakfast
9.30 Bus transportation from Kokkola to Vaasa
11.30 Visitor Centre World Heritage Gateway
At the World Heritage Gateway, you can familiarise yourself with the World Heritage Kvarken Archipelago, which is the best place in the world to experience the land uplift after the last Ice Age!
12.00 Lunch at restaurant Bernys by the longest bridge of Finland
13.30 Transport to Svedjehamn
14.30 Bodvattnet runt nature trail, including Saltkaret, an observation tower
16.00 Transport to Kalles Inn Resort
17.00 Kalle’s Inn Resort - Experience the beauty of magical sea nature
The most western place you can go by car in Finland!
17.30 SAUNAworld at Kalles Inn Resort
19.00 Dinner at Kalles Inn Resort
20.30 Bus transportation to Vaasa
Midnight sun experience
21.30 Arrival to hotel Original Sokos Hotel Royal
9.00 Breakfast and check-out
12.30 Transportation to airport
14.05 Finnair flight to Helsinki
Guide with us almost the whole time
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