Radisson Blu Seaside Hotel, Helsinki

Car park in the building. Friendly and fast working staff. Got an excellent room when arriving at 1. pm. Good room on top floor as required. Very good bed, pillows and blankets. Nice view to the sea. Silent room to sleep. Nespresso coffee machine for self service, very good coffee. Complementary water bottles. Mini bar. Balcony. Good TV and lot of channels, easy to use. Air conditioner also easy to use. Wooden floor. Floor heating at the bathroom. Great breakfast in the morning, nothing missing there! Fresh juice, bread and other bakery products. Good fried bacon. No crowed at the breakfast plenty of space.

The toilet paper could have been softer! The pressure for the shower could have been better. Thats it.

Since we had to work, we went for this hotel, as we needed good Internet and enough space to work (we usually prefer smaller hotels). Internet worked fine, the staff was extreamly nice and friendly and the breakfast was also very good, with vegetarian/vegan options too. The location was also OK: there is a tram stop next to the hotel and you can reach the city centre in 10 min. by bike.

We didn't have a particuarly nice view (our room looked into a courtyard). The hotel is nice, but too big for our taste. Check in took a while.

Great service to solve problems with booking details from booking.com. Good bed and breakfast.

Totally wrong information from Booking.com regarding our booking. When we booked 2 single rooms next to each other we were informed at the reception that we only have one double room for 2 persons. The hotel reception was kind to correct this and gave us the 2 rooms that we booked but first on 2 different floors. Anyhow he changed to higher standard rooms next to each other to make our stay good so he did a great job with customer service ! Anyhow Booking.com doesn´t really work very well as information doesn´t come correct to the reception.

The breakfast buffet is exceptional - coffee is delicious, and every type of breakfast food conceivable seems to be available. Friendly staff, clean and beautiful rooms, even a sauna and gym (though I didn't use these). Right by two tram stops and you can see the water from across the road. Would definitely recommend.

There is a ramp to enter the hotel but it is for some reason really steep so wasn't much help for walking up and would imagine wheelchair users would find it really hard to use.

the staff were so welcoming, helpful and informative. the breakfast was delicious beds comfortable and rooms lovely and quiet

the only thing was the heat or the rooms during the night. The warmth during the day was very appreciated however I’m from the Uk where temperature of bedrooms is lower so the room was bit too hot for me during the night. I raised this with staff and the maintenance person managed to turn it down/off for my final night which was a lot better and very much appreciated. the staff were very helpful throughout and did what they could

Location is great if you need to be around western Helsinki. Can get around on foot as well since railway station is mere 15 mins away. Staff was friendly and helpful throughout my stay. Room on the top floor was spacious and clean as was the bathroom. Bed was comfortable, but mattress could have been a bit more harder. Breakfast was really good, plenty of choices for foods, and the restaurant itself was nicely decorated and a nice place to enjoy the breakfast. Got offered s late checkout at 18, which was great as could have a nap and freshen up before traveling.

Carpeted floors should be history by now. Shower door in the room was installed in a way that you were easily able to get the floor wet outside the shower itself.

location and breakfast

“clean your own room policy” Arriving in the evening and, surprisingly, NO HOUSEKEEPING made in the room at all. Talking to the reception, I am told that I had to ask for it (that is not what is written in this policy url link https://www.radissonhotelsamericas.com/en-us/housekeeping “Housekeeping services will continue to be provided daily at all Radisson Blu locations”) Note was taken in reception and, day after, beds are not made. Bizarre. Is this a “clean your own room” policy? Making beds and cleaning has nothing to do with sustainability (I am happy to reuse my towels). Looks more like negligence or cost saving.

The breakfast was excellent, the location was by the harbour about a 20min minute’s walk from the station. The staff we dealt with were very polite and professional and helpful. The hotel is ideally suited for a day trip via ferry to Estonia to visit Tallin with a selection of ferry times covering the day. There is the Metro line within a few minutes walk and the tram stop is across the road. from our bedroom window we could see the harbour waterfront and spot the large 'cruise liners'. It is easy to walk into the centre of Helsinki and we recommend a stop at the 'Old Market Hall Food Court' for a warming filling bowel of Salmon Soup

The position of the hotel is really not bad, some 10 minutes from the center by tram (the stop is just in front). The superior room was amazing (see below). The services of the hotel are great and the personnel had really good manners. The breakfast was tasty, served in the beautiful bistro of the hotel; there was plenty of things to try, however nothing changed in 4 days.

I booked a standard room and the first night I checked in very late at night. I was assigned a room on the 1st floor, which not only didn't have any view (unlike stated on B.) but it didn't even have a window. I was too tired to change this at night but the day after I woke up feeling pretty claustrophobic, and the room didn't even have a good smell (no window at all, felt like a basement). I went to request a change of room and the receptionist wanted to be extra nice so she assigned me a superior room, which was indeed excellent. Probably it hadn't been used in a while cause there was lot of dust on the table though.

The location is very good, with frequent tram services (tram numbers 7 and 9) to the central station and the ferry from where the cruise goes to Estonia. The hotel is really 4-star; the breakfast is excellent with so many options. The room was spacious. We were granted early check-in. It is definitely a good hotel, nothing can go wrong. We will certainly return.

The room service is not automatically provided every day. For the room service, one has to explicitly make the request to the reception every day. In Room 201, the commode in the bathroom fitted with a tap is so close to the sitting place on the commode that it is pretty challenging to use the tap. Good to have the tap beside the commode, but that close. We are not sure why it was fitted like this.