Hotel & Hostel Tallukka

Very Good
Traveller Type: Business Traveler
  : Really friendly staff.
  : Since this hotel is advertised as a one with a beautiful lake view, I was expecting it. Although hotel was basically empty (off season), I was given a room with a parking lot view and street noise.

Very Good
Traveller Type: Solo Traveler
  : Being under Covid 19 restrictions, the spa, restaurant and gym were closed. Of course that was a big minus but not to be helped. This is a typical older Finnish hotel so don't expect much but in one way that was the aura of staying here. Breakfast was very plentiful under the circumstances. Will definitely stay again when everything is working. Ample free parking!
  : I can't say I didn't like anything.

Pleasant
Traveller Type: Solo Traveler
  : The balcony
  : A bit dated, 1960 or 1970s feeling. Poor WiFi would of expected a bit cheaper by 10 - 20 euros (but not lower) for the standards

Fair
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : The best thing about the room was a pretty decent lake view, and a shower that was hot and had good water pressure - which was very much needed to combat the cool temperature of the room when it was pretty cold out - 5 degrees! Brrrrr!
  : I asked for a double bed, received an email that they could provide one, and instead on arrival was given a room with 4 single beds, and each a different height so that even when we tried to make do and push two together to make a bed we could both sleep on, it created more problems because of the difference in heights that meant we were sleeping on a slope! Not only that, but the beds appeared to be on skates, because we'd wake up in the middle of the night and find that one of us had fallen into a big gap that had opened up between the two beds! AND we only had single duvet covers, so we spent a lot of time fighting to keep ourselves covered up and eventually had to admit defeat and retreat to our own very narrow single beds. It made for VERY uncomfortable nights of sleep and somewhat flushed our idea of cuddling up at night on a romantic weekend in Finland down the drain! Yep, awful sleep arrangements and a cold room where you cannot control the temperature will do that! Breakfast was plentiful - a lot of variety, but the quality is not good. Orange juice was watered down and tasted like it was medicine, scrambled eggs tasted like what I imagine astronauts food is like etc etc. Ended up sticking with just bread, boiled eggs and yoghurt with lingonberries.

Very Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple
  : I liked the 70s architecture and atmosphere. A nice throwback to a Kekkoslovakia aesthetic. Sauna and pool were good, too.

Very Good
Traveller Type: Solo Traveler

Very Good
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple

Wonderful
Traveller Type: Traveling as Couple

Very Poor
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : Nothing!
  : The worst hotel I have ever booked! The hotel manager is a total liar! I need to warn those who are going to book it!I booked two rooms for my family more than a month in advance, in the morning of our arrival day the hotel sent us two welcoming messages, via email and text message, with instructions on how to get the room keys (surprisingly no one is on duty that day) - first need to press some code to access the hotel building, then again some code to open a locker (where they promised to keep keys to my rooms), but after all these done, I found the locker totally empty. Then I called the two numbers given on the locker, first guy answered saying he didn't know anything about it and asked me to wait, then I called another number, no one answered. Then a lady of the hotel called me back, confused and didn't know anything about it. Then after a while I received another call from a local Finnish number 0414918028, he was the hotel manager and told me that I already checked in the previous day and his staff saw me?!! After I questioned it, he asked me my full name, then he said 'Oh yes, you have cancelled your reservation last night'. I was totally confused and after I denied the cancellation, he told that it's Booking.com who cancelled my reservation, I questioned him how could that happen, because Booking.com is not authorized by me to cancel my reservation, and even that's done I'm supposed to receive the notification right away with a valid and legal reason! Then I asked him for evidence of the cancelled, the hotel manager said no one is working there that day, so they couldn't show any evidence. Then I called Booking.com and they confirmed my reservation was active and all fine. The hotel manager was a total liar with ethical issues! They were simply being lazy to bring me the keys because of their own mistakes but didn't have the courage to admit it at all!