Oulu Hotels with Gym

I spent three nights here on a business trip recently. The hotel is located on the water front and close to restaurants and shops. There is a nice park on one side and the city view on the other. Rooms were well appointed with a decent desk, good bathroom and comfortable beds. Typical European bedding with a heavy comforter and no top sheet. TV had lots of channels and many were in English with Finnish sub-titles. Internet access was good. In the main lobby there were two restaurants - one primarily for dinner and another for breakfast. There is a full bar, but prices are a little high. On the lower level is a sauna and gym.

Lapland Hotel Oulu has an excellent location only 200 meters from the town hall, 700 meters from the market square and 700 meters from the railway station. So everything is within walking distance, e.g. restaurants, shopping possibilities and main sights. It is also possible to rent bikes from the hotel (8 euros/3 hours, 25 euros/day). We saw Oulu Cathedral and Franzen Park from our window. The area is very silent. Sometimes you may hear the sound of church bells. We hadn't a balcony but most rooms with a balcony seemed to have an indoor balcony with view to the restaurant of the hotel. Our room with Lappish style was very cozy. We had a safety deposit box, a silent small refrigerator, an iron, an ironing board, a big flat screen television and a self adjustable air conditioning system. Air conditioning nozzles were near the floor, under the wardrobe. It was possible to adjust indoor temperature using the touch screen and also turn those nozzles manually to a different position. However, air conditioning wasn't very effective when it was hot outdoors. Breakfast is always good in Lapland Hotels and especially here in Oulu. They had all the usual hotel breakfast foods but also several local specialties, e.g. buckwheat cereals, rosemary crispbread, malt bread with tar, beetroot hummus, dried cranberries, cloudberries, cloudberry jam, blueberry juice, cranberry juice, rhubarb smoothie, lingonberry-seed tosca pie, cinnamon buns, sour milk cake etc. Also alcohol free spruce sparkling wine was available but not every morning. However, I especially loved green smoothie made of apples, spinach and spruce roots. Oula Kitchen & Bar is the restaurant of the hotel and it is an excellent dinner restaurant. Read separate Tripadvisor reviews of it. There are also saunas (a free public sauna in the evening, separate for women and men, and a private sauna for 1-4 people with pre-booking and extra charge) and a free swimming pool (open from morning until evening) in the hotel. The nearby Fressi Gym is available for hotel visitors (5 euros/visit if you aren't a member of Lapland Hotels Club). Service was very kind in the whole hotel. I really recommend Lapland Hotel Oulu for everybody.

Original Sokos Hotel Arina is a classy and lively hotel located in the heart of Oulu at the pedestrian street Rotuaari. The seven storey hotel has 260 cosy rooms including three suites and rooms with a private sauna. Small fitness room for hotel guests free of charge.

Breakfast at scandic's hotels seems to be exactly the same, very rich and very good. The front desk staff were also very friendly and friendly, and the experience was great. Very close to the fat police and the market, there are many places to eat nearby, but they are all expensive.