Finnish themed hotel for lovers of vivid impressions.
Sure to end up in jail nobody wants of us.
But there are ways to do it without breaking the law and trying to Rob for a long period. For example, to stay at the hotel, which converted from a former prison. People like delicate exotics, so these hotels, though not a common thing but not uncommon in the world. One of them, and the closest for tourists from Russia, is the capital of Finland.
Prison corridors, metal staircases that we see in Western films, the rooms in the former prison cells, metal bowls, mugs and soup for Breakfast. All this four-star hotel-Katajanokka prison in Helsinki.
Interestingly, hotel Katajanokka, a former prison, is located in one of the most respectable areas of the Finnish capital. Such irony… In the center of a rich area previously occupied by a prison.
The prison was built in the first half of the XIX century and opened in 1837. In appearance it somewhat resembles the famous St. Petersburg “Crosses”. If you look at the building from above, it just represents the cross.
For more than 150 years, the prison was rebuilt several times, even burned and built anew.
In 2002 the prison closed it, the last prisoners were transferred to the new city prison in Vantaa, and the building … sold.
The new owners converted it into a theme hotel, which opened in 2007. Until recently, he worked for the franchise under the brand Best Western, but it is now a fully independent hotel.
Inside everything is very reminiscent of the former about the true purpose of the building.
The former prison corridors ennobled, painted the walls, laid carpeting and decorated exhibits.
The stairs and some elements have not changed, from the left as was.
I wonder how many of the prisoner’s feet rose and pulled on those metal stairs?
The building is old: on the upper floors everywhere metal ties.
Former door, now the entrance to the rooms.
The doors themselves are, of course, replaced. But eyes left the same as in cameras. In the corridors you notice that the doors alternate with bricked-up entrances. The fact that each number is made of two chambers. Otherwise, it would not rooms, but small rooms without sobsyvennost bathrooms.
Inside the room, reminiscent of a prison cell. All modern and civilized.
The hotel is a prison in Finland. 4 stars
Bathroom. In these cameras, of course, was nothing like this close.
In the basement, where previously housed the punishment cells and solitary now a restaurant. Corridors and even the ceiling is left unchanged. There were only the tiles underfoot and the paintings on the walls.
The indoor restaurant.
In the former punishment cells, now offices. But the doors themselves are authentic.
Several single rooms at the far end of the restaurant left without changes and repairs so that the guests could see what it was here to stay.
Before you own a small dressing room, which was a massive iron door heavy HASP.
The bunk with the point in the legs.
Unmatched comfort! The length of the bunk is such that it is possible to sleep only if the legs will lie on the point….
Look in the opposite direction.
Here is the sky in a cage.
The first main grille, with thick bars.
The restaurant is in another basement chamber. Here contain people side by side(
Now it’s just a basement with utilities.
It is the same.
Breakfast included. You can choose the soup…
But you can choose a familiar food on the buffet)
But the dishes are metal – plates, and mugs….
The cost of rooms in this hotel are somewhat higher than in similar class hotels Helsinki: from 150 to 230 euros, depending on season and day of the week. That is to say, the margin for the subject scope…
