Scandic Atrium Hotel in Turku

We took superior room, but it looked like it hadn’t been renowated for way too long. No airconditioning (we had fan on a table that had 3 settings: way too loud, even louder, and hurricane) and the room was hot as sauna. Breakfast was typical hotel breakfast but everything except chia porridge and fruits section was somewhat low quality. Hotel staff was nice.

We stayed one night in Turku at Scandic Atrium. We chose this hotel since it had a pool and was at a good location near city center. When arriving we found at that the parking available wasnt free (13€ for 24h so not too bad), there was a 20min queue to the reception (seemed to be that way all night whenever we wanted to ask something we decided we can survive without). We were travelling with a toddler and had mentioned that when booking, still the bed in the room was a single bed definitely not suitable for a toddler (would have fallen off), but luckily we brought our own travel bed so solved the situation with that. We would have contacted the reception but as mentioned before, the long waiting time was not an option with an increasingly impatient toddler. We had a nice dinner, went down to the pool only to discover that there was only one dressing room for men and women, which was reserved for women 17-19, and men 19.30-22, when they had their sauna turns. Not so fun for a travelling family to have to send the man upstairs to shower in the room instead of being able to do it downstairs by the pool. The ladder to the pool was really tricky to use and an elderly lady we met said she barely got up from there and called the ladder "for sporty people only". Anyways, we got a nice swim in the deep pool with some folks doing water aerobics at the same time and enjoyed a short sauna visit afterwards. Then we headed to the room for some much needed rest, only to discover that there was no air-conditioning in the room. With temperatures being +25 outside, the room was sooo warm, so we all had a hard time sleeping. Safe to say we were happy when morning came and we got to enjoy the lovely standardized breakfast. After that we wanted to check out the children's play area near our room, but the doors were closed with no information regarding opening hours. I've spent many nights at Scandic Kuopio and compared to that this was just not as nice. Summa summarum - not the worst hotel stay but could also definitely have been a lot better.

This hotel is very outdated and the interior decoration and interior design were old and ugly. This place have been clearly left somewhere in the beginning of 2000s. In the walls there were fiberglass wallpaper, the furniture were not pretty and the whole overall impression in the room as well as in the reception and breakfast area was outdated. I would never go to this hotel for a vacation, it served just barely okay to a one night business trip.