Clarion Hotel Helsinki is an exciting meeting place with it’s 78 metres high towers. You can enjoy the stunning rooftop pool, 425 rooms and Skyroom -bar on 16th floor with amazing views and cocktails. This hotel also features a large conference centre and Kitchen & Table restaurant. Hotel’s décor style is modern and Scandinavian with selected designer pieces and it is located in Jätkäsaari, an urban harbour district with beautiful sea views and easy access to the city centre. Clarion offers its guests details and experiences you don’t wanna miss. After all it is Clarion living, not just staying.
Paulig Kulma Café
Paulig Kulma offers unique experiences, memorable moments and sighs of satisfaction. Enjoy freshly roasted, hand-made coffee and tasty delights. Paulig Kulma is an inspiring meeting place at Kluuvi shopping centre in Helsinki. Here, everything revolves around coffee, which is celebrated with joy and passion. Paulig Kulma houses a two-storey café, roastery, terrace and Barista Institute. Here you can meet friends, work or just relax in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the city. At Paulig Kulma, with its versatile spaces, you can also organise unforgettable private parties.
PuPu Restaurants
MUCH MORE THAN JUST A SALAD.
Our salads are created with only the best ingredients. We want you to live an eat healthy without compromising taste. We offer better choices for both you and the planet. We challenge you to enjoy the greatest salads of your life!
Hotel Arthur
Hotel Arthur is a privately owned, cozy 3-star hotel in the heart of Helsinki – only 200 meters from the main railway station. All the main sights and shopping streets are in walking distance. The hotel has 203 rooms in different size and price level, everything to suit the needs of solo travelers to bigger families and groups. Our guests can enjoy the Finnish sauna in our two private saunas. Our atmospheric Restaurant Bistro Arthur serves buffet breakfast, versatile buffet lunch and delicious dinners for hotel guests and other travelers and locals as well.
Hotel Katajanokka
Hotel Katajanokka is a privately owned lifestyle hotel, renovated with loving care into the historic premises of former Helsinki county prison. Inside the red brick walls you will find a magic world of contrasts – with serene comfort, stylish design and a hint of Nordic luxury. To us, Hotel Katajanokka is more than a hotel and a workplace. It’s a way of life. Our attentive and caring service comes from the heart. We are here for you, eager to please, and dedicated to making your stay perfect. We refuse to take any shortcuts to sacrifice guest satisfaction.
Escape the ordinary, The ordinary is out there. We’d like to think of our hotel as a world with a different set of rules. An ideal world. In that world the ground laying values are Love, Peace, Liberty and Privilege.
MOW Mothership of Work
MOW Mothership of Work is serious about the future. The future of work, the future of life, the future of community. But we’re also about being laid-back, respectful and creative in everything we do. We create and run the kind of spaces where we know we want to spend time in, with a community of likeminded folks from all walks of life and fields of work.
MOW is, above all, a coworking space that provides all its members with the best possible conditions for running and developing business. We provide all the necessities an awesome coworking space requires: freshly brewed artisan coffees, IT support, fast WiFi, guest reception, printers, phone booths, meeting rooms, morning workouts and afterwork get-togethers, and the best people. MOW is a community-driven workspace, which means you will enjoy not only our excellent facilities but also the company of a few hundred awesome people. You are welcome to attend our monthly community meetings, if you wish. Your membership is free of obligations and it’s our job to make sure that everything runs smoothly.
Putteś Bar & Pizza
Putte’s Bar & Pizza is a multicultural community in the center of Helsinki. We offer quality fusion pizza as well as a touch of an accepting and relaxed atmosphere. Vegetarian and a vegan-friendly menu are designed by top chefs.The love for the arts is also evident when stepping in. Putte’s condemns discrimination in all its forms and is reflected in the actions of employees as well as owners. Come as you are!
Keltainen Ruusu Sex Store and Cruising
Keltainen Ruusu is the iconic sex store and meeting point for gay men. It is the largest sex store and cinema in Finland. Gay clubs and restaurants come and go but Keltainen Ruusu stays. Keltainen Ruusu is located in Helsinki downtown, in Kamppi close to the Kamppi Mall and bus terminals. The product range includes both products for making your sex live more exciting and pleasurable but also one of the widest range of Tom of Finland products in Finland. Next to the store you can find the biggest cruising area in Finland: two floors of private cabins, slings, non-stop cinema and a lounge area for relaxing. The price for an all-day ticket is 15 euros. You can visit the cruising area, leave and come back later with the same ticket.
Taiga Colors / Helsinki
The design store with a story in the heart of Helsinki. The store is full of colors and cushions. The founder of Taiga Colors is photographer and designer Jutta Kuure. You can read the inspirational story behind Taiga Colors here.
Happy Guide Helsinki
Sunny and sustainable guide services in Helsinki. One of the guided tour is Tom of Finland experience. You can walk the streets once wandered by one Touko Valio Laaksonen who is much better known for his artist name – Tom of Finland. Tom held residency in Helsinki for the major part of his life and during this time many important happenings took place in the capital of Finland.
Hostel Suomenlinna / Helsinki
Hostel Suomenlinna is the hostel of the year 2018 located in a UNESCO world heritage site on the island of Suomenlinna. This hostel is an excellent choice if you want to experience the Helsinki archipelago and yet overnight just a 15min ferry ride from the Helsinki city center. The ferry starts from the market square in Helsinki. The island and the historical sea fortress are worth to experience.
Lonna Island / Helsinki
Welcome to the charming little island of Lonna, just outside Helsinki. You can reach this island with a ferry in just 10 minutes from the market square in Helsinki. This is a place where you can forget your worries and just relax and enjoy the sea. There are a couple of restaurants on the island, a public sauna and lots of fresh air.
Hawkhill / Espoo
Hawkhill is a family run cottage resort surrounded by the beautiful Nuuksio National Park. We are only a 45 minute drive from the beating heart of Helsinki. Our core values are sustainability, high quality and customer satisfaction. We are CO2 neutral and we are aiming for CO2 negativity in 2021. At Hawkhill you can enjoy Finnish nature at its best with your loved ones.
Helsinki International Film Festival
Founded in 1988, the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy has been held annually ever since. The aim of Finland’s biggest film festival is to promote the artistry of filmmaking alongside inventive, controversial and visually stunning new films. The festival also seeks to screen films that would otherwise not be seen in Finnish theatres. LGBTQ+ themes have been represented at the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy since the beginning. “Every year we strive for a diverse programme with queer themes at the forefront in both film selection and events. The values of the association highlight diversity, inclusivity and social justice.“
The programme for the 32nd HIFF – Love & Anarchy will be announced September 5th, 2019. The festival will be held September 19th to 29th, 2019. For more information
Sideways Festival / Helsinki
Sideways festival is taking into account the diversity aspect both when it comes to the audience as well as performing artists. Sideways is featuring a line-up of the best national and international indie acts, paralleled by an elaborate range of exciting, mind-blowing and fun sideshows. Sideways Festival is a true haven of creativity and an absolute must-do for the music aficionado who loves to indulge in diverse food offerings, quality drinks and experiences that are not found everywhere else.
Hotelli Helka / Helsinki
Hotel Helka is the hotel for responsibility, diversity and inclusion in Helsinki. During the last few years Helka has been a pioneer in Finland talking about these values and also making them visible through actions and communications. Helka has a long history but at the same time a very modern way of thinking and caring. Helka is building a better tomorrow.
Hotel Helka is located in downtown Helsinki. One of the most popular gay clubs Hercules is located next to the hotel and it is very easy to reach all the attractions of Helsinki from here.
Hotel Klaus K / Helsinki
Located in the heart and center of Helsinki, Klaus K is the perfect modern style hotel, the first design hotel in Finland. Inspired by the national epic Kalevala – it’s nature and dramatic design follows all the rooms and interior. The hotel has also a weekend package for Tom of Finland fans. You can see more pictures and lifeof2men experience from March 2018 here. Also the traveling gay couple Karl and Daan Coupleofmen visited Klaus K hotel in August 2018.
Myöhostel / Helsinki
If you want to stay in a more communal environment and make a difference, Myö Hostel is your choice. This brand new hostel is just a few kilometres from Helsinki downtown. The hostel offers jobs for people with disabilities and in this way communicates about inclusivity and diversity. The hostel wants to play it fair.
Roots Kitchen / Helsinki and Turku
Roots Kitchen has two restaurants, one in Turku and one in Helsinki. Both restaurants are situated in market halls, in historical buildings. The Turku Market Hall was opened in 1896 and the Hakaniemi Market Hall in Helsinki was opened in 1914. Roots kitchen serves colorful and versatile vegetarian food. There is also a vegan menu available.
Taksi Helsinki / Helsinki
What is your first contact in a new country? Very often it is the taxi driver. Taksi Helsinki is the biggest taxi operator in Finland with more than 1300 taxis in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Taksi Helsinki has been promoting diversity and equality in Helsinki Pride and now is a member of the We Speak Gay Community. Read more. When using the Taksi Helsinki cabs your are also supporting diversity, inclusivity and LGBTQ rights.