Best Western Premier Hotel Katajanokka Review

Beautiful, sleek hotel in a quiet neighborhood
Short walk to a vibrant port, and the bustle of Helsinki. Within the walls of an old prison. Staff was friendly, and they spoke fluent English. Hope to return soon.

Fantastic hotel (former prison) with great staff!! Beautiful rooms! it!

Excellent hotel very elegantly converted from its original life as a prison.

Very well. Clean friendly top location. The breakfast is to my taste

Very unique hotel at Finland Helsinki . There is prison previously that convert to hotel . I love the color and the Northern Europe Style .
My room had upgrade to having private sauna .
So cool

Unique hotel which formerly served as a prison. The hotel is well thought out with its uniquely themed interior design. It s modern but making use of its original architecture. The rooms are rather small and with no view. The breakfast is great with a good choice of breads and local specialties. The location is very quiet and about a 10-15 min walk from the market place away.

We like hotel, it was amazing as on the picture as on live..but since we don't have credit card, we went there as "walk in guests". Room was available and we want to pay cash/debit card but they still ask for credit card. No deposit,but just as garanzie. So basically you can lie about your credit card saldo and get room,but since we been honest we didn't get room.
Receptionist was very kind..is actually upon management!
So if you like to stay in hotel make sure to bring credit card with you. :)

Amazing hotel, extremely friendly and helpful staff. Unique place to stay

A neat prison experience as the hotel is a former prison. I recommend!

Unique hotel, breakfast was great. Friendly and helpful staff Would stay again.

Very interesting concept, friendly stuff and good breakfast

Unique ambience in the former Helsinki prison. Everything was very modern renovated and the rooms (cells) are very comfortable. To recommend!

Friendly service, great atmosphere, nicely decorated, nice staff

Very well located hotel, very quiet. In a former prison, this hotel is perfect for a change of scenery! The tram stops right in front. The room is comfort (junior suite) with a sauna which adds a real plus to the change of scenery.
The lobby bar is nice, its staff at your service and the gun tonic to perfection!
I highly recommend this hotel. Probably a bit expensive, but in Helsinki everything is expensive! But to get out of prison, ultimately not that expensive ;-)

Good localization. Hotel decorated in an old prison. A delicious breakfast.

Great service quiet. Comfortable rooms. Excellent blackout curtains. Great breakfast buffet

Very suggestive location, former prison, very abundant and good breakfast, modern rooms

Lovely hotel with some history / novelty behind it! We had a short overnight stay in Helsinki and this was a great base. I would not recommend for longer stays as wardrobe space was limited, although I will caveat we were in a "standard" room. All in all, would recommend for a weekend break.

Oude gevangenis die is verbouwd tot hotel. Nette kamers die prima zijn uitgerust. Uitgebreid en lekker ontbijt

Such an interesting hotel/old prison. Loved the stay here. Nice rooms and service. Great to walk around and read about the history of this place.

We got a free upgrade to a suite, which was amazing. The hotel is really well done maintaining the essence of what it was but making a classy and fun place to stay. Really quiet, and excellent breakfast. Well worth the money!

Great hotel. Good service. Nice food. Beautiful rooms and quirky prison theme. Nice to hangout at the terrace during summers

Superb location and environment. Very proffesional staff, friendly and highly serviceminded. Restaurant worth the visit, very delicious food. Will revisit when possible

Really friendly staff. The hotel restaurant has great continental breakfast. Clean and organized room. Decent location.

The beautiful hotel is quiet and formerly a prison and is about 1200 meters away from the city center

The trade department meeting at "Church" was the first time I had been there. I was disappointed with the interior when there was a kp carpet everywhere, I didn't visit the "cells" at all.
The big gets the staff, it was friendly and helpful, the food gets 8/10. The 3n dish meal was somewhat disappointing, it was good, but somehow there was no 10n performance.
Easy to find, no 4 tram stopped at the gate.

Possibly the best hotel I've ever stayed in. Great location, lovely staff, great breakfast and an interesting building.

Awesome stay. Prison turned luxury hotel. Breakfast is good and staff super helpful.

Interesting history in a prime location. I can also recommend the hotel's restaurant and bar. Food was top notch.

The staff was friendly and advised on road isolation cells and group cells. The old prison milieu was skilfully preserved.

Place with excellent atmosphere of former prison. Renovations works on the way. Good breakfast

Good and central location. Inside lots of space for diners, great food for lunch and when ordering. You can take a sauna and party. In summer, a cozy yard for diners or even just drinks.

The old prison has been turned into an exciting hotel, showing its original purpose.

Great service from the chief concierge making the stay very unique.

Hotel in a renovated prison. The room we had was the former prison laundry and it had a sauna in the room. The attached restaurant has many good traditional dishes and the included breakfast buffet is delicious

A truly interesting place full of history. I participated in a guided walking tour of horror. There is free admission. It's worth visiting and maybe staying in Risto Ryt's old cell.

A repurposed prison building. Great place to stay. really nice place to chill at the end of the day

Friendly service and good breakfast, the morning porridge was very tasty.

this is very cool hotel, clean, rooms are big, especially the morning buffet breakfast, highly recommend. extremely nice

Best night in prison ever. Great renovation turning this into a usable attraction and keeping the history alive.

Amazing, a great idea to turn a prison into a hotel and preserve the look.

Good location. Dog guests catered for; food cup in the room. Uncomplicated, friendly service. Excellent food in the restaurant. Cool. Large rooms. The net played well inside the thick stone walls. I can warmly recommend hotel stays to travelers who are already a little tired!

Very friendly team, rich breakfast, good 4 star hotel on the existing structure of an old prison in a quiet location close to the center (7 minutes walk to the market square) and to numerous ferry docks.

Nicest prison I've ever stayed in, friendly guards, good food and the cells were immaculate :-)

Despite the austere exterior very cosy interior if a little dark. Very friendly staff and a good breakfast choice. limited vegetarian room service options.

A great hotel. Easy access to the train station and sights. A great structure, great comfort and the history of the building make this hotel the best in Helsinki

Good hotel, very clean, standard queen room very small, the bed filled the room. Breakfast was ok, standard buffet. Some English speaking TV channels. All in all a most enjoyable visit.

Fascinating milieu, well-utilized theme. Friendly staff, good service and versatile facilities.

Hotel Katajanokka is located in the former Helsinki City Prison. The prison was still in operation until 2002 and was used afterwards. A large part of the prison structure was preserved. The rooms are really beautifully designed and comfortable. I haven't felt so comfortable in a hotel room for a long time. The staff was friendly and helpful. The breakfast buffet even exceeded my expectations, really great and rich. Price performance was okay too. But I found it a shame that the bars in front of the windows were removed and that the cell corridor was carpeted. That dampened the prison feeling a bit.

Cozy and clean place. We could enjoy a private sauna in there - costs 10 per person.

Cool concept (a former prison), interesting location, and a nice setup. My one night at the restaurant was enjoyable. Staff seems friendly and helpful.

Very nice hotel, nice and helpful staff. Great breakfast and delicious dinner in the restaurant

Great location and interesting building. Restaurant very nice.

Very special place, stylish hotel with very good service in the building of the former Helsinki prison. Very nice "room cell", good fitness room, atmospheric cellar restaurant with a sumptuous breakfast buffet, etc. the first ever 4 min. XXL breakfast eggs. Great !!!

One of the hottest hotels I have been to. Again and again

We can fully recommend the Hotel Katajanokka.
The location is great, quiet and a 10-minute walk takes you to the market square in Helsinki.
The staff was very friendly, attentive and helpful.
We also really liked the rich breakfast.
The charm of spending the night in a former prison rounds it off perfectly.

Very good location, nice clean rooms. Windows cannot be opened, however, and the air conditioning cannot be regulated properly.

A former prison hotel on Katajanokka Island.

A long time ago, it was a historic place where the President of Finland was also housed, but now it has been bought by a proper management company and it is a very nice hotel!

Some rooms have a bathtub.

On the 3rd floor and above, the aisle is narrow, so it may be a little difficult to carry a suitcase and the stairs may be rattling and scary. Lol

The restaurant is in the basement, and the private room of the prison era is left in the back.
Breakfast is a buffet with Finnish dishes such as herring pickled in mayonnaise and porridge pastries!

Tram number 4 is in front of the hotel, and tram number 5 is a 3-minute walk away, making it easy to access.

It is a short distance from Helsinki Central Station, but within walking distance of Helsinki Cathedral and Uspensky Temple.
The Allas Sea Pool, a sauna with a public pool, can be reached in about 10 minutes on foot!
The ferry terminal to Suomenlinna is just ahead.

It is very quiet and comfortable because it is far from the tourist spots, surrounded by walls, and the surrounding area is a quiet residential area. Lol

The older sisters at the front desk of the hotel are very friendly, so if you are worried about how to get to the tourist spots, if you explain it in poor English, they will teach you politely. \ (^ O ^) /

Thanks to the PC and printer that anyone can use for free, I was able to successfully print the ticket to Tallinn that I forgot to print in Japan. Lol

If you want to stay at a hotel with a changing ball, come on!

An unusual hotel in a former prison building, where the elements of the prison surroundings are preserved, but at the same time combined with an expensive stylish design. Even the rooms and the breakfast restaurant are called "camera")

Comfortable well equipped rooms inside an old prison. Our family room is a jail cell converted to a bedroom with ensuite. Breakfast is awesome.

Great hotel! Very ftiendly and helpful staff. Would definitely stay here again in the future.

Interesting hotel in a former prison, rooms are comfortable and well equipped. WiFi was working fine.
Breakfast was OK but not great.

Great hotel in a former jail. Great atmosphere, very nicely decorated and comfortable rooms with heavenly beds. The thick walls guarantee a good night's sleep - no noises from the neighbors.

Loved this hotel, staff very helpful and the hotel is amazing what has been done to bring it to what it is today, definitely worth staying there....

A cozy hotel housed in an old prison. The comfortable rooms were the cells. In the basement the restaurant offers excellent meat and fish dishes. A unique experience

Pretty expensive compared to quality, nice location

Very comfortable and in a strategic position because it is very close to the center!

Hotel splendidly obtained from an old prison, of which the galleries and some cells have been kept. The rooms are well furnished and comfortable. The rich breakfast offered in the basement, very particular. The staff adds to the whole extreme professionalism but with warmth rare in Northern Europe.

An original hotel in a former prison building, we always try to stay here for a day on our way. The hotel rooms are converted former prison cells, they are simple, well-designed and warm in winter. For breakfast buffet in the hotel restaurant, very friendly staff. At the end of the restaurant, there is a punishment cell in its original form, you can go to see. Near the hotel there is a tram stop to the city and not far from the port with Viking line ferries.