Kouvola Product Manual
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KOUVOLA PRODUCT MANUAL For tour operators CONTENTS INSPIRED BY KOUVOLA 3 PACKAGES 20 Guided trips & experiences 20 ACCOMMONDATION 4 My Finland - your experience Enjoy life of vikings CULTURE 7 Guided fishing trips Museums 7 Fishing trip to Rakinkotka Museum quarter Take a hike or a pike Poikilo museums The little lady of the lake - Miliu and radio museum Finland 100 excursion Model railway museum Following our forefather’s footprints Finnish shop museum Experience the Repovesi national park World heritage site Verla from lakes to forests Vintage, design and the 10 Back to the nature - Adventure 4 nights power of creativity Paddling and hiking in Repovesi Kuusankoski art-factory national park Ankkapurha culture park Vuohijärvi art and culture house TIPS & CONTACT 24 Explore Alvar Aalto architecture EVENTS 2019 25 ACTIVITIES 13 Summer Special 2019 13 The housing fair of Finland in Kouvola Concerts & Music 13 Kymi Sinfonietta Villa Concerto Nature 14 Arboretum Mustila ACCOMMONDATION 4 Food&Drinks 15 Mustila Viini Youth Centre Anjala Restaurant Ketunleipä Vip Villa Auringonsilta Meetings & Conferences 16 CULTURE Youth Centre Anjala 7 Racetrack of Kouvola Vip Villa Auringonsilta Sauna experiences 17 Tykkimäen Sauna Sammalsauna Kettusauna ACTIVITIES Camps & Camp Schools 18 13 Anjala Youth Centre Other activities 19 Tykkimäki amusement park Group activities PACKAGES 20 ARBORETUM MUSTILA TYKKIMÄKI INSPIRED BY KOUVOLA All trains lead to Kouvola. The distance to Helsinki is 130 km and a train will bring you to Kouvola in just 1 hour and 15 minutes. Kouvola is home to 85,000 inhabitants. Because it covers a wide area, there is plenty of room for everyone to live and enjoy life. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, national park, 450 lakes and magnificent landscapes. REPOVESI NATIONAL PARK mansion with its beautiful gardens, and the idyllic workers’ cottages give a clear picture of the Nordic forest industry’s Repovesi National Park and the Aarnikotka conser- earlier days. vation area form a unique district of wilderness con- sisting of approximately 45 km of easy, more difficult ARBORETUM MUSTILA and almost vertical trails. The trails traverse beautiful landscapes punctuated by cliffs, water, woodlands and Arboretum Mustila is the oldest and largest tree park in swamps. You can go trekking by canoe or rowing boat Northern Europe. Mustila is known for its exotic conifer or take a guided fishing trip. groves and its hundreds of rhododendrons and azaleas that bloom in June. WORLD HERITAGE SITE VERLA GROUNDWOOD AND BOARD MILL AMUSEMENT PARK, AQUAPARK, CAMPING & ACTIONPARK The Verla Groundwood and Board Mill has been the heart of the village of Verla since the 1870s, first as a Tykkimäki Amusement Park, Aquapark, camping, laughter working mill and, from 1972, as a museum. Verla was and wild water games are integral parts of a holiday at accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. Tykkimäki. Spend one day at the Amusement Park and the Its magnificent setting by the rapids, the charming histor- next at the Aquapark. ical mill buildings and their machinery, the mill owner’s 3 ACCOMMONDATION Original Sokos Hotels Scandic Kouvola Onnela Farm Vaakuna Hotel An apartment in a farmhouse Hotel Scandic Kouvola is in the centre of Kou- Onnela is a small traditional farm. At Hotel Vaakuna is a versatile and vola, close to the train station. The hotel the other end of the farmhouse there is high-quality cosy pink hotel in the has 98 rooms, each with its own shower, a nicely furnished apartment with own middle of Kouvola. hair dryer, TV, radio, complimentary entrance. The house is surrounded by Number of rooms: 172 Wi-Fi access. a beautiful garden with appletrees, Price: from 100 €/day Number of rooms: 98 rosebushes and many flowerbeds. Contact information: Price: from 100 €/day Number of bedrooms: 1 tel. +358 10 783 9101 Contact information: Number of beds: 2 Hovioikeudenkatu 2, 45100 Kouvola tel. +358 5 7899 100 Features of the destination: Onnela Booking and website: Kouvolankatu 11, 45100 Kouvola farm is situated within the beautiful www.sokoshotels.fi/fi/kouvola/ [email protected] countryside village of Liikkala 20 kms sokos-hotel-vaakuna Booking and website: north from the picturesque town of www.scandichotels.fi/hotellit/ Hamina and only 150 kms from Helsin- suomi/kouvola/scandic-kouvola ki. The place is suitable for those who enjoy nature and silence. Price: 50 €/day one person, 80 €/day two persons Contact information and booking: tel. +358 40 550 9711 Hakalantie 37, 46750 Liikkala arjahelena.lekander@ onnelafarm.com www.onnelafarm.com Hotel Sommelo Aurantola Manor Hotel Manor and cottages Charming location in Kuusankoski dis- Aurantola is situated in Jaala on the trict with riverview. Good connections, shores of the clear lake Karijärvi. At 6 kilometers from the center of Kou- Aurantola you find log cabins with Oravasalmi villas vola. Peaceful night, sauna and pool, modern conveniences, summer sleeping Villas and tasty breakfast prepared by our cabins and rooms. The cottages are friendly staff. scattered throughout a beautiful birch Number of bedrooms: Five quality and comfortable villas 89 forest with lake views. and the smoke sauna are located on a Number of beds: 165 Number of bedrooms: cottage for six Features of the destination: strait in Valkeala. Surrounded by calm persons has two separate sleeping breath-taking nature. Oravasalmi villas Breakfast, sauna, free parking and areas (mezzanine) Number of beds: are perfect for families who appreciate free wifi, lobby bar altogether there are quality. For groups can be arranged: sleeping places for 80 persons Number of bedrooms: Features of the destination: 2-3/villa restaurant services and night club clean na- Number of beds: 6-10/villa Price: from 73 €/day, ture, peaceful, beautiful lake sceneries Features of the destination: Contact information: Price: from 50 €/day Contact information and booking: Helsinki 170 km, Kouvola 35 km, tel: + 358 5 740 701 Valkeala 23 km Pallokentäntie 2, tel. +358-5-386164 Price: from 130 €/day, 650 €/week 45700 Kuusankoski Aurantolantie 525, 47710 Jaala Contact information: [email protected] [email protected] Booking: www.aurantola.fi tel. +358405765545 www.booking.com/ Oravasalmentie 148 Share-g0HYZ2 www.avainhotellit.fi 47900 Vuohijärvi [email protected] Booking and website: 4 oravasalmi.com/en/villa-oravasalmi ACCOMMONDATION IN KOUVOLA Yli-Kaitala Holiday Cottages Woikoski Feeling – WHD Gård Youth Centre Anjala Cottages GuestHouse, bed&breakfast Apartments Come and enjoy a refreshing holiday Located at WHD Gård, just 21km Youth Centre Anjala is situated in Anjala in Iitti, 11 cottages on lake Kettujärvi from Mäntyharju towards Kouvola, village, in Southern Kouvola. The centre is shore to find one that suits you: finnish Woikoski Feeling offers bed&breakfast located 140 km (1,5 hours) from Helsinki classic granny cottage or the perfectly accommodation in exclusive GuestHouse and 25 km (30 minutes) from Kouvola equipped luxury villa Auringonsilta, by the lake Nurmaanjärvi. In Guest city centre. The centre works all year or the five bedroom cottage with a House there is ten rooms with private round. jacuzzi. In each cottage own shore, is bathroom. All rooms have two single Number of bedrooms: 45 rowing boat, sauna, barbecue, Wi-Fi. beds, bathroom with shower and small Number of beds: 145 Number of bedrooms: 1-5/cottage kitchenette. Features of the destination: Shared Number of beds: 2-16/cottage Number of rooms: 10 apartments for 12-16 persons (3-5 Features of the destination: Features of the destination: persons/room). One flat normally has Iitti and Nastola On summer time there is car museum 4 bedrooms and a common living area, Price: from 115 €/day, 495 €/week and summer restaurant open. There is kitchenette with a shower and toilet Contact information: also possibility to rent small sauna or facilities. One apartment is accessible by tel.+358 5 326 5504 stand-up paddleboards and kayaks. wheelchair. Three apartments have the Kaitalantie 323, 47490 Iitti, Mankala Repovesi Nationalpark is just 25 minute opportunity to accommodate pets with Booking and website: drive away. their owners. Youth centre Anjala is sup- www.ylikaitala.com Price: from 110 €/day/twin room, ported by the Ministry of Education and including breakfast Culture. The national youth centres have Contact information and booking: a non-profit civil responsibility to support tel. +358 40 6565 981 good life for children and youth. The [email protected] Youth Centre has very diverse environ- www.woikoskifeeling.fi ment: forests, the Kymi river and histori- cal manor, surrounding park and garden Woikoski Feeling – offer many possibilities for activities. Kirjokivi Manor Price: from 30 €/day/children, Manor, bed&breakfast 40 €/day/adult (Price incl: Accommo- dation with 3 to 5 persons in the same Kirjokivi Manor offers exclusive room. Price includes VAT.) accommodation on summertime for Contact information: individual travellers and hikers going tel. +358 20 611 6201 to Repovesi Nationalpark and small [email protected] Villa Concerto groups. There is three suites in the main Booking: www.hotels.com Villa building and 9 twin rooms located on www.nuorisokeskusanjala.fi/en the buildings in the yard. There is two Villa Concerto is a luxurious villa in single beds in the rooms and double Kouvola, offering high-class accommo- beds in the suites. All rooms have dation for up to 12 people (10+2). Vil- private bathroom with shower. la Concerto is located near city centre Number of rooms: 12 in a peaceful area with direct access to Features of the destination: There is nature. Villa Concerto is an ideal choice possibility to rent small sauna or stand- for a holiday or work party or meeting up paddleboards and rowing boats. to quarantee your most enjoyable stay. Price: from 110 €/day, including Number of bedrooms: 6 breakfast. Number of beds: 10+2 Contact information and booking: Vääntäjän tila Features of the destination: 2 tel.