Luxury Vacations & Honeymoons in Finland

Between the Baltic and Russia’s snowy north lays Finland, a nation whose heritage includes the swooping mid-century tulip chairs of Eero Saarinen and sweepingly snow-bound Lapland, where reindeer trot beneath the Northern Lights. Its compact size and happy combination of bustling, urbane city life in Helsinki and Icelandic-style northern wilds make it the ideal ‘best of both worlds’ destination, and one that’s suitable for the entire family.

There’s no better place to experience contemporary Finnish culture than in heady, cultured Helsinki, which also plays host to some of the country’s best and most luxurious hotels. Restaurants offering hearty Russian fare are scattered among posh Finnish delis offering rye, herring and reindeer, as well as a proper fine dining experience around the harbor-front food market, Hakaniemi. For architectural buffs, there is the mesmerising rock-cut, copper-domed church of Temppeliaukio, whose plans reach back to the 1930s. Oh, and the city is a hotbed for fans of heavy metal, if that’s your thing.

Rustic, albeit comfortable, lakeside cabins are popular among Finns who want to escape the city and find peace and calm among the rugged hills, crystal waters, and scented pines. Often, these offer easy access to the country’s ski resorts or Baltic archipelagos, making Finland’s lakes the perfect place to experience a surprisingly diverse luxury honeymoon experience.