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You can go from Stockholm to Helsinki or Helsinki to Stockholm, it goes both ways! It´s also a common thing for Swedes to go on these cruises aswell,
U swedish?
18h is so you can have a partynight and sleep before arrive’n. They can do it in a third of the time, but simply wont.
This ship, and its sister ship are what made that promenade design the standard on all future cruise ships basically.
The two strongest band that keep Sweden and Finland linked is 600 years of shared history and those ferries.
And booze...otherwise they cannot talk to each other.
It's quite affordable, even students can go on them. If you get the cheapest ticket in a bunkbed cabin for 4 people with no windows, you can pay like 30 Euros per head.
My single low income mom took us on cruises, that should tell you something. These cruises transport lorries between our countries, so they get a lot of money through that, they don't have to overcharge the passengers.
Yes, they make their money on lorries and booze. So cabin costs stay low.
Decent cabin with Window will be more like 200e and one with balcony more like 500...
Ferrys betveen Finland and Sweden! Helsinki - Stockholm ~ 17 h. Turku - Stockholm ~ 11 h. Vaasa - Umeå ~ 4 h. Tallink silja, Viking Line and Wasaline!
Wasaline is almost dead due to EU
The Eckerö line still operates, though.
@@SteamboatW and Birka is back next year
@@SteamboatW yes and FinnLines
@@fredrikwallvik5265 Finnlines is already using one of the new ships from kapellskär to naantali
Well, the prices differ based on what kind of trip (a cruise going back and forth is cheaper), what day of the week you travel (weekends are more expensive) and the type of cabin you want. Usually you can get a cabin for two persons for around 60 euros, but the kind of cabin showed here will be in the 150-200 euro range. Travelling on the Turku-Stockholm line is generally a little cheaper than Helsinki-Stockholm. You should also consider what is more important: the Turku route goes through the beautiful archipelago and takes only about 10 hours. You will have the opportunity to enjoy the sunset with fantastic scenery. However, personally I find the Helsinki route nicer (you have more time on board to enjoy the services and at least I find it more relaxing). The Helsinki-Stockholm route will for the most part be in open water and only really offers archipelago views near Stockholm. There are two major shipping companies that have more or less daily connections, the one showed in this video (Tallink Silja) and then Viking Line. Both are decent options.
I went from Stockholm to Helsinki as a 12 year old with my parents. As I remember it I think it took 4 hours just getting out of the Stockholm archipelago. (was a long time ago now) And obviously we were not there to party. It was a nice way to visit Helsinki. We stayed in Helsinki for a couple of days.
You have to have time to enjoy the cruise, do the shopping, eat, party and so on. Also the ship might stop in Åland Islands. You can also go on a cruise from Turku and cruise also to Tallinn. Ticket prices vary, mostly by level the cabin is on. Some of the world's biggest cruise ships have been built in Turku, including the biggest at the moment, Icon of the Seas, and the concept for those ships originates to these "party ferries".
Was actually just 2 days ago on a similar Turku-Stockholm-Turku cruise. Family of 4 with 2 meals in the buffet in a sea-view cabin for about 450€
I have been on that cruise about 90 times. Usually 2-3 times at least every year, sometimes 5-6 times. I been more times to Stockholm than I have been to the nearest town from where I live. 😂
We dont have a booze cruise. We have multiple. 😀 Silja line and Viking line. We had a third, Birka but they went out of business. 😞 BUT, Destination Gotland has bought the ship and from spring 2024 they will start cruising Stockholm-Mariehamn-Visby. New booze cruise!
Also eckerölinjen. A bit shorter Grisslehamn to Åland. But enough time to get pre party drunk and shop 😊
What a glorious route
The price very much depends on what kind of cabin you stay in. If you settle with "ordinary cabin", the cost of the cruise is between 50 and 120€. So the price is for Helsinki9 - Stockholm and back. Then the buffet is 49€ aboutish including wine and beer
I'm going to a Helsinki cruise for €45 with queen size bed and big screen TV
The buffet also includes infinite amount of beer and wine (white and red), from a tap, which you can fill when ever you want to, so let that sink in...
Yeah the cruises are a very cultural thing in Sweden and Finland. There is two types, the 42h and the 21h cruise. On the 42h you get about 7-8h in land (Stockholm, Helsinki or Tallin) then you go back the day after. The 21h cruise is much more of a party cruise.
On a weekday you can find a good cruise for about 100-150 Euro inkl food and a good cabin. During the weekend its usually dubble the price.
If you wanna go to "party cruise" then it's Turku - Mariehamn - Stockholm. There's a morning and evening cruises. Ferry that leaves in the evening around at 20:50 from Turku, is the party cruise. If it's weekend then it's even better party. The cabin is more expensive if there's a known artist performing.
If you wanna go to Tallinn, then it's Helsinki - Tallinn.
First of all, this is only the one that goes Helsinki-Stockholm and back, the longest route out of all the ferries between Sweden and Finland, if you go to Turku instead, you cut about 6 hours off that time because the distance is much shorter
You can get the ferry from Turku to Stockholm, I think it should be a bit cheaper, and also a bit faster, if you go from Turku-Stockholm-Turku it's 23hrs so I think from Turku to Stockholm is 12hrs. Last time I went the price of the cabin was like 25€ or something like that. It might be more expensive now haven't been for a few years
Or Stockholm to Turku, who cares it's PAAAARTY. 2 companies operate between those cities. From Turku to Stockholm 2 departures per day.
Many years ago (early 2000) I went to visit my bestie who was finnish. She was studying in Sweden at the time so it was very convenient 😉. When I came to her flat, she said "I have a surprise for you, we are going on the ferry to helsinki. That was my first time in H. It was organised buses to stockholm. These ferry cruises are a huge thing and a very poular w/end thing to do.
The route of the cruise goes from Helsinki via Mariehamn on Åland and then to Stockholm. The island of Åland is actually an economic free zone so make a short stop there makes it possible to sell alcohol and other goods without Swedish or Finnish tax.
You can start the route in Stockholm and go the other way if you prefer.
If you are going to try licorice, the soft Finnish sweet licorice can't go wrong. If you feel a bit more adventurous you can try the Swedish salmiac licorice or salted licorice as it's also called.
I love hard salmiac licorice but liking it like I do may be a bit of an acquired taste.
Hate to be the 'actually' one, but a actually, salmiakki (salty liquorice) is more common in Finland, and it was us who introduced it to the Swedes in the 1970s. Danish also like it, but theirs can be quite weak.
@@TulilaSalome Not really ;) Swedes had salmiak licorice as candy in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, etc. And salmiak was part of cough drops long before that, in the 1800s.
Fair enough @@TulilaSalome
@@herrbonk3635 No matter what, your Salmiak is childs play compaired to real finnish Salmiakki! It's not the same thing at all, not even close!
@@AHVENANHave you tried "Svenskjävlar"? The weakest in a line of extreme Salmiak Licorice candy.
I prefer finnish Tar candy myself.. but Salmiakki if it's in alcohol.
There are also similar ferries from Helsinki to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Me and my wife (rest her soul), used to have a tradition of once a year to book a trip there with a ferry, spend one night in the ship, then another two or three days in the city (staying at a hotel), and then come back with luggage full of cheap booze. Best days of my life, now gone with her demise.
Taken those cruises countless times, for fun or visiting relatives in Finland, but also conferences. Taking a round trip with, say 100 persons, and renting a big conference room, including cabins for the participants both ways, is way cheaper than any conference facility on the mainland.
My daughter and I went on a trip to Helsinki on that very ship, had a cabin with those angled windows looking out on the mall. Highly recommended 😊
I’m an older man and my party times are over. I just love to take a nicer cabin from Commodore class and enjoy fine dining. I also love to eat breakfast when the ferry is cruising between islands of Stockholm.
The more popular route is Turku - Stockholm - Turku (with a stop in Marienhamn/Långäs). The Turku route has newer ships too because the passenger amount is so much bigger than from Helsinki, especially with Viking Line (the company that has significantly newer ships). Just on Viking Line alone Turku-Stockholm is close to 2mil pax /year, and Helsinki-Stockholm is only 500 000 pax.
Turku is cheaper - I took a ferry from turku to Stockholm for something like 40 eur (one way ) - inclusive of miniature cabin. Over day, overnight would have cost a little more. Note that 'minicruises' can be cheaper, the company makes its money on selling booze and food, so you can get very cheap offers. I had the buffet breakfast, I think 20 eur - very good, also had variety of fish among every other breakfast staple. If you don't want to buy buffet tickets, the other food options are actually also delicious, there is a couple of restaurants at least jn every ferry. The ones from Turku are smaller, probably Vaasa even more so. - Mariehamn is a lovely little town by the way, I'd like to revisit some time, I've only been as a kid. Ferry I think is better way across than flight, unless you get some special super cheap offer, it's less costly - and much more comfortable.
Smoking is restricted, you generally have to go out to a 'designated area', or at least, out. I like! Don't enjoy the smell. But you can still buy smokes and smoking in the street is common.
He goes from Helsinki to Stockholm, if you look at the map, they are not the closest route if you want to cross the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. Then those boats go quite slowly too, you save fuel that way and people spend more money on the boat.
There are several ferry lines between sweden finland and the baltics. Silja line. Viking line. Birka line. Baltic cruises. Naming a few. And most of these ferries have a huge selection of fod drinks and shopping.
15 years ago when i was 18, there was facebook groups making party events on these boats. So the whole boat was just filled with 18-30 year olds, all the cabin doors were open and everyone partied.
There was even rock boat events that had alot of big bands playing and party of course. Fun times, a bit crazy but fun
You dont have to change your itinerary, the ferry goes both ways you know so you can still end it in Finland, as to your question about the price it was mentioned in the begining and is also easy enough to look up. Also a bit disappointed that you postponed your trip to the winter. I do like your videos mostely, but do train your memory and pay attention since you seem surprised and/or not reacting to facts that you have learned in previous ones, yes a few times is fine but not again and again(not refering to this one in particular).
There's several different types of cruises between Sweden and Finland. I guess that three of the more popular cruises are 18 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours, depending on which pricerange you can afford. The long hours is because the ship travels very slowly in international water and some ferries make a kind of pit-stop in Mariehamn, the capital of Åland, to let passangers on and off as well. It's the most fun way to travel between Sweden and Finland in my swedish opinion.
Rn the cheapest cabin is about 70-100€ for 1-4 people. If you want a cabin with a window, those are 120-170€. All prices will obviously be higher in the summertime, unless you book way in advance. Btw, you can also take a boat from Turku instead of Helsinki, or even take one from Stockholm but then a lot of people will be hungover bc they already partied the night before :D
I did chat with some Swedish friends, and they said they used to also booze cruise a lot, as teens - just, they'd be in the ferry leaving from Stockholm the same time as we would be boarding in Finland, so our paths didn't often cross.
You can do it either way: Stockholm to Helsinki or Turku, or Helsinki or Turku to Stockholm. You don't need to make a round trip, but if you do, you get like 6 hours excursion time in the destination.
These ferries between Sweden and Finland can be fun but also have quite a bad reputation with to drinking, but, of that depends of what your after...
In Stockholm you should absolutely take a boat out in the archipelago, one of the worlds largest with 30.000 islands (yes, it true, thirtythousands!). The ferry from Finland pass through it, but then you see a bit from above. Take a tour with a steamship, by Waxholmsbolaget (who has regular trafic to many islands) or Blidösund (steamship with live music). It's also possible to go by boat in lake Mälaren to Drottningholm castle (where the king and queen lives) or to Mariefred (small idyllic village/town with the old royal castle Gripsholm) by the steam ship with the same name.
Took a similar ferry from Stockholm to Åland (autonomous region in finland) a cuple of weeks ago that was 24 hours. Price per person for a four bed cabin and the buffet plus 8 or so drinks / beer turned to approximately 200€
My advise for dining is to skip buffet. Just go to the seafood restaurant or to the beef house. Buffet is good, but those two others are few levels up and not so much more expensive. You'll have your table, waiter and fabulous food with even better service. If it's not how much you eat, than how you eat it. Skip the buffet. :)
The length of the trip is affected by legislation. It was somehow related to the length of the trip and the time spent in international waters. The ship runs in circles in the open sea for several hours, which enables tax-free sales. Actually, the trip would only take a few hours.
I went on these a few times but I never seem to notice when we arrive. So I just go back on the same ship. That's how fun partying on the ferry is 😅
There are 2 departures per day from Stockholm - Helsinki, and vice versa.
So there are multiple ships constantly going.
It's really common for Swedes & Finns to go on these cruises, some do it fairly often, and they are fairly cheap!
You don't pay THAT much for the room & food, they want you go go onboard and most likely spend a lot more on shopping and partying, buying alcohol in the Clubs!
In the Clubs, drinks cost more or less the same as on mainland Sweden or Finland, but they profit more from it since they don't them selves have to pay high alcohol tax! so the real profit for the cruises are from the partying and shopping.
The ships typically stop at Åland during the trip for a short while, An island between Sweden & Finland, it belongs to Finland but they consider them selves "swedes" Ethincally and talk swedish.
Whats really perfecet with the trip is how you and all your friends can party the night away without worrying about getting home after, no designated driver, no one needs to crash at a friends place, since you all got rooms!
Because of these cruises, Helsinki & Stockholm don't feel so far apart, like both distance and culturally I think, the cruise ships do connect us quite a bit, perhaps even more so then the landboarder with norway, or bridge with Denmark, atleast for me living not to far from stockholm, Finland feels closer then Norway & Denmark does xD
The easiest way is to take cruise train to Turku and walk 200m. I live next to main railroad in Finland, and one can take a 19.90€ for 4 people and party cheap 🎉
Yes, people do this. I would say most Swedes and Finns have gone on these ferries at least once in their life. Its part of life here 😄 Me, I've probably been on them 10-15 times. Usually you book so you get maybe a few hours in the destination city. But most are too hangover at that point, so few leave the ship. So its basically a weekend on a ferry 😅
When I tested a booking now, I would pay 178 euros for a cheap cabin, breakfast buffé and dinner buffé. At the time of this comment, the cheapest cabin cost 14 euros.
And not only people from Helsinki take these trips. All Finns from all over take a car, train or bus to come take the ferry. There are travel agencies who arrange the tickets with connections too. Also many communities like student unions, pensioners, stamp collectors etc taking the ferry together. Also many companies have these for their employees to get together, or have a meeting there during the day and party and socialise in the evening.
Some of the ferries have a spa.
On the price: a basic cabin for 1-4 people is around 89-150€, and each individual has to pay a 12€ surcharge for fuel. So for a party of 4 it would be 150-200€ total, so 35-50€ per person. Of course it's assumed that they have monopoly on drinks and food there so you'll bring in more money when you're there. That's why the price is subsidised. Also, they carry lorries and they have tax breaks because of that.
we have paid 3200sek (roughly 250 pounds) for a trip (23 hours) for 2 adults and a 8 year old during a school break this spring.... that includes buffet dinner (including beer/wine/soft drinks) in the evening.... A brunch bufee the day after (only softdrinks included in that) and a kid bracelet...which gives thje kid free softdrinks in all bars/cafes onboard.... Ohh...and we also paid extra to have a little more fancy cabin.....so not expensive...at all
If you think of carribean cruise or something like that. It's nothing like that in price, just the price of the cabin and buffets if you have those. You always have choice of using the restaurants and their menus too. Unless you go for suites or some premium cabins they are actually pretty affordable.
Sailing to Sweden is quite cheap. I go several times a year. Tax-free, buffet and Swedish shopping, those are the reasons. You leave in the afternoon, you arrive in Sweden in the morning, and in the afternoon the ship leaves back to Finland. There are 2 nights of fun in between. You can board the ship from either Finland or Sweden. It depends on where you want to end up. Ships depart from Helsinki and Turku on the Finnish side. Either Silja Line or Viking Line. For example - Day in Stockholm cruise from Helsinki from €47/person in B-cabin* (when 2 people in the cabin)
A swede here, from 15-19 we went on trips liek this alot, heavy drinking to start with and later we got into fight with the fins........... mostley fair fights and also most of the times we drank together later on in the bar... I love the Fins, probably most down to earth people in Scandinavia
Did a little keyboard-spelunking... tickets only. I do not take responsbility for errors or impossible transfers... but still 🙂
Flight: Stansted -> Oslo 15th of May £43 Norway's national day is on the 17th. Paarty!
Buss: Oslo -> Stockholm 19th £31 Long eight-ish hour trip to see Sweden through a buss window.
Ferry: Stockholm -> Helsinki 22nd £60 Paarty...
Day cruise: Helsinki -> Tallinn 25th £25 Four hours in a very nice old town.
Flight: Helskini -> London 27th £121 Back to Blighty.
12 days £280 Plus hotel and food, and booze of course. Say twice, so in total £600? For one...
Take ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki. Evening in Stockholm archpelag is nice And arriving Helsinki in front deck is amazing.
For many years the trip took 15 hours, but when both Finland and Sweden get European Union membership, the ship took the tour via Åland (because they can have taxfree on the tour), the trip take 18 hours instead
Yes! Those sea buffets are excelent! There is always salmon in many forms, shrimps and so much more everything delisious just in the cold starters. Then there is the warm main dishes and desserts. You can also drink as much of beer, white or red wine that comes straight from the tap 😄. I used to over eat so much starters that i bearly had any room for the main dishes 😂. I don´t ever had so much sweet tooth that i would been intressed much of the dessert anyway 🤣. But there is that danger that you are so bloaded from the food that it´s hard to party if you over eat. I think it is more of choice witch you prefer more. Of course there are other restaurants as well. Some fancy dining a la carte and smaller budget where you pay buy the weight of the dish you take so those are better options for the party cruise.
Like here many have commented, it depaends what time you are traveling and is it weekday or weekend. Cabins also effects to the price and when you make the reservation. If you want to be at sea longer time then Helsinki - Stockholm is for you. But other option is to go Turku - Stockholm witch is only 11 hours. Easy to take train from Helsinki to the harbor of Turku and train is about hour so if save about 6 hours of time if you go over from Turku.
I went october from Tampere to Turku and over seas to Stockholm and came back 2 days later and whole trip including trains and cruises costed me 148,10€. I traveled alone to my aunts funeral. I dont think that it wasn´t bad at all. Of course i bought cibars, booze and beer from the tax free so those savings were about 50€ if i compaire what those would cost if i´d bought from the mainland. So if basicly if i count those things out it wasn´t expencive at all.
Smoking's been regulated more and more in the past years. I remember as a kid, you used to have all the cigarettes out in the open, where you'd simply pick it off the shelf next to the counter and toss it on with the rest of your shopping. Then it was changed to a button system with no images (to protect the kids eyes), where you'd have to remember the corresponding button number of your brand which then puts the package on a conveyor and it comes out like a vending machine, if you forgot your number, the cashier had a long list on a paper where they'd tell you the correct button to press. These days though, they got rid of the conveyor system and you just ask the cashier for your brand and they take it out of a closed blank faced cabinet or an overhead compartment. (Once again to minimize the visual of the package to children). It's also been a bit while since I was last on a cruise, but back in the day they'd have whole smoking rooms/areas for smoking, but the last time I was on a cruise (must've been a better part of 6 years now) they've got rid of those areas completely, at least on the ship I was on and people who smoke go out on to the deck to smoke. I've moved on to snus myself like 4 years ago, for better air intake. :D Also the prices have increased drastically from when I started smoking as a 16 year old teen. Can't recall the exact prices, but back then a large pack was somewhere around 5-7e, then a few years went by and it was closer to 10e. I haven't asked or looked into it at all but the last I've heard, we've gone past 10e by a mile since.
There's so many different flavor and kinds of licorice here in Finland :) I love a lot brand called Panda which has made oat licorice and it's sooo good!! it's not as strong as normal ones, I love licorice and salmiakki but too strong doesn't taste good, I also love salted caramel
Going to Stockholm or Tallinn with a ferry is our national pastime. Many of us do it at least 1-2 times per year. This year, I've been to Tallinn 4 times and once to Stockholm.
The buffet isn't special if you don't like fish. Or want to get drunk cheap. The buffet has wine and beer on tap.
Definitely try sweet licorice! Those shown in the video were filled licorice made by Panda and they're sweet, not at all salty like salmiakki (salty licorice) would be. Salmiakki is good too but it's an acquired taste
Those warning labels on cigarette packs and them being not visible in the store is not just a UK thing, the EU made all of it's at the time member states implement these things, so it's exactly the same here
And cigarettes are not visible in stores. It actually is forbidden to sell if a customer cannot give a name of a product, but I think that the salesmen are not that strick with it really.
@@nanni9615 I know they're not visible, if you read my comment I clearly said "and them not being visible"
@@AHVENAN lol yes, well I was not able to see that point any better than those cigarette boxes... My bad sorry :D
Every swede and every fin has done that ferryride!!
People smoke less and less in Finland also. It is also interesting that women nowadays smoke more than men. Also a lot of the younger demographics it is more and more common to be party smokers only.
Men still smoke more than women (men 14%, women 11%) but yes women have been catching up.
Many who go on mini cruises in Scandinavia. Also to Norway. This is popular and was already in my time when I was young 25 years ago😊
I think the cruise Sweden Finland only costs 10€ or so? The greek cruise sounded lovely. Edit: a Cruise is between ~ 200-1300 sek (15-100 £) on Viking line and the higher prices includes spa treatment and food.
Dwayne, you know that this ride goes from Stockholm to Helsinki and back as well, which mean that you don't have to start in finland for your trip if you don't want to AND you can do the cruise there and back without having to step off the boat in between. Just sayin'
He did say exactly how much the cabin was and how much the buffet was, I don't know how you missed it
The ferry goes from Stockholm and back again to. It’s not a cruising in that way, it goes just back and forth
About the smoking. Sweden is the least smoking country on earth. Mostly because we have the "snus" instead which is tobacco, salt and water that you put under your upper lip. It is also illegal to smoke indoors in Sweden since 2005 and since July 1st 2019 it is also illegal to smoke at bus stops, train platforms, near sporting areas, near schools, near playgrounds, near hospitals, near entrances, or at seating areas at cafés or restaurants. The areas where smoking is banned also include a ban on vaping.
The only good thing about Finnish cruises is that there are literally *no* icebergs in the Baltic Ocean, so no Titanic endings, just horrible hangovers and shock horror of waking up next to a troll.
Check out monday bar cruise if you want to see a proper party ferry. There's a couple others as well. But atleast monday bar tend to put their aftermovies on yt. Way more fun than a regular party trip. However the taxfree part is very true. Especially for ppl living nearby.
Turku to Stockholm ferry might be a little cheaper... And faster
Good times as kid, we travelled often back-and-forth trips with my grandmother...
And later as teen, in 90s we went for booze,beer and cigarettes was actually cheap on those ships..
In my generation in Turku.. 30% of my got laid first time in their lives..on those ships.. 😂😂
Haven't sailed once since i got out of military in 97.. 🤔
After Sweden and Finland both joined the EU, the VAT exemption for international travels on ships were removed. That's why the ship stops at the Finnish island of åland since it still got the VAT exemption and thus the ferries can sell alcohol without taxes. Åland is worth a visit too, it's a nice place and is the only only Swedish speaking part of Finland while the rest of the country got two official languages - Finnish and Swedish.
You need to be 18 to buy cigarettes, snuff and other tobacco products. They are usually displayed at check out at stores where you ask the cashier to get them for you.
I've been on a few of the ferries to Finland. Both down in Stockholm and here in Umeå. It's not that much demand for ferries as it used to be, before the EU got rid of the tax exemption other than the one that detour to Åland.
Stocholm, be awere! Finland is : For Pikkujoulut...(meaning office x-parties on ship).
Every weekend year round , a cruise costs around one thousend swedish krons , or one hundred euros plus four hundred kroner for smorgosbord or forty euros.
15:00 - I live in Umeå north of Sweden and currently we only have 5 hours of daylight (between 09:09 to 13:51)
Smoking not allowed In inside. Ferrys usually have one 3x5m smokingroom with grazy air vacuuming
He told you the price in the beginning.
In Sweden, you can purchase cigarettes in pretty much any store. However not too long ago they announced a ban from smoking in public a few years after they banned smoking on public facilities like bars or other halls. Indoor smoking has been banned for quite a while though. Supposedly, you're just allowed to smoke in designated areas. This has not stopped people from having a smoke while they move from point A to B, though, but it has decreased in numbers a lot. So it's working as intended, I guess. Just... Slowly. :P
Can recommend it if you're still in to drinking otherwise it might get a bit ruff. Quite cheap too, can't remember the cost, but the ticket is the least costly on that trip.
...or ; from Stockholm to Helsinki , who cares it's PAAAARTY 😂
The buffet is all you can eat and all you can drink 😁
You can take ferry from Turku to Stocholm also
I usually leave from Turku with car, morning boat at 8 or so and it'll be in Sweden around 19. From Helsinki, the trip is obv longer. Better and newer boats all go from Turku, leftover scraps sail from Helsinki 😅
you usaly stop at night, make a quick stop in mariehamn (for tax free reasons, and let of people there aswell) they dont really have to hurry., people are there tio buy drinks eat buffe and relax, it is a mini vacation (we have similare ships going from sweden to finland, usaly by the same shipping lines) they are pretty cheap even if you "upgrade" to a little more comfortable cabin, and you get taxfree ;)
Around 10-15% of people smoke daily here in Finland and some smoke occasionally, like I do. Usually I limit my smoking to when I'm out partying.
Dwayne you can go Stockholm ,Turku or Helsinki and fly home a tip from a Swede!
People routinely sell snuff "towers" to each other (technically probably tax evasion). You see it all the time in hockey / army.
About your travelingplan. You could start in Norway maybe in Oslo and travell north and then go too the northern part off Sweden. Travell from there too southern part of Sweden then go too Stockholm and take the ferry to Finland do your last things there and fly home from Finland :D
Helsinki centric comment: ”Finland to Sweden takes 17h”
No, no, no! From Helsinki, yes. Similar big ferries leave from Turku, and takes around 11h.
Hi, Dwayne! These "ferries" are really like cruise ships with all the trimmings. The fare itself is cheap and there are many options in different price ranges.
As to smoking, the Nordic countries were probably the first where smoking was restricted in more and more places: work, schools, restaurants, cafés, all indoor spaces, and lately even your own balcony (smoke disturbing your neighbours). Smoking at the theatre and cinema has been forbidden since forever, I think, because of the fire hazard, of course.
And yes, at the grocery stores, cigarettes are nowadays sold hidden, sometimes in locked cabinets, so that you have to ask the cashier to take out the pack that you want. Obviously, the pack has big warning texts, and children cannot buy tobacco products.
So where are people allowed to smoke? Well, outdoors and in so-called smoking squares, or in a dedicated smoking room at the office.
P.S. Personally, I never started smoking. Just couldn't see why I should filll my lungs with foul-smelling smoke - and even pay for the 'privilege'!
If I wanted to inhale smoke, the nearest house on fire would do, and for free! 😉😉
Naturally, smoking has become a rare sight, so that you notice it especially, and it is frowned upon.
In Finland, more young girls start smoking than boys do. The percentage is low, though.
In Sweden, snuff is legal but not in Finland, so people buy it on the ferries or smuggle it in.
Yes you get free beer or whine on the buffet as much you can handle or have time to consume, and then you hit taxfree bunker up what you want to take home and of course, pre party in the cabin :)
We will welcome you to Finland... I can join you on that cruise 🕺🏿
It takes eighteen hours because it goes slowly. It ment for partying, not traveling!
I would never pay that much for a cabin. They can be even free or ten or twenty euros. The cruise itself is free (-ish, im not sure how it is these days, i think one has to book a cabin for these over night ferrys), you really only pay for the cabin. Definately take the ferry over the airplane.
The alcohol (beer and wine) is included in the buffet prize...
One of the standing jokes here in Sweden when someone's been on a cruise to Turku or Helsinki is to ask them if they enjoyed the city.
You typically embark on the boat early in the evening, party all night, and when the boat arrives in Finland you're asleep and very drunk. When you wake up the boat has already left and is on it's way back. You eat some breakfast and fiind some nice place to sit and let your hangover cure itself. sometime in the afternoon the boat is back and you disembark.
You can take the ferry from Sweden to Finland to.
It takes 18 hrs so you'll have time for partying... Ferries just for transport is of course faster.
the cruse cost from about 85 pounds and up 190 plus food
My experience is that basically everyone under 30 smoke. It used to be really unpopular after the ban of smoking indoors in public spaces in Sweden was introduced in 2005. But the last like around 7-10 years it got trendy again in young people, so I'd say most people in their late teens and in their 20s smoke, and early 30s, specially those who want to be seen as cool and trendy. In the area where I am from most people over like 40 don't smoke.
it's the same as in the U.K when it comes to smoking, the packs have disgusting pictures and warning labels on them. Also the prices have really gone up the last 7 years i would say. So i feel like many don't smoke as much anymore..i work at a gasstation so that's just my assumption.
It only takes that long because they deliberately take their time. If they just rode that distance, it would probably take 2 hours or so. They want to give their passengers the time to enjoy the cruise, the food, the drinks and the absolute humiliation of being rejected by the ugliest bar flies and man hating bats. So lovely. No wonder the "Love Boat" reality show in Finland flopped so bad.
NOW, you should check out the Swedish comedy film "Torsk på Talinn"
we called that a rig
If they have not changed the rules then you should start from Finland to Stockholm. Since all the booze is on lockdown in the Taxfree shops from Sweden to Finland untill the next day if I remember correctly.
You know its not the size that mather it what it dose 🤣🤣 (the stick in the captain cabin i mean 🤣)
yes its way cheeper than going out on a club all in all