Stockholm and Helsinki city break
5 days / 4 nights
Travel dates: 28.5.-1.6., 18.-22.6., 23.-27.7., 20.-24.8.2020.
Located on the Gulf Coast, the city of the legendary design and gourmet scene, Helsinki is a great destination for relaxed enjoyment. A blend of modern and secession architecture, spacious alleys reminiscent of Parisian Champs Elysees and unusual charm will win you over at first glance.
When you add Stockholm, Venice of the North, a city where colorful facades intertwine with the idyllic archipelago, a modern lifestyle with a relaxed atmosphere, a vibrant old town with contemporary architecture, you get the perfect trip to two remarkable capitals in one dynamic city break.
Day 1: ZAGREB - HELSINKI
Meeting of passengers at Franjo Tudjman Airport at the information counter two hours before the departure of the aircraft, distribution of travel documents and check-in for flight to Helsinki on OU4486 at 8:10 am. Estimated landing time at 11:45 (local time). Upon landing, board the bus and take a panoramic tour of Finland's capital and largest city, located in the south of the country. Founded only in 1550, Helsinki is one of the youngest capitals in Europe, and with its unusual charm and blend of modern and secessionist architecture, it wins the first. During the tour, we will see the famed monument to Jean Sibelius housed in the park of the same name, by Eil Hiltunen, made of 600 hollow steel tubes representing the organ; the famous Temppeliaukion rock church, whose outer walls are made of natural rock; Finlandia Convention and Concert Hall of Famous Architect Alvar Aalto, National Museum and Parliament Building, magnificent Orthodox Church of the Assumption built of red brick, Senate Square dominated by Lutheran Cathedral, etc. Going to a hotel and accommodation. Free evening for your own programs. We suggest a visit to the heart of the city, the port with the main Kauppatori market, where you can buy traditional Finnish souvenirs, as well as conveniently try a variety of typical Finnish dishes such as fresh salmon steak or room meat. Return to hotel. Overnight stay.
Day 2: HELSINKI-BROD
Breakfast. We suggest a half-day excursion to Suomenlinna (surcharge), a settled naval fortress that spans six islands connected by bridges in the Baltic Sea, a 15-minute ferry ride from Helsinki. It was built by the Swedes in the mid-18th century for the purpose of defense against the Russian Empire, and its name in Finnish means "Finnish fortress / castle". Since 1991, it has been listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a unique example of military architecture of the time, and is at the same time the largest naval fortress in the world. Suomenlinna today has about 900 inhabitants and about 300 people employed there, which indicates that this place is not only a museum but also a vibrant community. A stroll through Suomenlinna and the connected islands, along narrow paths, with beautiful exteriors that smell of antiquity, will take you to another, more peaceful time. The islands are also a real art colony, from the Nordic Arts Center, to several buildings that have been converted into art studios, to many art schools for children over the summer. For travelers who want to stay in Helsinki, a day off for their own programs. We suggest visiting the Ateneum Museum, home to works of Finnish sculpture and painting from the late 19th century, known as the "golden age" of Finnish art, or explore the Kiasmu Museum, a symbol of the city's modernization that contains an eclectic collection of Finnish modern art. Stop by Design District, a neighborhood that since 2005 has brought together all the creative businesses in the neighborhood and today contains 25 streets with handmade jewelry stores, antique and furniture stores, fashion stores, museums such as the Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture and numerous art galleries . In the afternoon, board the boat for Stockholm, accommodation in cabins. Night sailing.
Day 3: STOCKHOLM
Breakfast on board. Arrival in Stockholm in the morning. After disembarking, we take a panoramic and pedestrian tour of the city where we will pass the most famous sights: the 106-meter-high city hall, the home of the banquet hall where most of the Nobel Prizes are awarded - the Riksdagshuset Parliament building - the Royal Opera House - Kungsträdgården, which in Sweden means the King's Garden - Djurgården Island, the so-called Museum Island, a green oasis not far from the city center that houses many museums: the Vasa Museum with a royal ship, the pride of the 17th-century Swedish Navy, the Skansa open-air museum, the ABBA Group Museum and the Royal Palace. Accommodation in a hotel. Departure with a public transport commuter to the city where we will continue our sightseeing tour of the old part of the city, Gamla Stan, the old town on the island, Stockholm's oldest district and one of the best preserved medieval neighborhoods in Europe. Gamla Stan is like a bustling open-air museum with many landmarks, restaurants, cafes and bars. The neighborhood is home to many of the city's attractions, such as Stortorget Squarehouses the Alfred Nobel Museum, a 13th-century medieval cathedral where the royal wedding took place in 2010, and the Royal Palace, the official residence of the royal family, which, with over 600 rooms, is one of the largest palaces in Europe. Free time for personal programs. Overnight stay.
Day 4: STOCKHOLM
Breakfast. A day off for personal programs, visiting museums, enjoying Djurgarden and its large amusement park. We recommend a half-day trip to Mariefred, a picturesque place near Stockholm on Lake Malaren, where the famous Gripsholms Castle is located, picturesque enough to be very often on Swedish postcards but also in other photographs: the world-renowned ABBA on the cover of her Waterloo album recorded that castle (surcharge for a ticket to the castle on site). Overnight stay.
Day 5: STOCKHOLM-ZAGREB
Breakfast. After breakfast check-out and luggage storage in the designated area. For the last day, we recommend a half-day boat trip through the extremely indented and picturesque Stockholm archipelago, during which you will get acquainted with its unique, stunning scenery and experience the city from a different perspective. Free day for your own activities, visits to museums, shopping, etc. Return to hotel and transfer in the afternoon to the airport. Check in on the flight to Zagreb on line OU485 at 18:10. Landing in Zagreb is scheduled at 8:40 pm.
PRICE OF PACKAGE ARRANGEMENT PER PERSON IN A DOUBLE ROOM:
Departure 28.5 .: FM 4,780 kn / 4,980 kn
Departures 18.6., 23.7. and 8/20 .: FM $ 4,880 / $ 4,780
(Aeronautical fees in the amount of HRK 1,090 are included in the price)
FM DISCOUNT RELATED TO REGULAR PRICE IS VALID TO NOTIFICATION OF CAPACITY COMPLETION! THIS DISCOUNT EXCLUDES POSSIBLE OTHER DISCOUNTS OR SPECIAL ACTIONS!
Single room supplement: 1.290 kn
Discount for one adult on additional bed: -200 kn
Discount for a child 2-11,99 on additional bed: - 400 kn
Exterior cabin possible upon request!
Half-day trip to Mariefred (reservation when booking the arrangement): 390 kn
REALIZATION NEEDS MIN. 15 REGISTERED PASSENGERS!
Extra charge per person for departure from Split, Zadar, Dubrovnik or Pula: 470 kn
(availability and confirmation of flights upon request; individual check-in at the airport until meeting with the travel manager in Zagreb)
PACKAGE PRICES INCLUDE: Zagreb-Helsinki-Stockholm-Zagreb airfare, airfare, tour manager, accommodation in 3/4 * hotel in Helsinki in double rooms based on one bed and breakfast, two nights in Stockholm in hotel 3/4 * bed and breakfast, one night on board Stockholm-Helsinki overnight bed and double cab, transfer from / to the airport in Helsinki, city tour by bus, transfer from / to Stockholm airport and sightseeing by bus , and organization and sales costs
PACKAGE ARRANGEMENTS DO NOT INCLUDE: Tickets for cultural and historical monuments and museums not listed, public transportation tickets, travel health insurance (recommended!), Tips for local service providers and staff, optional content and personal order costs
TICKET PRICES (as of November 2019, prices are informative and subject to change): Athenaeum Museum - adults 17 EUR / under 18 years. free of charge, National Museum of Finland (Kansallismuseo) - adults 12 EUR / under 18 years free, combined ticket Design Museum and Museum of Finnish Architecture - 15 EUR / under 18 years free; Your Museum 150 SEK, Skansen 140 SEK, Nordic Museum 140 SEK, ABBA Museum 250 SEK
REMARK:
Aeronautical fees are subject to change and the final amount of the fees is confirmed on the day the airline ticket is issued. Atlas reserves the right to change prices in the event of exchange differences exceeding 1.5%. The organizer can change the order of sightseeing during a city tour in Helsinki or Stockholm, depending on the museum's opening hours or public holidays. The content of the tour remains posted regardless of the order of the tour during the tour. Departure times for the program are listed according to the flight schedule of Croatia Airlines published in October 2019 and are subject to change.
MINIMUM OF PASSENGERS: 20
GENERAL INFORMATION ON FINLAND:
OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of Finland
GOVERNMENT: Parliamentary Republic
CITY: Helsinki, with a population of 650,058
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: Helsinki Airport, also known as Helsinki - Vantaa Airport
LANGUAGE: Finnish (official)
RELIGION: Lutherans 70.9%, Orthodox 1.1%, Lutherans 9.91%, Muslims 1% (2017), ITD.
TIME DIFFERENCE: Eastern European Time (Croatia 12:00 = Finland Helsinki 13:00)
MONEY: 1 EUR = 100 cents
NUMBER OF POPULATION: Approximately 5.537 million (according to the 2017 census)
AREA: 338.145 km²
GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION: The Republic of Finland is a Nordic state in northeastern Europe, surrounded by the Baltic Sea in the southwest, the Gulf of Finland in the southeast and the Botany Bay in the west. Finland has borders with SwedenNorway, Russia and Russia.
CLIMATE: The continental character of the climate is mitigated by the Baltic Sea, lakes, and especially by the southwest winds from the Atlantic (Golf Current); the air temperature is on average about 6 ° C higher than at the same latitude outside Europe. The average winter temperature is –3 to –14 ° C and the summer temperature is around 15 ° C.
ELECTRICAL VOLTAGE: 230 V.
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR TRAVEL: A Croatian passport requires a valid passport or identity card, which must be valid for at least 3 months after entry. Children must have their passport / ID.
HEALTH: Vaccination is optional. We recommend that you consult your World Health Organization website (WHO, www.who.int) before traveling. We also recommend that you take a convenience store pharmacy for your trip.
TELEPHONING: Country code is +358. Mobile phone connections are good. Please contact your network operator for details.
CREDIT CARDS: The Scandinavian countries are a part of Europe where cash payments are slowly disappearing, be sure to bring your credit card with you, because most of the time you can't pay much in cash! Most credit cards are accepted at all banks, most hotels, restaurants and shops (MasterCard, Visa), while Amex is accepted less frequently. For the most part, the entrance to each store contains credit card symbols accepted by each store as a payment method.
GUIDELINES: The service is included in the price, but if you are very satisfied with the service, you can leave a few euros or round off the price.
TRAVEL SAFETY: Please refer to the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs for travel safety to individual countries or on their website: www.mvep.hr.
We recommend:
CLOTHES: We advise comfortable and warm cotton clothes, a windbreaker, an extra warm sweater for staying on board. Bring sun, wind and rain protection too (raincoat is a better choice than an umbrella). Good and comfortable clothes are definitely welcome.
FOOD AND BEVERAGES: Finnish cuisine is conditioned by the climate and position of Finland between Sweden and Russia. The main course is fish (salmon, perch, herring, perch, trout) and is very tasty either fresh or smoked / marinated with black rye bread attached. Typical meat dishes include meatballs; room and moose meat is also consumed. In the summer, the cuisine is rich: tomatoes, dill, various wild mushrooms and many wild berries add fresh color and texture to a Finnish plate.
You can find a snack in the kahville (cafeteria) - there are many in Finland because the Finns drink more coffee than anywhere else in the world. National specialties: pulla - sweet, flavored pastry traditionally served with coffee; poronkäristys - a stew that is traditionally eaten by Sami; lakka - Arctic mulberry, with a creamy structure with a sour taste; kalakukko - thick rye bread stuffed with small lake fish.
National beverages: koshkorv - vodka-type drinks to which salty licorice is often added to produce salmiakkikos; berry liqueurs - butcher (arctic blackberry), varnish (mulberry) and polar (cranberry).
SHOPPING: Popular souvenirs are e.g. Kalevala jewelry, Fazer desserts (great chocolates!), Wooden glasses and mugs, traditional Lapland costumes, vodka, ryija mats, fine knitwear. A large number of facilities operate from 8am to 8pm on weekdays, from 9am to 5pm on Saturdays, and from 9am to 2pm on Sundays.
SAF: Please keep money, documents and other valuables in the hotel or room safe, the organizer or the hotel does not accept responsibility for the stolen items.
Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the Republic of Finland (Covers the Republic of Estonia):
Kruunuvuorenkatu 5, 00160 Helsinki, FINLAND
croemb.helsinki@mvep.hr, fi.mvep.hr
Josip Buljevic, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
00358 9 685 0170, 685 01770, 00358 9 622 2221
Office hours of the Consular Section of the Embassy: (for parties) Monday-Friday 10: 00-13: 00 with the obligatory prior announcement of arrival by e-mail or phone
Telephone number for Croatian nationals (for emergencies and non-scheduled emergencies): +358 50 516 0088 (050 516 0088 for calls within Finland), and +358 50 5575 454 (050 5575 454 for calls within Finland)
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT SWEDEN:
OFFICIAL NAME: Kingdom of Sweden
GOVERNMENT: Parliamentary monarchy
CAPITAL: Stockholm, population 960,031 (2017)
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: Stockholm Arlanda Airport
LANGUAGE: Swedish (official)
RELIGION: Lutherans 63.2%, atheists 28.4%, Orthodox 1.3%, Catholics 1.2%, Muslims 1.4% (2015)
TIME DIFFERENCE: CET (Croatia 12:00 = Sweden 12:00)
MONEY: SEK (Swedish Krona); 1 SEK = 100 ore
NUMBER OF POPULATION: approx. 10 million (by the 2017 census)
AREA: 450.295 km²
GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION: The Kingdom of Sweden is in the north of Europe, on the Baltic Sea coast. It borders on the mainland with Norway in the west and Finland in the northeast, while it is connected with Denmark in the southwest by the Oresund Bridge. Sweden also has an exclusively maritime border with Estonia, LatviaLithuania, Poland, Germany and Russia.
CLIMATE: The climate of Sweden is significantly influenced by the position of the highlands, which does not allow the warm and humid winds from the Atlantic Ocean to penetrate, but allows the cold air masses from sub-polar regions to penetrate. The climate in the southern parts of Sweden is under strong maritime influence, with a mean January temperature of 1 ° C and a July temperature of 15 to 17 ° C, in the central parts moderate continental and in the north, Lapland, continental with a January temperature of -14 ° C and July from 11 to 15 ° C.
ELECTRICAL VOLTAGE: 230 V.
DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FOR TRAVEL: A Croatian passport requires a valid passport or identity card, which must be valid for at least 3 months after entry. Children must have their passport / ID.
HEALTH: Vaccination is optional. We recommend that you consult your World Health Organization website (WHO, www.who.int) before traveling. We also recommend that you take a convenience store pharmacy for your trip.
TELEPHONING: Area code is +46. Mobile phone connections are good. Please contact your network operator for details.
CREDIT CARDS: Most credit cards are accepted at all banks, most hotels, restaurants and shops (MasterCard, Visa), while Amex is accepted less frequently. For the most part, the entrance to each store contains credit card symbols accepted by each store as a payment method.
GUIDELINES: The service is included in the price, but if you are very satisfied with the service, you can leave a few euros or round off the price.
TRAVEL SAFETY: Please refer to the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs for travel safety to individual countries or on their website: www.mvep.hr.
We recommend:
CLOTHES: We advise comfortable and warm cotton clothes, a windbreaker, an extra warm sweater for staying on board. Bring sun, wind and rain protection too (raincoat is a better choice than an umbrella). Good and comfortable clothes are definitely welcome.
FOOD AND BEVERAGES: Many traditional dishes use simple, contrasting flavors, such as traditional beef dishes and brown cream sauce, cranberry jam - a national symbol of Swedish cuisine.
The basis of Swedish culinary culture are traditional specialties from quality foods, which include salmon, herring and other fish, game, forest fruits and mushrooms. Fish and meat have always played a crucial role in the diet of Swedes. The Swedish home usually has 3 main daily meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lunch is usually a bit lighter among the working part of the nation, consisting of, for example, salad and baguette, leaving the main position of the evening when a warm meal is served.
Some of the specialties are: raggmun - potato pancake, fried in butter and served with fried pork; gubbröra - anchovy and egg salad on black bread, västerbotten - salty cheese pie; räkmacka - shrimp sandwich with lemon, boiled eggs and mayonnaise; lussebullar - sweet pastry seasoned with saffron; ryberg - roast beef with potatoes, served with raw egg yolk, horseradish and spicy mustard; renskavsgryta - a reindeer roasted in butter, seasoned with cream and spruce berries.
SHOPPING: Popular souvenirs are lovikka gloves, jams, vodka, Dala wooden horses, Sami people's handicrafts, magnets, Känken backpacks.
SAF: Please keep money, documents and other valuables in the hotel or room safe, the organizer of the trip or the hotel does not take responsibility for the stolen items.
Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the Kingdom of Sweden (Covers the Republic of Latvia):
Engelbrektsplan 2, 114 34 Stockholm, SWEDEN
vrhstock@mvep.hr
dr. sc. Siniša Grgić, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
+ 46 8 4405 280, + 46 8 4405 283 (consular), + 46 8 6788 320
Telephone number for Croatian nationals (for emergencies and emergencies outside office hours): + 46 709656053