Customized Services
Customized Services
Happy Guide Helsinki specializes in customized and private tour services in Helsinki and Southern Finland. With a personal service approach by our reservations and customer team, it’s our honor to tailor you a tour that looks and feels like you. You have a right for responsible travel design and we are happy to provide that for you!
Private guide is always the most unique way to experience place like the locals. We have plenty of sustainable and sunny services you can combine to make your visit one to remember. Have a look at the selection below!
Contact us to tell about your interests and wishes. It’s our pleasure to tailor a guided service the most suitable for you. We are happy to show you fun in sunny and sustainable ways!
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Accessible Tours in Helsinki and Southern Finland
Accessibility is generally on an excellent level in Finland. We are also happy to say that all the major attractions of Helsinki are accessible with wheelchairs and mobility scooters. Our public transport is also accessible with low floors and ramps. │ Read more on www.accessiblehelsinki.com!
A Private Walking Tour – kävelykierrokset –
We have guides available who speak English, Finnish, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish every day the whole year around. We offer city walks as well as theme tours from topics like design, food &drinks and heavy metal music, LGTBQ, religious curiosities, horror …or mixes of them! │
Meillä on myös paljon erilaisia suomenkielisiä teemakierroksia. Meidän Facebook sivuilta löytyy paljon erilaisten teemojen albumeita.
Tiedustelut sähköpostilla happyguidehelsinki@gmail.com !
Architecture & Design Tours
Helsinki has one of the biggest design districts of the world. Actually the whole history of our nation can be fluently told through the architecture of buildings in Helsinki from neoclassicism to modern wonders. Helsinki is a Unesco City of Design.
Bike Tours
Helsinki and its surroundings together are the most comfortable area to go around by bicycle. Only the city itself has 1000 kilometers of biking lanes and is built around vast urban nature areas. Bicycling in Helsinki is for all generations. │ See here photos
Boat Tours
Helsinki Archipelago is a unique part of our city and why the city is called the Daughter of the Baltic Sea. Helsinki by boat is our city tour on a private boat. We also offer themed boats trips like guided fishing excursions. Check www.helsinkibyboat.com !
Finland for Families
How about hearing the story of Helsinki and our 100 years old nation while admiring all the numerous and interesting animal statues of the city? A tour that keeps the whole family interested and enjoying the visit.
Gay & LGTBQ friendly activities
Happy Guide Helsinki is a proud member of We Speak Gay Community !
Helsinki is the city where Touko Laaksonen, better known with his artist name Tom of Finland, lived his whole adult life. We are happy to show you Tom´s secret city as well as the modern gay and LGTBQ friendly capital of Finland!│ Read more here!
Helsinki-Tallinn Day Trip with a Personal Guide
We are happy to visit Tallinn in Estonia with you for a day. Your guide picks you up from the hotel and takes care of all the formalities as well as an enjoyable guided walking tour in Tallinn.
Kauhujen Kävely – Helsinki Horror Walk ja muut suomenkieliset teemakierrokset
Kauhujen Kävely on vain yksi meidän lukuisista suomenkielisistä opastetuista Helsinki teemakierroksista. Suosittelemme olemaan suoraan yhteydessä sähköpostilla happyguidehelsinki@gmail.com ja kertomaan mihin ajankohtaan ja minkälaiselle ryhmälle olette opaskierrosta etsimässä. Meillä on paljon vaihtoehtoja kummituskierroksista design- ja arkkitehtuuriteemaan ruokaa ja juomaa unohtamatta!
Helsinki Horror Walk is just one of our theme walking tours available in English, Finnish and various other languages. The best way is to email us and tell about your tour wishes and we aim to find interesting and entertaining things to do for you and your party!
Porvoo Day Trips
The historical beautiful wooden town of Porvoo is a popular place to visit with its lovely unique atmosphere. We organize customized day trips there from Helsinki, which can be taken by bus or by bikes (51 km). In summer you could make the return trip even on an idyllic sea cruise through the Finnish Archipelago!
Sauna Tours
In this sauna-frenzy nation, we can find you a sauna to visit almost any hour of the day. You should not leave the country without visiting a Finnish sauna! │ Read more here!
School Visits / Study Abroad / Education and Helsinki Walk
We work together with several schools, universities and the Ministry of Education to organize educational visits in Finland. We can also create you a walking tour that the content / attractions would be linked for Finnish education and society. Many study abroad groups also choose visits at Finnish companies and organisations.
Services for Religious Groups
Interested in taking a Christian pilgrimage to see Pope Francisco´s forest in Porvoo? Or finding out religious curiosities of our nation 500 years after the Protestant Reformation? Interested in finding a quiet moment in a meditation center? Also if your group needs professional help in organizing halal / kosher / vegetarian meals and special visits, we are always honored to help you.
SUP Boards & Kayaks
Paddling in the calm waters of the Baltic Sea or one of our thousands of lakes can be considered a real genuine experience. This is easy to mix with another activity like bicycling.
Take Guide Tampere or Turku
Turku is the original capital of Finland, full of history. Tampere then the biggest hub outside the Helsinki Metropolitan with lots of cultural life like theater and sports. Both cities you can reach by fast trains that use green energy, sounds ideal to us 🙂
Tram & Public Rail Tours
Public transport in Helsinki is very effective and eco-friendly and we are happy to enjoy it as part of our tour services. Many of our tours can include the public transport day passes and for bigger groups we can even hire a private tram! The public transport in Helsinki Metropolitan is also all accessible with wheelchairs, mobility scooter and different kinds of baby prams.
We recommend that you visit our Facebook to see the photo albums of all kinds of tour options and themes!
Taste the local specialities
For groups we are happy to organize culinary tours of Finnish food tasting, beer brewery visits, gin tasting. We also have good knowledge of organic and vegetarian food and local coffee roasting scene and specialty coffee. The local culinary life is well present in the center of Helsinki!
HELSINKI COFFEE HOP Mon – Sat at 11 am – public tour available Dec 16th in 2022 – Jan 14th in 2023. Quickly buy your ticket to this happy hot drink experience of Helsinki, some days already sold out !!
Urban nature, UNESCO World Heritage and national parks
Just some hours away from Helsinki, we have several Unesco World Heritage sites to visit and awesome nature to experience. These can be combined on a customized day trip for example by visiting Repovesi National Park’s rugged forests with blue lakes and ponds as well as Verla Groundwood and Board Mill and the world-famous wooden town of Porvoo. How about a visit to the imperial fishing cabin of Tsar Alexander III?
But, you don´t have to leave Helsinki Metropolitan to enjoy nature – there are several nature reserves and urban nature areas in and around the city!
Combine & customize!
Do you want to mix it all together or think out-of-the-box? Tell us about your interests and wishes and we are happy to make suggestions to you. Email us happyguidehelsinki@gmail.com and we promise to answer in 24 hours!