The hotel offers basic rooms. Mine was small and comfortable. The breakfast is excellent and includes some of the best porridge I have tasted. The bar is quiet, at least on Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays, which is saying a lot. There is a small pool and sauna. Staff were very helpful and the town is on the door step.

Scandic Hotel Kajanus is well located hotel in the centre of Kajaani. The hotel itself is in quite good condition, rooms are spacious and clean. Maybe they should start to do some renovations for the rooms soon, if they want to classify them as a 4-star hotel in the future. The reseption personnel were very friendly and I got my room very fast.

The restaurant services causes the strongest disappointment for me. It was a thursday night, when I stayed at this hotel (one night visit). The hotel bar and restaurant were nearly empty, and they closed restaurant and bar services very early. The decoration of the bar and restaurant is "cold" and not so alluring.

Normally in the Scandic Hotels the breakfast buffet is very good, but this time in Kajaani it wasn't. There were a quite qood selection of food available at the buffet , but if some sorts was ended from the table, it took a very long time to have it more. The quality of the food was not good at all. Carelian pies were burned, cheese and liver pate seemed like they had been hours in that table. The food was not tasty and this breakfast definately was not a good. I have eaten in the same hotel sometimes earlier, and I should say the quality of the food has worsen.

I have stayed many times at the Kajanus over the years. It used to be called the Arctia hotel Kajanus in the beginning before Arctia was taken over by the Scandic chain. At that time the hotel posessed an excellent Northern Finnish / Lappish menu, a nightclub and an orchestra three times a week. I was often upgraded to a room with a private sauna and bubble bath and in addition there were bubble baths and a turkish sauna in the basement that were free for hotel guests on alternating evenings. These are all gone, but it is still an ok place to stay.

We recently stayed at the Kajanus in a family room for four. This was a refurbished room that has been made a few years ago by combining two single rooms; hence the room had double toilets and showers in addition to a double bed and a double sofa bed. The double bed was one of the longest hotel beds I've slept in. No in room sauna, but there is a sauna downstairs along with a heated swimming pool open for hotel guests in the morning as well as evening.

The hotel has ample free parking with car heater, free internet and free breakfast. The evening menu is of the dull standard Scandic variety, but there is an additional limited local menu if you ask for it. If you are a member of the Scandic club you will get a food voucher you can use as partial payment.

Vuokatti, a ski/spa/golf resort is a good half an hour away by car.