Soviet looking hotel. Staff are okay but their English is not so good. Rooms are not clean, shower is old, curtains are broken, restaurant lacks atmosphere, nothing to do in the immediate area.

Hotel - It's not good word for this place,better to say camping under the roof.
Hotel is old and looking like old.I was on october and in the room was totaly cold and dark - only one lamp worked.Enter card (keys) working not so good ,so I spend 20 minutes before I pass the door.
In evening on desk You can't buy any drink's (soft too).Breakfast not acceptable and not fresh.Price like for normal hotel (60 Euro).
Maby on summer is better, but if it is ,so why they are still open on autumn?
Never again.

i spent around 50 nights a year in hotel all over europe. this is the worst hotel i have visited in the last 10 years. expensive, rooms make you want to kill yourself, every piece of equipement in the gym is broken. i am thinking of sleeping in my car.

I stayed in this hotel at the very beginning of October. Hotels are relatively expensive in Helsinki and this one had come in at a good price. It is located out a bit from the centre but relatively near to where I wanted to go. It set in a wooded area, rather off the beaten track and looking out of the window reminded me a little of staying in student university accommodation. Staying in a variety of hotels during the course of a year which I do, some ‘oldish’, some new, tends to sensitise one more to situations where you come across something that is rather plain and older. This is what, in my view, the Hotel Matinlahti is like. Minimalistic with regard to the reception and staff around in the hotel when I arrived rather late but nonetheless the reception were able to offer a beer in return for payment but not much else in the way of food etc. Old fashioned in that it has wide corridors and stone staircases. I was given a reasonably large room which was best described as plain & simple. It was not the place I felt I wanted to linger for a long stay. Maybe in summer when the sun was shining, it would take on a different air but in the long nights of the Finnish early winter it is somewhat different. Not too much excited me about the breakfast..... I was pleased soon to be on my way.