If Finland had hotel star system this would be ****. My room was spacious, bathroom was big. What I especially liked was the marble plating. The hotel must have been built to in the 1980's to a high standard. Furnishing is nice and gives a quality feel. Service was friendly and the Scandic breakfast is always good. The only problem I had with the room was that a pump or some other engine went on and off all the time. That could have been disturbing, but I slept like a baby anyway.

There is rooms that have folding bed/sofa, luckily we paid few extra euros to have one since this room had plenty of space even for whole family. It seemed that it would be possible to connect this room to other one for having accomodation even for larger family. No complaints about service or breakfast, all went well. There was a bit dampish odour in rooms toilet as many hotels not renovated recently may have.

Great friendly staff. Good location peaceful yet 2 minutes walk from center. Parking hall too expensive but outdoor parking free.

I was in Jyvaskyla, Finland on business for 5 days. We stayed at Hotel Scandic as we were told that was our best option. I was apprehensive about it and quite upset at losing out on Marriott rewards since Jyvaskyla has no Marriott properties or any other American chains for that matter.

I was however, pleasantly surprised.

Room:
Check in was quick and painless. The room itself is quite stark compared to anything in a Marriott or Hilton property but confortable. I don't think there is a concept of King-size beds but what they did was put together 2 twins. Didn't bother me. The bed itself is a platform bed but I had no complaints. Rooms have the normal necessaties such as iron and ironing table, TV, phone, etc.; however, I did not like the fact that there is no phone by the bedside or no cordless phone. So calling home was unconfortable sitting at the work desk. TV is really boring if you're not from FInland. Most of the time all you can watch is BBC and sometimes catch older seasons of House, Friends, etc. One night Harry Potter was on. If the channel is in English, there's always CC which you cannot disable.

Bathroom:
I loved the radiant tiles - having heated tile floors in a 20 - 30 F temprature was awesome ! Bathrooms do not have individual soaps and shampoos, etc. Instead there is a hand soap dispenser by the sink and a shower get/shampoo-in-one dispenser in the bath tub. I had read a previous review and brought my own.

Meals:
Really good breakfast and it's included in the price of the room....loved these little rice pancakes and liver pate. We didn't eat dinner here, but it always smelled good.

Internet
Internet was free - You have to request it from the reception. It was fast and reliable.

Gym:
OK. 2 treadmills and one bicycle, free weights. and one life-cyle multi-use machine. I was able to work out all days and there was hardly any one there at 5 AM.

Overall - not bad - just wish I'd earn rewards for hotels I can use back in the States.