This spa hotel has seen its best years. Rooms are quite small and worn, there's not enough light in the room and no WIFI (although wired internet is free, so bring your own WLAN base station). Inside the hotel there are couple of restaurants and a local hamburger chain place called Hesburger, which is actually also part of the spa (you can actually eat burgers in your swimsuit).

The plan of the hotel is a bit weird. If you want to go swimming, you have to walk in bathrobe through burger joint and though Cuba-styled snack bar, then leave your shoes and walk through swimming area and showers to get to the changing room.

Hotel's breakfast is quite good and wide-ranging. There's yogurts, ham, cheese, bread, salads, muesli, corn flakes, oatmeal, bacon, omelette, pan cakes etc. You can easily eat good in the morning and skip lunch. They also serve evening buffet in the same place, where you can eat large variety of fish, meat, vegetables etc for very reasonable price.

Spa and wellness center offers various treatments like massages, aromatherapy etc. There's also a gym (which is free for hotel quests) and periodical group-fitness programs like aerobic, Les Mills programs (BodyPump, BodyCombat etc) which are quite cheap for hotel quests. Group-fitness programs are quite popular amongst non-hotel-quests as well.

There are lot of families with kids, so expect noise of according levels. This is probably a fun place for kids, since Spa is actually quite good, there are three water slides, several swimming pools etc. However, I wouldn't recommend this so much for adult visitors, or visitors who are seeking quietness, comfort or (even slight) luxury. Vast majority of Spa visitors are from outside the hotel.

Hotel is situated in a longish walking distance (2km) from the city centre, and there's also a public bus stop near the hotel. If you come to Turku by train, you should stop at Kupittaa train station, not Turku central station, since Kupittaa station is a bit closer.

This spa hotel has seen its best days, probably in the eighties, and is in urgent need of renovation. We stayed in one of the so called suites, which was very small and very, very worn out and quite dirty. If you have even the smallest wish for some proper feel of luxoury during your spa-stay, this is NOT the place for you.

Exept for being old and outdated, the pool-area (spa) itself is very well planned for small children. The children enjoyed it very much. The parents not so much.

A plus for their a la carte restaurant, with extremely friendly and accommodating staff, and surprisingly good food. The restaurant was better than the rest of the hotel. But still, no great culinaristic experience.

Small rooms, no possibility to open a window and low capacity air conditioning. But: a free internet connection in the room (standard for American hotels but not European ones, I hadn't expected it here. Don't forget to bring your laptop). Great Spa!!! Outward appearance a bit shabby. Friendly staff and a very good breakfast for hotel standards. A nice and easy walk into the center of town (town?).

I stayed in Caribia because of my work matters two times this autumn, each time for 3-4 days. Rooms were small, I could not open window - just small part of it and even that part of window was covered by metal and at night the air conditioning was not enough strong. Spa was not very clean. Restaurants were terrible. One good thing - girls in reception were nice. There are only two possibility to choose room: windows to large parking (in morning and at night it is difficult to sleep because of cars noise and smell), other possibility – to take room with view to the cemetery, which is in the backyard. If you are very romantic and like to look at the graves under your window you might like this place. I am not romantic that much.