Rantasipi Laajavuori

Located in the mountain resort of Laajavuori, the modern Rantasipi hotel is just 300 meters from the ski slopes, five kilometers from the center of Jyvaskyla, with skiing and cross-country running tracks on the doorstep. The 196 guestrooms have a country-style decor with floral fabrics and wood furniture. Bathrooms are complete with handheld showers, complimentary toiletries, hair dryers and makeup mirrors. All rooms are equipped with cable television, pay movies, telephones, minibars and wireless Internet access.

A buffet breakfast is served each morning and the Salitintti Restaurant serves typical Finnish specialties, as well as international dishes with views of the surroundings landscape. Guests can swim in the indoor pool, play squash, unwind in the sauna, and enjoy full- body massages and pampering hair and beauty treatments, while children enjoy the kid's pool and playground. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can help guests explore all that the area has to offer, and after a day on the slopes, guests can make use of the hotel's ski storage room. The hotel also caters for business guests with its auditorium for up to 400 people, as well as 20 rooms for meetings and 12 for group work. In the evening, guests can relax with a drink in the bar or sit out on the sunny patio; parents can make use of the babysitting services before heading down to the onsite nightclub. The hotel is surrounded by year-round leisure activities, from hiking, biking and fishing to skiing, snowmobiling and ice track rally driving. Guests can admire the view from the Harju Observation Tower, four kilometers away and enjoy summer cruises on Lake Paijanne, four kilometers away. Jyvaskyla Airport is 18 kilometers from the hotel. Please be advised that the swimming pool will be closed for renovation work until the end of December, 2009. Please contact staff at the hotel for more information.