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Hotelli Kalevala
Väinämöinen 9
88900 Kuhmo, Finland

24h (08) 6554 100
8:00-20:00 +358 40 707 8911

Reception: info@hotellikalevala.fi
Sales department (weekdays 9:00-17:00): sales@hotellikalevala.fi

Tour operator license number: 1174/16/Mj

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Reception 7:00 (8:00) – 21:00 or by appointment.
Breakfast on weekdays from 7:00 to 10:00
on weekends from 8:00 to 10:00
Lobby bar every day from 9:00 until approx. 21:00.
A la carte kitchen Mon – Sat 17:00 – 21:00.
The sales department is open on weekdays from 9:00 to 17:00

Hotel

Hotel Kalevala is a private hotel near the center of Kuhmo on the shore of Lake Lammasjärvi. The building was designed by architect Ilpo Väisänen and is built in the shape of the Kokko bird from the Kalevala epic. The hotel is unique in the world and the Finnish Heritage Agency has declared the building an SR site (=protected building).
The hotel is located in the middle of pure nature, far from industry and traffic noise.

Rooms

The hotel has a total of 47 rooms: 39 standard double rooms, 5 superior rooms and 3 suites. Accessible room, allergy and pet rooms are available on request.

Restaurant

The restaurant offers a wonderful, seasonally changing view of Lake Lammasjärvi. The summer terrace is an excellent place for dinner or drinks. Our highly praised kitchen offers local delicacies for Finnish and international tastes, without forgetting vegetarian options.

Charging point for electric cars

The hotel has a 22kW electric car charging point and two Schuko charging points.
Charging 10 €/time.

Meetings

The hotel has 2 separate meeting rooms for 16-80 people. Sales department customizes meetings and related services according to your wishes. The hotel’s facilities enable the organization of various parties and seminars.

Sauna and wellness

We heat the saunas for our guests every evening and it is included to the room price. The sauna department has separate saunas for women and men, a wellness department for relaxation, an indoor and outdoor jacuzzis.
For an additional fee, you can book a peat sauna, an infrared sauna, pampering baths, massages and treatments, e.g. Finnish Bone Setting. Sauna facilities can also be rented for private use.

Arriving

The hotel is located approx. 3 kilometers from the center of Kuhmo. It is easy to reach Kuhmo via Kajaani with the train-bus connection. There is a taxi station next to the Kuhmo bus station. Kajaani can also be reached by flying from Helsinki. Currently, there is no public transport connection from the airport to Kuhmo. We can arrange private transfer from airport to hotel.

For those arriving by car, there are good signs from the center of Kuhmo to the Kalevala area. The hotel has free parking.

Accessibility

The hotel has an accessible, more spacious room that can easily accommodate a wheelchair user. The bathroom has grab bars. The room is accessible by elevator.

The restaurant hall, sauna section and meeting rooms can be accessed by wheelchair. When entering to the restaurant hall with a wheelchair, our staff brings movable ramps to the stairs.

There is a accessible public toilet in the lobby.

There is no separately marked parking space for disabled. Our staff will advise you where to park your car.

Payment

You can pay with common bank and credit cards (not American Express) and cash. Payment by invoice with an invoicing agreement, invoicing surcharge 10 €/invoice.

Nature and Culture in Kuhmo

Kuhmo’s wonderful wilderness nature offers a great setting for independent movement.
The range of activities is plentiful in all seasons. As a specialty, e.g. bear watching.

Kuhmo is famous for its culture and offers many interesting events and places to visit. The most famous are the Kuhmo house, where the Kuhmo chamber music festival plays in July, the Kalevala culture center Juminkeko with its exhibitions, the Winter War Museum and Winter War battle sites.

Hotel Kalevala is located in the middle of beautiful, clean nature, and with our own actions we intend to respect nature and local services in accordance with sustainable development. We work in co-operation with local companies offering program, transport, and guide services. Promoting tourism, increasing jobs and the profitability of work in the region is important to us.

In our restaurant, we prefer local food from local providers. For our restaurant, we get e.g. local vegetables, eggs, bread, pastries and fish from lake next to us. Depending on the situation, bread, pastries and home-made ice cream are also prepared in our own kitchen. In addition, we buy berries and mushrooms collected directly from local nature from local berry and mushroom pickers. We have also mapped the supply of the surrounding municipalities and in the future we plan to order other products from the surrounding area.
Coffee and tea are organic and/or fair trade products, and in the future, together with the kitchen staff, we will also look for organic and fair trade equivalents in other products. We do not use meat, fish or shellfish products that come from endangered or protected stocks or species.
Plants, animals or historical and archaeological objects are not sold, exchanged or displayed.
We are committed to making responsible purchases and investments. New consumables are bought only when necessary, old ones are repaired if possible.

We help our customers find nearby nature. From our reception, we can advise you on the nearest ski tracks, the best snowshoe routes and the most wonderful nature spots. We also have advice and help with other local services. We encourage our guests to help save the environment with their choices, e.g. electricity and water consumption in the room. The hotel has charging points for electric cars for customers to use. We calculate temperatures and change ventilation settings as needed from empty rooms during quiet times to save energy.

Some of our staff have participated in the We Speak Gay rainbow training, which encourages diversity in companies. We are aware of the discrimination experienced by rainbow people in tourism and we want to actively communicate and act so that our company is a safe space for everyone.

We treat all our guests and our staff equally with respect. We don’t care about anyone’s background, nationality, religion or sexual orientation. In hiring, we do not discriminate against anyone due to e.g. age, ethnic background, gender or disability.

Our company guarantees a safe working environment and we ensure that our premises are physically and mentally safe for both staff and guests. We have occupational accident insurance and an occupational health care service for the entire staff. We do not accept corruption or harassment or exploitation of anyone. Our staff is trained for crisis situations.
We require that subcontractors comply with the legislation on employee rights.

We are committed to training our staff on environmental and responsibility issues related to their own work. Our company’s head of environmental issues informs our staff members about new practices, ecological choices, and if possible, the staff participates in relevant trainings.

We are committed to promoting local culture, e.g. ordering local food, selling local souvenirs. Interior elements made from waste wood from local sawmills have been designed together with a local interior designer to use in rooms and decorations.

We are involved in the Wild Taiga Kuhmo-Suomussalmi joint marketing association, which was selected as an STF pilot target. The companies are working together to develop the region’s sustainable development, and there are plans for customers traveling to the region to compensate the emissions of the trip for the benefit of the region.

We comply with the law, regulations and agreements, and with our activities we intend to make tourism sustainable and inspire other actors, our guests and our staff to take sustainable development actions. We have calculated our company’s carbon footprint and with our actions we intend to reduce it by saving energy and water, increasing vegetarian food options, tracking load orders and reducing food waste even further.