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Review: Finnair Schengen Lounge Helsinki (HEL)

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 22, 2020August 22, 2020 4 Comments
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Far better than the nearby Aspire Lounge, the Finnair Lounge in Helsinki’s Terminal 2 is spacious and comfortable with a decent food and drink selection and other amenities that make it worthy of a visit prior to your flight. This review covers the Finnair Schengen Lounge in Helsinki.

In This Post:

  • Finnair Schengen Lounge Helsinki Review
    • Location + Hours
    • Seating
    • Food + Drink
    • Restrooms + Showers
    • Lockers
    • Magazines
    • Wi-Fi
  • CONCLUSION

Finnair Schengen Lounge Helsinki Review

Location + Hours

You’ll find the lounge near Gate 22 in Terminal 2. It is open daily from 5:30AM to midnight.

The lounge is open to:

  • Finnair or oneworld Business Class customers
  • Finnair Plus Platinum Lumo (+ four guests)
  • Platinum (+one guest)
  • Gold (+one guest)
  • oneworld Emerald and Sapphire members (+1 guest)

If you don’t have access, you can purchase a three-hour pass for €48 (children aged 2–12 years are €15) between the “off-peak” hours of 9:00AM – 1:00PM and 6:00PM to 11:00PM. Through August 31st, passes have been discounted to €30 from 7:00AM to 11:00AM and from 3:00PM to 9:00PM.

Seating

There is plenty of seating in this lounge and I appreciate that plugs are within reach of most seats, including handy charging portals you can just set your mobile phone on.

There’s perhaps more tables present than are warranted (especially in the post-pandemic world), but the lounge keeps stretching back and there are plenty of couches and seats divided into smaller sections.

At the very back of the lounge are a couple of massaging easy chairs. The lounge seats 320 passengers.

Food + Drink

Finnair promises “fresh Nordic ingredients and well-rounded flavors”. Meal choices include a breakfast buffet from 5:30AM to 10:30AM followed by a selection of salads, hot meals, soup, snacks and desserts for the rest of the day.

There’s also a wide selection of hot and cold beverages including several types of beer and wine. Coffee is, sadly, only dispensed by machine.

I love those Marimekko cups!

Restrooms + Showers

Shower suites (“cabinets”) are available as are gender-segregated restrooms.

One annoyance and frankly one that was not limited to this lounge. Why does Finland embrace these horrific reusable towels in public restrooms? I get that they are good for the environment, but who wants to wipe their hands on something dozens of others have? I doubt these will survive the pandemic.

Lockers

If you don’t wish to lug your bag around the lounge, lockers are available near the center of the lounge.

Magazines

Magazines are still a thing? Apparently so.

Wi-Fi

The lounges uses the airport’s wi-fi network, which performed reasonably well (though I did not conduct any benchmark tests).

CONCLUSION

This is a very nice Schengen Lounge with a nice selection of food and drink and plenty of room to spread out. If you find yourself stuck in HEL  for several hours and without status, consider buying a pass to this lounge.


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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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4 Comments

  1. Adrian Reply
    August 22, 2020 at 4:35 pm

    Every time I have visited this lounge it has been insanely over full. No tables, seats, or breathing room were available. Now that travel has reduced due to COVID, they obviously don’t need to increase capacity, but if travel returns to normal they must fix it.

    • Gary Reply
      August 22, 2020 at 8:28 pm

      The bidé is standard in Finland. Can’t see that in toilet.

      Warm dish is often, if not always chicken and vegetarian same without chicken.

      You use “automatic” towel AFTER hand washing, should be ok!

  2. Alistair Reply
    August 22, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    I agree with above comment. Usually pretty full. But it has great views. Helsinki is an excellent hub for Australian flyers.

  3. Sami Reply
    April 10, 2021 at 6:31 pm

    I think you have misunderstood the towel system. It is a long long roll of towel. You always get fresh towel when you pull it. The used towel is rolled back to another roll and new comes instead. When the roll is used it stops. Then they change it.

    The used towel roll is sent to be washed. So there is no dispensable paper towel trash. It is hygienic and minimizes trash generated and hygiene is perfect.

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