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Private Custom Helsinki Tour
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Private Custom Helsinki Tour

By Green Cap Tours
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Ages 0-99, max of 25 per group
Duration: 2–6 hours
Start time: Check availability
Mobile ticket
Live guide: German, Swedish, Russian, English, French, Spanish
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  • The guide will pick you up from downtown hotel in Helsinki by walking
  • Entry/Admission - Esplanadi Park
  • Entry/Admission - Old Market Hall
What's not included
  • Transportation to/from attractions (customer pays the transportation)
  • Private transportation
  • Entry/Admission - President's Palace (Presidentinlinna)
  • Entry/Admission - Allas Sea Pool


Start:Multiple pickup locations offered.
    Pickup details
    • Helsinki Main Train Station Pick up from other locations is also possible on customer's expence. For example: Taxi ride from the harbour would be 20-40€ and taxi from the airport would be around 50-60€.
    Hotel pickup offered
    During checkout you will be able to select from the list of included hotels.
      Additional pickup options
      During checkout you will be able to select from the list of included pickup points.
      • Helsinki Central Library Oodi, Töölönlahdenkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
      • Helsingin päärautatieasema, Kaivokatu 1, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
      • Old Market Hall, Eteläranta, 00130 Helsinki, Finland
      End:This activity ends back at the meeting point.

        • Not wheelchair accessible
        • Near public transportation
        If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 36342P5

        • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
        • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
        • Please advise the following at the time of booking: Pick-up location, pick-up time and any special requirements for the tour
        • Helsinki is very compact City and therefore in most cases walking and public transportation are the most useful ways to get around. This is also the local way to move. Most of the hotels are in the City Center with walking distance from main attractions.
        • Most travelers can participate
        • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 25 travelers

        • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

        If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 36342P5

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        • Green Cap Tours
          890
          Helsinki, Finland
          Joined in April 2016
        • Passport598398
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Delicious food and beer with a fun guide!
          Nadia was a fantastic guide and we had a lot of fun with her. She took us to some wonderful places with delicious food, and had a lot of great information about Helsinki. We never felt rushed and got to enjoy the food at each stop and enjoy the ambience. She sent us off with great tips for other things to do and places to eat and shop. We had a great time!
          Written February 1, 2025
        • chiaralE683NY
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Great first experience
          We had a great free walking tour with our amazing guide Siri. We learned a lot about the city and the country. A perfect first insight!
          Written January 10, 2025
        • 519grantp
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Siri was great
          We had a wonderful tour with Siri - she was local and very knowledgeable and interesting. We appreciated her flip book with photos to help her guide… she was a good pace, not too fast or slow, current cultural information as well as historic. Highly recommend - don’t forget to give her a good tip!
          Written January 5, 2025
        • ADominicaninBarbados
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Informative Tour
          We had a very informative Guide and places to stop to get warm. I would definitely recommend this tour and company and would try another tour from them again.
          Written January 5, 2025
        • zonicaj
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          An informative and interesting walking tour.
          Our guide Viki was a font of information and provided some snippets of history we were not aware of before undertaking this tour. She had a great sense of humour and we could not have asked for a better guide. The tour itself showed off a lot of the landmarks within Helsinki including some we would not have thought to visit ourselves. The walking distance and time involved was easily manageable and I can highly recommend this tour as a starting point for a visit to Helsinki to explore the city, especially to identify places you might want to spend some time at during subsequent days.
          Written December 30, 2024
        • lfisgd746
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Excellent, fun and informative tour!
          Excellent, fun and informative tour in Helsinki. Vicki was a great guide who shared so many interesting facts on the city and Finnish culture. Highly recommend this tour!
          Written December 20, 2024
        • 177eileenw
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          10/10
          We did a free walking tour with Ainhoa and it was super fun! I really recommend the tour, we had a great time learning something about Helsinki :)
          Written December 16, 2024
        • Nupeys
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Super interesting, well paced
          Really enjoyed our tour guided by a non Finnish lady Inhoa who gave us a great insight to the Finns, their habits, the history and so many interesting buildings. She really knew her stuff and made it enjoyable. Kept us out of the drizzle and strong winds where she could. Definitely worth doing thank you
          Written November 16, 2024
        • 60emmalinew
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Wonderful Free Walking Tour
          On a recent trip to Helsinki with my dad, we went on the Green Cap free walking tour. It was a wonderful tour - I can't recommend it enough. We saw all the essential Helsinki sites and learned so much about Helsinki, Finland, and Finnish culture. Our tour guide was personable, clearly passionate about Helsinki, and you could tell enjoyed what she was doing. Although it is a free tour, we of course compensated our tour guide via tip since that's the only way she gets paid for the tour. Overall, was a great experience.
          Written November 11, 2024
        • Matty510
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Great discovery of Helsinki with Ainhoa
          I followed 2 tours with Ainhoa in Helsinki, this morning classical tour and in the afternoon the modern Helsinki tour. She was very knowledgeable and had lots of pictures to show us to illustrate her points, which was highly appreciated! The mike is a nice touch to be sure everybody hears her well. Would highly recommend doing both tours, as the modern one is a complement of the classical one and we see completely different things.
          Written November 10, 2024
        • Maria M
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Worth doing! Especially to get acclimated to Helsinki.
          5- we had your guide Ainhoc. She was just lovely. Organized, blended history, culture, Finnish ways all in a beautifully designed walking tour.
          Written October 22, 2024
        • jchomon
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Nice tour and better Guide - Viki
          Very nice your which was enhanced by the complete and funny explanatios of Guido Viki. She was fantastic, as well as the weather we han that day
          Written October 4, 2024
        • Sightsee710951
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Helsinki free walking tour
          This was a wonderful walking tour and I would recommend to anyone spending a day in Helsinki. Our guide, Katia, was so friendly and well informed on the history and sights the 2 hours flew by. It was extremely easy to find our guide ( just at bottom of steps to white cathedral holding a green umbrella) and a pleasant stroll through the city, which should not be too taxing for many people. Thank you Katia.
          Written October 4, 2024
        • tomrT724CS
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Helsinki walkabout
          Kieto was very knowledgeable and efficient. We learned a lot about Helsinki, Finland and the Nordic region. I highly recommend him as a guide.
          Written October 2, 2024
        • 682businesi
          0 contributions
          2.0 of 5 bubbles
          Unpleasant
          There was definitely a lot of good information. However, the way the guide communicated with the group was, in my opinion, a disaster. First of all, even though the tour was advertised as a "free tour", the guide started and ended her speech by insistently asking for tips. (How is that possible?!!). Then there were a lot of very subjective comments from the guide about how the buildings looked. It was even more unpleasant to hear her comments about some Finnish companies and politics, which sounded inappropriate from an ethical point of view. I wish the company would be more professional in training the guides to avoid giving a wrong impression of Finland.
          Written October 2, 2024
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        Eastneuk63
        London, UK2 contributions
        4.0 of 5 bubbles
        Apr 2024 • Couples
        A snowy chilly start in Helsinkis Senates square we were received by Katia who warmed us up with her infectious knowledge and enthusiasm of Finland's capital.
        Written April 7, 2024
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        Victoria
        3 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Apr 2022 • Friends
        Our guide Siri was super nice and very friendly. The Tour hast been very informative and interesting. I would totally recommend this tour.
        Written April 27, 2022
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        Agnes
        2 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Sep 2021
        Jouko is an amazing story teller who gave us a fantastic trip around Helsinki. We learned a bit about everything, including the history, architecture, culture, language and food!
        I would definitely recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about Helsinki and Finland in general.
        Written September 7, 2021
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        julia h
        12 contributions
        2.0 of 5 bubbles
        Jul 2018 • Solo
        I observed that there were two free tours on freetour.com - one that starts at 10am and one that starts at 11am. I initially joined this tour as it fit in better with my timings during the day. However I had to leave as there were many points that were factually incorrect, or that were lacking important details. Although friendly, the guide is in need of improvement, and I would recommend that the overall feel of the tour lacked emotion and empathy. I joined the 11am tour instead run by another company and very much enjoyed it.
        Written July 28, 2018
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        Dear Julia, Thanks for you review - we will take it seriously. However, we have reasonable doubt based on your profile and to our competitors that this is not a real review. As a result to this I have reported it to TripAdvisor's Management. Regards, Kimmo Isotalo Director of Administration
        Written August 14, 2018
        This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

        TravelLucidity
        Wisconsin1 contribution
        1.0 of 5 bubbles
        Apr 2019 • Couples
        I wrote a review here but I got an email saying that the company got it removed, as they obviously did not like my honest feedback. The excuse was that it did not have enough detail and were not sure that it was for the correct company. Therefore, I will write again.

        So I attended a tour with GREEN CAP TOURS - yes they had GREEN CAPS, so it was definitely this company. Although the guide was friendly of sorts, his English accent was really bad, to the point that I could not hear him. Why have a guide who has bad English? But anyway we decided to stick with it as we had already invested our time in turning up. The guide was speaking as if he was reading from a book - a dull monotonous voice which just had no excitement. I can assume only that he forgot his morning coffee. The order of the tour was also strange - we did a lot of walking, and not a lot of talking. I am afraid that I had to leave the tour part way through, as it wasn't for me. I did also notice that some others also left. TripAdvisor offers the opportunity to leave honest feedback, and this is what I have done.
        Written May 15, 2019
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        Hi Thank you for your honest feedback. I'm terribly sorry to hear that our tour didn't meet your expectation. I assume that you are actually talking about Free Walking Tour - Not Private Custom Helsinki Tour as this review has marked. However, no matter the tour - we have to do better. Providing true value to all our customers is paramount for us. We take feedback seriously and will make the measures necessary to fix the issues you mentioned in the review. We have just recruited new guides and we will go this through with them. Anyway, we hope you good summer and wish that you could give us another change sometime later. With Sincere Regards
        Written May 15, 2019
        This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

        favodreamer
        Miami, FL5 contributions
        3.0 of 5 bubbles
        Aug 2018 • Friends
        Our private tour guide had a lot of positive energy and was eager to teach us about the city yet we felt that compared to other walking tours, the experience was average. It is important that guides have high energy but they also need to have a deeper knowledge of government and history as we do expect to have more solid facts throughout the visit, especially with an older crowd as we are.
        Written September 3, 2018
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        Dear Customer, Many thanks for your review! As a return we thank you for your visit and your decision to choose Green Cap Tours. You're always more than welcome back! If you have any ideas how to improve our products, please let me know and give us a chance to earn more stars from you. Best regards, Kimmo Isotalo Director of Administration
        Written September 26, 2018
        This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

        Andrés U
        12 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        It was an enjoyable walk around Helsinki, our guide Ed was very entertaining and gave us many insightful stories and facts about the city. Totally recommended!
        Written December 1, 2019
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        Thank you for your time to write this review. We are delighted to hear you enjoyed the tour br Jouko Väärälä CEO
        Written December 4, 2019
        This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

        guyasp
        Jerusalem, Israel138 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Sep 2017 • Couples
        As we tend to do in any city we get to, we've taken the Helsinki free walking tour. Out guide was Teemu S., a very funny guy with polished English and lots of stories - regarding both history and contemporary life. Excellent.
        Written October 18, 2017
        This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
        Dear Guys, Many thanks for your review! As a return we thank you for your visit and that you chose Green Cap Tours for your host in Helsinki. You're always more than welcome to join our other tours. It would also be really interested to hear, if you have any ideas how to improve our products. Was there something missing? We are always looking for ways to make our service better. Best regards, Kimmo Isotalo Marketing Director
        Written October 19, 2017
        This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

        Eeva
        Zurich, Switzerland2 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        We had such a great tour and also our guide, Katia, was just amazing. She told so many interesting stories and side facts, I learned so much! Thank you so much. I highly recommend this tour.
        Written June 21, 2024
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        Julian L
        43 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Berte was extremely knowledgeable about her city and the tour was a great introduction to our city break.
        The mobile talk made a good backdrop to our stay in this beautiful city.
        Written May 21, 2024
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