I had already told you about my previous stay at Klaus K Helsinki. I suggest that you reread the article, but I would like to reiterate the substance of my thoughts in a few sentences.
The category “boutique hotels” includes independent hotels, not “standardized”, with an often particular and inventive style. This is what you find at Design Hotels for example, the opposite of the big chains.
At the Klaus K Helsinki it seems that the term is used as a synonym for “we painted over dust”, it’s worn out, not coherent, but we’ll pretend it’s voluntary and we’ll market it.
I recently had to return to Helsinki somewhat unexpectedly. I booked my room at the last minute on the train from the airport to the city center. No time to look elsewhere, by reflex I book at the Klaus K from the SPG application, almost by reflex, not expecting anything fantastic given my previous stay.
Staying only 24 hours I mechanically take the cheapest room. At 160 euros all the same. Its name sounds good “Passion Mini”. As this is the cheapest room in the hotel I suspect that it must not be big but anyway I will only be there in the evening to sleep so my needs in space are reduced.
I arrive at the hotel. The reception is always as kitsh, the staff is always as friendly (it is the only positive point of this hotel with its restaurant…on the other hand to find someone not friendly in the Northern countries is complicated…except if you fall on a French person), the elevator always as rickety, the corridors always as dismal…
And so I take possession of my “Passion Mini”.
The door opens on a mini (very appropriate to say so) entrance hall that leads to the bedroom and the bathroom.
The bathroom is surprisingly large (especially once you see the bedroom).
On the other hand for the practical side one will pass again: once you took a shower, impossible to go to the toilets without wetting your feet.
And here is the ” Passion Mini ” room.
Here is what it looks like on the hotel’s website…
And here’s the reality:
So if I resume the criteria:
- I’m looking for the design/hotel boutique side.
- It is dark as can be.
- Not a place to put a computer except the table you see next to the bed. In Klaus K the only way to work is to lie down.
- Superb view on the roofs and the building opposite.
- Let’s say it: it’s ugly.
- And it’s small, really small.
Once the suitcase is opened it looks like this…
In addition, the bedding was not pleasant, so I felt like I was spending a night in prison.
So of course I didn’t expect much but I didn’t think it was possible to do so little. And at 160 euros it is one of the most beautiful scams I have ever seen.
In Klaus K everything is approximation and replastering. At 160 euros per 12m2 it is simply a hotel that I do not recommend and certainly one of my worst hotel experiences.
It can be “small”, it can even be “small and expensive” but the rest must be at the level and compensate. Here we are far from it
