Original Sokos Hotel Villa

Sokos hotel villa is located next to Tampere railwaystation. This 6-floor hotel is quite modern, it has been built on an old grain warehouse. Service was nice again, breakfast ok, but served in another building. Spacious room, this time for solo traveller. I stayed in room on the 6th floor, There were very little window which not possible totally cover with venetian blind.

The hotel is at the "wrong side" of the now ongoing (summer 2025) train track work. Even w/o said construction, the walking distance from the hotel to the parks / central / lakeside is somewhat long, especially compared to rivals like Sokos Ilves, Scandic Koskipuisto or Radisson Blue Grand. The hotel itself was very clean and cozy but lacks any kind of in-house restaurant or wine bar. All this can be found 100m away at the "Sokos Torni" -side of the complex. Even the breakfast is at the Sokos Torni side. Also the reception / lobby area is rather small -＞ there's build up queuing rather easily. Parking is plenty but spots are small and there's only few (4) EV charging spots, which is a letdown. We drove our vehicles 400m away to the "City Parking P-Hämppi" where is like 50+ EV chargers easily available and parking spots are large. We had the Junior Suite, room was clean and really nice - the mattres was exceptional (not too soft, not too hard for me, 75kg / 165lbs guy, but the pillows were bad. The normal was too hard and kind of bumpy and the alternative pillow was kind of sofa pillow?! This was a big letdown. Staff was really friendly and the breakfast (at the Hotel Torni side) was 5/5!

Positiivinen kokemus Huone oli siisti, tilava, rauhallinen. Vuode oli hyvä. Huomeessani ei ollut baarikaappia, joten ei mitään kylmätilaa. Vedenkeitin, joten teen, kaakaon ja kahvin valmistaminen oli mahdollista.l Rakennuksella oli historiaa. Kysymällä sain tietoa siitä. Olisi kiva jos siitä olisi kirjallista tietoa. Se olisi minua kiinnostanut. Aamupala oli todella runsas.

Mainio Villa. Tosi kiva, siisti ja helppo hotelli. Kaikki toimi moitteettomasti ja vanhat yksityiskohdat toivat luonnetta muuten ehkä vähän persoonattomalle kokonaisuudelle.

Very nice, clean and quiet Very good beds and a clean, beautiful, roomy shower. But lighting in the bathroom was so dim and only comes from underneath the mirror, that doing my very simple make-up of blush, mascara and powder, was hard. There is a make-up mirror with light, but it's very high and the light is useless. For a romantic getaway with my spouse this hotel was very nice, clean and quiet. The only downside was that walking to have the bigger breakfast in the nearby Torni Hotel was so simple for the staff that they didn't tell us in enough detail how to get there. We just had to start walking and guessing our way. The breakfast was very good when we finally found it.