Helsinki to Tallinn Day Trip: Explore Europe's Best-Preserved Old Town with Comfortable Ferry Ride
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Tallinn
Embark on a comfortable ferry ride from Helsinki to Tallinn and explore Europe's best-preserved old town. Enjoy a high-quality city tour and have free time for lunch and souvenirs.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Kadriorg Park - Baroque park with the Palace of Russian Emperor Peter I, Old Palace of Peter I and the Estonian President’s palace.
  • Tallinn Old Town - The best preserved old Town in Northern Europe. We see both, Upper and Lower towns
  • Maarjamae Palace Estonian History Museum (Maarjamae Loss) - See the impressive neo Gothic manor house and the unique Soviet Sculpture park
  • Aleksander Nevski Katedraali - Gorgeous Russian Orthodox church
  • Toompea Castle - Crusader’s castle from the 1200-s
  • Peapiiskopi Kirik - Lutheran cathedral with the biggest collection of the coats of arms in the world
  • Tallinna Raekoja Plats - Heart of the old Town. Place full of Restaurants and souvenir shops. Final point of our tour
What's Included
  • Round trip ferry ticket Helsinki-Tallinn-Helsinki
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic Beverages
Additional Information

The excursion provides a chance to make a brief trip from Helsinki to Tallinn, experiencing one of the finest preserved ancient towns in Europe. Pleasant commute via ferry, departing Helsinki at 9.15am. In two short hours, you will be in Tallinn for a top-notch city tour, some leisure time for lunch or to shop souvenirs, and return to Helsinki by 9.15pm.

Location
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Sadama
Please come to the Western Terminal in Helsinki port. Go to the second floor to Eckeroline ferry company counter. Ferry departure from Helsinki 9.00 am, end of check-in 8.00am. Ferry departure from Tallinn 6.30pm end of boarding 6.00pm. Please meet your guide with the sign
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(21 Ratings)
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Thomaso587
May 4, 2024
Interesting tour and great organization - We booked the tour just a day in advance. Even in that short amount of time, organization went smoothly : I was contacted the same day with QR codes etc for the ferry, and clear instructions related to how the visit would be organize. Our guide, Svetlana, was great : she had lots of anecdotes about Tallin, led the visits just as you would expect, and gave us nice recommendations for lunch options and shops. Thank you!
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Thomas_o
Apr 19, 2024
Interesting tour and great organization - We booked the tour just a day in advance. Even in that short amount of time, organization went smoothly : I was contacted the same day with QR codes etc for the ferry, and clear instructions related to how the visit would be organize. Our guide, Svetlana, was great : she had lots of anecdotes about Tallin, led the visits just as you would expect, and gave us nice recommendations for lunch options and shops. Thank you!
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Linz701
Mar 18, 2024
Tallinn Day Trip - The most worth seeing is the Old Town of Tallinn. It is a bit like Prague or CK Town, with red roofs dotted with many Gothic spires. It is said that there are more than 60 such spires in the city. The ancient city walls, cobblestone roads, and buildings of different styles all make people travel back to the transportation hub and trade center of the Middle Ages. The English tour guide who led us on the tour was great, very knowledgeable, and explained in detail. If we were to wander around without a tour guide, we would definitely take a lot of detours and miss many attractions. Therefore, if it is your first time to Tallinn, it is necessary to have a local tour guide.
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693darrenw
Mar 13, 2024
A thoroughly enjoyable day in Tallin - The day trip of Tallin from Helsinki was excellent. The tour organisation was first class from receiving the ferry tickets a couple of days before, meeting the guide at the terminal in Tallin, to the pickup in the old town and return to the Ferry Anastasia met us at the ferry terminal in Tallin and gave us a driving tour of Tallin and a walking tour of the Old City. The tour was eductional, informative and very enjoyable, highlighting the best of Tallin. Anastasia also provided some excellent tips on cafes and restaurants to visit in the free time you have at the end of the walking tour. We also enjoyed the small group aspect of the tour. Other than my wife and I our tour group only included one other person. A thoroughly enjoyable day in Tallin. Highly recommended.
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M5406vnmeghans
Mar 13, 2024
Amazing tour! - Awesome trip! Our guide, Elena was very knowledgeable and very kind. Was nice to have transportation taken care of for a worry-free excursion. I was pretty tired but found the tour to be at a relaxing pace with some downtime at the end. Loved this beautiful city and learned a lot!
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Maria_e
Jan 2, 2024
Well worth the Visit to Tallinn! - Weeks ahead we received our tickets and instructions from Dmitry, which was very helpful. The checking at the ferry was very easy, the ferry had live music, drinks, even karaoke. Loved Tallinn. Our guide Yelena showed us around with humor and pride. The city is beautiful and it was a wonderful day spent visiting the capital city of Estonia.
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Tonlim0129
Dec 2, 2023
Highly recommended - Very good tour of do of old town Tallinn. Informative snd friendly guide too with so much knowledge.
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Marcelan998
May 4, 2024
Excellent tour - It was a very nice tour even though it was snowing. The very attentive guide picked us up at the port and gave us the tour by car and some time on foot through the snowfall. But it was very nice
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Tamnance
May 27, 2024
Good logistics but mediocre tour guide - Logistics/locations: We feel that the logistics were handled very well. The ferry tickets were emailed to us right away. The ferry ride itself was very pleasant since there was a a lot of entertainment and food. The guide had a sign when she met us on the Tallin side. They had a driver take us first to the palace, which was a bit far from the old town. We probably wouldn’t have seen it if we were doing it on our own. At the end of the the day, a bus picked us up from old town and took us back to the ferry port. Information/presentation: The information shared was ok. The guide seemed to only know surface level information such as the style of the buildings and timelines. Some of the things she shared were very obvious and didn’t add to our understanding of the culture and history such as how the museums had permanent and rotating exhibits. There’s no storytelling, just facts so just know what you’ll be getting. Overall, we felt that the ease of having someone else handle the logistics and learning a little was better than doing it on our own. We definitely saw parts of the town we would not have seen and it made for a very efficient way to do a day trip to Tallin.
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Fearless67230412718
May 4, 2024
Ferry tour from Helsinki - The guide and the treatment were super good, perhaps he was very entertained in the explanations and we could have seen more things. But the organization and the staff highly recommended.
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