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Helsinki Highlights Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt and City Tour

4.2 / 5

14 reviews

Activity provider: World City Trail
Other experience

Helsinki Highlights Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt and City Tour

Activity provider: World City Trail

From US$ 7 per person

Explore Helsinki walking, playing, and learning on this self-guided scavenger hunt and walking tour in one. Using your phone as your guide, solve riddles and see the city’s important attractions.

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Experience

Highlights
  • Explore at least 10 of the most important sites by walking and learning.
  • Discover hidden gems, picturesque places that you normally wouldn't see.
  • Enjoy the tour in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
  • Navigate accurately through the city while creating unforgettable memories.
  • Read or Listen to introductory information about the city.
Full description

Get to know Helsinki at your own pace on this interactive scavenger hunt walking tour played on your phone. Decipher riddles, interact with the most important attractions of the city, and unlock interesting facts and legends. An ideal outdoor activity for first time visitors, couples, groups, families, and children. Can be used as a great team-building activity.

After downloading the tour app on your mobile device (instructions received via email after booking), simply use the app and integrated maps to find your way to 10 attractions in Helsinki. You can choose to start the activity at any time.

At each stop, learn about the attraction and solve a location-based riddle that can only be solved if you reach the specific location. Use logic, imagination, observation, and team spirit to unlock the correct code and reveal the next destination of the city sightseeing game.

Once you begin, you'll solve a location-based riddle at each attraction and unlock the next location you need to visit. Work as a team and use logic, imagination, observation, and problem solving to make your way around the city.

The app also includes facts and information about each location you stop at, so you'll be close to a local by the end of your adventure. As you explore, you can stop for a coffee, lunch, or a break at any time.

Start your tour at the imposing Finnish National Theatre, with its excellent acoustics! Visit the Ateneum with its unique exhibits and explore Helsinki Cathedral with its stunning white facade. Take a photo at Helsinki's Market Square in the city center and get lost in the historic Vanha Kauppahalli, with its unique history. Visit the uniquely themed Shipwreckinen. You will also pass by Helsinki's Design Museum with its unique exhibits. Admire St. John's Church, the largest stone church in Finland. See, walk, and relax Old Church Park in the city center, while the Three Smiths Statue will be the icing on the cake of this unique tour.

Includes
  • App and login credentials
  • Self-guided city tour
  • Guide
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Entry inside ticketed attractions
Not suitable for
  • People with mobility impairments
  • Wheelchair users

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Participants

Date

Meeting point

Start your tour at Finnish National Theatre. Log in to the app and find the exact location of the first step. There will be no one waiting for you at the starting point and you can begin your tour at any time. The activity time below is indicative.

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Important information

What to bring

  • Comfortable shoes
  • Camera
  • Food
  • Water
  • Comfortable clothes
  • Weather-appropriate clothing
  • Charged Smartphone

Not allowed

  • Unaccompanied minors

Know before you go

  • This activity requires internet access.
  • Please download World City Trail app from App store or Playstore.
  • Use your booking reference for serial number. (GYGXXXXXXXXX)
  • Read carefully the information included in the blue field of the confirmation email of your purchase.
  • The ticket and the app from GetYourGuide are not needed for this activity.
  • There is no time limit for this activity. You can complete it at your own pace.
  • The puzzles are related to the outdoor areas of the attractions, you do not need to enter or pay a ticket. Entrance is purely your choice.
  • Minimum charge of 2 persons applied
Customer reviews

Overall rating

4.2 /5

based on 14 reviews

Review summary

  • Transportation
    5/5
  • Value for money
    5/5

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Un excellent moyen pour découvrir la ville et une partie de son histoire. J’aime beaucoup cette activité.

March 2, 2023

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January 17, 2023

L’inizio è stato difficoltoso perché non avevamo capito di dover scaricare una specifica app. Una volta risolto il problema, l’avventura è stata all’altezza di ogni aspettativa! Divertente, interessante, curiosa, abbiamo visitato punti della città che sicuramente avremmo perso!

December 10, 2022

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Product ID: 407931