{"id":19298,"date":"2024-05-19T20:25:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=19298"},"modified":"2024-05-19T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:25:28","slug":"great-value-hotel-vouchers-scandic-more-via-finnair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/05\/19\/great-value-hotel-vouchers-scandic-more-via-finnair\/","title":{"rendered":"Great-value hotel vouchers (Scandic &amp; more) via Finnair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finnair joined the Avios family in March, which opened up more opportunities for us Avios collectors in terms of award flights. In fact, they already made a great contribution with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/03\/26\/finnair-business-class-copenhagen-doha-for-20k-avios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Finnair business class: Copenhagen-Doha for 20K Avios\">their Doha flash sale<\/a> \ud83d\ude09\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know about this, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finnairshop.com\/en\/finnair-plus-awards-and-products\/hotels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Finnair obviously has an online shop where you can exchange your Avios into hotel vouchers<\/a>. There are some very good deals to be had here.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-shop-hotels.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-shop-hotels.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19309\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-shop-hotels.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-shop-hotels-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-shop-hotels-768x651.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The most prominent names are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scandic Basic &#8211; \u20ac74.42 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scandic Premium &#8211; \u20ac114.40 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sokos &#8211; \u20ac103.41 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Sokos has close to 50 properties across 30 Finnish cities, whereas Scandic has nearly 300 in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany and Poland &#8211; the <em>Premium <\/em>collection contains a handful of their high-end properties, and all others are in <em>Basic<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is easy to check if your voucher is applicable for a particular date and hotel. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scandichotels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Scandic&#8217;s website<\/a>, search with booking code <strong>VOY<\/strong> (or <strong>VOFINN <\/strong>for Premium), and available hotels will be listed first with &#8220;1 Voucher&#8221; displayed.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-scandic-oslo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-scandic-oslo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-scandic-oslo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-scandic-oslo-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sokoshotels.fi\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Sokos<\/a>, use booking code <strong>AYPLUS20 <\/strong>instead.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-sokos-helsinki.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"906\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-sokos-helsinki.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19304\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-sokos-helsinki.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-sokos-helsinki-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/finnair-sokos-helsinki-768x819.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>You can have some pretty good bargains here. The Sokos hotel in Helsinki I&#8217;m looking at for example, costs \u20ac185 if booking directly. However, the best deal is likely to be at Oslo, which is the most expensive city &#8211; those Scandic hotels ask for more than \u20ac200 for a Saturday night in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few independent hotels in Finland are also available through this system:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hotel Kamp Helsinki: \u20ac322.39 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maria Hotel Helsinki: \u20ac364.45+ 5,000 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hotel Haven Helsinki: \u20ac145.40 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Klaus K Helsinki: \u20ac107.40 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hotel St George Helsinki: \u20ac226.39 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hotel Lilla Roberts Helsinki: \u20ac144.40 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design Hotel Levi: \u20ac139.79 + 2 000 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Naantali Spa Hotel &amp; Resort: \u20ac165.40 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ruissalo Spa Hotel: \u20ac129.40 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hotel Ruka Ski Resort: \u20ac71.42 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hotel Pyh\u00e4tunturi: \u20ac42.43 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GLO Hotels: \u20ac76.41 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Holiday Club Hotels: \u20ac145.40 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clarion Hotels: \u20ac87.41 + 500 Avios<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The catches are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Except at Scandic and Sokos, there isn&#8217;t an easy way to check award availability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You must have at least 500 Avios to book, and you can add more (and pay less cash) when checking out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The voucher expires after six months and is non-refundable, so it can be an awkward position if your plans change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Finnair has switched their award currency to Avios already, you can&#8217;t yet move Avios between your Finnair and BA \/ QR \/ IB accounts. If you have an Amex UK account however, you can transfer your MR points to Finnair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnair joined the Avios family in March, which opened up more opportunities for us Avios collectors in terms of award flights. In fact, they already made&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,2],"tags":[112,124],"class_list":["post-19298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finnair","category-hotel-groups","tag-hotel-promotion","tag-points-trick"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19298"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19311,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19298\/revisions\/19311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}