The m/s J.L.Runeberg offers visitors and residents a pleasant 3.5 hour (each way) boat trip to the…read moreold Finnish city Porvoo on a restored old metal ship. Time in Porvoo is limited to about 2.5 hours. Adult fare is 39 euros with a BOGO on Mondays. The good: pay as you go food & drink service aboard (booze too), beautiful scenery, free blankets, free relatively fast Wifi. Dogs and bikes welcome. The not so good: In my opinion, they oversell and the boat could be packed with limited comfortable seating. No safety briefing nor mention of the location of life preservers ( I once spent 7 hours clinging to a cooler after my boat overturned in Florida), limited toilets, so go easy on the booze or coffee. It can get chilly while underway, even in July or August, so bring a jacket. Not much ambiance, so bring your headset/earbuds. All in all, if you have about 10 hours to burn in Helsinki and want to go on a decent boat ride with beautiful scenery, I recommend a ride on the Runeberg.

We took the Canal tour and found it very worth our time. The narration was good and audible from…read moreall areas of the boat. Narration was in Finnish, English, and German. The Tour allowed us to see both residential, civic and military areas that we would not have had time to see otherwise and included local history.

We took Stromma tours in Stockholm and found them excellent. We took the canal tour here in…read moreHelsinki and also found it very good. It takes an hour and a half. The scenery sells itself. It's a beautiful route on any day. Some of the waterside summer houses here are extraordinary. We really liked the tour, and found it well run and good value.