We are excited about our new festival location, the Vierumäki sports institute! It is a well known in Finland as a sports mecca and the facilities suit our festival perfectly.
We will have three large dance spaces at our disposal. The jam space is located close to our accommodation and restaurant, and two other spaces a little walk away.
We will sleep in warm and cosy rooms of 2, 2-4, or 2-5 persons. The rooms come with bedsheets and towels, en-suite bathrooms with showers, little fridges, drying cabinets for clothes etc.
We will have flexible meal times in the institute’s buffet restaurant three times per day. It will be easy to combine a delicious and nourishing meal of one’s own liking, be it vegetarian, fish or meat. Also jam snack will be served late in the evening.
What would a visit in Finland be without sauna! We have booked the lakeside sauna for two nights during the festival. There will be two separate saunas and an opportunity to dare ice swimming in the lake! There’s also the possibility to use the sauna and spa close to the jam space for a 6 € fee per session.
Vierumäki is located 130 km from Helsinki. It’s a 90 min drive and easily reachable by public transport (some 2 hours, similar from the airport). More info for getting there – Read below
Getting there
By car
Write the visiting address of the reception in your navigator:
Pihkalantie 3
Vierumäki
Parking is free but parking spot availability tends to fluctuate according to visitors. However, most probably at this time of the year there should be enough spots around.
By public transport
Coming from Helsinki or the Helsinki-Vantaa intl. airport, you need to take a train to Lahti, where you switch to a local bus towards Vierumäki (coming from the airport you need to first change trains in Tikkurila). The buses are regular and daily.
For both the train and the bus it is probably easiest to pay by their mobile apps, or use ticket machines at the railway stations and bus stations.
Coming from the airport, the train ticket to Lahti costs 13,10 €, paid by mobile or ticket machine. You cannot buy tickets in the trains at all these days!
Vierumäki is on zone C for the Lahti area transport, LSL. The price for 3 zones is 5,20 €, if paid by mobile or ticket machine. If you pay in the bus, they only accept cash and it’s more expensive.
Timetables
Train: https://www.vr.fi/en
Bus: https://lahti.digitransit.fi/?locale=en
NOTE: use ‘Suomen Urheiluopisto’ as your destination