Yesterday hotel bookings for Worldcon opened, and the inevitable panic on social media ensued. Getting a hotel room for Worldcon isn’t, thank goodness, as bad as trying to get a hotel room in San Diego for ComicCon, but it is complicated by the host city being different each year.

Anyway, I do know Helsinki tolerably well, and I have done site reports before now. I figured it would be useful to remind you of them.

First up here’s some video I took of the convention center and city when we were bidding for 2015. Obviously this is a few years old now (it is from 2013), but not much has changed.

There’s also a photo album, taken on the same trip.

One thing that has changed is that there is now a train from the airport that takes you directly into the city center. My report on that (from this year) is here.