Went to Helsinki a few times when lived in uk, love it there. What time of year are you planning on going? Once we went march snow everywhere frozen lakes etc which was one experience the other was july so summer and does not really get dark. Both were before children so were not necessarily on lookout for child friendly stuff. once we did a day trip to Tallin in Estonia which is a couple of hours on ferry and that was lovely, old square reminded me of the child catchers square in chitty chitty bang bang, and lovely architecture. There is a park on an island just off Helsinki which was good too. Beaches there are ok but water very cold, they have stalls selling sugar snap peas on beaches which people eat by bucketful. There are trams there, another reason I love it so easy to get around. One of the times we flew into Helsinki but out of Stockholm and got the overnight ferry between the two, and Stockholm lovely too.
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