Helsinki Excursion

We are planning a private tour while in Helsinki. Do you think it's worth it to visit Porvoo and are 5-6 hours enough to see the city and Porvoo?

We are planning a private tour while in Helsinki. Do you think it's worth it to visit Porvoo and are 5-6 hours enough to see the city and Porvoo?

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Well I may subjective, but Porvoo has a really nice wooden old town. So I would say yes, but then again my family comes from Porvoo :) 5-6 hours is ok, it is not a big place. Nice shops and cafees. I just love the athmosphere. Old wooden houses built by a river and a small good museum to show how people lived in its hayday. Church has character. Nice place all in all and worth a visit for sure.

Well I may subjective, but Porvoo has a really nice wooden old town. So I would say yes, but then again my family comes from Porvoo :) 5-6 hours is ok, it is not a big place. Nice shops and cafees. I just love the athmosphere. Old wooden houses built by a river and a small good museum to show how people lived in its hayday. Church has character. Nice place all in all and worth a visit for sure.

It also has a great pub by the road bridge over the river, that serves excellent beers and food. Lovely to sit on the terrace overlooking the river with a good beer.

We spent a few days in Helsinki last year. I don't know anything about Porvoo, but I was amazed at how we had walked all over Helsinki and saw all the main sites it basically one day. Suomenlinna can take quite a bit of time if you wander all over, but besides that a day is more then enough to see all main sites. If I do Helsinki again I will venture more out of the city. It's a beautiful city, but after spending a week in Stockholm it was much smaller then we had anticipated. If you get a chance find the Bad Bad Boy statue still makes me laugh when I see the pictures.