Visited travel fair

We had decided that we won’t go to the annual Finnish travel Fair (Matkamessut in Finnish), as we usually just get frustrated there due to the sheer amount of people and absense of good deals. Last two years, I’ve ordered tickets with my SAS EuroBonus points.

Fortunately I didn’t spent the points, as Sanna’s aunt got two tickets that she didn’t need, and gave them to us. So, this Saturday we packed ourselves to car, fetched the tickets and drove to Messukeskus.

We got stuck in a traffic jam and had to take a long detour to arrive to Pasila, so the house was fully packed already by the time we were there.

There were two major sections: abroad and Finland. The Finnish halls were no interest to us and we carefully avoided stepping our toes there.

The abroad hall had booths from the airlines, ferrylines, tour organisers, hotels and resorts from the Baltic countries and Russian Carelia, and country tourism agencies. There were a lot of goodies and free candy available. But no decent deals.

We tried our luck in Blue1 (subsidiary of SAS) twice, but got nothing. I’ve once won on Blue1 competition, unfortunately only two tickets two world championship ice hockey game in Helsinki.

We got a few brochures to leaf through this evening and a longing to go somewhere — I’ll now start browsing through the web to find a good deal to get us away and back.