Originally built for the 1952 Summer Olympics, Helsinki Airport is the largest airport in Finland & 4th largest in the Nordic countries.
The airport is roughly a 30 minute drive from the city centre, so it’s best to pick up a rental car directly from the airport itself.
Book with Zest Car Rental at Helsinki Airport!
Zest Car Rental provides a fresh and honest approach to hiring a car at Helsinki Airport. At Zest, we know how important transparency is when booking car rental. Our four-step booking process is simple and hassle-free, with no hidden costs or extras. At Zest, we know when planning your trip, you shouldn’t have to sweat the details and focus on the small print. Instead, you can relax and look forward to your holiday, without getting lost in car rental complications!
We also know that sometimes, plans change. Therefore, we offer free cancellation and amendments up to 48 hours before your rental start as standard. Should you require it, we also offer enhanced cancellation protection for a small fee. This offers you free cancellation right up to the time your rental starts!
Zest Car Rental only works with carefully selected and trusted car rental providers at Helsinki Airport who care as much about reputation as we do, and always put the customer first. All our providers are monitored closely, and we review customer feedback frequently to ensure you receive the best rental experience possible. Our amazing customer feedback has meant we are ranked ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot. Also, Zest Car Rental are Feefo Platinum Trusted! You can read our Feefo reviews here!
Stay protected with Zest! We offer breakdown assistance at Helsinki Airport as standard. Should you wish to be fully covered, we can provide you with our industry leading top-up insurance. Our top-up insurance is the top level of cover available provided by us. You’ll receive reimbursement cover against any loss or damage to the vehicle not covered by the standard car hire insurance. To find out what is covered on our top-up insurance, check out our blog! You can rest assured we’ve made things as simple as possible so you can focus on enjoying your holiday and exploring hidden gems!
If you wish to share the driving on holiday, we have negotiated a free additional driver with many of our trusted car rental providers! If your chosen provider does include a free additional driver, this will be clearly labelled on the quote page. Generate a quick and easy quote today!
All rental providers we work with operate a fair fuel policy. This means you either collect the car full of fuel then return it full or return it with the same amount provided upon collection. Hassle-free and straightforward! Learn more about fair fuel policies here!
If you ever have any queries before, during or after your car rental, our friendly customer support team is here to help you. We can even provide you with a quote or make your booking over the telephone! Our U.K. based call centre is open 7 days a week. Wherever you are, Zest are! We operate a 24/7 Customer Support Telephone line for any urgent enquiries during out of office hours.
The great inclusions Zest offers with every rental has led to us being the one and only Which? Recommended Car Hire Broker, an accolade we have earnt every year since 2017! Which? Concluded that Zest Car Rental goes ‘beyond for their customers’ and awarded Zest with a five-star rating for the clarity of the final hire cost. Fresh, Honest and Transparent!
Things to Do in Helsinki and the Surrounding Areas
Amble around the Senate Square, Esplanade Park and, if you’re brave enough, visit the Stadium Tower. The Stadium Tower is 72 metres high and once you’re at the top, you will be rewarded with a spectacular view over Helsinki.
If you’re visiting Helsinki with children or you’re just young at heart, the Linnanmäki Amusement Park makes for a fun afternoon. It's the oldest amusement park in Finland, over a hundred years old, and offers all the traditional rides from a monorail to a roller coaster and a carousel. Even at night the charming atmosphere continues with all the lights and music.
In Helsinki there are plenty of museums to choose from so you will always have a lot to do and for little cost. One to definitely visit though, is the Museum of Contemporary Art or better known to locals as Kiasma (Finnish for charisma). Since its completion in 1998, Kiasma has risen from a once-contested structure to a well-respected architectural highlight of Helsinki and that’s just the outside. Housed in this sweeping glass structure is the contemporary art collection of the Finnish National Gallery, where you can take in some of the greatest painting, sculpture and interactive art of the last few decades.
Another area to check out is Soumenlinna, though technically it’s not actually in Helsinki. It’s easily accessible by ferry from the Helsinki market place. This inhabited sea fortress is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Helsinki and offers fantastic waterfront views of the city. Suomenlinna has been in operation since the 18th century under Swedish, then Russian, then Finnish control, and its eventful history is visible across its six islands. A variety of museums full of swords, uniforms and artillery chart the contested history of the fortress, while more modern attractions like the docked WWII-era submarine provide even more great photo opportunities.
Exploring Finland
It may be a little off the beaten track, but if you're coming to Finland for the first time and fancy getting out of the city you should make the effort to go and see Kaitalampi Lake. Embraced by nature, you forget you are only about 40 minutes' drive from Helsinki city centre. This small, narrow and deep lake is very beautiful, with colourful swamps, needle tree woods and steep rocks around it. Everything here grows in abundance from blueberries to raspberries to forest strawberries. It is quite possible to take a walk around the forest and come back stuffed to the gills for free! This is not a tourist hotspot at all, so very few people who come to Finland even know this area exists. If you have the opportunity it is highly recommend that you go.
'The Weegee Exhibition Centre’ in Espoo is a huge complex that was originally designed as a printing house by the architect Aarno Ruusuvuori. Inside this building you can find EMMA (Espoo Museum of Modern Art), KAMU (Espoo City Museum), Finnish Toy Museum and the Espoo School of Arts. The exhibition centre is mostly for contemporary art, but it is open to very different kinds of art pieces as well.
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