2-Star Hotels in Southern Savonia, Finland

With a stay at Hotelli Savonlinna in Savonlinna, you'll be a 3-minute walk from Riihisaari – Lake Saimaa Nature and Museum Centre and 6 minutes by foot from Savonlinna Regional Museum. This hotel is 0.3 mi (0.4 km) from Olavinlinna Castle and 0.4 mi (0.7 km) from Savonlinna Market Square. This hotel features games, designated smoking areas, and a bowling alley on site. Enjoy a meal at Kahvila & Ravintola Reilu or snacks in the hotel's coffee shop/cafe. A complimentary buffet breakfast is served on weekdays from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM and on weekends from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM. Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, an elevator, and coffee/tea in a common area. Limited parking is available onsite. Make yourself at home in one of the 48 air-conditioned rooms featuring LED televisions. Digital television is provided for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include electric kettles and free tea bags/instant coffee, and housekeeping is provided once per stay.

A stay at Savonlinna Rentals places you in the heart of Savonlinna, within a 5-minute drive of Olavinlinna Castle and Savonlinna Regional Museum. This guesthouse is 14.6 mi (23.6 km) from Kerimäki Church and 17.7 mi (28.5 km) from Lusto Finnish Forest Museum. Make use of convenient amenities, which include complimentary wireless internet access and a communal living room. Featured amenities include express check-in, express check-out, and laundry facilities. Free self parking is available onsite. Stay in one of 9 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms feature showers, bidets, and hair dryers. Conveniences include separate sitting areas and irons/ironing boards, and housekeeping is provided daily.

Set in a refurbished 1882 building, Huoneistohotelli Marja is within 10 minutes' walk of central Mikkeli. All accommodations options include private kitchen facilities. Wi-Fi and on-site parking are free. Overlooking the garden, Marja’s options feature wooden floors, a TV and a bathroom with shower. Kitchen facilities include a microwave, fridge and dining area. Tea and coffee are also available. A grocery shop is less than a 5-minute walk from Marja, while Mikkeli Station, Mikkeli Cathedral and Urpola Nature Center are within 0.7 mi. Mikkeli Congress Center can be reached in 20 minutes by foot. The nearest golf course is 1.9 mi away and a beach can be found 0.7 mi from the property.

When you stay at Pistohiekka Resort in Puumala, you'll be near the beach and within a short 4-minute drive from Lietvesi Scenic Road. This cabin is 5.5 mi (8.9 km) from Sahanlahti and 14.3 mi (23.1 km) from Siikajärvi. The front desk is staffed during limited hours. Free self parking is available onsite. Make yourself at home in one of the 5 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers.

Yöveden Ateljeekoti is an atmospheric accommodation in a historic former village school, which was completed in 1893. The house has five bedrooms and, in addition, two gardens for winter living in the courtyard. Guests have access to a well-equipped kitchen, a spacious dining room, a children's play area, a summer kitchen covered in the garden with barbecue and an atelier with Katja's art on display. Yöveden Ateljeekoti is the personal atelier home of the visual artist Katja Antonoff, offering atmospheric accommodation in a historic former village school, which was completed in 1893. The building served as a village school for nearly a hundred years until 1992. Today, its unique milieu combines history, art and cozy accommodation in the tranquility of nature. Guests have at their disposal five bedrooms and two sleeping cabins, a well-equipped kitchen, a spacious dining area, a children's play area with lots of books, games and toys for children of all ages, and a covered summer kitchen in the garden with a gas grill and a electric smoker. In addition, guests have access to a spacious foyer, two toilets and a shower room, as well as a washing machine. Katja Antonoff's studio is also connected to the house, where her art is exhibited. If you wish, you can book a watercolor workshop directed by Katja and paint your own artwork to commemorate your visit. No previous painting experience is required. A kilometre from Ateljeekodi is a 160-year-old beach sauna, where you can experience the gentle steam of the historic sauna and take a dip in the waves of Saimaa's Night Water. There is also a lake seal nesting nearby so it is possible that you will also get to see this delightfully curious bottlenose that occasionally visits our sauna beach. You can also book a guided tour by Katja Antonoff, during which you will get to hear stories about the history of the house and the area, as well as explore the art and artefacts of the house and hear about the stories behind them. The tour includes a visit to the atmospheric

With a stay at this villa in Hirvensalmi, you'll be 16.7 mi (26.9 km) from Hirvensalmi and 22.8 mi (36.7 km) from Pankalammen uimaranta. This villa is 23.2 mi (37.3 km) from Mikkeli Cathedral and 23.4 mi (37.7 km) from Urheilupuisto. Take advantage of recreation opportunities such as a sauna, or other amenities including complimentary wireless internet access and barbecue grills. Free self parking is available onsite. Make yourself comfortable in your air-conditioned villa.

52 km north-east of Mikkeli. Lake Iso-Kontunen 10 m (length 4 km, breadth 1 km), shallow water, firm sandy bottom. Pier and rowingboat. Log cabin 1997, alcove with 140 cm doublebed, sauna, washing room (toilet), glass veranda. Cottage has a mini kitchen, 1 extra bed on matress. The owner can be asked to rent a 6 hp outboard. Wi-Fi internet connection 20 euro. Pets allowed for an additional fee; please select the surcharge for your reservation according to the number of pets, thank you.

52 km north-east of Mikkeli. Lake Pienkontunen 80 m, (length 500 m, breadth 250 m), shallow water, soft, sanded bottom. Pier and rowingboat. Lake Iso-Kontunen 150 m (length 4 km, breadth 1 km), shallow and deep water, rowingboat. Log cabin 1935, renovated 1997, living room/kitchen with sofa bed and bunk bed, bedroom with 2 beds+cot, living room with sofabed for two, porch, washing room (toilet), sauna (electric sauna stove), open veranda. Also a wood heated baking oven in the kitchen. Lakeside sauna at Pienkontunen (7 m²). The owner can be asked to rent a 6 hp outboard. Wi-Fi internet connection 20 euro. Pets allowed for an additional fee per pet; please select the surcharge for your reservation according to the number of pets, thank you.

13 km north of Mikkeli, there is the atmospheric and cozy Havukka cottage, which is perfect for couples who appreciate nature and peace or a small group of friends for an evening gathering. The cottage is located on a beautiful wild forest slope on the shore of pond Ekslampi (40 m). There is only one other cottage on the shore of the same pond, which is not visible. There is a private rowing boat available on the shore and you can catch pike and perch from the pond. Log cottage 1975, renovated 1999, bright and nicely retro-romantic decorated living room and kitchen, with a double bed (two single beds on a single mattress, separate mattresses also available on request in advance). Dining table for four and an open fireplace to add atmosphere. The kitchen has cold and hot water, no dishwasher. Refrigerator with freezer compartment. Bathroom with toilet and shower. The cottage has a large covered terrace with plenty of space for grilling and sitting in the evenings. The cottage has room for two to four guests, and there are two 90x200 cm beds in the summer shed as an alternative bed. The 8-square-meter shed (1975) has electricity for lighting and additional heating if necessary. Note: the shed is only available in June-August. Beach sauna 8 m² (1975), with a wood-burning stove and stove tank, 5 m of water from the pond, electric light, terrace. Stairs to the sauna and the beach. The wood-burning beach sauna has soft steam baths and it is convenient to take a dip in the cool pond from the sauna. The beach is hard, with a deep mud bottom. The depth in the middle of the pond is 14 m, the depth at the end of the pier is about 3 meters and the beach is very suitable for swimmers with good swimming skills. Next to the beach sauna there is a small atmospheric grill house with an open fireplace, a wood stove and a charcoal grill for preparing a variety of dishes. In the grill house you can fry sausages, sit in the evening, cook soot-pan coffee in the open fireplace, even in rainy weather. There is also a terrace and an electrical outlet in the grill house. In addition, there is a wood shed and an outdoor toilet in the yard.