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Fixed price from €265 · about 1.5 hours · door-to-door with meet & greet
BOOK YOUR TRANSFER →A pre-booked private transfer from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to Vierumäki is a fixed €265 for the whole car (Standard, up to 3 passengers) — about 121 km, ~90 min. Your English-speaking driver meets you in the Terminal 2 arrivals hall; flight tracking and 60 minutes of free waiting are included. No meter, no surcharges.
Travel directly from Helsinki Airport (HEL) to the Vierumäki sports resort in a private, pre-booked car with an English-speaking driver. Your driver tracks your flight, meets you in the arrivals hall with a name sign, and takes you straight to your exact building on the resort — the Vierumäki Resort Hotel (Scandic), the Holiday Club apartments, a holiday cottage, the golf clubhouse, or the Ice Arena for a training camp. No taxi queue, no train-and-bus connection with kit bags, and one price agreed and fixed before you book, whether you travel alone or arrive as a full team in a minivan.
Vierumäki lies in the forests of the Heinola region in southern Finland, just off Highway 4 beyond Lahti, about 121.4 km from Helsinki Airport — roughly an hour and a half by car. It is home to the Sport Institute of Finland and one of the busiest sports resorts in the Nordics, and we have been driving athletes, teams, golfers and families up this road since 2008, in every season and at every hour a camp schedule demands.
Prices below are starting fixed fares for the Helsinki Airport ↔ Vierumäki route (about 121.4 km). The exact price for your specific address, date and time is calculated instantly in the booking form above — and stays fixed once you book.
| Vehicle | From | |
|---|---|---|
| Business — executive sedan (up to 3 passengers, 3 bags) |  | €311 |
| Business Van — premium Mercedes minivan (up to 8 passengers, 8 bags) |  | €347 |
| First Class Van — premium Mercedes minivan (up to 7 passengers, 7 bags) |  | €422 |
| First Class — luxury flagship sedan (up to 3 passengers, 3 bags) |  | €426 |
| Standard — comfortable sedan or crossover (up to 3 passengers, 3 bags) |  | €265 |
All fares are per vehicle (not per person), and include all taxes, flight tracking, meet & greet and up to 60 minutes of free waiting time from the moment your flight lands. Child seats are available on request at no extra charge.
All-inclusive fixed fares, VAT included. Last verified July 2026 against our live booking system.
A fixed price, not a running meter. Vierumäki is a rural resort well beyond the Helsinki region, and a metered airport taxi over that distance is a gamble — the fare climbs with every kilometre of Highway 4 and you only learn the total when you arrive. With us the price for your exact pickup and drop-off is calculated and shown before you confirm, and it does not change on the day, whatever the traffic past Lahti. For a club treasurer or a company expense report, it is one clean, agreed figure.
One minivan for the whole team. Vierumäki traffic is group traffic: junior hockey teams flying in for a camp, golf fours, figure-skating groups, company departments heading to a conference. A premium Mercedes minivan takes up to 8 passengers with 8 bags, so a group that would need three separate taxis travels together in one vehicle — same departure, same arrival, no one left waiting at the rank. For larger squads we run several vehicles in convoy, timed to the same flight.
Door to door, kit bags included. Hockey bags, stick tubes, golf travel bags and skis do not fit well into a train-to-Lahti-then-bus itinerary, and the resort itself spreads across a large forest campus where buildings are minutes apart. Your driver loads everything at the terminal and drops you at the exact door you name — the hotel lobby, the Ice Arena, the Holiday Club reception or a cottage lane — not at a stop somewhere on the resort.
A driver who waits when your flight is late. We track your flight in real time, and up to 60 minutes of free waiting after landing is included in every fare. If the connection from a European hub runs behind, your driver adjusts and is still standing in the arrivals hall with your name sign — which matters when a team bus schedule or a camp check-in window is waiting at the other end.
No car needed once you arrive. Vierumäki is built to be lived on foot: accommodation, rinks, courses, pools, restaurants and trails all sit within the same resort area. Most guests never need a car during their stay — the only legs that genuinely require one are the airport runs at each end, and those are exactly what a pre-booked transfer covers, including the return pickup timed to your departure flight.
We have driven this road since 2008. Vierumäki is one of the routes we know inside out — the Highway 4 corridor in summer and in snow, the resort's internal roads, the difference between the institute side and the Holiday Club side, and the rhythm of camp arrivals when half a junior league lands on the same Saturday. More than 20,000 passengers have travelled with us across Finland, and a good share of them were carrying sticks, skates or clubs.
The drive from Helsinki Airport to Vierumäki is about 121.4 km and takes roughly an hour and a half in normal conditions. Because the airport sits on the northern edge of the capital, your driver joins the Lahti motorway without crossing Helsinki at all, then follows Highway 4 (E75) north past Lahti towards Heinola and leaves the motorway at the Vierumäki junction, from where the resort's own road, Urheiluopistontie, leads through the pines to the campus. It is fast, modern motorway almost the whole way.
By public transport the same journey means a train or bus into Lahti and then a regional bus that stops on the main road near the resort — workable for a lone traveller with a backpack, awkward for anyone with sports equipment, and slow late in the evening when many international arrivals land. A private car turns it into a single ride of about an hour and a half, door to door, at any hour your flight comes in.
In winter the route is ploughed and maintained motorway, and our cars run on proper winter tyres with drivers who cover this corridor year-round — snow on the Salpausselkä ridges is normal life here, not a delay. We are a pre-booked service, so please book at least 24 hours ahead. After booking you receive an email confirmation with your reference and meeting instructions, and on the day your driver follows your actual landing time, not the scheduled one.
For the return, we collect you from your hotel, cottage or the arena at the time you choose and bring you back to Helsinki-Vantaa at the same fixed pricing — teams often book both legs together so the whole camp travels on one confirmed schedule.
Vierumäki is not a town but a purpose-built sports resort in the municipality of Heinola, grown up around the Sport Institute of Finland in the pine forests between Lahti and Heinola. Over nearly a century it has developed into a self-contained village: hotels, holiday apartments and cottages, two full golf courses, an ice arena, a multipurpose arena, tennis and padel halls, a swimming hall, a water park and spa, restaurants, a shop, and a web of running and skiing trails threading through the forest and past the lakes.
What makes the place unusual is the mix of guests. On the same morning you might see a national junior hockey squad heading to the rink, retirees walking the trails, a corporate group filing into a meeting room, families splashing in the water park and golfers teeing off on the Cooke course. It is Finland's idea of a holiday and Finland's idea of training rolled into one campus, and it runs at full tilt in every season — ice and skiing in winter, golf and lake swimming in summer.
For arriving visitors the practical point is that Vierumäki is a destination in the forest, not a city with a station. Everything works beautifully once you are there; the one leg that needs planning is getting there from the airport, which is exactly the leg we handle.
The heart of Vierumäki is the Sport Institute of Finland (Suomen Urheiluopisto), founded in 1927 and today an official Olympic Training Centre of the Finnish Olympic Committee. Generations of Finnish athletes, coaches and physical-education professionals have trained here, and the institute still sets the tone of the whole resort: proper facilities, proper coaching, and a calendar full of camps, courses and national-team sessions across its focus sports — ice hockey, tennis, figure skating, gymnastics and cheerleading among them.
The campus is also a landmark of Finnish architecture. The functionalist main building was designed by Erik Bryggman, who won the 1930 architectural competition for the site, and its first phase was completed in 1936 — a white modernist composition set against the pines that architecture enthusiasts still come to see in its own right. Alongside the institute, the Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences runs its sports-focused campus at Vierumäki, training coaches and sports-management professionals, which keeps the village young and international outside the holiday peaks.
For a visitor none of this is museum material — it is living infrastructure. The institute's halls, tracks and rinks are the reason the resort's facilities are a class above an ordinary holiday village, and the reason so many of our passengers on this route are travelling with a team rather than a suitcase of beach clothes.
If Vierumäki is famous abroad for one thing, it is ice hockey. The resort hosts the International Ice Hockey Centre of Excellence (IIHCE), established in 2003 by the International Ice Hockey Federation together with the Finnish Ice Hockey Association and the Sport Institute — a development hub that has made this quiet forest campus a fixture on the world hockey map. The IIHF has brought its international development camps here, national associations send players and coaches from across Europe and beyond, and the Finnish federation uses the site for its own player pipeline.
Around that core runs a constant season of camps open to visiting teams and individual players: Finnhockey School camps, elite skills camps, goalie schools, and full club training camps that fly in from Central Europe, Britain and further afield to train the Finnish way for a week. The Ice Arena and the surrounding dryland facilities mean a team can run its entire programme — ice, gym, testing, recovery, video — without leaving the campus.
This is also where our minivans earn their keep. A junior team landing at Helsinki-Vantaa with players, coaches, hockey bags and stick tubes is exactly the load a convoy of premium Mercedes minivans is built for: we meet the group at arrivals, load the gear, and deliver everyone to the arena or the accommodation in one movement, with the return legs booked against the flight home. If you are a team manager, send us your roster and flight numbers and we will plan the vehicles for you.
Vierumäki is one of Finland's best-known golf destinations, with two full 18-hole courses cut through the pine forest. The Classic, opened in 1988 and designed by Jan Sederholm, runs over sandy, fast-draining ground among the pines and has given thousands of Finnish golfers their first rounds; the Cooke, designed by Canadian architect Graham Cooke and opened in 2006, is the championship course — longer, more dramatic, and built on the principle that every handicap should enjoy it. A shorter practice course and full training facilities round out the offering, with the clubhouse, accommodation and restaurants a few minutes away.
The golf season in southern Finland runs roughly from May to October, and in high summer the long northern daylight means you can tee off in the evening and still finish in the light. Golf travel bags are no problem in our cars — a sedan takes a couple comfortably with clubs, and a minivan swallows a full four-ball with luggage and travel bags. We drop you at the clubhouse or your accommodation, whichever your tee time demands.
Group logistics are the quiet skill of this route. A typical camp arrival is not one booking but a puzzle: fifteen players and staff on two different flights, a mountain of equipment, a check-in window at the resort and ice booked for the same evening. Because we run our own fleet of premium Mercedes minivans, we can assign multiple vehicles to one group, meet split arrivals separately, and still land everyone at Vierumäki on schedule — one fixed price per vehicle, agreed in advance, with a named driver for each.
The same applies to school sports groups, skating clubs, gymnastics squads and company teams heading up for testing weeks or coaching courses. Child seats are free for the youngest passengers, drivers help with loading at both ends, and for the return we time pickups against the flight with a sensible margin for airport check-in with oversized baggage. If your group is larger than one vehicle, contact us with the details rather than booking car by car — we will plan the convoy and confirm the whole movement in one exchange.
Vierumäki is not all squads and stopwatches. The Holiday Club water park on the resort gives families a proper pool day — seven pools from a children's paddling pool to activity pools and a jacuzzi, plus five saunas — and the adjoining day spa, opened in 2024, adds treatments and quiet adult territory. It is the kind of facility that turns a training-camp trip into a family holiday: one parent at the rink with a player, the rest of the family in the water.
Separately, the institute's swimming hall serves swimmers who want lanes rather than slides, alongside the gyms and sports halls of the campus. Between the pools, the saunas and the lake swimming spots in summer, recovery is as well catered for at Vierumäki as the training itself — which is much of the point of the place.
For children and teenagers the standout is Flowpark Vierumäki, a treetop adventure park built into the living forest, with climbing courses, swinging bridges and zip lines graded from gentle to genuinely demanding. It runs through the warm season and pairs naturally with the water park for a two-day family programme.
Beyond that, the resort rents bikes and sports equipment, runs supervised activities in holiday seasons, and offers everything from frisbee golf to padel to horse riding in the area. Families who come to support a young athlete at a camp routinely discover that the non-playing siblings have the busier week. A minivan transfer from the airport keeps the whole family — and the pushchair, the scooters and the hockey bag — in one vehicle from the arrivals hall to the cottage door.
The setting is classic Päijät-Häme: pine forest on sandy ridges, clean lakes, and marked trails that leave straight from the accommodation. In summer the network serves runners, walkers and cyclists, with lake beaches and lakeside saunas for the after-run swim; in autumn the same trails turn gold and quiet. The terrain is part of the same glacial ridge country as the Salpausselkä region around Lahti, which is why cross-country skiing has such deep roots here.
In winter Vierumäki grooms cross-country tracks through the forest, and the season is long by Central European standards — this is one of the reasons ski clubs and endurance athletes book their winter camps here. Skates, skis and pulks all travel fine in our vehicles; tell us in the booking notes what you are bringing and we will send a car with the space to match.
The practical rhythm for a visitor: winter for ice sports, skiing and the spa; May to October for golf; high summer for lakes, Flowpark and family weeks; and camps in every month of the year. The transfer works the same in all of them — a fixed price, a tracked flight, and a warm or cool car waiting as the season demands.
Accommodation on the resort spans several levels. The Vierumäki Resort Hotel (long operated under the Scandic flag) on Urheiluopistontie is the full-service hotel option closest to the institute's facilities; the Holiday Club Vierumäki apartments suit families and longer stays with their own kitchens and the water park at hand; and a stock of chalets, cottages and campus rooms covers everything from a golf four sharing a cabin to a whole team housed corridor by corridor.
Which building you are in matters for your arrival, because the resort spreads through the forest and receptions are not all in one place. When you book your transfer, give us the exact accommodation name — hotel, Holiday Club, chalet street or institute residence — and your driver takes you to that door, not to a generic resort entrance. It is a small detail that saves a tired team a long walk with kit bags.
The resort feeds itself well: restaurants and cafés on campus cover everything from athlete buffets to à la carte dinners and the golf clubhouse terrace, and there is a shop and service station out by the main road for self-caterers stocking a cottage kitchen. Kitchens in the Holiday Club apartments and cottages make longer family stays easy, and Heinola and Lahti supermarkets are a short drive away for a bigger shop.
Two practical notes for arrivals. First, distances on the campus are real — check where your accommodation sits relative to the rink or the first tee, and plan the drop-off accordingly (your driver will happily make two stops on the resort if the group splits between buildings). Second, Vierumäki runs on bookings: ice time, tee times, spa slots and popular restaurants fill in peak weeks, so a group with a fixed programme should have it confirmed before flying. Your transfer, at least, will be the easy part.
Vierumäki sits between two towns worth knowing. Heinola, a short drive north, is a small lakeside town with a handsome wooden old quarter, a ridge-top park and summer boat traffic on the Kymijoki water route. Lahti, to the southwest, is the regional capital — home of the Salpausselkä ski jumps and stadium, the Lahti Ski Museum, the lakeside Sibelius Hall concert house, and the harbour boardwalk on Vesijärvi. The whole area belongs to the Salpausselkä UNESCO Global Geopark, the ridge landscape left by the last Ice Age that gave the region both its sandy golf terrain and its skiing pedigree.
Sports fans time visits well here: the Lahti Ski Games bring World Cup nordic skiing to the Salpausselkä stadium every winter, and event weeks fill accommodation across the region — including Vierumäki. If your plans span both places, we run the same fixed-price service on our transfers to Lahti, and a Vierumäki pickup with a Lahti stop (or the reverse) is a routine request.
We can also arrange rides between Vierumäki and other Finnish cities during your stay — a match in Tampere, a meeting in Helsinki — with the same pre-booked, fixed-price model, so a camp week does not need a rental car for one excursion.
A large share of Vierumäki's traffic is corporate. The resort's meeting and conference facilities, combined with sports halls, golf, the spa and team-activity programmes, make it a natural venue for company development days, board offsites and customer events — the classic Finnish formula of a morning of strategy and an afternoon of floorball or a round on the Classic. Groups typically arrive together from Helsinki-Vantaa, which is precisely the pattern a pre-booked convoy of minivans serves best: one contact, one invoice-ready price per vehicle, everyone at the venue in time for the opening session.
For individual business travellers, the Business sedan is the quiet productive option — an hour and a half of working time on the motorway instead of a train-bus-taxi chain — and every transfer comes with a full receipt for the expense report.
Vierumäki slots neatly into a longer Finnish itinerary. Many international guests pair a camp or golf week here with a few days in Helsinki at either end, a day in the old wooden town of Porvoo on the way to or from the capital, or an onward leg deeper into the Lakeland. Because we drive door to door anywhere in the country, the same booking logic covers all of it: our transfers to Porvoo, Tampere and Turku run on the same fixed-price model, and a multi-stop routing — airport to Vierumäki today, Vierumäki to a Helsinki hotel next week — is just two bookings with the same operator.
Travellers continuing to Tallinn or Stockholm can also book the run from Vierumäki straight to the ferry piers in Helsinki — the West Terminal or Katajanokka — timed to check-in, with luggage never touching a station floor. Tell us your full route and we will quote each leg as one fixed figure.
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