A word about the Glo Hotel: I cannot recommend it more highly, not only is it one of the best in Helsinki it is one of the best I have stayed in anywhere in the world. It "Glows" in luxury, location and service.Our last day in Helsinki we spent shopping, and you could also use this time for museums markets or a bus tour. Having seen all the essentials in the first day in Helsinki, you are now at your leisure. Stockmann department store is the biggest department store in Scandinavia, and although not my favorite, it is worth a look. Also along the same road is H&M, and other familiar stores. Souvenir shops you will find on the Senate Square. By now you would have been up and down the shopping streets, but here is a walking itinerary I found on the net that works well:
Turn right at the hotel Glo door, walk through Esplanade Park to the Market Place, past the Presidential Palace to the Russian Church (Uspenski), turn back walk Aleksanterinkatu to the Alexander's statue and Cathedral (Suurkirkko) and further back to the hotel.Can be done in 1 hour, and you will see all the shopping areas, and a lot of the main sights. As for museums, try the Ateneum Art Museum (2 hours) Finnish National Museum (2-3 hours) or the Cable Factory museums 2-3 hours depending on your taste. Perhaps you prefer markets, and there are a few in the city:Hietalahti Market, Hakaniemi Market (Hietsun Kirppis) or Valtteri Market. If you didn't get a chance to just wander around I always leave the last day to doing just that. Go back to places you would like to revisit, or shops you passed in a hurry. Try a cafe or two, and perhaps the Kynsilaukka Restaurant dedicated to garlic. Then it is a late flight out or an early evening in to prepare for a morning departure.
Photo by Tomorrow Bystander
In Lapland, weather it is Norway, Sweden or Finland, you can always find standard snow activities. These include: skiing, cross country skiing, Husky dog sledding, reindeer farm activities, snow mobiles and the less popular, horse riding and ice fishing. Well, we had done most of these activities on previous trips so we went for the ice fishing. Next to the Inari Hotel there is the tourist info which can give advise and contacts, and next to that is the office of "Inari Lake & Snow". It is a family run business, they also run the camping ground down the road. For 155 Euro per person, we were kitted out in snow gear, and went on a 4 hour excursion, riding snow mobiles over the ice covered lake. Our guide took us to two of the local sites, the wooden Pielpajärvi wilderness church and the Island Ukko which was once a Sami burial site. You get to climb the hill on the island, which is high, and open to the elements, especially the wind, but it gives you breathtaking views. After that we stopped in the middle of the lake and tried our hand at ice fishing. Only our guide caught anything. Then he took us to a hut on another island where he lite a fire in the centre and we had a light meal, including cooking the fish over the open fire. We don't eat meat, so feel free to tell them your dietary preferences. 
