Places to stay and cottages near Karelia Golf

KontioLomat lets eight furnished apartments in the former Kontioniemi school at Kontiolahti. The school closed in 2014 and the building was renovated for accommodation in 2021. The apartments are studios and one-bedroom units for one to six people, available for both short and long stays. They come with bedding and towels, a fridge, a kettle, a microwave, a stove and dishes, air conditioning, a television, a shower and toilet and a hairdryer, and the house has free wireless internet and parking. In the yard there is a café and restaurant serving lunch, and twelve electrified places for motorhomes; a sauna can be hired separately. Pets are not allowed. The Karelia Golf course is about 1.9 kilometres away.

Kosmos-tilat is an ensemble of wooden architecture run by Field Studies Oy at Kontiolahti, combining accommodation, meetings and celebrations. The main building, Usva House, measures 370 square metres and is built from CLT panels and a digitally cut solid timber frame using traditional mortise joints, without nails or screws; the facade is charred by the Shou Sugi Ban technique and the design is by Ateljé Sotamaa. It holds four bedrooms for up to ten people, a 70-square-metre grand hall and four meeting rooms for four to six, a full kitchen and a sauna; meetings are held for 6 to 30 people, private dinners for 5 to 30 and cocktail events for 80 to 100. The grounds also hold the 28-square-metre relocatable Ufo mini house for one person, with underfloor heating, a landscape window and a composting toilet but no running water, and the Meteorite House completed in 2020, twelve metres high and 700 cubic metres in volume, which can be visited on a guided tour. Joensuu airport is 25 kilometres away. The Karelia Golf course is about 2.6 kilometres away.