Golf courses and places to stay: Kanta-Häme

Könnölän Matkailutila is a farm in Rimmilä near the village of Iittala in Hämeenlinna, with eight rental cottages open year round. A function and meeting room converted from the old grey-brick barn seats 180, and there is a smoke sauna on the grounds. Hattula Golf is 9.7 kilometres away.

Vanajanlinna is a manor hotel in Hämeenlinna whose estate hosts the championship-level Linna Golf course and villa accommodation.

Levomäen maatilamökit rents three cottages at Ypäjä on a farm that has stayed in the same family since the 1700s and grows sugar beet, caraway, grain and hay for horses; the accommodation business began in 2010. Korpela is a nostalgic cottage built in the 1920s with six beds and two extra ones, a kitchen-living room with a wood stove, and a separate sauna building holding a shower room, a WC, a changing room and a sheltered terrace. Murronmökki sleeps four to five and has a wood-heated sauna, a fireplace, a composting toilet and a swimming pond, but no running water — water is brought in containers. Kivinen is a 1960s farmhouse for five with three extra beds, with two indoor toilets, an indoor shower, an air-source heat pump, a dishwasher and a yard sauna renovated in 2011; the barn holds a home museum of old household implements. A pet may come along for a charge of ten euros. The Loimijoki Golf course is about 3.8 kilometres away.

Paijan maatilamajoitus is a farm at Ypäjä between Forssa and Loimaa with accommodation both year-round and for the summer season. Open all year are the guest house, which has 15 beds in five bedrooms, a large kitchen and a common room and doubles as a meeting space for 10 to 12 people; the 25-square-metre Kanapiian kammari with its own mini kitchen and bathroom; and Menninkäisen takkatupa, a barrel-vaulted room with its own pond and space for three to four. The summer cottages are available between 1 June and 15 September: the 21-square-metre Hirsimökki, the 10-square-metre Kämmenkäinen with a 12-square-metre glazed terrace, the 12-square-metre Pikkumökki with a glazed veranda, and the 15-square-metre Saunamökki with its own small sauna and shower. The farm also hires out a smoke sauna, a cart sauna and a family sauna, runs the Riihipub in summer and a caravan area from mid-May to mid-September, and offers guided canoe trips on the river Loimijoki. The Loimijoki Golf course is about 5.4 kilometres away.

Aulangon Rauha is a group of villas on the northern shore of Lake Aulanko in Hämeenlinna, with several separate units let at the same address: Rantahuvila with four bedrooms and 19 beds, Rantakolmikko with 35 beds across five buildings and room for up to 42, Rantala with 1 to 27 beds in four buildings, plus Rantapiilo and Suuri Huvila. There are wood-heated and electric saunas, lakeside saunas and a hot tub, and the houses are open all year. Published prices start at about 37 to 44 euros per person per night, and a holiday week from about 145 euros per person. The Aulangon Golfklubi course is about 500 metres away.

Scandic Aulanko is a spa hotel at the edge of the Aulanko park forest in Hämeenlinna. It has a tropical spa section, a 25-metre pool, a jacuzzi, separate saunas for women and men and the Aulanko Areena gym. The hotel's own pages describe the golf course as adjoining the hotel grounds. The Aulangon Golfklubi course is about 1.6 kilometres away.

Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna is a hotel on Possentie in Hämeenlinna. There is a guest sauna on the second floor with its own slots, for women from 4 to 6 pm and for men from 6.30 to 9 pm. The hotel's own page carries a separate section on golf in Hämeenlinna. The Tawast Golf course is about 2.8 kilometres away.

Hotelli Emilia is a 41-room hotel on Raatihuoneenkatu in central Hämeenlinna. The room types are Standard, Superior and Minisuite, and one minisuite with a balcony has its own sauna; the house also has a sauna that can be booked separately. The Tawast Golf course is about 3.5 kilometres away.

Scandic Hämeenlinna City is a hotel on Raatihuoneenkatu in central Hämeenlinna, between the market square and the railway station. It has meeting rooms for up to 40 people. The Tawast Golf course is about 3.5 kilometres away.

Myllytalo lets three apartments in converted farm buildings in Hämeenlinna: Talli for one to six guests, Navetta for one to four and Paja for one to three, thirteen guests in all. LatoSpa, built into an old barn, has a single-heated sauna and a hot tub. The published prices are 120 to 150 euros a night per apartment and 200 euros for LatoSpa. The Tawast Golf course is about 1.6 kilometres away.

Tiirinkosken Tehdas lets two units on an old factory site at Tiirinkoski in Hämeenlinna: the Loft for one to four guests with two bedrooms and the Huvila for two to six with three bedrooms, both with their own sauna. Bed linen and towels are included, breakfast costs 19.50 euros per person and a pet 30 euros a night. The published prices are 220 to 300 euros a night for the Loft and 280 to 480 for the Huvila, and both are open all year. The Hattula Golf course is about 3.7 kilometres away.

Kieloranta is an accommodation and event venue on a lake shore about 12 kilometres from the centre of Hämeenlinna. There are 16 rooms with 35 beds, and a 140-square-metre beachfront villa is let as well. Two sauna sections hold four saunas and two hot tubs, and the event rooms seat up to 120 people. The Hattula Golf course is about 7 kilometres away.

Matin ja Maijan Majatalo is a small guesthouse on Eteläkatu in central Hämeenlinna, and it describes itself on its own pages as a place for adult guests. The number of rooms and the prices are on the site's subpages. The Tawast Golf course is about 3.5 kilometres away.

Kriipin lomamökit lets log villas on the shore of Vanajavesi in Hattula. Two villas are available, Lumme and Kaisla, each with its own page in this catalog; the third cottage, Lepolahti, is being taken out of rental use according to the owner. Both villas have a wood-heated sauna, two bedrooms and a sleeping loft, room for six adults and two children, and a shore of their own with a jetty and a rowing boat. The Lepaa Golf course is about 5.2 kilometres away.

Kaisla is a log villa on the shore of Vanajavesi in Hattula, completed in the spring of 2007, right beside the Tenhola ridge at the end of the cottage road in the crook of the headland. The total area is 135 square metres and the floor area 108: downstairs there is a kitchen-living room, two bedrooms, a toilet, a small changing room, a washroom and a wood-heated sauna for four or five, and upstairs a sleeping loft. The larger bedroom has a double bed and the smaller two single beds, the loft two beds and a sofa bed; the maximum is six adults and two children. The villa has waterborne underfloor heating, and firewood and wireless internet are included in the rent. The large terrace has garden furniture, the villa's own shore is 25 metres away, and from May to October a gas grill stands on the terrace. The yard is sanded and lit all the way to the jetty, and the view is north-west straight across Vanajanselkä. At the shore there is a jetty, a rowing boat and a fire pit, and the shore is shallow and muddy. The nearest neighbour is the Lumme cottage about 150 metres away, with trees between them blocking the line of sight. Kaisla holds a five-star official Malo classification. The owner's rates are 420 euros for one or two nights and 830 for a week, an extra night 120 euros; in June, July and August and over Christmas and New Year it is let by the week only at 1,250 euros, with Saturday changeover in the summer season. Final cleaning is included. The Lepaa Golf clubhouse is about 5.2 kilometres away as the crow flies.

Lumme is a log villa on the shore of Vanajavesi in Hattula, completed for Christmas 2007 and the first cottage you reach on the cottage road. The total area is 135 square metres and the floor area 108: downstairs there is a kitchen-living room, two bedrooms, a toilet, a small changing room, a washroom and a wood-heated sauna for four or five, and upstairs a sleeping loft. The larger bedroom has a double bed and the smaller two single beds, the loft two beds and a sofa bed; the maximum is six adults and two children. The villa has waterborne underfloor heating, and firewood and wireless internet are included in the rent. The large terrace has garden furniture, the villa's own shore is 25 metres away, and from May to October a gas grill stands on the terrace. The yard is lit all the way to the jetty, and at the shore there is a jetty, a rowing boat and a fire pit; the shore is shallow and muddy. The nearest neighbour is about 60 metres away and the Kaisla cottage 150 metres, with trees between them blocking the line of sight. Lumme holds a five-star official Malo classification. The owner's rates are 420 euros for one or two nights and 830 for a week, an extra night 120 euros; in June, July and August and over Christmas and New Year it is let by the week only at 1,250 euros, with Friday changeover in the summer season. Final cleaning is included. The Lepaa Golf clubhouse is about 5.2 kilometres away as the crow flies.

Nuku makeasti ja viihdy kodikkaasti laadukkaassa boutique majatalossa Hämeenlinnan keskustassa, "Tiilaakson" ytimessä. Keskustan ravintolapalvelut kävelyetäisyydellä ja viisi erilaista kenttää 15min ajoetäisyydellä. Perustasosta PGA:han. Jos teitä on porukka, voit varata koko majatalon omaan käyttöösi - tai sitten vain huone kerrallaan.