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Live Your Prisonbreak Fantasy in Finland

As long as we're on the Helsinki tip, we should fill you in on a wacky new hotel opening in Finland's capital city. The Best Western Premier Hotel Katajanokka is scheduled to open in May, but that's only half the story.

The hotel bills itself quite nicely, if we do say so:

Hotel Katajanokka is architecturally unique and surrounded by a beautiful park. It has 106 rooms as well as restaurant services, conference facilities, and an idyllic summer terrace.

What they've left out of the description is that until 2002, the 19th century building was a prison. We hear that there will be fewer rooms than there were cells, so things will be a little more spacious. But will there be bars on the windows?

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