"Hotel Helka is the most gay-friendly hotel in Helsinki. Actually, it is the best for all minorities. Hotel Helka is an old hotel. It was founded in 1969 by YWCA of Finland. The building itself, which the YWCA’s women built in the late 1920s, offered back then a safe place for women to live or visit. This historical fact guides hotel Helka nowadays; it is a place of tolerance, or #pinklikehelka, as they say. It's more than accepting of all minorities – the staff really try to make the world a bit of a better place. This guideline of treating all customers equally increases the power of tolerance. The breakfast buffet at Hotel Helka is not the most varied, but instead of focusing on volume, it concentrates on quality and organic choices. Hotel Helka staff aims to be as environmentall staff are committed to the Green Key eco-label, which is the leading standard for excellence in the field of environmental responsibility and sustainable operations within the tourism industry."