Breakfast & provisions
A long table of rye, cured fish, berries and coffee each morning. Kitchens arrive stocked, and we restock on request for longer stays.
Serviced residences · Finnish archipelago coast
A quiet address
on the Ekenäs shore
Fourteen apartments and suites in a restored timber house at the edge of the old town, each with its own kitchen, its own light, and a view that changes with the water. Stay a weekend or a season.
View the residencesThe House
Built for staying, not for passing through
Alexanat Krog began as a merchant's house on a lane of painted wooden facades, close enough to the harbour that you hear rigging in the wind. We kept the proportions, the plank floors and the deep window seats, and quietly added everything a modern stay needs.
What we offer sits somewhere between an apartment and a hotel. Your own front door, your own kitchen, your own hours — with a team downstairs who knows where the good bread is, which ferry runs on Sunday, and how to lay a table for eight at short notice. Nothing is scripted. Most of what guests remember was simply arranged when they asked.
On the property
Six things we take seriously
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Service without ceremony
A small team, on site from early until late. Ask once and it is remembered — the extra key, the earlier breakfast, the bicycle for two.
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Interiors in pale wood
Lime-washed walls, linen, ceramics from the coast. Rooms designed to hold the low northern light rather than compete with it.
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The kitchen table
Our cook works from the archipelago: pike-perch, new potatoes, chanterelles, whatever the week gives. Dinner is served four evenings a week.
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Leisure on site
Two saunas, a reading room, kayaks at the jetty, and — behind a single door off the lounge — a small games room for guests who enjoy an unhurried evening at the tables. More on that further down.
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Rooms of your own
Thick walls, few neighbours, no lobby traffic. The house holds fewer guests than it easily could, and that is deliberate.
Residences & suites
Studios, apartments, and two top-floor suites
Fourteen in all, from 32 to 96 square metres. Nightly, weekly and monthly rates.
Every residence has a full kitchen, a dining table that seats at least four, and windows facing either the water or the courtyard limes. Studios suit one or two; the corner apartments take a family; the suites under the eaves have a private sauna and a terrace that catches the last of the summer light at half past eleven.
- Linen and bedsFinnish-made mattresses, washed linen, feather and synthetic pillows both offered.
- DaylightOriginal tall windows on three sides of the house, with blackout curtains for the white nights.
- Kitchens that workInduction, oven, dishwasher, proper knives, and a coffee grinder in every residence.
- Service to the doorDinner, groceries or laundry brought up until ten in the evening.
- Two eaves suitesPrivate sauna, sloped timber ceilings, terrace facing the sound.
Wellness
Heat, cold water, and the time in between
The sauna is not a facility here, it is the rhythm of the evening. Ours are wood-fired, booked in quiet hour-long slots, with steps down to the sound for anyone who wants the cold. Treatments are offered in a small room off the garden.
Care & treatment
Massage and facials with Nordic plant oils, by appointment, in a single unhurried treatment room.
The warm lounge
Blankets, herbal infusions and a low fire for the slow hour after the sauna, when nobody feels like speaking much.
Sea rituals
Guided cold dips from the jetty through the winter, followed by heat, birch whisks and a bowl of salty broth.
The still room
A shuttered room at the end of the corridor with no screens, no schedule, and a shelf of well-read books.
After sunset
The house grows quieter, then warmer
In June the light hardly leaves and people sit out on the jetty past midnight. In November everyone gathers indoors instead — a pianist on Fridays, long dinners that drift, someone eventually singing badly and with conviction. Either way, the evening belongs to whoever stays up for it.
Plan an evening with usExperiences
Four ways an evening here tends to go
Music in the parlour
Jazz trio or solo piano on Friday and Saturday, played at conversation volume and never past one.
Gatherings
Wine drawn from the cellar, neighbours who wander in, and an open invitation to the long table in the courtyard.
Dinner, slowly
A set menu of four courses from the archipelago, served from seven, with the kitchen door left open.
The casino room
A quiet room inside the house, on the ground floor and reached from the lounge, with a few tables for guests who prefer cards to conversation. Low light, no hurry. Full details just below.
The tables
A small room, kept small on purpose
The casino is part of the house, not an attraction beside it. It occupies the former winter parlour on the ground floor, a few steps from the lounge, so guests walk over in the same slippers they wore to dinner. There are two or three tables in use on a normal evening, dealt by staff who also know your name and your breakfast order.
The room is meant as one way to spend an evening among several, not the reason to book. Many residents never open the door; others look in for an hour after dinner and then go back to the sauna. Both are entirely normal.
- Where
- Ground floor of the main house, through the door beside the lounge fireplace. No need to leave the building or cross the courtyard.
- Who
- Guests aged 18 and over. A photo ID is checked at the door each evening, including for residents staying with us.
- When
- Evenings only, from late afternoon until around midnight. Hours shift a little with the season and with events in the house; reception has the current times.
- What
- Table games dealt by house staff, in a low-lit room with seating along the wall for those who would rather watch. Which games run on a given night is posted at reception.
- Dress & manner
- Smart casual. Phones stay quiet, and photographs of other guests are not taken in the room.
- Your limits
- Limits are set for the tables and observed by staff, who will gently step in if an evening is running longer or faster than it should. Guests can ask at reception at any time to be kept out of the room, for a night or for the whole stay.
- Questions
- All details are given in person at reception, in Finnish, Swedish or English.
Play within your means. The room is for company and a change of pace, and never for anything a guest cannot comfortably spare.
Enquiries
Tell us when, and for how long
Residences are held directly with us rather than through a booking screen — so we can ask the right questions about arrival, ferries, sauna hours and whether you would like the kitchen stocked before you walk in.
[email protected]Skepparegatan 14, 10600 Ekenäs (Tammisaari), Raseborg, Finland · +358 19 241 38 70