Booking and pricing

Welcome to stay at Tvärminne Zoological Station! Please find information about how to make a booking and detailed prices for different services offered.

Do you wish to visit Tvärminne Zoological Station? We are happy to customise your stay according to the preferences of your group. Don´t hesitate, get in contact and let us make the best of your stay!

How to make a booking?

In order to make individual bookings, research group or course bookings, please contact . For seminary and meeting bookings, please get in contact with .  Preliminary inquiries can also be sent to the reception email address

Arrival and payment

The reception in the main building takes care of the arrival and information for our guests, see  Keys are returned here, as well as payments and billing when leaving.

Accommodation and food and lecture rooms and sauna

Prices valid from 1.1.2025

Students (BSc, MSc, Finnish student card ) during their personally paid basic studies at the station. In free time visits prices are charged according to the Others-category. In order to get the lunch support, you have to show your student card when paying. Own linen and towels.

  UH students Students from other Finnish universities
  VAT 0% VAT 0% Incl. VAT
Breakfast 4.50 4.56 5.20
Lunch or dinner (incl. support 2.55 / one per day) 2.95 2.95  
Lunch or dinner (without support) 5.50 5.50 6.27
Accommodation double room / night  15.60 (7.80€/pers.) 42.64 48.60 (24.30€/pers.)
Accommodation single room / night 14.00 30.09 34.30
Accommodation double room with own bathroom / night 28.00 60.18 68.60
Accommodation single room with own bathroom / night 20.20 38.86 44.30

 

UH internal & collaborators UH personnel, researchers, PhD students & researchers with scholarship (work-related) / research projects with an official collaboration with UH. UH seminars / Finnish doctoral courses / Finnish high school and polytechnic courses / foreign BSc and MSc students (thesis work). Linen and towels included.

Others, such as non-UH seminars and research projects, foreign university courses, visitors (also UH personnel, students, researchers and researchers with scholarship in free time). Linen and towels included.

  UH internal UH-collaboration Others
  VAT 0% Incl. VAT Incl. VAT
Breakfast 7.02 8.00 11.40
Lunch 10.26 11.70 13.90
Dinner 10.26 11.70 13.90
Extra fee for weekend meals (lunch, dinner) 2.63 3.00 3.00
Accommodation double room / night 66.67 76.00 100.00
Accommodation single room / night 47.37 54.00 73.00
Accommodation double room with own bathroom / night 75.44 86.00 110.00
Accommodation single room with own bathroom / night 57.89 66.00 84.00
Long-term accommodation 2 weeks (single room) 364.91 416.00 528.00
Long-term accommodation 4 weeks (single room) 581.58 663.00 831.00
Lecture room / h 18.33 23.00 37.40
Lecture room / day 58.41 73.30 117.20
Room for group work / h 5.78 7.25 10.90
Room for group work / day 20.16 25.30 41.00
Sauna / h 29.64 37.20 59.20
Bench fees, boats and other vehicles

 

    UH internal UH-collaboration Others
Vehicle   VAT 0% VAT 0% VAT 25,5%  
Augusta + Captain + Chief engineer h 239.00 297.10 372.86 Please contact
Saga hovercraft + Captain h 157.50 196.00 245.98 Please contact
J.A. Palmén without Captain h 59.40 74.30 93.25 Please contact
J.A. Palmén + Captain h 89.20 110.70 138.93 Please contact
Crangon without Captain h 45.10 53.70 67.39 Please contact
Crangon + Captain h 74.90 92.80 116.46 Please contact
Esox without Captain h 34.10 42.60 53.46 Please contact
Esox + Captain h 63.80 79.00 99.15 Please contact
Palju or Saavi without Captain h 22.00 27.50 34.51 Please contact
Motorboats ≥ 20 hp h 14.30 17.90 22.46 Please contact
Motorboats < 20 hp h 11.00 13.70 17.19 Please contact
Captain´s and Chief engineer´s potential daily allowance and overtime pay will be charged from the client.
  UH internal UH-collaboration Others
Bench fee VAT 0% VAT 0% VAT 25,5% VAT 0% VAT 25,5%
Bench fee (office space) / working day - 5.70 7.15 8.10 10.17
Research infrastructure fee / working day - 9.00 11.30 13.90 17.44

The bench fee or research infrastructure fee is not debited for internal (UH) users.

The bench fee entitles to basic services such as office space. It is not charged from users who are paying for accommodation at the station (collaborators as well as others). 

Paying the research infrastructure fee opens access to the conventional laboratory facilities, microscopes, ovens, scales and other similar research infrastructure. Non-standard equipment and as well as operating costs of special facilities can be charged separately. For all projects, a User Access Agreement is written, detailing the facilities needed, timetables, logistic and analytical services needed, and costs involved. For example, the number of climate or aquarium rooms needed affects the cost.

 

Laboratory services

 

Analyses (coastal water samples)* UH internal UH-collaboration Others
  VAT 0 % VAT 0 % VAT 25,5 %  
NH4-N, ammonium nitrogen 9.00 10.53 13.22 Please contact our
NO3+NO2-N, nitrate+nitrite nitrogen 7.48 8.78 11.02 Please contact our
NO2-N, nitrite nitrogen 7.26 8.57 10.76 Please contact our
PO4-P, phosphate phosphorus 7.26 8.56 10.74 Please contact our
Si, dissolved silicate 7.34 8.63 10.83 Please contact our
TN, total nitrogen 11.87 13.98 17.54 Please contact our
TP, total phosphorus 11.30 13.42 16.84 Please contact our
BSi, biogenic silicate 13.74 15.84 19.88 Please contact our
BSi, filter 10.18 11.96 15.01 Please contact our
POP, particulate organic phosphorus 14.83 17.43 21.87 Please contact our
POP, filter 11.20 13.30 16.69 Please contact our
TDP, total dissolved phosphorus 16.40 19.31 24.23 Please contact our
TDP, filtrate 12.16 14.27 17.91 Please contact our
DOP, dissolved organic phosphorus 23.00 27.06 33.96 Please contact our
DOP, filtrate 18.77 22.02 27.64 Please contact our
DOC/TDN, dissolved organic carbon/total dissolved nitrogen 15.19 16.95 21.27 Please contact our
DOC/TDN, filtrate 10.41 11.71 14.70 Please contact our
POC/PON, particulate organic carbon/nitrogen 14.79 16.73 21.00 Please contact our
POC/PON, filter 11.10 12.57 15.78 Please contact our
Br, bromide 9.40 11.19 14.04 Please contact our
CDOM/DOM, colored dissolved organic material 12.19 14.14 17.75 Please contact our
CDOM/FDOM, filtrate 8.12 9.73 12.21 Please contact our
Chl-a, chlorophyll a 8.68 10.47 13.14 Please contact our
Chl-a, filter 4.89 6.02 7.56 Please contact our
O2, oxygen 6.71 8.21 10.30 Please contact our
pH 3.12 3.86 4.84 Please contact our

* If sample quantity per analysis exceeds 10, a 15% discount will be given (analysis order-dependent discount; for pre-treated samples 10-30 % case-dependent discount).

25% extra fee is added to prices of pore water samples.

Other services UH internal UH-collaboration Others
  VAT 0 % VAT 0 % VAT 25,5 %  
Acid Lugol solution, 100ml 8.53 8.79 11.03 Please contact our
Filtered seawater, 1 l 8.27 9.13 11.46 Please contact our
Preparation of culture medium, 1 l 8.72 10.33 12.96 Please contact our
Phytoplankton culture * 14.82 16.86 21.16 Please contact our
Other work / hour 31.06 38.56 48.39 Please contact our
* handling charges will be added