Ecolines company launched a bus route from St. Petersburg to Helsinki (Finland) with a three times daily departures schedule. So you will have one more option to get to Finland in just a few hours for reasonable money.
Coaches will be departing from a conjunction of the Zagorodnyy Prospekt (Загородный проспект) and Vvedensky Kan. (Введенский канал), just opposite the Vitebsky railway station in the center of St. Petersburg and from the Kammpi coach station in Helsinki.
Departures are three times a day:
— from St. Petersburg at 07.00, 14.20 and 23.20;
— from Helsinki at 08.00, 14.30 and 22.00.
Travel time is 7-8 hours.
Average fare is about 1500 rubles (USD 25, EURO 20).
Coach is equipped with good modern onboard service – multimedia entertainment, coffee, tea, free Wi-Fi and 220V for every seat.
There are two other regular coach operators on the route: Lux Express and Sovavto with nearly the same fare. Besides them there is a lot of chartered buses.