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→‎At the airport / port / terminal: + mention about the 2018 taxi reform. You can ask the cab driver for a quote. + link to tickets and fares for public transport

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 == At the airport / port / terminal ==
-While you are at the airport, port or train station we could interest you in purchasing a prepaid-data sim card '''prepaid dataliittymä''' from '''R-kioski'''. You will be going to the R-kioski anyways to get a (multi)day pass '''matkakortti''' for the public transport system as the single tickets are expensive and inconvenient for the traveler as they are valid for only 69 minutes (Helsinki internal) and 80 minutes (Helsinki-region).
+While you are at the airport, port or train station we could interest you in purchasing a prepaid sim card ('''prepaid simkortti''') from [https://www.r-kioski.fi/ R-kioski]. You will be going to the R-kioski anyways to get a (multi)day public transport pass '''matkakortti''' for the public transport system as the single tickets are expensive and inconvenient for the traveler as they are valid for only 69 minutes (Helsinki internal) and 80 minutes (Helsinki-region). [https://www.hsl.fi/en/tickets-and-fares Ticket types and fares of the Metropolitan Helsinki area]
 Just talk English as "everyone" talks English here but feel free to use 'kiitos' and everyone will be impressed how well versed you are in Finnish as a foreigner.
+Finland used to have a unified pricing system for taxis, but this was reformed in 2018 and that has lead to widely varying prices as the companies have different price setting models. A good thing that the reformation brought is that how you can ask for the price for your trip in advance.
 Lets get your luggage to the hotel and you to enjoy the Finland.