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- ONCE EVERY 5 YEARS
5 days - 3 day tickets to the Festival, a once every 5 year event.
The year 2025 will be the 21st year for the Estonian Dance Festival (known as Laulupidu) and the 155th year for the Song Festival - one of the largest amateur choral events in the world and titled by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Join us for this incredible event with a central city stay in a hotel that the procession passes and concert tickets to see the festival. Before the event, you can also spend a few days in the peaceful countryside at a historic manor house.
Tallinn is wonderful any time of year but certainly comes to life during this festival. Plenty of cosy cafes and cheery pubs fill the town with a great spirit and will be overflowing in July 2025.
- Day 1
- Arrive Tallinn
- Days 2 - 4
- 3 day Estonian Song and Dance Festival
- Day 5
- Departure Day
- Start/End Place
- Tallinn , Estonia
- Country Visited
- Estonia
- Duration
- 5 Days
- Start Date
- Scheduled
- Travel Style
- Independent
- Code
- 50DN0250
As a Certified B Corporation, 50 Degrees North has designed this tour using handpicked local hoteliers and suppliers who share our ethos of delivering services and activities of high social and environmental standards.
The CO2-e per person per day of all tours is carefully measured following each season. We fully offset all emissions of our tours on your behalf, and we constantly look at ways to reduce emissions where possible.
Details
Transportation
Private Transfers
Included
- Accommodation in modern four-star hotel where available
- Private transfers airport to the hotel, return
- Guided private walking tour of Tallinn Old Town
- 2 Concert tickets to the Estonian Song and Dance Festival - tickets delivered to the hotel
- Daily Buffet breakfast
- Entrance to the spa and sauna of the Nordic Forum Hotel
Not Included
International flight tickets, meals other than described, alcoholic beverages and soft drinks, travel insurance, visas, gratitudes and any items of personal nature.
We can also extend your stay with a visit to the countryside, staying at Vihula Manor Country Club and Spa. We can organise a private car with driver including Lahemaa National sightseeing, private transfer from Vihula to Tallinn and a 2 night overnight in Vihula Manor Country Club and Spa - Zen Rooms.
Itinerary
Day 1 - Arrive Tallinn
Arrive and transfer to your hotel in central Tallinn. The rest of the day is free to explore the city.
Transportation
Private van transferAccommodation
Centrally located hotel Nordic Hotel Forum or similar (availability will be scarce).Nordic Hotel Forum is the premium location for the event. Very centrally located and a 5 min walk from Old Town. The festival procession will pass front of the hotel on Sunday. The Dance festival ground is 1,7 km to walk and Song Festival ground is 3 km to walk from the hotel. Extra transfers will be arranged closer to the event once the road closings are published.
Restaurants
Attractions
Days 2 - 4 - 3 day Estonian Song and Dance Festival
Once you have settled in, meet your guide for your private walking tour of Tallinn's Old Town (1.5 hours).
The walking tour goes through the two sharply contrasting parts of the Old Town: the Lower Town, once a free trading town and member of the Hanseatic League with its guild houses, warehouses, a unique Gothic Town Hall, dwellings of prosperous merchants, and churches with charming slender towers; and Toompea or the Upper Town, the seat of German landlords and their houses from the 18th-19th centuries.
You will also visit the biggest churches of Tallinn: the Alexander Nevski cathedral is an active Russian orthodox church, built just over 100 years ago, and the Dome church, the church of the local German nobility for centuries, which contains a valuable collection of their family coats of arms. The church itself is one of the oldest in Estonia and is built in the Gothic style. From the viewing platform you can see a panoramic view of not only the Old Town but also the rest of the city.
Each day, enjoy festival tickets to various shows at the Estonian Song and Dance Festival. The festival is an unparalleled dip into another culture - a lovely and immensely powerful insight into a nation. But even more than that, there is something powerful and universal about music - in this case sung by a choir of 30,000 singers to an audience of 80,000 people! - that transcends language and culture.
Each day will have processions, evening events and many options for your pleasure. You will get the final details closer to the event. The itinerary can be shortened if you don't wish to go to the festival for three days.
Meals
3 BreakfastsDay 5 - Departure Day
After breakfast, private transfer to the airport.
Meals
1 BreakfastAll prices listed are per person.
7 Jul 2025
Important Information
Concert tickets are organised before the event as soon as the event ticket bookings open. Secure the tickets by booking this tour before October 2024.
There are many optional activities that you can add to this tour - cooking classes, additional walking tours or theatre. Please ask us for details.
We can add a guided tour of the KUMU Art Gallery or the Kadrioga Park. Please note that both of these attractions are not open on a Monday.
Combine this short Tallinn city break with any of our Finnish packages. Tallinn is a short 2-hour trip from Helsinki by express boat across the Baltic Sea. We can organise the express boat from Helsinki or the overnight boat from Stockholm.
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