STAY AT LANG

Every House Has a Story

Stay in the heart of Old Raahe, surrounded by centuries of history and the everyday life of one of Finland’s best-preserved wooden towns.

Choose an individually designed room at Langin Kauppahuone or make one of our historic wooden houses your home for a while. Wherever you stay, Old Raahe begins just outside your door.

CHOOSE HOW YOU STAY

Find Your Place in Old Raahe

Stay in the heart of the merchant house or make a historic wooden house your own for a while. Each offers a different way to experience life in Old Raahe.

Historic Merchant House hospitality and award winning accommodation.

MERCHANT HOUSE ROOMS

Stay at Langin Kauppahuone

Choose an individually designed room in the historic merchant house at the heart of Lang Resort. Each room has its own character and a story inspired by the people and maritime history of Old Raahe.

History, craftsmanship and quiet comfort in Johan’s Room.

HISTORIC HOUSES

Make a Historic House Your Own

Stay together under one roof in a carefully restored wooden house in Old Raahe. With more space, privacy and the atmosphere of a home, our historic houses are made for guests who want to settle in and stay a little longer.

Sleep within the world of a historic merchant and shipowner.

MERCHANT HOUSE ROOMS

Meet the People Who Still Welcome Guests

Each room at Langin Kauppahuone opens a door into the history of the House of Lang. Inspired by real people — and, in one case, a character created from historical sources — the rooms are designed around a particular person, period and moment in the life of the merchant house.

Choose your room, and discover which story becomes part of your stay.

  • Johan Lang’s Room

    The Merchant Who Looked to the World
    Johan Lang built one of northern Finland’s great merchant houses and sent his ships far beyond Raahe. His room reflects the world of a practical and determined merchant who watched the life of the market square from his window while building a business connected to distant ports.

  • Johanna Franzen’s Room

    A Merchant Daughter’s World
    Johanna, Johan Lang’s daughter, connects the Lang family with the generation of Franzéns who followed. Her room draws on her own estate inventory and the surviving decorative details of the house to evoke the restrained elegance of her life in the merchant family.

  • Sofia Lybecker’s Room

    The Night Before Everything Changed
    Step into 1843 and the eve of Sofia’s wedding. This romantic room with its four-poster bed captures a turning point in the life of Johan Lang’s determined granddaughter, who used her inheritance to establish a school for girls in Raahe.

  • Jenny Sovelius’s Room

    A Young Lady of the Merchant House
    Jenny Franzén moved into the Lang merchant house with her husband Fredrik Sovelius as a young wife and mother. Her elegant room reflects the international tastes of prosperous merchant families — and the hopes of a life that was to be tragically short.

  • Captain Janne Byström’s Room

    A Life Shaped by the Sea
    After decades at sea, Captain Janne Byström came ashore carrying a lifetime of voyages with him. Set in the period after his seafaring years, his room recalls distant journeys, stormy nights and his unusual fascination with birds.

  • Shop Maid Anna’s Room

    Everyday Life Behind the Counter
    Anna is a character created from historical sources to represent the young women who worked in merchant-house shops in the 19th century. Her simple, beautiful room imagines the everyday world behind the grander stories of ships and fortunes — work, customers, letters home and life just beside the shop.

  • The Servants’ Quarters

    Where the Household Came to Life
    The merchant house depended on many hands. Inspired by the servants’ quarters that once stood in the courtyard, this room tells another side of life at Lang — the everyday work and people who kept a busy merchant household running.

Historic Houses

Live Inside Old Raahe

For guests who want more space, privacy and time to settle in, Lang Historic Houses offer the chance to make a carefully restored wooden house in Old Raahe your home for a while.

Stay together under one roof, surrounded by the character of an old house and the everyday life of the historic town just outside your door. Each house has its own story, atmosphere and connection to the world of Old Raahe.

  • Captain Himanka’s House

    Just next door to Langin Kauppahuone stands a historic wooden house known in Raahe as Captain Himanka’s House.

    Named after sea captain Johan Himanka (1858–1929), the house carries a story from the golden age of Raahe’s sailing ships. Himanka captained the barque Altai when it was shipwrecked off Madagascar in 1901 — an extraordinary voyage that became part of local maritime lore.

    Today, the house offers a peaceful place to make your own in the heart of Old Raahe. The private apartment accommodates 1–4 guests and includes its own kitchen, while breakfast awaits next door at Langin Kauppahuone.

    1–4 guests • Private apartment • Own kitchen • Breakfast at Langin Kauppahuone

BREAKFAST AT LANG

The Day Begins Slowly

Mornings at Lang begin with the scent of freshly baked bread from our own kitchen. Breakfast brings together Finnish flavours, seasonal ingredients and the simple pleasure of sitting down around the table without having to hurry.

For guests staying at Langin Kauppahuone, breakfast is part of the rhythm of the house. Guests staying at Captain Himanka’s House can leave their own kitchen untouched in the morning and join us next door for breakfast at the merchant house.

Good coffee, warm bread and a quiet morning — sometimes that is all a day needs to begin well.

Mornings That Begin with Freshly Baked Bread.

GOOD TO KNOW

Everything You Need for Your Stay

A few practical details to help you plan your stay at Lang Resort.

BREAKFAST
Breakfast at Langin Kauppahuone is part of the Lang experience, with freshly baked bread and Finnish flavours from our own kitchen.

CHECK-IN & CHECK-OUT
Arrival and departure information is provided with your booking.

IN THE HEART OF OLD RAAHE
Our accommodation is located in the historic centre of Raahe, with the old town, waterfront, cafés, museums and local services within easy reach.

ARRIVING BY CAR
Raahe is around an hour’s drive from Oulu and Oulu Airport.

WI-FI
Complimentary Wi-Fi is available for our staying guests.

ACCESSIBILITY
Our accommodation is located in historic buildings, and accessibility varies between rooms and houses. Please contact us before booking and we will help you find the most suitable option.

Christmas window lights in Old Raahe.

MAKE MORE OF YOUR STAY

Stay for the Story. Experience the Place.

A stay at Lang can be more than a night away. Step into the stories of Old Raahe, discover Finnish traditions and experience the coast through the changing northern seasons.

Choose an experience to make your time here part of a larger journey.

PLAN YOUR STAY

Find Your Place at Lang

Each room at Lang has its own name, character and story. Rooms are booked by room category rather than by individual room. If you have a favourite room, you are welcome to let us know your preference and we will do our best to accommodate it, subject to availability.

Your stay in the heart of Old Raahe starts here.

Lang Merchant House in winter evening.