Can I be homeless in Finland?

You could probably find a place to sleep with the other homeless people and you should be safe as Finland is a very safe country. People wouldn't inject you with heroin as this is a waste of heroin being used. Your 2 biggest concerns are getting robbed and being too cold. As long as your with at least one other person and you don't leave your possessions far away from you you should be fine. You should take lots of warm clothes and blankets because it get very cold at night.

First, go to the Tourist Information office in whatever town you are in. Explain your problem (you might be better off saying that you didn't know it was necessary to book hostels in advance-- saying that you knew you should and just forgot doesn't make you sound like a very good planner!), and ask about other possibilities: in many places, they may know of individuals willing to take you in (unofficial Bed & Breakfast), or they may have connections with local hotels so that if someone who had booked didn't show up, they could still get paid for the room. Failing that, ask them where a safe place to sleep out of doors might be (while no one is going to inject you with heroin-- the stuff's expensive, and addicts don't share with strangers-- an addict might be quite willing to point a knife at you and demand that you donate to the purchase of his next fix). In some places, depending upon a mix of train schedules and the friendliness of guards, you might be able to sleep on a bench in a train station.

[If you are traveling on a Eurail Pass, sometimes the best thingyou can do is take a good look at train schedules, and take a train to someplace that's four or five miles away, and then switch to the return train-- your sleep may be broken in the middle by the train shift, but you'll have gotten a relatively comfortable full night's sleep in safety and with just the one interruption to change trains.]

If Tourist Information can't help you (and usually they can) you can walk into the local police station, tell them that you thought you had a place to stay at the hostel but now you don't, and ask the desk officer for help/advice. You'd be surprised at helpful the police can be... they certainly don't want the hassle of dealing with foreign tourists who've robbed or have frozen to death. Just the paperwork is a pain-- they'd much rather help you out (and probably have the unofficial 'authority' to convince the hotel or hostel to find one more smeall room, even if it meant moving the cleaning supplies to the corridor!)

Above all, be polite, and be clearly thankful.

Coachsurfing sounds like a good idea. There are plenty of other options in addition to traditional hotel/ hostel accommodation. Most Finns have a summer home, a cabin or such and some might even be happy to give you a bed you for a few nights.

Facebook is a great place to connect with people around the world so just why not give it a try.

You will find a place to stay if you search hard enough. It would be easier if I knew where in Finland you are now. Try to search from internet..mm maybe you can rent a cottage? And I don't think that every hotel/hostel rooms are booked. You can go to some hotel and if there's no place, then ask the woman/man in information to ask someplace has they room there..

As for the other things.. I think you're safe. If you tell me where in finland you are, I can tell you/give a number to some places, where you could find a sleeping place.

There is a site CouchSurfing: http://www.couchsurfing.org/ where you can make an account and sleep on someone´s couch.You can also take a tent and warm sleeping bags with you,it´s not so cold in summer in Finland.Take also a camping mattress with you so you don´t get cold from the ground.Have a nice trip!

well you may freeze. Sorry but all i can think of is an old monty python song. Finland, Finland, Finland. The country where i want to be. You're so near to Russia, so far from Japan, quite a long way from Cairo, Many miles from Vietnam. You may find somewhere once you're there. Good luck

Yes, first you will be injected heroin [or something worse] then raped, then tortured and finally, killed.