Free day.
Optional "Amber Coast" tour for an additional fee.
The cost of the tour: full / reduced — 2000/1800 rubles.
Route: village Yantarny — Svetlogorsk.
- 09:00 Boarding from the Moscow hotel (bus stop on the side of the Moscow hotel, Prospekt Mira 19/21);
- 09:15 Boarding from Kaliningrad Hotel (81 Leninsky ave.);
- 09:30 Boarding from the stop Fish village, landmark hotel "Skipper" (Oktyabrskaya St. 4);
- 09:45 Boarding from the Tourist Hotel (53 A. Nevsky St., main entrance or hotel lobby).
Two of the most beautiful places on the seashore — Yantarny and Svetlogorsk will enchant you and will forever remain in your heart! Places where many people in our country tend to go on vacation.
Yantarny Beach is one of the best in Russia. Since 2016, this has been confirmed annually by awarding it the blue flag (the highest quality mark for beaches). And Svetlogorsk is an All—Russian health resort with a large number of sanatoriums and sanatorium-resort type institutions, where you can combine a vacation by the sea with health improvement.
Yantarny is a place of amber mining, where the world's largest sunstone deposit is located. You will definitely learn all about amber by visiting a private enterprise engaged in stone processing and jewelry production.
You will have the opportunity to purchase amber products where they are produced.
In the past, Yantarny was called Palmniken, a place with a history. You will see the architectural "pearls" that adorn the place: the old Lutheran church (today the Russian Orthodox Church of the Icon of the Kazan Mother of God), the 5* Schloss Hotel building (formerly the home of a wealthy mining owner).
You will go to the sea through the park named after him. Moritz Becker with century-old trees.
Optional visit to the quarry or the museum of the Kaliningrad Amber Plant, tickets are purchased independently (from 900 rubles).
Svetlogorsk is a popular resort town surrounded by greenery, the botanical garden city has preserved its historical buildings with villas and hotels, which are worthily complemented by modern architecture.
During the walking tour, you will see the symbol of the place — the water tower; the fabulous organ hall building (formerly the Catholic chapel "Maria-Star of the Sea"); the larch park with the sculpture of the famous German sculptor G. Brachert "Bearing Water"; the variety theater "Amber Hall" and the huge elevator "Panorama", allowing you to easily descend from the very high shore on the boardwalk.
The program includes free time for a walk by the sea, shopping and lunch. Lunch is paid for independently.
The duration of the tour is 8-9 hours.
Or:
Optional, for an additional fee, guided tour "The history of medieval cities: Friedland and Gerdauen — Pravdinsk and Zheleznodorozhny".
The cost of the tour: full / reduced — 2000/1800 rubles.
Route: Pravdinsk — village of Zheleznodorozhny.
- 10:00 Boarding from the Tourist Hotel (53 A. Nevsky St., main entrance or hotel lobby);
- 10:15 Boarding from the stop Fish village, landmark hotel "Skipper" (Oktyabrskaya St. 4);
- 10:30 Boarding from the Moscow hotel (bus stop on the side of the Moscow hotel, Prospekt Mira 19/21);
- 10:45 Boarding from Kaliningrad Hotel (81 Leninsky ave.).
The history of the founding and development of the cities of the state of the Teutonic Order is interesting and differs from our Russian cities. And the cities themselves have a unique flavor.
The magnificent 14th-century Gothic church of St. George with stunning star-shaped vaults has been preserved in the city of Pravdinsk. Next to the temple there is a memorial sign in honor of the St. George's Cross, an honorary award of the tsarist times, established after the Battle of Friedland (June 14, 1807).
Russian russians recall this battle during the Napoleonic Wars with the participation of the Russian army. The monument on the grave of the heroic General N. Mazovsky in the city park, a memorial plaque on the hospital building, near the walls of which Russian soldiers who died of wounds were buried, and a commemorative obelisk in the city park.
The village of Zheleznodorozhny has preserved a charming half-timbered building, popular in the Middle Ages in some Western European countries.
You will have the feeling that you have found yourself in Germany: houses with tiled roofs, bright shutters on the windows, unique entrance doors and "delicious" architectural details. You will be enchanted!
The program provides free time for lunch. Lunch is paid for independently.
You must have a Russian passport with you!
The duration of the tour is 7-8 hours.
Or:
Optional, for an additional fee, an excursion "Kaliningrad — past and present with two museums: Amber and Marzipan".
The cost of the tour: full / reduced — 2000/1800 rubles.
Route: Kaliningrad
- 11:00 Boarding from the Tourist Hotel (53 A. Nevsky St., main entrance or hotel lobby);
- 11:15 Boarding from the Fish Village bus stop, landmark Skipper Hotel (Oktyabrskaya str., 4);
- 11:30 Boarding from the Moscow hotel (bus stop on the side of the Moscow hotel, Prospekt Mira 19/21);
- 11:45 Boarding from Kaliningrad Hotel (81 Leninsky ave.).
Sightseeing of the main sights and memorable places of the city: the ancient city gates; the main Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in the region on Victory Square; important public buildings in Konigsberg — railway stations, the land office court, the post office directorate, the drama theater; the zoo; the Queen Louise Memorial Church, which became the regional children's puppet theater, the Amalienau villa area.
A walk on the island part of the city from the Fishing Village to the ancient Cathedral, near the walls of which is the grave of the great son of this city, the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
The main street of Soviet Kaliningrad is Leninsky Prospekt, with the Khrushchev towers and the Mother Russia monument transformed beyond recognition; a panorama of the river with the territory of the Museum of the World Ocean and the stock exchange building, opening from a high trestle bridge.
The tour program includes a visit to the marzipan museum, a popular sweet in many countries, which had its own recipe in this city and an amber museum.
Free time to attend an organ concert in the Cathedral (on your own), lunch or a walk in the Fishing Village to choose from.
The duration of the tour is 5-6 hours.