Our Chinese department:
You arrive at the hotel on your own.
A transfer to the hotel is available for an additional fee and must be booked in advance: an individual transfer from the train station/ airport (from 2000 rubles/car).
Guaranteed hotel accommodation after 14:00.
You can leave your belongings free of charge in the luggage room of the hotel.
From 9:00 a.m. until departure for the program, a representative of the company with a sign "About Petersburg" will meet you in the lobby of the hotel.
He will answer all your questions, provide updated tour programs and offer additional excursions that you can purchase at will.
Important information:
- tourists staying in the hotels "Moscow", "Oktyabrskaya", "Azimut Hotel St. Petersburg" go on excursions from the hotel accommodation;
- Tourists staying at the Best Western Plus Center, L1 Station, and M19 Station hotels come to the Oktyabrskaya Hotel (10 Ligovsky Ave.) to meet and depart for excursions;
- tourists staying at the hotel "A Fontanka Hotel" come to the Azimut Hotel St. Petersburg (adjacent building) for a meeting and departure for excursions;
- Tourists staying at the Yard Residence Apart-hotel come to the Moscow Hotel (Alexander Nevsky Square, 2) for a meeting and departure for excursions.
13:00 Departure from the Moscow hotel.
13:30 Departure from the Oktyabrskaya hotel.
14:00 Departure from the Azimut Hotel Saint Petersburg.
Bus tour "Masterpieces of the Northern Capital".
The tour will present St. Petersburg as a city where, along with magnificent palaces, mansions, and public buildings, temples of various faiths were erected, deservedly recognized as genuine masterpieces of architecture and art.
Excursion to St. Isaac's Cathedral.
St. Isaac's Cathedral will appear before you as a unique work of Russian art from the middle of the 19th century.
You will see magnificent wall paintings and paintings on canvas made by famous Russian artists and admire mosaic icons, which were created using smalt in more than 12,000 colors and shades.
You will be amazed by the abundance of different types of stone (from granite to malachite and turquoise) that were used to decorate the temple.
And from the colonnade of St. Isaac's Cathedral, you will enjoy an amazing bird's-eye view of St. Petersburg (an entrance ticket can be purchased additionally at the cathedral's ticket offices).
The place of the end of the program: St. Isaac's Cathedral, the nearest metro station "Admiralteiskaya".
Program duration: ~2.5 hours (ending at ~16:00).
