You arrive at the hotel on your own.
A shuttle service to the hotel is available for an additional fee and must be booked in advance: 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 am 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, give you 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 accommodation hotel;
- tourists staying at the Best Western Plus Center, L1 Station, 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 for a meeting and departure on an excursion (a nearby building);
- Tourists staying at the Yard Residence Apart-hotel come to the Moscow Hotel (Alexander Nevsky Square, 2) for a meeting and departure on excursions.
13:00 Departure from the Moscow hotel.
13:30 Departure from the Oktyabrskaya hotel.
14:00 Departure from the Azimut Hotel St. Petersburg.
Bus tour "Masterpieces of the Northern capital".
The tour will present St. Petersburg as a city in which, along with magnificent palaces, mansions, 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 of the middle of the XIX 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 various types of stone (from granite to malachite and turquoise) that went into the decoration of the temple.
And from the colonnade of St. Isaac's Cathedral, an amazing bird's-eye view of St. Petersburg will open for you (an entrance ticket can be purchased additionally at the cathedral's ticket offices).
The place of completion of the program: St. Isaac's Cathedral, the nearest metro station "Admiralteyskaya".
Duration of the program: ~ 2.5 hours (ending at ~16:00).