Journey from St. Petersburg to Karelia: from history to nature

An exciting tour in which you will immerse yourself in the atmosphere of St. Petersburg, touch the history of the city and enjoy the beauty of Karelia's nature.

You will visit the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, the Catherine Palace and the park in Tsarskoye Selo, the Lower Peterhof Park with fountains and the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt. 

And in Karelia you will find animation programs: "Melodies of Karelia", 4 national master classes, Kivach waterfall, Girvas volcano and the first Russian resort "Marcial Waters".

Location

Saint-Petersburg
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Duration
7 days
6 nights
Departures
Accommodation
  • Hotel
    6 nights
Comfort
  • Upscale
  • Premium
Difficulty
Easy
Suitable for everyone
Group
From 2 to 50 tourists
Minimum age
5 years old
Group meet at
Saint-Petersburg
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Weekdays: 8am - 8pm
Weekends: 8am - 7pm (GMT +3)
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Tour highlights

Girvas Volcano
We will see a unique geological object, the oldest (about 2 billion years old) a crater in Karelia
Karelian mountain
National workshops on making traditional Karelian gates from rye flour, making Karelian amulet dolls and others are waiting for you
The first Russian resort "Marcial Waters"
We will visit the health resort, which was advertised throughout Europe by Peter the Great himself
Flexible program
Additional excursions in Karelia will diversify your vacation and make it unforgettable
The historical heritage of Tsarskoye Selo and Peterhof
An amazing journey into the history and luxury of a place associated with the imperial family awaits you
The fortress city of Kronstadt
We will get acquainted with the complex of flood defenses, from where we will admire the panorama of the Gulf of Finland and see the famous Kronstadt forts

Itinerary

  • Day 1 - Arrival. Bus sightseeing tour of St. Petersburg

    Arrival in Saint Petersburg.

    Check-in at the hotel on your own.

    Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby. The "Tour name" sign.

    The time is approximate. Check the meeting time before check-in.

    For the comfort of all guests, radio equipment is provided on this day.

    13:00 Departure from the Moscow Hotel, including guests from the Art Deco Nevsky and Yard Residence hotels.

    Bus sightseeing tour of St. Petersburg, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. You will see the vistas of St. Petersburg streets, the majestic expanse of the Neva River, clad in granite embankments, bends of rivers and canals, facades of magnificent palaces, flying spans of bridges and airy patterns of fences.

    16:30 Excursion to the Peter and Paul Fortress – the "heart" of St. Petersburg, since its foundation in 1703, our city traces its history. During a historical walk through the fortress, you will get acquainted with its history and features of the fortification, see modern urban sculpture, visit the Peter and Paul Cathedral, where members of the Romanov dynasty are buried, and the Trubetskoy Bastion prison, which will tell about the fate of many famous people.

    18:30-19:00 The end of the program.

    Transfer to hotels.

  • Day 2 - Bus tour "Under the shadow of the Tsarskoye Selo Gardens"
  • Day 3 - Arrival in the city of Kondopoga. The Karelian Upper Room program. Master classes
  • Day 4 - Free day. Excursions for an additional fee to choose from
  • Day 5 - Girvas volcano. Kivach Nature Reserve and Waterfall
  • Day 6 - Bus tour "Along the old Peterhof road". Peterhof
  • Day 7 - Kronstadt. Completion of the program
Difficulty
Suitable for everyone

Accommodation

Accommodation
  • Hotel
    6 nights
Comfort
  • Upscale
  • Premium

The tour includes accommodation in a hotel for 2 nights in Karelia and 4 nights in St. Petersburg. 

The cost of the tour depends on the accommodation, the price is indicated for 1 person in rubles:

Art Deco Nevsky 4* (Saint Petersburg) Buffet breakfast + Karelia 3* (Kondopoga), Breakfast buffet+ Art Deco Nevsky 4* (St. Petersburg), Breakfast buffet

Check-in dates

 

Double room with separate beds AdultSingle roomDouble room with separate bedsSingle roomDouble room with separate beds

Triple

(2 main+additional cr.)

Single room
The attic + StandardStandard + StandardImproved + Standard
03.07-24.07.2434250461003425046100356503425048500
31.07-21.08.2433050435003305043500342503345046100

Moscow 4* (Saint Petersburg), Buffet breakfast + Karelia 3* (Kondopoga), Buffet breakfast + Moscow 4* (Saint Petersburg), Buffet breakfast

Check-in dates

 

Double room with separate beds

Triple

(2 main+additional cr.)

Single roomDouble room with separate beds

Triple

(2 main+additional cr.)

Single room
Standard + StandardComfort + Standard
03.07-21.08.24366503585050900390503745055500

Yard Residence Apart Hotel 4* (Saint Petersburg), Continental breakfast + Karelia 3* (Kondopoga), Buffet breakfast + Yard Residence Apart Hotel 4* (St. Petersburg), Continental breakfast

Check-in dates

 

Double room with a double bedSingle roomDouble room with a double bedSingle roomDouble room with separate beds

Triple

(2 main+additional cr.)

Single room
Smart without kitchen + StandardSmart + StandardStudio + Standard
17.07-14.08.2437850539003885055900392503745056900
21.08.2437200526503820054650387003710055750

Discount for children under 14 years old: 1900 rubles .

Discount for children aged 14-16: 1000 rubles.

Discount for students (full-time Russian State universities): 500 rubles.

Additional payment to foreign citizens (except the Republic of Belarus): 1000 rubles.

Hotel 2 nights
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Hotel or Hotel or 4 nights

Tour conditions

Group
From 2 to 50 tourists
Minimum age
5 years old
Duration
7 days 6 nights
Group meets at
Saint-Petersburg

Included in price

  • accommodation in St. Petersburg;
  • breakfast after the first night;
  • guided tours and daily transportation services according to the program;
  • museum tickets;
  • guide support.

In Karelia:

  • transport service Saint Petersburg-Karelia-Saint Petersburg;
  • accommodation for 2 nights;
  • 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, tea party with gates;
  • guided tour service according to the program;
  • animation program;
  • guide support.

Paid extra

  • air and railway tickets to St. Petersburg and back;
  • meals not included in the tour program;
  • additional excursions;
  • lunches and dinners in Karelia: (to be paid on the spot on request) — 480 rub. for 1 lunch/dinner;
  • private transfer.

It's important to know

What important information do you need to know about the tour?

Briefly about the national teams: guests from different regions of Russia and the CIS come independently, one at a time, as a family or in mini-groups and are united by the operator into one group at the start point of the tour.

Cyclic and cascade tours assume that check-in and check-out is possible on any day, you can buy a tour for any number of days from 3 to 7. Every day there will be a new group and a new guide.

Bus and tours with a fixed arrival date (or a fixed day of the week) of arrival assume that the group consists of the same tourists and under the guidance of one guide (except for tours longer than 7 days)

Combined tours (including visits to two or more regions) It is assumed that when the region changes, there will be a change in the composition of participants and a change of guides.

The composition of the group depends on the tour: standard group - 40-50 people, comfort group - 19-27 people, mini group - up to 16 people. The comfort and mini format is indicated in the tour annotation, if there is no such annotation, then the group is 40-50 hours. When visiting the museums of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, guests can be divided into groups of 10, 15, 20 or 30 people and are served by museum guides. The rest of the excursions (bus and pedestrian) are conducted by the operator's guide.

Check–out time in hotels - check-in after 15.00, check-out before 12:00.

For guaranteed early check—in, it is necessary to book a room in advance - this is usually 100% of the cost of 1 night in a hotel in high season and 50% in low season. If the room is not ready before check-out time, guests can take their belongings to the hotel's luggage room (this service is free). Registration of foreign citizens is paid on the spot by tourists themselves (usually 250-300 rubles). Check-in at the hotel takes place according to your passport and last names.

Please note that the start of the excursion program does not depend on the check-out time at the hotel. The departure time from the hotel is indicated in the programs.

Accommodation in the hotel is possible only in a separate room (without check-in). An extra bed in the room is a euro–bed, there are no full-fledged three and four beds in one room in hotels within the framework of combined tours. Four-seater under warranty: Theatre Square 4*, Hotel on Rimsky-Korsakov 3*. Quadruple on request: Connections in 4* and 5* Suites and semi-suites in 4* and 5* hotels - the response time for price and availability is 24 hours or more, depending on the season. Therefore, we recommend that you immediately offer your guests to choose two double rooms. If guests arrive in the afternoon and lose the day of sightseeing, then we recommend booking an additional night for the tour.

On the day of arrival, the tourist arrives at the hotel on his own (except in cases when a transfer is ordered), checks in on his own, leaves his belongings in the luggage room and meets with the guide at the address indicated in the program, a sign for a meeting with the name of the tour. In most tours, the meeting with the guide takes place in the lobby of the hotel (if the base hotel was purchased). When staying in some hotels, it is necessary to approach the neighboring hotel on an excursion. Check-in at the hotel is carried out after the program (except in cases where check-in was ordered earlier).

On the day of departure, the tourist independently checks out of the room and, depending on the tour: either hands over things to the luggage room of the hotel and then returns for them, or hands over things at the Moscow railway station to the luggage room at his own expense, or leaves things on the bus until the end of the program (the procedure is specified in each program). We recommend setting a time reserve when buying return tickets due to the unpredictable transport situation in the city and suburbs.

Meals:

On regular tours to St. Petersburg we offer breakfast-based meals in hotels. 

Most of the combined tours do not have organized hot meals. We recommend that guests bring a snack or buy light snacks at the food court or at the street food kiosk. All tours to Vyborg have organized hot lunches.

A tour to St. Petersburg, which includes organized dinners: 1) every day there are lunches on the Petersburg tour. Peter. From the first stone to the skyscraper" 2) the first and last days of lunch in the tour "White Nights on the Gulf of Finland"; 3) the first and last days of tasting "Delicious symbol of St. Petersburg – smelt"; 4) 2 lunches in the tour "City of adventurers: life according to the St. Petersburg recipe"; 5.) one lunch in tours "The city with good taste" and "Peterhof holidays", "What rules St. Petersburg".

Transportation:

When servicing regular tours, transport is provided every day (with the exception of the walking tour "In the heart of St. Petersburg"). When traveling on a country trip, the end of the work of transport is usually about Moskovsky railway station. On museum day, transportation is provided to the last museum.

Tour service in Russian; if a foreign Russian-speaking guest wants to purchase a tour or excursion, the operator will charge an additional fee for the difference in entrance tickets (check the cost with the operator); if the foreign guest does not speak Russian, we recommend purchasing an individual tour.

Persons over the age of 18 who plan to stay in accommodation facilities in St. Petersburg for more than 24 hours are required to pay a resort fee at check-in in the amount of 100 rubles per day per person. 21 (twenty-one) preferential categories are exempt from payment. For questions about the resort fee, you can contact the tourist Contact center.

The age for tourists and tourists is from 5 years old.

Visiting excursions and the tour in general by minors is possible only accompanied by adults; if the accompanying adult is not the parent of the child, then a power of attorney from the parents is required upon check-in at the hotel;

It is not possible to visit excursions with animals, but you can check into a pet friendly hotel, the list can be obtained from the operator.

It is possible to order a comfort-class passenger car for an individual transfer in advance (from 1800 rubles. net, depending on the time of day and delivery).

If a transfer is ordered, please provide the meeting details in advance (time, station, train, carriage, terminal and arrival time, flight number, mobile phone of tourists). In case of failure to provide information about the meeting (in less than 3 working days), the transfer will not be provided.

In a large number of tours (not all) there is a free morning group transfer service to hotels, which is ordered in advance: a fixed meeting time is indicated in the tour program.

Additional excursions are purchased and paid for on the spot by the guide, excursions will take place subject to the recruitment of a group and favorable weather conditions.

The time and place of completion of the program is indicated in the tour program every day.

It can be a basic hotel or a city center: as a rule, it is the metro station "Ploshchad Vosstaniya" near the Moskovsky train station or the metro station "Gostiny Dvor".

If tourists want to buy theater tickets, we recommend laying a time reserve. In the updated tour program, the time of visiting the sites may vary depending on what time the museums have confirmed.

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    Sebastian Constantin Egerer
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    28 Apr, 2026
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    I greatly appreciate that it was possible to visit the Russian Federation in these turbulent times.
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    Tatiana
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    10 Apr, 2026
    I enjoyed the trip!
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    Irina
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    2 Mar, 2026
    Overall, the tour went very well, and all the scheduled excursions took place as planned.