Summer hits of St. Petersburg and Karelia

Two significant places in 7 days: Imperial St. Petersburg with magnificent suburbs and the land of amazing nature — Karelia.

You will see the prospects of St. Petersburg streets, the majestic expanse of the Neva River, dressed in granite embankments, bends of rivers and canals, facades of luxurious palaces. Go to the Catherine Palace with the famous Amber Room and Catherine Park — a magnificent work of Russian landscape art of the XVIII-XIX centuries. You will learn the history of Karelia from the very beginning to the arrival of the Slavs, their influence on Karelians and Veps, and how two civilizations and cultures intersect in the city of Olonets.

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
Up 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

Interactive program
Let's have fun in the most "fun" village of Kindasovo on an interactive program
Husky Kennel and deer farm
Let's get acquainted with a professional husky sled dog kennel and a reindeer farm
Flexible program
We can go on an additional excursion to Kizhi, visit the Aquarium or go for a boat trip

Itinerary

  • Day 1 - Arrival. Bus sightseeing tour. Peter and Paul Fortress

    Arrival in Saint Petersburg.

    Independent accommodation at the hotel.

    Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby.

    13:30 Departure from the Oktyabrskaya Hotel (10 Ligovsky Ave.), including guests from the Ibis, Comfort Port Ligovsky, and Dostoevsky 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.

    Attention: the April and October arrivals include a visit to the Kunstkamera, the first publicly accessible museum in Russia founded by Peter the Great, where you will see unique natural science and ethnographic collections telling about man and different peoples of the world.

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

    Transfer to hotels.

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  • Day 2 - Tsarskoye Selo: Catherine's Palace and Park
  • Day 3 - Author's highway tour about the peoples and lands of the Ladoga region
  • Day 4 - The reserve and the Kivach waterfall. Guided tour of the nursery and deer farm
  • Day 5 - Ruskeala Mountain Park
  • Day 6 - Free day or additional excursions
  • Day 7 - Free day or additional excursions. Departure
Difficulty
Suitable for everyone

Accommodation

Accommodation
  • Hotel
    6 nights
Comfort
  • Upscale
  • Premium

The tour includes accommodation in a hotel. 

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

Dostoevsky 4* (St. Petersburg), Buffet breakfast + Optima (Villa Aino, Zarechnaya, Ladoga, Ilma, Aquatica) 3* (Petrozavodsk), Breakfast

Check-in dates

 

Double room with separate bedsSingle room

Triple

(2 main+additional cr.)

Standard + StandardSuperior + Standard
17.07-25.09.24429005880042600
02.10-09.10.24410005580040900

Dostoevsky 4* (St. Petersburg), Buffet breakfast + Hit (Frigate, Peter Inn, Onega Castle, Valise) 4* (Petrozavodsk), Buffet breakfast

Check-in dates

 

Double room with separate bedsSingle roomTriple (2 main+additional beds)
Standard + StandardSuperior + Standard
17.07-25.09.24513007395051000
02.10-09.10.24494007095049300

Comfort Port Ligovsky 29 4* (Saint Petersburg), Buffet breakfast + Optima hotel (Villa Aino, Zarechnaya, Ladoga, Ilma, Aquatica) 3* (Petrozavodsk), Breakfast

Check-in dates

 

Double room with separate bedsTriple (2 main+additional beds)Single AdultDouble room with a double bed
Smart+ Standard 
03.07-28.08.2443900434006030043600
04.09-25.09.2443400426005930043100
02.10-09.10.2442700426005810042500

Comfort Port Ligovsky 29 4* (Saint Petersburg), Buffet breakfast + Hotel Category HIT (Frigate, Peter Inn, Onega Castle, Valise) 4* (Petrozavodsk), Buffet breakfast

Check-in dates

 

Double room with separate bedsTriple (2 main +additional cr.)Single roomDouble room with a double bed
Smart + Standard 
03.07-28.08.2452300518007545052000
04.09-25.09.2451800510007445051500
02.10-09.10.2451100510007325050900

Discount for children under 14 years old: 2,100 rubles.

Discount for children aged 14-16: 1200 rubles.

Discount for students (full-time Russian State universities): 950 rubles.

Discount for pensioners 60+ (Russian Federation): 650 rubles.

Comfort Port Ligovsky 29 4* or Dostoevsky 4* 2 nights
Comfort Port Ligovsky 29 4*

Apart-hotel "Port Comfort on Ligovskiy" is located in the very center of St. Petersburg, close to the main attractions and Moskovsky Train Station.

The hotel offers accommodation in stylish rooms of various categories. Each room has a double bed, a sofa, a TV, a bathroom with a shower, a hairdryer, a washing machine and a set of towels. Free Wi-Fi is available on site.

There is a kitchenette with a fridge, microwave, kettle, electric hob and dining table. There are many cafes and restaurants within walking distance.

The distance to the airport is 16 km. Nearby you can find a shopping center, recreation parks and other leisure facilities.

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Another option
Dostoevsky 4*

The Dostoevsky Hotel is waiting in St. Petersburg. It offers Wi-Fi, parking, sauna, gym.

The atmosphere and comfort of this place will be remembered only by positive emotions. Each of the rooms has everything for comfort.

There is a restaurant on site where you can taste delicious dishes from the menu, as well as have a great time.

There is a conference room equipped with related equipment for various events.

Metro stations, historical sights, beautiful squares and parks of the city on the Neva River are within walking distance.

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Valise 4* or Onega Castle 4* or 4 nights

Tour conditions

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

Included in price

  • accommodation 2 nights in a hotel in St. Petersburg, 2 nights in a hotel in Petrozavodsk, 2 nights in a hotel in Sortavala;
  • Meals: breakfast;
  • guided tours and daily transportation services according to the program;
  • tickets to museums according to the program;
  • guide support.

Paid extra

  • air and railway tickets to St. Petersburg and back;
  • meals not specified in the tour program;
  • additional excursions;
  • set meals in Karelia: (paid on site at will) — 500-700 rubles for 1 lunch;
  • according to the decree of the government, the mandatory payment is 100 rubles. for visiting Valaam (payment on the website oopt-rk.ru );
  • the resort fee of 100 rubles / day will be paid by guests directly at the hotel, and cannot be included in the tourist package (from 04/01/2024, an experiment on the introduction of a resort fee will start in St. Petersburg);
  • 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 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–folding 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.