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).
From 13:00 until departure for the program, a representative of the company with a sign "Sightseeing 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.
15:00 Departure from the hotel by bus.
Sightseeing tour of St. Petersburg.
The sightseeing tour will acquaint you in detail with more than three hundred years of the history of the Northern capital. You will learn how the city was founded, and see its first buildings that have survived to this day – the Peter and Paul Fortress and the wooden House of Peter I. The panoramas of the main embankments of St. Petersburg and the ensembles of the central squares will appear before you in all their splendor.
You will visit the Field of Mars and find out what the city's first park, the Summer Garden, is famous for; drive along the main street of St. Petersburg, Nevsky Prospekt, and see all the most famous sights: Anichkov Bridge, Ostrovsky Square, Gostiny Dvor, Kazan Cathedral. You will learn the history of the St. Petersburg bridges and feel the pulse of the modern city.
Boat trip "Grand Petersburg with access to the Gulf of Finland".
This is one of the most popular urban routes. During one trip, you will be able to see the historical center of St. Petersburg with its main symbols – the Winter Palace, the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Arrow of Vasilievsky Island, and the ultramodern buildings of the city's recent history – the Gazprom Arena stadium in the form of a flying saucer and the tallest skyscraper in Europe, the Lakhta Center.
The comfortable ship will delight travelers with a large promenade deck with panoramic views.
There is a restaurant on board with a chef's signature menu: for an additional fee, you can order a full lunch, a light salad or a cappuccino with dessert to make your trip even more enjoyable.
Place of graduation: city center (berth at the "descent with lions", Admiralteiskaya Embankment, 2).
Duration: ~4.5 hours (ending: ~19:45).