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: private 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.
Departure for excursions from the accommodation hotel.
From 12:00 to 14:00 (before departure for the program), a representative of the company with a sign "About Petersburg" will meet you in the lobby of the hotel.
You can come up at any convenient time in this interval.
He will answer all your questions, give you updated tour programs and offer additional excursions that you can purchase at will.
14:00 Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby.
Bus sightseeing tour of St. Petersburg.
We invite you to take a bus sightseeing tour of the city.
The tour will introduce you to the history of St. Petersburg from its foundation to the present day.
You will admire the magnificent architectural ensembles of the ceremonial city center – Nevsky Prospekt, Palace Square, the Arrow of Vasilyevsky Island.
You will see the Admiralty, the Kunstkammer, the Menshikov Palace, the Peter and Paul Fortress.
All the most important and interesting, the most beautiful and famous things are waiting for you in St. Petersburg.
A tour of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The atmosphere of Petrovsky Petersburg still lives here.
You will get acquainted with the history of the construction of the first bastion fortress in Russia.
You will see a "city within a city": typical buildings of Peter the Great's time, the cathedral, the prison of the Trubetskoy bastion, the "Mint", where coins are still being minted.
You will find out where the name of the island came from and why the cannon fires exactly at noon.
Excursion to the museum "Commandant's House".
The exhibits of this museum cheerfully and colorfully tell about the history of the city, about its inhabitants, trade, life, art, memorable events that took place in St. Petersburg, starting from the foundation of the city and up to 1917.
Dinner in a cafe in the city.
The place of completion of the program: the hotel.
Duration of the program: ~6.5 hours (ending at ~21:00).