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).
Guaranteed hotel accommodation after 14:00.
You can leave your belongings free of charge in the luggage room of the hotel.
Important information:
- tourists staying in the hotels "Ambassador", "Moscow", "Azimut Hotel St. Petersburg" go on excursions from the hotel accommodation;
- And the Fontanka Hotel - tourists come to the Azimut Hotel St. Petersburg (43/1 Lermontovsky Ave., adjacent building) to meet and go on excursions;
- "Yard Residence Apart-hotel" - tourists come to the Moscow hotel (Alexander Nevsky Square, 2) for a meeting and departure for excursions - 5 minutes on foot.
From 11:00 to 13:00 (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 approach at any convenient time in this interval.
He will answer all your questions, provide updated tour programs and offer additional excursions that
You can purchase at will.
13:00 Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby. Departure to the program by bus.
Big sightseeing tour of St. Petersburg.
The tour will take you through the most beautiful places of our city – the main streets and avenues, the main embankments and squares.
You will see magnificent palaces, majestic cathedrals, the most popular monuments and museums of the Northern Capital, and admire the unique Nevsky panoramas.
Also, check if the city is ready for Christmas celebrations.
New Year's greetings from Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden with treats and gifts!
Visit to Kazan Cathedral.
Kazan Cathedral is located in the heart of St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt. Its interior is decorated with 56 pink granite columns with gilded capitals.
After the Patriotic War of 1812, the temple became a monument of Russian military glory.
Trophies were brought here – military banners and standards, keys to captured cities and fortresses, and even a French marshal's baton.
The main shrine is the miraculous icon of the Kazan Mother of God.
And when you go out into the square in front of the cathedral, you will certainly feel a special festive spirit, admiring the Christmas tree and the nativity scene.
End of the program: hotel.
Duration of the program: ~4 hours (ending at ~17:30).