trips to moscow and st petersburg

trips to moscow and st petersburg

Currently, there are many ways to spend weekends, holidays or vacations, but are always very popular sightseeing tours in Moscow. Moscow - is not only the capital of our vast country, but also a city whose history is traced through the emergence of the Russian state. Moscow - a wonderful city, not unlike any other. Europe and Asia for centuries co-exist here, in some places - side by side, in some places - are fused into a single unit. The spacious squares and narrow streets, squares and embankments coexist in harmony and create a sense of breadth and comfort. Antique quiet streets and green boulevards turn into a giant highway. The refined simplicity of ancient houses and the areas adjacent to the eye-catching luxury casinos and nightclubs. Tours to Moscow would be unthinkable without a visit to the world-famous museums, which keep the masterpieces of world culture: The Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts. AS Pushkin, the Armory, and many others. There are places in Moscow, the required inspection. For example, Sparrow Hills - one of the most popular holiday destinations of Muscovites. It offers a great view of the capital. Novodevichy Convent, founded in the 16th century - the only monastery in Moscow, who reports directly to the Metropolitan Krutitsa and Kolomna. Poklonnaya Hill used to be outside the city, and from its top you can see a panorama of the surrounding area. People climbed the mountain to look at Moscow and worship her - hence the name. Christ the Savior Cathedral is located near the Kremlin on the Moskva River. Its history stretches over several centuries, it intertwined the fates of many rulers and ordinary people who sacrificed for its creation and restoration. And finally, the Red Square - the main and most famous square, located in the center of Moscow. All tours include Moscow in its examination. Red Square was the decoration of the temple "of the Intercession on the Moat", built in the mid-16th century by order of Ivan the Terrible and more commonly known as St. Basil's Cathedral.

You can not go on excursions around Moscow and the Kremlin did not see. Real Kremlin is much more interesting television and postcard. It combines everything - the distant past and present, history and politics, culture and art. In the Kremlin, every building - a historic monument. Tour of this ancient site includes inspection of the Cathedral Square. You will see the Church of Deposition of the Robe, the Patriarch's Palace, the Tsar Cannon and Tsar Bell, Bell Tower of Ivan the Great. You will visit the two areas - the Palace and the Senate. Here are the famous monuments: the Arsenal and the Senate, there is the Grand Kremlin Palace, the ancient times served as the residence of Russian tsars. In addition to the inspection of the Kremlin and its surrounding areas, you can visit the Armory. Initially, there was a weapons factory, and now it is a treasure-house, which contains a unique collection of gold and silver utensils, royal clothes, old state regalia, carriages and, of course, weapons of all time. The famous Diamond Fund. During this tour you will see a huge nuggets of gold and platinum found in Russia, the largest diamonds, unique jewelry. In the halls of the old pre-revolutionary order exhibited in Russia and abroad, there are also the royal regalia, including - the legendary Crown of the Russian Empire.

trips to moscow and st petersburg

Excursions in St. Petersburg

In the tourism industry usually subdivided holiday excursions for group tours and individual tours.

Group tour to St. Petersburg - a tour with a pre-laid out tough excursion program, which begins upon your arrival in our city. The program clearly defines the place of your accommodation (hotel), tours of the place and the food menu. For a group of fixed guide and the bus. The group formed as a complete set, you can not influence what with whom you spend leisure time.

Individual tour in St. Petersburg - a tour made up according to your wishes. You can choose the place of accommodation (hotel or apartment), part of tour, transport (car, van or bus), the place of food and personal guide. The composition of your group can be from 1 to 51 (or more) people. Of course, as well as in a group tour, a cultural program is agreed in advance, but you are free to choose the place and time of the tour itself.

Then give a brief description and characteristics of each type of recreation.

Group travel

In order to come to St. Petersburg in the group you need to select a tour or on our website, or in one of the travel agencies in your city. You can get tours to St. Petersburg for 2-8 days. Since the tours - it's educational journey, when you select the tour you need to pay special attention to the list of tours offered in the program. As a rule of the tour program may include bus tours and walking tours.

As the tour to St. Petersburg is quite expensive pleasure, and the cost of any excursion trip consists of the cost of the excursion program and cost of living, when you select the tour you can save only reasonable choice of hotels. Our site lists the various programs stay in St. Petersburg.

Level of hotels proposed for placement in these programs also varies. So you can at one and the same amount of trips to choose a more economical location. When choosing a location advised to pay attention to the distance of the hotel from the city center or from the nearest metro station, if the property is located in a residential area. Metro in St. Petersburg is the most reliable and fastest way of transport, which has only one drawback - while working underground 5:45-00:15. If during your stay in St. Petersburg you plan to walk at night, you'd better pay attention to more modest accommodation in a hostel, but in the city center. If you prefer the comfort and your plans did not include multiple nightly walks or you stay with the children, it is best to choose a hotel in a residential area.

The entire excursion program includes bus service, so the morning after you arrive at the scheduled time the bus. Study programs, book your next trip, but remember that the tour must be booked and paid in advance before the start of the tour because all unclaimed tickets to museums and free hotel rooms or canceled or sold. So you can not pay for a tour and join the group on arrival in St. Petersburg. Plan your trip in advance, we will all help.

Features tours and prices of our tours are in a section of a site group tours to St. Petersburg

Excursions

If the issue with the placement you have been successful, then immediately there is a problem excursions. How to get acquainted with St. Petersburg, so as not to miss the most interesting places of the city. We consider several ways:

    You can equip a map and guide and familiarize yourself with the city.

    You can see the sights of the city using a bus tour of St. Petersburg in the group. Such excursions in St. Petersburg, organized by several firms. You can pre-select the tour, including the countryside, in the time to approach the bus and go on a bus tour with a guide. This way of exploring the city has many advantages, namely: Tour is a qualified guide you will not go on foot, and driving around in a comfortable bus, more comfortable and less tiring. The group you really get to the tour at any suburban Palace (Catherine in Pushkin, the Grand Palace in Peterhof, etc.). In summer, at the entrance of these palaces are huge queues at the entrance, and the groups are clearly at the appointed time.

    You can book a tour for your family or company. Tour is conducted by car (for 2-3 persons) or minivan (4 people) with a guide. In this excursion is tailored to your wishes. (See table below individual excursions.)

Individual tours (tours) in Saint-Petersburg - 2010 Season

The name continued with probability 1-resident persons. 2 people. 3 people. 4 people. 5 people. 6 people. 7 people. 8 people. 9 people. 10 people.

City tour 3:00 2890 1500 1185 945 800 705 610 520 475 460

City tour with a visit to the fortress 3:00 3040 1650 1330 1090 945 850 755 670 620 600

The Hermitage (transport) 3:00 3340 1780 1410 1140 980 870 770 700 650 600

The Hermitage (without transport) 3:00 1780 1000 745 640 655 540 485 450 425 400

Peterhof (only park) 6:00 4450 2335 1930 1545 1310 1160 1025 930 860 800

Tsarskoye Selo (Catherine Palace) 6:00 4560 2515 2085 1700 1470 1315 1175 1085 1020 950

Pavlovsk (Pavlovsk Palace) 6:00 4500 2420 1950 1600 1370 1215 1080 950 920 850

Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk (Pavlovsk palaces and Catherine) 7:00 5210 3050 2550 2210 1840 1655 1500 1400 1320 1250

Transfer (without guide) 1840 950 780 620 590 430 370 320 290 260

*) Prices are quoted in rubles per person

**) The price includes: transportation, guide services, entrance fees.

Family trip to St Petersburg

Family trips are a variety of individulalnyh tours. The main feature of the tour are the children of the family, around which the unfolding events of the trip. For parents, the main thing - to provide the usual life of a child: time to feed, wash, put to sleep. And of course - to saturate the emotional life of his child as accessible as possible impressions.