Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge
Check rates and availability for this hotel
Find the best prices for Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge from our 10 partners. Show all partners
Travel Blogs from St. Petersburg
Helsinki & a ride in a Russian ambulance
It's been an eventful couple of days in Finland but mostly Russia, as you can see from the title of this entry! For a start, just so you don't worry - I am fine - I did break my arm, super conveniently in Russia (where we only stayed for 72 hours, the one place on our itinerary with the least English spoken and probably the worst health care system …
The Border Crossing & Wonders of St. Petersburg
The next morning we were up at 5am to travel to St Petersburg in Russia, leaving at 6:30am. To say that the journey was an experience is an understatement. We chose to leave very early in order to be one of the first buses at the Russian border as it is quite an ordeal to cross - sometimes apparently taking hours to get through.
We …
Last day in St. Petersburg
... moved. So we walked all the way back around to where we started and the entrance was there. It is a grand and huge building. I’m sure we only saw a small part of it. Sometimes I wish I were a famous or important enough person to warrant special tours where I would get to see everything in these famous places. I certainly would like a tour when there are less people around as well. It is so hard to get photos and sometimes even move from room ...
Borsch hangover cures
... Neva waters edge near the fortress many people swam in the murky sea waters pushed by the tide up from the Finland Sea. It was hard to imagine the long winter freeze and the fact that these river waters would be iced right over later in the year. I tossed low denomination rouble coins at the little hare statue in the moat accessing the fortress. Katya told me a story about this hare, which in the early stages of relating she was ...
From Russia with Love
... je to parada! Zasli jsme se podivat do vsemi barvami hrajiciho chramu Vasila Blazeneho na jihovychodnim konci namesti a pokochali se typickymi ruskymi ikonami Pany Marie drzici v rukou dite s proporcemi dospeleho cloveka. Cestou zpatky jsme to vzali po nabrezi reky Moskvy, kolem dalsiho nadherneho chramu Krista Spasitele. Na druhy, sluncem prosviceny den, jsme si nechali prohlidku sidla ruskych panovniku - Kremlinu, ze jehoz branami se skryvaji dalsi krasne ...
Location
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Fitness/Health center