Hotels in St. Petersburg - Prices and Reviews

Hi everyone.

Welcome to my travel blog! This seemed like a better idea than emailing but we'll see how we go.

I guess I should start at the beginning of the adventure. After much faffing and stressing I packed all that I had gathered, acquired, bought and collected in my three years in Edinburgh into boxes and with some mamoth help...

St. Petersburg could take years to see it all. The history and the buildings here tell so many stories, some of tragedy some of notable worlld events but all are interesting.
This marvelous Russian-style church was built on the spot where Emperor Alexander II was assassinated in March 1881.

After a lie in we braced ourselves for a day of sightseeing. It felt like it had become a chore somehow. however the sun was out and we ticked off the Dostoevsky statue, catherine the great statue, kazan cathedral, the colonnade of st Issacs cathedral, the bronze horseman, walked by the Winter Palace and Hermitage and through quiet backstreets t...

March 15 I woke up at 1:38 PM. I ate then went to the airport with my partner, Andrea. We went to the Fort Lauderdale airport. We flew from Fort Lauderdale at six PM. We took business class. Our flight service, Alitalia, had a wonderful service. If I didn't know better we had taken first class. They gave us anything that I wanted. I ordered a be...

Photos will come later. Let's get the route straight first...

Mon 10th July Woke up rather tired from little sleep and we were soon on St Petes train station and being met by the travel agents driver. Within 20mins we were dropped off at the hotel where we waited in the reception/breakfast room for about an hour until our room became available. We slept for about an hour then at 9:30am we met our guide for...

We arrived safe and sound last night and on time. Got picked up from the airport and taken to our homestay not far from the centre of St Petersburg. Are staying with a widow called Irina who is very nice and cooks great food for us. Any attempt that we may have to lose weight in the next year will not succeed if the last 24 hours are anything to...