St. Petersburg Inns - Reviews and Rates

The flight into St. Petersburg yesterday was not half bad. I mostly slept which was nice. Dave and Dr. Lehrman's friend Yuri met me at the airport which made things much simpler for me. After buying some groceries and such I went with Dave to a little party in the dorms. Did you know in Russia they sell beer in plastic bottles? Strange... Today ...

March 17 We woke up at 7:30 sharp. We ate breakfast at a restaurant called, Café 1913. We liked it so much we went to Café 1913 for every breakfast after that. We went to our apartment and became situated for the rest of the day. We then went to State Hermitage. We saw all of the things inside the State Heritage. There were tons of artifacts and...

Pskov... They took us to Pechory Monastery. Once again this monastery was founded in caves, so we had a walk around there. That afternoon they took us to a traditional Russian Banya (Sauna/steam room) basically you sit in a very small very hot room until you can't stand it anymore, then you run down to the lake and jump in. Was a nice relaxing w...

Arrived in St. Petersburg after a long and uncomfortable train journey from Riga but in saying that things could have been a lot worse as we ended up being able to sleep on a few benches on the train instead of something which was apparently a seat. We were met at the station and brought to our homestays. We were split into twos and after an unf...

Took a train to St Petersburg, a fun experience minus having dad in a cabin with strangers and a window that didn't shut (welcome in sleet!) :( while we girls (Vera, Olya, Olya, Taya, Nadia) talked the night away... played cards, drank real Russian tea out of those real Russian cups (you know the glass ones, with metal fanciwork to hold it??). F...