Azimut Hotel

Our room at the hotel Azimut in St. Petersburg was listed as a luxury comfort room with a double bed. I don't know about you, but in my mind a 250 dollar a night room carrying that description should be a refuge of relaxation from the day’s ...

... very big river, with an impressive bridge of its own.  There was also the Vladivostok-Moscow sign made famous by the Azimut hotel dreaded breakfast buffet slideshow.  Jon toyed with the idea of taking a less than complimentary photo in front of ...

... that the trains would start getting a lot worse as the trip went on. After lugging our bags across the Metro and walking to our hotel, the Azimut, it was too early to check-in so we deposited our bags in left luggage and after some food, it was off out ...

... . We had a bit of time before we boarded our over night train to St Petersburg so I went across to the shopping centre  from the hotel to have a look, not expecting to find anything to buy.  Well I had to force myself to return to the hotel and had with ...

... by the area where The Sound of Music was filmed.  We bought a postcard and mailed it with our remaining Austrian stamps. Our hotel is not located near Munich’s town center, but it is very modern and clean.  Most important of all, ...

... bags through customs when we had a little mishap.  In our impatience to get the heck out of the airport and on to our hotel, we somehow forgot to put my smaller backpack on the cart with all the other bags.  Of course I realized this AFTER going ...

... storage shop with non English speaking staff and headed off to wander around and check out train tickets before getting on board Azimut. We needed to get train tickets from Split to Munich after our cruise finished to get to Oktoberfest and then onto ...

... The folks responsible for running this adventure: 1) Kate, UK, KE Tour Leader 2) Piter (pronounced "Peter"), Bolivia: guide from Azimut Explorer, KE's local agent in Bolivia 3) Juan (and his wife Rosa) Bolivia: owner of Azimut Explorer The ...

... earlier). After searching for a while, I was about to give up, but saw a guy with a little sign that said "Elena", and "Azimut". I suspected I might indeed be the "Elena" he was looking for, so I asked which hotel he was going to. He said the Rosario ...

... blog up to the point of our departure from Vlad. and so these will not be our last entries. I'm writing this looking out of a hotel bedroom on the open sea.There's a 3 tier diving board into the greyest,coldest water you could imagine.I guess some people ...

... and uniqueness of our presence was also a surprise. Imagine two Mongolians arriving in Bedford market square on a camel and asking for a hotel.Stanley is at least 40 years older than any vehicle a great number of the people we met had seen.  As you ...

... with instructions on how Anton was to drive it, and said goodbye. Took the bus back into town, spent a bit of time at the hotel, booked flights home for Saturday. Now that we are carless, theres no point in hanging around. Everything we  do, we do ...

... hill with bags in tow to our hotel, checked in, did our registration formalities, had an exploratory walk, and then tea at the hotel watching a late, lovely sunset around 8:30. Some of the Pacific Ocean is frozen, and there's lots of icy snow on the ...

... away (the inside that is) and ready for a sea journey. We arent packed yet but there isnt much point at the moment. The hotel matrketing guys came out while we were working on sorting the car and asked if we could allow them to take some photos. So we ...