The Hermitage Hotel

... European odyssey starting in Paris with a Mediterranean sojourn from Monte Carlo to Istanbul Paris - Scribe Hotel Monte Carlo - Hermitage Hotel Civitavecchia & Tarquinia Sorrento, Pompeii & Positano Sicily - Messina & Taormina Crete - Heraklion & ...

... five hour walk through the Hermitage I thought my head was going to explode. It is simply impossible to adequately describe the Hermitage. In fact, I do not believe there is an adjective that exists that can possibly do this place justice. One painting, ...

... showers and grey skies. I hadn't planned anything for my stay in St Petersburg but everyone had told me not to miss the Hermitage Museum although I wasn't sure if I wanted to spend a whole day lining up with millions of other tourists, not after rubbing ...

Today, our guide Elena met us at the hotel and we walked the familiar path to the Hermitage entering the impressive series of buildings.  It was a beautiful sunny day and I was thrilled that we would end off our time in St. Petersburg with a warm, ...

... impressing building but we didn't go in because we didn't want to run out the time so just took a picture.  Hermitage Museum was about 10 minutes walk away from Nevsky Prospect metro station.  Its stunning beautiful pale green building, Winter ...

... hot place, when the reality is it is a very cold city 9 or 10 months per year. Today and yesterday were devoted primarily to the Hermitage Museum, situated in the "Winter Palace" of Peter I. It is a huge place.. I think they say 12 to 15 km of corridors. ...

... The view of this lovely Russian old style church can be seen from all over the city.   After lunch we went to the hermitage, otherwise known as the winter palace for the czars back in the day.  I wasn't expecting to be impressed with such beautiful ...

... room was more amazing the the stuff in the cabinets inside it! 
“The Winter Palace” is part of the Hermitage too, so strolling through there is pretty immense too. After 2 hours of winding up and down numerous elaborate staircases and ...

... thing. Now for today. I hope that we will keep it simple. We arrived early 10:15 for the entrance to the gigantic Hermitage that hugs the Neva and takes up blocks. Built by successive tsars. It is connected to the Winter Palace, their seasonal home until ...

... 's estate and museum.  It was cold and foggy when we woke up..... it was not too long of a drive to the Hermitage from our hotel.  We enjoyed driving through a couple of small towns, giving the kids a chance to see some countryside, fall foliage ...

... Hermitage. WOW, what a place this is! We started in the Winter Palace before reaching the old and then new Hermitage's. Each was a succession of the most amazing rooms, ornately and lavishly decorated, with a specific purpose for entertaining, working, ...

... beds – but I think I definitely scored the best family, and I am extremely happy. Today at noon was our trip to the Hermitage, which is GINORMOUS and free for students, so I will be going back very frequently. Natalia and I walked to meet Nick, and ...

... reached out destination, and had been the recipient of a ride akin to a New York taxi ride to boot.  We entered the Hermitage and did a whirlwind tour that is best left for the countless guidebooks to describe.  What I can say is that the place ...

Hello from St Petersburg, Russia - am currently taking a coffee break at the internet cafe in this beautiful 17th century Hermitage museum. There are so many artifacts in here, Italian masterpieces, Greek sculpture, etc. it would take a person 5 years to ...

... going to miss the food when we go back to cupertino. Lauren: After seeing the Country Music Museum, we went to the Hermitage which was Andrew Jackson's mansion/property. As Craig said before the women docents were so cute and adorable with all of ...

... entertainment area. A newer much larger Music Center is under construction and due to open in 2013. We then headed out to The Hermitage which is the home of the late President Andrew Jackson. It dates back to slavery days. Did a wagon tour of the ...