- Our
Travel Directory
- Eating and drinking
- Where to stay
- Other useful recommendations
Listed in this category are genuine providers of travel services that we recommend as
reliable and useful for non-Russian speaking tourists visiting St. Petersburg. We hope
in the future to extend the list to a proper travel directory – your feedback and
suggestions are welcome.
- Walking
tours in other cities:
Absolute
Walking Tours of Budapest
www.absolutetours.com
Amsterdam
walks and bike tours! www.letsgo-amsterdam.com
Yet
another company running tours and excursions in Amsterdam.
www.amsterdamcitytours.com
Barcelona
– My Favourite Things. Original Walking Tours
in Barcelona. A fancy web site besides else.
www.myft.net
Berlin
Insider Tours www.insidertour.com
Dublin
Literary Pub Crawl www.dublinpubcrawl.com
Fat
Tire Bike Tours - Paris. English-speaking bicycle
tours of Paris, Versailles and Monet's Gardens. www.fattirebiketoursparis.com
Walking
tours Granada www.ciceronegranada.com
Lisbon
Iside Tours www.insidelisbon.com
London
Walks www.walks.com
Tour
New Orleans www.tour-new-orleans.com
New
York – Big Onion Walking Tours www.bigonion.com
Mike’s
Bike tours in Paris www.MikesBikeToursParis.com
City
Walks of Paris. English-speaking walking tours of
Paris. www.citywalksofparis.com
Prague
Walks www.praguewalks.com
Photowalks
- historic walking tours of Boston with a photographic edge.
www.photowalks.com
Guided
tours of Rome, Italy. www.protourism.org
Rome
Insight Tours www.romeinsight.com
"Sound
of Music Bicycle Tour" of Salzburg, Austria. www.mariasbicycletours.com
Stockholm
Stories www.stockholmstories.com
Streethike - walking
tours of Vancouver, Canada www.streethike.com
Vilnius
Walks run by Avanturas, Lithuanian Tour Operator. Find
out more at www.avanturas.it
Walking
Tours in Seattle by Pacific Northwest Adventures http://www.pnw-adventures.com/index_files/seattle_city_tours.htm
Walking
Tours of Florence, Italy www.artviva.com
Washington
Walks. Walking Tours of the Nation's Capital www.washingtonwalks.com
Travel
services in Moscow:
WayToRussia.Net.
Our strategic partner in Moscow - the guide to Russia and
travel services directory. Look no further when you’re
preparing to visit Moscow, and indeed the rest of Russia–
WayToRussia will help you organise your visas, tickets, accommodation,
excursions and all you can think of. An extremely useful travel
information resource for the rest Russia – the authors
have personally travelled to all of the places they’re
recommending to hand-pick the best services www.waytorussia.net
Other
destinations in Russia:
BairTravels.
Budget travel to Russia from Finland, battlefield tours in
NW Russia,
Trans-Siberian train trips. www.bair-travels.com
The
Baikaler, www.baikaler.com.
This is our Siberian connection. The man behind this link,
Jack Sheremetoff, MA, is an experienced local guide based
in Irkutsk, near lake Baikal. A comprehensive web site, offering
a full list of traveller services in the Baikal area, with
that right attitude and expertise.
Recommended
travel services in
St. Petersburg, Russia:
-
Eating and Drinking
Cynic
Bar. The absolutely coolest place in St. Petersburg.
They do not give us free drinks for this link, we just love
the place. Cynic has a web site in Russian only, www.cynic.spb.ru,
but it well worth learning Russian just to read their site.
Location: 4, Pereulok Antonenko, just off the St. Isaac’s
Square.
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Where to stay
Hostel
Na Sadovoy.
www.budget-travel.spb.ru
Opened Jan 2005, this new hostel is managed by a team of our
old friends. Ideal location for Dostoyevsky buffs, next to
the Hay Market and St. Nicholas church.
International
Hostel, www.ryh.ru.
Budget accommodation, hassle-free visa support, comprehensive
budget travel service. A Hostelling International member.
The first hostel in Russia. One of our meeting points is located
there. The web site is in English.
Puppet
Hostel, www.hostel-puppet.ru
Located in a quiet part of St. Petersburg city center, this
cozy little hostel offers budget accomodation, visa support
serices and more. Also a member of Hostelling International.
Dostoyevsky
Flat, russianroom.50g.com.
An independent and seriously alternative homestay project
in St. Petersburg, run by a team of devoted backpackers.
A friend's apartment
rental service in a lovely neibourhood in central St. Petersburg
www.apartment-stpetersburg.com.
Nord
Hostel, www.nordhostel.com
– can’t beat the location of this one, right at
the entrance to the Palace Square. Free international telephone
line for guests!
Sleep
Cheap Hostel, www.sleepcheap.spb.ru
– a tiny yet extremely friendly hostel just east of
the Summer Gardens, surrounded by numerous historic sites,
museums and a few art colleges.
RentRoom,
www.rentroom.ru.
A German-managed bed-and-breakfast operation. Comfortable,
homely and reliable, a good alternative to big hotels. Web
site in English and German.
Hotel California,
www.hotelcalifornia.ru.
A new small and cosy hostel owned by the band Dva Samoliota
(the band's site is www.dvasamoleta.ru).
The band also runs one of the coolest clubs in town, Griboyedov
(www.griboedovclub.ru), located in a Soviet-era bomb shelter,
a couple of blocks away from the hostel.
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Other useful travel services in St. Petersburg
Quo
Vadis, www.quovadis.ru.
This 24-hour internet cafe is located in the heart of St.
Petersburg, opposite the Kazan Cathedral. High-speed connection,
IP telephone service, a cosy cafeteria and creative art management.
During summer we use the place as a meeting point for our
walks.
Sindbad
Travel International, www.sindbad.ru.
An appointed office of ISTC, STA and an authorised agent for
many international airlines. Sindbad is the budget travel
agent in St. Petersburg to book air, train and bus tickets,
both domestic and international. ISIC cards available. English-spoken,
efficient. Unfortunately, the web site is in Russian only
so far. Try emailing at sindbad@sindbad.ru
for details.
The
St. Petersburg Times, www.sptimesrussia.com.
The English-language newspaper in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Comes out Tuesdays and Fridays. Paper copies distributed free.
Local, regional and international headline news. See the most
recent Friday issue for the listings on Gigs, Concerts, Ballet
and Opera, Museums.
A
private Spanish guiding service in St. Petersburg,
Russia. City tours, museums, palaces. A detailed list of the
city’s hotels, hostels and apartment services. spanish-portal.narod.ru.
WestPost
Postal and courier services, www.westpost.ru.
Since 1995 offering complete mailing and courier solutions,
right in the center of the St. Petersburg. Nevsky prospekt,
86, telephone 327-3211.
British-American
Family Practice and Urgent Care, www.british-americanclinic.com.
An international medical centre in St. Petersburg, staffed
with western specialists, providing medical assistance and
medical evacuations from St. Petersburg to any country in
the world.
Web
mastering of this site, www.vic-design.spb.ru.
Site of the person who constructed this web site, Victor Fokin.
So far in Russian only.
Skat
Prokat. Bike-rent service located in the historical city
center right by the Theater Square and renowned Mariinsky,
which provides our customers with bycicles on bike tours.
You can book a bike tour from us or use their services to
learn more about St. Petersburg on your own.
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