Full Day City Highlights Tour of St. Petersburg

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About this activity
The tour starts off with a meet and greet with your guide in your hotel lobby. The route will be customized depending on your hotel location. A private guide will accompany you throughout the duration of the tour in a comfortable business class car. We are happy to provide you with free compliments such as city maps, bottles of water, rain coats (in case of rain) and farewell gifts.

9:30am - 10am: City sightseeing tour with stops near sphinxes not far from the spit of Vasilevsky Island

10am - 11am: Visit Peter & Paul Fortress with Cathedral. This is the first building of the fabulous city of St. Petersburg and there are tombs of the Romanov dynasty in the Cathedral.

11am - 11:40am: Continue the city tour with several photo-stops on Mars Fields Neva embankment.

12pm-12:40 pm: Go inside Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. This onion-domed decorative memorial to the assassinated emperor Alexander II is the personification of splendid Russian ecclesiastical architecture.

1pm - 2pm: Lunch break (not included)

2pm - 4:30pm: No-lines entrance & tour of the Hermitage Museum. Third of the world's largest museums proud of it's wide collection of artworks from different periods and famous due to famous artworks.

5pm - Back to your hotel
Included
  • Professional private guide service
  • Comfortable business class transportation (7,5 h)
  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off
  • Entry/Admission - The State Hermitage Museum
  • Entry/Admission - The Museum Complex The State Museum St. Isaac’s Cathedral
  • Entry/Admission - Peter and Paul Fortress
Not included
  • Lunch (food and drinks)
  • Visit to the Colonnade of St. Isaac Cathedral
  • Gratuities
Additional
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • This tour is not available for cruise ship passengers.
  • A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
  • Please note: the visit to the Hermitage does not include the collection of impressionists and post-impressionists which moved to the new General Staff building.
  • This is a sample itinerary. The order of museum visits may change depending on availability of entrance tickets, museums days-off, traffic situation in the city. Museums also reserve the right to shift an entrance time on a very short notice. We will rearrange the itinerary accordingly so that all venues can be visited.
  • The exact entrance times can vary. Pre-booked time periods to enter the museums are assigned only by the management of the museums and is a subject to changes. It is possible that there will be a line of people entering the museum at the same time.
  • This tour is not recommended for wheelchair passengers, and if a person with a wheelchair decides to participate he/she must have a personal helper to assist in boarding/disembarking the vehicle, and entering the restrooms and restaurant, and all sites. At certain locations a wheelchair person may not be able to exit the bus, and may have to stay inside the bus.
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Tourism
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