Holidays in Saint Petersburg (Russia): tours from Almaty

Went to St. Petersburg in August, the weather showed off all its whims. Rain poured in sheets for three days straight, and then suddenly sun and heat, like in Sochi. Walked along the embankment, the wind was knocking us off our feet, but the view of the drawn bridges made up for everything, even though we were shivering cold. Stopped at a cafe on Nevsky, got a potato pirozhok and coffee each, legs are buzzing after ten kilometers on the tiles. In Peterhof the fountains are something else, water flies in your face, and you stand there wet and happy. In the Hermitage we got lost for like forty minutes for real, I was already thinking we'd have to spend the night among those vases and paintings. At the hotel, by the way, the mattress was awful, springs in your back, but that's minor compared to the overall impression. On the way back I was tired but happy, probably a thousand photos on my phone. St. Petersburg is a city you have to endure to love it forever.

took a tour in piter through an almaty agency, because there are no direct flights from our hole and with a layover in moscow i would have definitely gotten lost. the agency turned out to be normal, documents were done fast though a day before departure they called and said the hotel was changed - well changed and changed. In piter i stayed in a small hotel by the canal, the room was tiny but the window opened onto the water and every evening i listened to boats passing by. they fed us nearby in a canteen like soviet style - borscht, cutlet, compote, all as it should be and cheap. The Hermitage of course is a whole separate story, i walked there for four hours and still didn't understand where i was, my legs were buzzing terribly.. and also in the metro at sportivnaya i lost my pass and had to get a new one, anoying but whatever. came back home and realized i want to go again but without so many museums, because my head is just overflowing with impressions and i even dreamed of the bronze horseman but thats details

Поездканы Патша қаласына тур агенттік арқылы алдым, ұшақта бәрі жақсы болды, қонақүй таза, бірақ таңғы ас біркелкі болды. Невскийде кешке дейін серуендедім, Эрмитажға кезекте тұрып кірдім, кейде суық жел бетімді шаршып қойды. Төрт жұлдыз, өйткені маршрут бойынша бір күндік экскурсиядан соң аяғым қатты ауырды, ал агенттіктің бағдарламасы шамалы тығыз екен.

getting a visa to Piter was such a hassle, so I just went to the first agency I found where the manager sorted everything out in a couple of days. I walked around the Hermitage until my legs were buzzing, ate pirozhki on Nevsky, and one time almost took the bus the wrong way — but at least I came back with a magnet and full of delight. Five out of five, of course.

poshla v turagentstvo posovetovatsya naschet poezdki, hoteli s docheryu v peter, no ya dolgo somnevalas – to li klimat, to li ceny, no vse zhe reshilas. tur vybrali neskolko dney, hotel norm, no kogda prishe v ofis, mne priglyanulsya odin variant – i vot ya uzhe v poezde, dengi zaplatila, i kak-to tak. vkusa peterburgskogo korichnogo pechenya ya ne ozhidala, dumala budet obychnaya vkusnyashka, a okazalos shto ona kazhdy den raznaya svezhest. tri dnya proshli kak odin, hotel nefontannaya komnata – no mne bylo vse ravno, ved ya bezhat v Ermitazh i na naberezhnuyu, i eshe mne ponravilos kak v metro obyavlyayut ostanovki. devochka v gostinitse dala sovet gde obedat deshevo, my poshli i ostalis dovolny. obratno vozvrat no gde to po doroge ya ponyala shto hochu eshe.

Санкт-Петербургқа бардық, себебі қызым көптен бері ашылатын көпірлерді көргісі келген, мен болсам үнемі кейінге қалдырып жүрдім. Турагентствода менеджер кездесті, ол қонақ үй мен билеттерді солай таңдады, тіпті бірінші күні экскурсияға да үлгердік. Шаршап қайттым, аяғым су болып, бақытты едім — бес балдан бес, бір минутына өкінген жоқпын!

Piter is eternal dampness, but I fell in love. Walked around the Hermitage for four hours, my legs were buzzing, but I saw that very madonna. The tour overall is decent, the hotel turned out to have a view of some wall, but breakfast — that's a whole different song. Came home happy.

We decided with my wife to go for the weekend spontaneously, I wanted to show her the city of my childhood, so I popped into the first travel agency I came across near home. In the end I came back happy as an elephant, though the crowd in the Hermitage was just hellish, and the pillow in the hotel turned out to be hard, but that's just nitpicking, and besides we got to Piter without any adventures

went to piter on business — my daughter was applying, well and me and my husband tagged along for company. The manager picked a hotel by the Moskovsky station so we wouldnt drag suitcases around, and that was right on point. i mostly walked around alone while our people dealt with their stuff... and thats where the interesting part started. at the Hermitage i stood in line for forty minutes just for a ticket, but in the Summer Garden i just sat on a bench and didnt hurry anywhere — there are fountains there, and the water smells kind of special, piter style i guess. i honestly slept through the bridge draw, still bummed about it. coffee in a cezve on Nevsky — expensive, and the taste is so-so, but the woman behind the counter told us to go to a bakery on Gorokhovaya (cant remember the name, unfortunately). came back tired, with wet feet and bags full of caramel for my granddaughter, but happy!

St. Petersburg greeted me with rain, but that's even for the better, because the city in such weather becomes kind of its own, or something. Walked along the embankments, got stuck for half an hour at one building with bay windows, forgot where I was going. Overall I was pleased, though the guide was a bit rused with her stories, I had to ask again. Will I come back again — probably yes, but already on my own, without a group.

Piter... what even is it really. I walked around it till I got blisters, rubbed my toes raw in new sneakers. Booked through the agency, the manager got everything done fast, didn't even expect that. The hotel was fine, but the breakfasts... well let's just say, porridge and that's it. But the city, no photos can convey it, I wandered along the embankment for hours and couldn't stop. The weather let me down a couple times though, rain pouring like buckets, no umbrella. Came back tired but happy, still think about those white nights. 5 out of 5 of course, would go again but with an umbrella this time

in Peter I was going to go for a long time, but somehow it never worked out, and then the manager picked us a hotel three days before departure, and he promised a view of the canal and here I am standing on the embankment, the wind is icy, my sneakers are squelching, and behind me is Isaac, and I'm thinking - well where am I even going in the evening in May, though during the day it was sunny.. people around are with umbrellas, but nobody whines, everyone is laughing and taking pics with some insolent seagulls that almost snatch the pirozhok right out of your hands, and at that moment I realized I'll come back again, only I'll take different sneakers, watterproof

went to piter in may and im still impressed, the city is defnitely not for the faint-hearted — endless museums, embankments, the wind from the neva blows right through you; but its cool though. The manager at the agency picked everything fast, no unnecessary running around, the hotel turned out cozy, even though the window faced a courtyard-well, but it was quiet and five minutes walk to the metro. i'd love to come back again in autumn, but without tours this time, just wander the streets and drink coffee on the embankment.

басты мақсат сапар болды жұмыста демалыс алып, әйеліммен Питерге бардық, агенттіктен тур алдық, тура сол жерге барғымыз келді. ұшақ кешікті, қонақ үй орташа, бірақ қала керемет, Эрмитажға бардық, түнде развадной көпірді көрдік, мен қатты ұнады, 5/5

we went to piter for the may holidays because our daughter had been asking for a long time to show her the drawbridges, and i myself had been there a hundred years ago and didnt remember anything anymore. at the travel agency they found us a hotel by the moskovsky train station so we wouldnt have to drag our suitcases around the metro, and that turned out to be exactly what we needed. we checked in fast, the room is small but clean, though the windows faced the courtyard and some pipes hummed there all night. we walked along nevsky, went to peterhof on the meteor — expensive, but the wind in your face and the spray are worth it. but we got unlucky with the weather, it rained three days out of five, i bought an umbrella on the spot for some ridiculously cheap money by the metro. overall i came back happy, only this dampness and the lines at the hermitage spoiled the mood a bit, but our daughter is thrilled.

i was looking for a tour with excursions not just a hotel where thered be a guide and for five thousand it turned out to be really possible only in one place where they immediately told me that Piter is not only the Hermitage... we went for 5 days and i really didnt think id manage so much although i wore my feet out on the very first day because in sneakers it was hot and in boots it was slippy, but thats minor. and the funniest thing is that what i remember most is not the palaces but how we drank coffee in some archway where it smelled of damp and pirozhki, the guide was telling about an apartment building and i was looking at a cat sitting on the windowsill and not listening at all, then i did listen though

We went there because my husband had a referral for an examination at the clinic on Marata, and without a package with accommodation there’s nowhere decent to stay anyway, so we took a package at the first agency we came across near home, even though I usually book everything myself and without these kinds of middlemen. The hotel turned out to be old, with high ceilings and creaky parquet, the breakfast was so-so — kasha and syrniki every day, but it was a seven-minute walk from the metro, and in four days we covered the whole center, we didn’t quite make it through the Hermitage though, our legs were buzzing terribly, we went back to the room and just lay there.

Poezdka zapomnilsya tem, chto gorod sam ves pod snegom i my s zhenoy tolko i delali, chto hodili peshkom, nogi gudeli uzhasno no eto nichego, zastavilo dumat chto my molodcy, chto ne sieli v nomere, a poshli smotret vsyakie dvoriki, gde vo dvore stoit stolik i na nem kruzhka ot chaya ostavlennaya kem to do nas.. dazhe ne znayu pochemu no bolshe vsego zapomnilsya tot vecher kogda my kupili v magazine kakuyu to varenuyu kartoshku s kuritsey i eli eye pryamo na naberezhnoy poka veter dyl v lice tak chto slezy tekli, no bylo normalno, my smeyalis i YA by poehal eshe

The tour to Piter I booked spontaneously, a couple of days before the flight, and never once regretted it. Walked along the embankment, ate potato pirozhki on the go — the wind kept blowing the napkins away, I had to pin them to my chest with my elbow. The Hermitage... three hours my legs were buzzing, but in the hall with the malachite columns I stood for about twenty minutes, just staring. Kazan, oh I mean Kazansky Cathedral — there's a colonnade there, if you stand in the corner and clap, the sound is somehow unreal. The hotel had a view of the courtyard, a deaf sort of courtyard-well, in the morning the pigeons screamed like they were being slaughtered. But that's nothing, I still got up early and went to the Neva while there were no people yet. I didn't catch the bridge draw, honestly — I was asleep. The weather at the end of August let me down only once, it poured for half a day, I sat in a coffee shop by the window, drank a raf and watched people running under umbrellas

Took a tour to Peter, everything went smoothly. The hotel was normal, but the air conditioner worked so loud that I had to sleep with the window open. But the city, of course... Walked along Nevsky, went to Peterhof, the fountains there are cool, though full of people. Took excursions on the spot, the guide was talkative, even too much. The weather let me down a couple of times — rains, but it's Peter, what to be surprised about. Overall stayed satisfied, came back rested, despite the noisy air conditioner.

Bought a tour to Saint Petersburg through the agency and was happy with it. The hotel turned out to be right by the canal, in the morning I'd go out with coffee to the embankment, watch the boats, and in the evenings I'd sit on the windowsill with a view of the water. The only thing, plans got a bit messed up because of the rain, but even soaked feet didn't ruin the impressoin of the city.

We went to Piter on business — my husband had a conference, and I decided to combine it with seeing the city, I'd wanted to for a long time. The travel agency found us a decent option, without those endless transfers, and I was happy, though at first I had doubts because of the price. I walked around Nevsky, dropped into coffee shops where it smelled so good you couldn't just walk past — and everything would've been fine, but the weather in March, of course, made itself known. I came back tired, but with the feeling that I hadn't wasted those days.

went to piter for work, or more like thought it was for work but it turned into a mini vacation. picked this destination because i'd wanted to see the bridge draw for a long time and then a business trip came up too, well it would've been a sin not to combine them. The only thing that stressed me out was the weather, the wind was knocking me off my feet and turning my umbrella inside out but the canals and architecture made up for it all.. Walked along the embankment touched the granite parapet with my hand - cold and rough, remembered the smell of coffee from some tiny coffee shop on the corner and how the locals talk so calmly, measuredly. Five out of five of course, even though i froze to the bone

take v piter sovershenno sluchajno, tura agentstvo kazahstanskoe podsunulo, i ya hotel tuda letet.. gulyal po nevskomu, zhuyu sjtrudel s kofe, holod—no normalno, sneg skripit pod nogami kak na starom filme, na dvore –18, ja v odnih krossovkah, potom za 4 dnya oboshel gosti, ermitazh i eshhe katalsya na metre po podzemke kak v muzee

was going to piter for a week to see friends, just to hang out, but our kazakhstan guys from the agency talked me into taking a package with excursions, and i thought why not.. the guide took us around roofs and basements, where i accidentally twisted my ankle on the slippery steps (in winter its really slippery there), then sat for a long time in a cafe with sea buckthorn tea watching people lugging bags with some kind of christmas trees, but overall the trip was a solid hundred percent success and this city really got to me even though i flew back already with a fever.

Took a tour to Peter. Regular bus one, for four days. It happened spontaneosly. Needed to unwind, work had piled up. Called the first agency that caught my eye, booked it there. The hotel turned out to be on the outskirts, but with breakfast. Food was decent, though the coffee was watery. The guide talked a lot, sometimes off topic, but the route was well thought out. My arm went numb at the Hermitage while I was holding my phone over my head to film the hall. On the way back I was happy, though tired as a dog, four out of five.

I was planning a weekend trip to St. Pete, needed a three-day tour so it wouldn't be rushed, and I called one agency — the manager picked everything by dates, thanks to her for that. Arrived, walked around Nevsky, stopped by a couple of museums — queues, of course, but it was worth it, and overall the city made an impression, especially the drawbridges at night... Though the hotel was so-so, breakfast modest, but that's minor — came back happy and would give it a five.

went to piter, all smooth. The manager sorted everything on the tour.

St. Petersburg in winter is something unreal, I walked along the embankment and my hands were freezing terribly, but the view of the Neva made up for all of it, even though the wind was so strong it almost blew my hat off. The manager helped with the tickets and the transfer, so thanks to her, and overall the trip was a solid five, although the breakfast at the hotel was so-so, some gray porridge, but I still came back in complete deligt.

the tour was to piter for 4 days, the hotel was ok, breakfasts so-so but i drank the coffee with pleasure, the guide told a lot of interesting things, though in the hermitage the crowd is such that you can't really see anything. came back tired but happy, most of all i remember how the wind was blowing off the embankment — i held onto my scarf and laughed