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Smaller and very stylish boutique-style hotels continue to mushroom in St. Petersburg. A number of these up-market hotels are located in the city centre and many of them offer very good value. One of these hotels is the 1852 Boutique Hotel opened last year in a historical building dating back to 1852.
A new luxurious five-star Hotel Lotte St. Petersburg has been opened at beginning of July. The hotel has 154 spacious and well-appointed guest rooms and suites, a Lounge Restaurant, L Terrassa Bar, Japanese restaurant, two banquet halls, a 24-hour business centre, 24-hour gym and a luxurious SPA centre. The hotel is located in the very city centre, directly at the St. Isaac’s square.
During one of the world's largest aviation forums, International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017 in Zhukovsky near Moscow from 18th to 23rd of July, participants and visitors will be able to enjoy a breath-taking performance of the best Russian and foreign pilots, who will demonstrate the unique capabilities of military and civil aircrafts.
Recently the Hilton Family hotels have got a new addition in Moscow. The newly built four star hotel Garden Inn Krasnoselskaya has been opened beginning of March. The hotel is well located in only 4 km distance from the very heart of the city centre.
The long awaited four-star Hilton St. Petersburg Expoforum Hotel is on schedule for opening in March 2017. The hotel will have 237 modern guest rooms, several bars and restaurants, 3-level SPA with indoor pool and 11 meeting rooms. The impressive hotel is a part of the new large Expocenter south of city centre.
There’s no cruise like a Volga cruise. No cruise that transports you so completely to another place and another era. Europe’s longest and largest river stretches through the times of the Golden Horde and Ivan the Terrible to Peter the Great and Catherine the Great and on to today, where life along Russia’s central artery looks very much as it always has – the monasteries, churches, villages, countryside.
The Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostok is the longest railway in the world and connects with the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Manchurian lines to Beijing. This legendary rail journey is certainly one of the world’s great adventures. Via Hansa invites you on the journey of a lifetime, on the tracks with the Tsar’s Golden Train to experience Russia, Mongolia and China.
The Parklane Resort and SPA in St. Petersburg is a brand new four-star hotel opened in July with an ideal location in the green and calm area of the city on Krestovsky Island about 7km north of the very centre. The hotel has 152 spacious guest rooms and suites, four conference rooms, two restaurants and a bar, a spa centre with saunas and a 25m pool.