- Accommodation:
- Hotel Ibis Saint Petersburg Centre
- Transport:
- The fare for a single journey to anywhere in the city is around $1. St. Petersburg’s metro still uses a system of tokens (“zheton”) the size of larger coins. These can be bought from the cashier windows operating in every station vestibule
- Things to see:
- State Hermitage Museum
- Tsarskoye Selo
- Mariinsky Theatre
- Savior on the Spilled Blood
- Faberge Museum
- Stroganov Palace
- Alexander Nevsky Lavra
- Smolny Cathedral
- Winter Palace
- The Menshikov Palace
- Amber Room
- Saint Michael’s Castle
- Bronze Horseman
- Pavlovsk Palace
- Peter and Paul Cathedral
- Yusupov Palace
- Palace Square
- Russian Museum
- Kazan Cathedral
- Peterhof
- Nevsky Prospect
- St. Isaac’s Cathedral
- Peter and Paul Fortress
- Tips:
- For more information, visit http://www.visit-petersburg.ru/en_saintpetersburg/