Oktyabrskaya
January 2025 •
5
Nice hotel with large and comfortable room and small bathroom. It is located a stone's throw away from Nevskiy Prospekt and Moscow Train Station. Beds are comfortable and breakfast has good variety. Because it is so centrally located, there are many tour busses coming and going all the time so if you stay for a few days, your neighbours change all the time, and, there are a lot of children around. The rooms and the beds are very comfortable and the cleaners work efficiently. There is a free bottle of water per person each day, and there is an empty mini fridge, glasses, bottle opener, kettle and cups, and nice bathing gowns available which are nice. On a bit negative side, they cannot communicate. I couldn't explain the room number to the room service man, couldn't order the pizza we wanted (they have 4 pizzas in the menu), and each of our 5 mornings there, I had to prove I had paid for the breakfast because the reception couldn't put our room number to the next day's list. We still enjoyed our time here. It was a nice experience.
Kazan Cathedral
January 2025 •
5
Great working/open cathedral. It is impressive but, if you go as a tourist, beware of real praying people.
Pulkovo Airport
January 2025 •
4
Good airport. Great duty free. Not enough seats to wait for boarding outside the gate areas.
Lale
January 2025 •
5
Lale is a nice restaurant. It is located at a good point of Nevskiy Prospekt. The waiting staff are friendly, it has a relaxed atmosphere, there was even a pianist-singer! One of the mezes we ordered was great, the other was pedestrian. Both main dishes were very good. The price was reasonable. I'd recommend a visit there for not only it's good Turkish food but good, proper food.
Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ Saved on Blood
December 2024 •
5
What an impressive, grand, beautiful cathedral. It is full of great art, great architectural design, and great light.
The Old English Court
October 2024 •
5
To see a building used by people I tell about my lectures was so very impressive and the staff is very helpful.
Vnukovo International airport, Terminal A
October 2024 •
5
There are a lot of shops from duty free to clothing to potato seller. It is a tidy airport with lots of sitting places at the gates. However, as every other airport bottled water is very expensive (€2 per 0.5 litre) and there should have been far more screens with flight information.
State Historical Museum
October 2024 •
5
It contains a very good mixture of art collections and objects and clothing items used at several periods of time. To our great pleasure there was a Lenin exhibition and it too was very good. Two mild complaints though: there might have been elevators for old and unhealthy as there are tons of stairs. And, secondly, why put explanation cards in Russian and in English at some and just in Russian at other cases?
Museum of Cosmonautics
October 2024 •
5
My respect for the cosmonauts grew far, far more after seeing the real life size of space capsules. It is one very well designed museum.
Red Square
October 2024 •
5
Just like one imagines from the photos and films but so much better in real life.