I'm sure this won't appeal to many but it's a trip I'm hoping to do myself next year. It is a 5 night trip visiting both St Petersburg and Moscow. You will need to add visa costs onto this trip.
After spending a final day in St Petersburg you will board the overnight sleeper train to Moscow at 23:55. You get your own sleeper cabin and arrive into Moscow the following day. It also saves on hotel costs.
Dont bother to pack your "Human Rights" on this trip
daskapital
16 Jul 172#2
Prepare for a nice long visa application too..
But Moscow is great, be sure to visit VDNKh and see Buran and when you go to St P go and see Peterhof palace, magnificent.
Also , get yourself a mobile phone chip at any train station, it cost me like £8 for 30GB of data on beeline as I had to work out there and needed mobile data. You have to register but so what. If anyone would like any tips please ask.
rachelandgromit
16 Jul 171#3
I wish I'd of gone a few years back when Easyjet use to fly to Russia. I remember you could get return flights for sub £60.
OpineDevine
16 Jul 17#4
Спасибо Оп
archer1204
16 Jul 17#5
If you want to goto just st petersburg there is a way that you dont have to get a visa
rachelandgromit to archer1204
16 Jul 17#6
Port - boat!
eslick
16 Jul 17#7
Make sure you check the visa costs before buying, used to be cheap but not any more.
mb1
16 Jul 17#8
If you get a cruise from Helsinki to St Petersburg you don't need a visa I believe.
Bertz99
16 Jul 17#9
If going for only 5 days think my advise would be to stay in St Petersburg and enjoy your time there.
As daskapitalhas said do visit Peterhof - although make sure it is when the fountains are on (start in April if I remember correctly) and I would recommend going by the fast boats which make it a grand entrance. Catherine's Palace is then another days visit out, Hermitage will take you a day to go through and then that leaves you a day to tour Nevsky Prospect to see the other most famous sites/churches/canals.
The overnight train is a nice way to travel (did it the other direction) but can see no way of doing justice to Moscow in 1.5 days running about - in comparison to St Petersburg there is just so much more to see and do that you would never scratch the surface without being there for longer - in your time span it would be a couple of metro stations (I got metro tickets for some friends visiting and met them 2 days later and all they had done was stop at every metro station in complete awe). Red square, Kremlin, Tomb of the unknown soldier, Lenin's tomb, and St Basils at best and whilst daskapitalhas gives another option (one I will go and see next visit) there are more Church's, Numerous Parks (just don't mention the great war dates not matching ours), Museum's, Moscow Zoo, Bolshoi, river cruises, a rather famous circus and even then I am only scratching the surface. Have been to Moscow more than once and do not think I have seen all it has to offer other than being truly immense.
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But Moscow is great, be sure to visit VDNKh and see Buran and when you go to St P go and see Peterhof palace, magnificent.
Also , get yourself a mobile phone chip at any train station, it cost me like £8 for 30GB of data on beeline as I had to work out there and needed mobile data. You have to register but so what. If anyone would like any tips please ask.
As daskapitalhas said do visit Peterhof - although make sure it is when the fountains are on (start in April if I remember correctly) and I would recommend going by the fast boats which make it a grand entrance. Catherine's Palace is then another days visit out, Hermitage will take you a day to go through and then that leaves you a day to tour Nevsky Prospect to see the other most famous sites/churches/canals.
The overnight train is a nice way to travel (did it the other direction) but can see no way of doing justice to Moscow in 1.5 days running about - in comparison to St Petersburg there is just so much more to see and do that you would never scratch the surface without being there for longer - in your time span it would be a couple of metro stations (I got metro tickets for some friends visiting and met them 2 days later and all they had done was stop at every metro station in complete awe). Red square, Kremlin, Tomb of the unknown soldier, Lenin's tomb, and St Basils at best and whilst daskapitalhas gives another option (one I will go and see next visit) there are more Church's, Numerous Parks (just don't mention the great war dates not matching ours), Museum's, Moscow Zoo, Bolshoi, river cruises, a rather famous circus and even then I am only scratching the surface. Have been to Moscow more than once and do not think I have seen all it has to offer other than being truly immense.