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Tour cost includes: - private guide - private A/C vehicle - admission fees - blanket visas - photo/video permits |
Tour cost does not include: - lunch (extra 10-15 USD per person per day) - evening extra activities (ballet, folk show, opera, restaurant etc.) |
For a quote, please send your enquiry to info@guide-guru.com
Moderate
Strenuous
Total - 16 hours
Total - 17 hours
Day 1 (10.30-18.30)
Day 1 (10.30-19.30)
10.30-11.00 Passport control. Meet your guide at the ship next to passport control booths. The guide will hold Guide-Guru sign.
10.30-11.00 Passport control. Meet your guide at the ship next to passport control booths. The guide will hold Guide-Guru sign.
11.30-13.30 Tour of the Hermitage museum. You will explore treasures of one of the richest world art museums, see the Royal collection of European masters (Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Michelangelo, Rubens, Titian, Rembrandt etc.), a collection of French Impressionists that is only second to the collection in France. You will also take a special tour of the Winter palace and view royal living rooms and Gala halls.
11.30-13.30 Tour of the Hermitage museum. You will explore treasures of one of the richest world art museums, see the Royal collection of European masters (Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Michelangelo, Rubens, Titian, Rembrandt etc.), a collection of French Impressionists that is only second to the collection in France. You will also take a special tour of the Winter palace and view royal living rooms and Gala halls.
13.30-14.30pm Lunch time
13.30-14.30 Lunch time
14.30-16.30 City tour including inside visit to St.Isaac's cathedral and Church-on-the-Spilled Blood
14.30-16.30 City tour including inside visit to St.Isaac's cathedral and Church-on-the-Spilled Blood
17.00 Onboard the cruise ship or extra evening program.
17.00-18.30 Boat trip through the rivers and canals. During this relaxing boat tour you will see the city from a different angle. St.Petersburg inherited many features from its European "sister towns" Venice and Amsterdam. Similar location on islands and winding rivers determined its architectural look: it boasts of more than 400 bridges, curving granite embankments, graceful palaces of nobility and royalty overlooking waterways.
19.00 Onboard the cruise ship or extra evening program.
Day 2 (9.00-17.00)
Day 2 (9.00-17.00)
9.00 Meet the guide and the driver
9.00 Meet the guide and the driver
9.00-10.00 Transfer to Catherine's palace in Pushkin.
9.00-10.00 Transfer to Catherine's palace in Pushkin.
10.00-11.30 Tour Catherine Palace. You will enter the premises through a glittering wrought-iron Gold gates from where opens a stunning view on the heaven-blue palace facade. You will tour the grand baroque Catherine palace with its endless Golden Gallery of rooms: Great Hall of Mirrors, Picture Hall, Gala Dining hall, Marble Staircase, the legendary Amber Room etc. Your tour continues in a splendid Catherine Park.
10.00-11.30 Tour Catherine Palace. You will enter the premises through a glittering wrought-iron Gold gates from where opens a stunning view on the heaven-blue palace facade. You will tour the grand baroque Catherine palace with its endless Golden Gallery of rooms: Great Hall of Mirrors, Picture Hall, Gala Dining hall, Marble Staircase, the legendary Amber Room etc. Your tour continues in a splendid Catherine Park.
12.00-13.00 Transfer to Peterhof
12.00-13.00 Transfer to Peterhof
13.00-14.00 Lunch time
13.00-14.00 Lunch time
14.00-16.00 Tour Peterhof Fountain park. You will walk in the Upper and Lower Peterhof parks, enjoy the spectacular view on the Grand Cascade with its shining gilded statues and Grand Peterhof palace (outside view), learn about the unique fountain system that operates without pumps, enjoy “trick fountains” invented by Peter the Great to entertain his guests, stroll along the Finnish Gulf to admire magnificent sea-view and St.Petersburg panorama.
14.00-16.00 Tour Peterhof Fountain park. You will walk in the Upper and Lower Peterhof parks, enjoy the spectacular view on the Grand Cascade with its shining gilded statues and Grand Peterhof palace (outside view), learn about the unique fountain system that operates without pumps, enjoy “trick fountains” invented by Peter the Great to entertain his guests, stroll along the Finnish Gulf to admire magnificent sea-view and St.Petersburg panorama.
16.00-17.00 Transfer to the city
16.00-17.00 Transfer to the city
17.00 Onboard the cruise ship
17.00 Onboard the cruise ship
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