St. Petersburg 2-day cruise tour "The Baltic Discovery" Boutique

We can offer our 2-day St. Petersburg Boutique cruise tour for our demanding customers who value comfort and their own pace of tour. Advantages of this cruise tour are lunch included on both days, early admission to the Hermitage museum before the regular opening hours which allows you to go ahead of the main flow of visitors, hydrofoil trip from Peterhof, visit to Grand Peterhof Palace, free time for shopping, a relaxing boat trip through St. Petersburg rivers and canals.

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The Baltic Discovery Boutique

Total 18 hours

Day 1 (8.00-6.30pm)

8.00am - meet your guide at St. Petersburg cruise port passenger port terminal next to the Immigration control.

8.00-9.00am - St. Petersburg introductory city tour, take a Metro ride.

9.00-10.00am - transfer to Pushkin town. You will pass through the residential and suburban areas of St.Petersburg and see apartment houses of the local people.

10.00-11.30am - 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.

12.00-1.00pm - lunch at the local restaurant (included).

1.00-2.00pm - Drive to the town of Peterhof, see the summer houses (called ‘dachas’) of the Russians on the way.

2.00-4.00pm - tour of 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, 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. Visit inside Grand Peterhof Palace, see the royal gala and private living rooms, Oak Study of Peter the Great.

4.00-4.40pm - take Hydrofoil back to St. Petersburg. This speed boat will allow you to avoid traffic jams.

5.00pm-6.00pm - free time, shopping

6.30pm - back onboard the ship

from 6.30pm - check our Evening entertainment programs

Day 2 (8.30am-4.00pm)

8.30am - meet your tour guide.

9.30am - early entrance to the Hermitage

9.30-11.30 - 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 and Post-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.

11.30-12.30pm – lunch at the traditional Russian restaurant (included). Taste the traditional Russian Borsch or Schi, Beef-stroganoff, Russian ice-cream.

12.30-2.30am - Comprehensive Saint Petersburg sightseeing tour (see the Old city, Nevsky prospect, Square of Arts, the Winter Palace, Bronze Horseman, Strelka, stop on St.Isaac's square, visit inside Spilled Blood Church. You will also see Cruiser Aurora (battleship that signalled Bolshevik Revolution) and Peter the Great's Log Cabin.

2.30-3.30pm – Canal cruise through the rivers and canals. During this relaxing canal cruise 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. (Groups above 6 pax are provided a private boat and have a treat of the Russian champagne onboard).

4.00pm - back onboard the ship

TOUR REQUEST

*Tour sequence may change depending on the day of the week, logistics, museum openining hours.

Tour cost, USD (per person):

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* price in red is indicated for cash payments. Prices are indicated for the tours in English. Prices on tours in other languages are quoted individually. Please send your Tour request to receive an individual quote. Prices are subject to change and can be revised anytime without notice.

Child under 6 may travel with 1 parent free of charge. More than 16 pax group is quoted individually, please send your enquiry to get an additional discount. Schoolchildren, students and children above 6 y.o. are offered a discounted price. (Students must provide their international ISIC ID card to our Tour Coordinator upon payment to claim the discounted price. Failing to do this, they pay the full adult price).

The tour cost includes: private guide, private A/C comfortable car, admission fees, hydrofoil, lunch on both days, bottled still water (1 bottle/person/day), photo/video permits, port fees, blanket visas.

The tour cost doesn't include: credit card procession fees (3% if you pay with card)

How to book

1. Send a Tour Request.
2. Receive our Tour program offer.
3. Confirm it and send your passport details (we need this info to register you with the Russian Immigration authorities. Your private data will remain strictly confidential.)
4. Receive our Booking notice and your Tour tickets for visa-free disembarking.

Booking deadline - latest 1 week before your arrival.

Payment terms: No deposit or prepayment is required. Payment is made at the beginning of your tour.
We accept:
- Credit cards (Visa/Mastercard/JSB/China Union Pay). 3% bank fee is added to your tour price to cover bank procession fees.
- Cash (USD, EUR, Pound Sterling). The price in red is indicated for cash payments. Attention! Only clean banknotes without any minor stamps, holes, handwriting, torn edges are accepted. Damaged bills will be declined. Russian banks do not accept those.

Cancellation: there is no cancellation penalty. Please inform us via e-mail info@guide-guru.com or 24-hour phone +7-812-903-28-81 as soon as possible if your plans change and you have to cancel your trip.

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