Summer is a wonderful time for a trip to St. Petersburg
There are more tourists on the streets than permanent residents. So you have decided to go to St. Petersburg for the weekend. It would seem that no special preparation is required: you throw things into a backpack, take an evening train or electric train, and in the morning you are already standing in the very center of the northern capital. Ahead are two days that need to be spent in search of impressions. Stop! And where will you spend the night from Saturday to Sunday?
If a tourist has not taken care to pay attention to mini-hotels of St. Petersburg in advance, then it is unlikely that his vacation will be as rosy as his imagination pictured. To start with, the entire first day will have to be spent wandering around the city with a bag in search of a place to leave it. You have no luggage? Then you will have to do the same route only in the evening and at night on Saturday in search of a warm shower and a level bed. At the onset of the summer season, St. Petersburg hotels are overcrowded with travelers. There are pensioners from Europe and students from Siberia, businessmen from America and India, applicants from all over Russia, so it is unlikely that you will be able to find a free room right away. You will have to thoroughly study the nearest hotels, and then suburban ones. And the rest time will irretrievably slip away…
To avoid such a rush, it is better to study mini-hotels of St. Petersburg in advance and book a room. When ordering a room, try to take into account all the nuances: the location of the hotel, the availability of free and paid services, even the number of beds. Depending on this, choose your overnight accommodation.
It is unlikely that having come for the weekend, you will spend the whole evening watching satellite television, lying in a jacuzzi, using the Internet a lot, and having dinner at the hotel. Most likely, after a run through museums and streets of the northern capital, a walk on a river steamer or boat, a night viewing of the drawbridges over the Neva, you will come to the hotel and fall asleep exhausted. You probably won't even notice if there was anyone else in the room or not. Therefore, when coming for the weekend, it is best to choose an inexpensive hotel or hostel in the city center so as not to waste time on travel and walk everywhere possible. A transfer is also unlikely to be needed: with the minimum amount of things you have with you and the convenient location of the stations, you can get to the train by metro or just walk.
Therefore, if you really decided to arrange a cultural program for the weekend, boldly book a hotel room and come to St. Petersburg. Here you can see anything: from paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rubens to medieval knights, from lovely parks and magnificent churches to the eerie casemates of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Museums, theaters, palaces, bridges and street lines – all this the city is ready to show its guests both day and night.