The White Nights Experience

Breakfast in the hotel

10:00 Meeting with your guide in the hotel lobby

10:00-14:00 City tour around Saint-Petersburg, you will see the most beautiful and well-known places in the city. You will stroll along the first and main street of Saint Petersburg – Nevsky Prospect – See 'Gostiny Dvor' and 'Dom Knigi', the Stroganov Palace, and of course, Admiralty - the first shipping yard of Saint Petersburg - the beginning of Nevsky Prospect. You will also visit the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island, a place, from which you can see a vast and magnificent panorama of the center of Saint Petersburg. Among them is the Hare Island where in 1703 Peter the Great began construction of the Peter and Paul fortress, himself laying the foundation stones.

Time for lunch

Visit Peters and Paul’s fortress. The cradle of Saint-Petersburg – Peter and Paul fortress is located on Hare Island. It was founded in 1703 and it’s the historical core of St. Petersburg. Its architect was the famous Domenico Trezzini, who made a significant contribution to the beginning of the building  
and urban design of St. Petersburg.

14:00-15:00 tour of the rivers and canals of St. Petersburg.  

You will have a fascinating journey through Northern Venice with its picturesque water streets and openwork fences, humpback bridges and grand facades.

15.30-17.00 Excursion to the Hermitage, the largest museum in Russia and one of the most important and well-known museums of the world. The museum boasts 353 rooms, filled with masterpieces by Raphael, Titian, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and others. The total number of pieces kept by the museum tallies to somewhere around 3 million. You can visit the Knights' Room where you can find a wide range of tournament, parade and hunting gear, as well as armour, edged weapons and firearms. The room of Ancient Egypt contains an Egyptian mummy.

Transfer to the hotel

Free time for leisure

23:30-2:30 Saint-Petersburg White night tour. Saint

Petersburg is famous because of white nights during and the main performance during it is raising of bridges over the Neva River.

Overnight in the hotel

Transport and guide services: 10:00-18:00 and 23:30-2:30

Breakfast in the hotel

12:00 Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby

13:00-13:45 Boat trip along the Gulf of Finland on the comfortable hydrophile from the center of St. Petersburg to the Lower Park of Peterhof.

14:00-16:00 Countryside tour to Peterhof with the visit of Lower Park - Russian Versailles.  

Here you will see the famous cascades and paired fountains, admire the panorama of the Gulf of Finland opening in front of you, walk along shady alleys, become a victim of firecracker fountains and for sure make friends with local squirrel residents.

The Grand Palace is NOT included because it is closed for restoration, only the  exposition is open inside, the old interiors are closed

16:00-16:30 Electric train tour along the Alexandria Park. The sun, flowers, shady groves of old oaks, the "water music" of the stream, the expanses of meadows under the bottomless sky merging with the bay – all this is Alexandria – the family nest of four generations of the dynasty.

You can enjoy this huge park while sitting and not walking on a relaxing electric train ride.

Transfer to the hotel

Free time for leisure

Overnight in the hotel

Breakfast in the hotel

10:00 Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby

11:00-12:30 Countryside tour to Pushkin with the  

visit of Catherine’s palace and Amber Room - The Summer Palace is the heart of Tsarskoe Selo (Tsar’s Village) – here you may feel the atmosphere of the Royal way of life in its entire magnificence. It is hard to believe that almost everything inside the palace is a result of a careful restoration, which has been finished just 8 years ago.

Nowadays the legendary Amber Room, where this precious resin covered the walls in a magnificent and shining style, as well as the radiant interiors have finally regained their former splendor  after they suffered from severe damages during World War II. Today tourists from all over  the world come to the Pushkin to see the marvelous park and the Catherine’s Palace,  definitely one of the most impressive highlights of every visit to Saint Petersburg.

12:30-13:00 Visit of Catherine’s park - One of the most picturesque parks among the former residences of the Russian Emperors.

13:30-14:30 Time for lunch

15:00-17:00 Time for shopping in Outlet Village Pulkovo

Transfer to the hotel

Free time for leisure

Overnight in the hotel

Transport and guide services: 10:00 – 18:00

Transport and guide services: 12:00 – 18:30

Breakfast in the hotel

10:00 Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby

10:30-12:00 Excursion to the Faberge Museum. Who can turn a thing as regular and common as an egg into the piece of art? The answer is Peter Carl Faberge.  

The Faberge eggs are one of the most unique pieces of art in the entire world.  

They are not only unique, but also incredibly valuable and beautiful and it`s very difficult to see them in live. But Saint Petersburg provides you with such an opportunity. The most valuable and significant items in the museum's collection are famous 9 Imperial Easter eggs  created by Faberge firm including the first and the last ones.
 
At the end of the excursion, you will find a small gastronomic surprise – the signature  dessert "Faberge Egg", which is prepared only here. The museum's cafe is a place where  jewelry becomes unforgettable and delicious.

12:30-13:30 Time for lunch

14:00-15:00 Visit to the Eliseevy Merchants’ Shop (time for shopping) - the oldest Russian deli and the main gastronomic attraction of St. Petersburg. One of the few museum shops in the world where you can not only find fish and meat delicacies, fragrant spices, natural oils and sauces, French desserts from a pastry chef, handmade chocolate and fresh pastries from their own bakery, but also immerse yourself in the atmosphere of a past era, feel what it was like — to  
live in imperial Petersburg, to taste rare delicacies from all over the world right on Nevsky Prospekt, among the glitter of gilded shop windows.

15:30-17:30 Time for shopping – Galeria Mall(Emporio Armani, Valentino, Loro Piana, Armani Exchange, Ermenegildo Zegna, Berluti and Russian brands)

Transfer to the hotel

Free time for leisure

Overnight in the hotel

Transport and guide services: 10:00 – 18:00

Breakfast in the hotel

Check out

Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby

Transfer to the airport

Departure

Transport and guide services: for transfer