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The trend for vacations in Russia had recently increased among tourists due to the availability and convenience of cheap flights to St Petersburg. A number of five-star hotels, particularly located in Moscow and St. Petersburg also encourage tourists to take increasing number of holiday trips to Russia. These hotels provide five-star accommodation along with other amenities and promise and exclusive experience.

Petro Palace Hotel

Located in the heart of the historic city of St. Petersburg, right next to the chief tourist attractions such as the hermitage and St. Isaac’s Cathedral, surrounded by some of the city’s best restaurants, cafes, theatres and nightclubs, this hotel offers one of the best places to stay in the city.The hotel offers comfortable accommodation in a total of 194 rooms, including guest rooms, Deluxe rooms and apartment Suites. The spacious rooms of the hotel offer picturesque views of the city center, as well as a number of other personalized services such as individual air conditioning, a minibar, a safe deposit box, ATM, laundry and dry cleaning, a television with satellite channels, direct dial phones, climate control, wake up calls, pay movies, daily housekeeping, and a dedicated workspace with access to high speed internet.

The hotel also provides a number of services to ensure that the needs of the guests are met, such as limo/town car service, secure guest parking, roundtrip airport shuttle, a multilingual staff, concierge desk, gift/souvenir shop, news-stand etc. The hotel also offers fine dining experience in the Baron Restaurant. Scrumptious yet authentic Russian and international cuisine is served complemented with gypsy music and folk dance shows in the evening. Guests can try the Russian borscht soup made from pike-perch and salmon, a traditional salad capital, Salmon caviar on ice with hot pancakes, Russian pancakes, “piping hot” with different fillings, Siberian dumplings, baked walleye in the Russian style or foliation pie with salmon with mushroom sauce.

The hotel also features the sky bar, situated on the top floor, offers stunning views of the city. Another bar is also housed in the hotel namely the Lobby bar, which serves colourful cocktails, snacks, desserts, beverages etc and a perfect opportunity to make pleasant acquaintances. The hotel takes special care of the needs of its business guests. It features 7 state of the art conference rooms equipped with the latest audio-visual equipment such as LCDs, multimedia projectors, microphones etc, with a capacity to accommodate up to 100 people, enabling executive meetings to be held there conveniently.

The hotel also provides an excellent venue for personal family functions such as weddings or international conferences in its elegant ballrooms. The hotel also provides gourmet menus and impeccable service to accommodate the guests. Individual menus can also be prepared for functions such as weddings. The restaurant’s confectioner can also prepare the wedding cake on special request. The hotel also sports a state of the art fitness center to fully pamper and indulge its guests.

It features a indoor swimming pool, Jacuzzi, gym, Finnish sauna, massage parlous and a vertical and horizontal solarium. The soothing environment of the fitness center creates the perfect ambience for relaxation and rejuvenation. The experienced and qualified massage therapists provide personalized packages for the guests. The state of the art gym can be used for the fitness-conscious guests to catch up on their health, or by tourists to relax and unwind after a long and tiring day of sight-seeing in the city.