Activities in St Petersburg
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Tour of Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo) and Catherine Palace
4-hour Pushkin tour5-hour Pushkin and Pavlovsk tour (Departs St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)
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Visit the magnificent summer residence of the Russian Tsars. A comfortable chauffeured drive will take you to the town of Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo), where you…Not LP reviewed
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Liden & Denz
Offers a wide range of well-structured language courses, staring at €565 for 15 one-on-one lessons per week.
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Planet Fitness
A central branch of a major gym chain with multiple locations citywide including a branch in the Grand Hotel Europe.
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My Tasty Life
Learn to cook traditional Russian dishes at this modern culinary school. A three-hour lesson is R1500 and it’s all in Russian.
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Skatprokat
Peter’s Tours Sunday morning bike tours depart from here. They also sell second-hand bikes and rent out skis and snowboards for R500 per day.
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Extra Class Language Centre
Individual and group courses include entertainment activities as well as weekly lectures on Russian culture and history. Accommodation is with a local Russian family.
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SCC Peterburgsky Stadium
This huge facility seats up to 25,000 fans. As such, it is often used for major concerts and sporting events, including the annual St Petersburg Open tennis tournament.
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Kurort Snezhny
Ski resort Kurort Snezhny, about one hour’s drive north of St Petersburg in the village of Korobitsino, which can also be accessed on the K678 bus from Ozerki metro.
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Usachovskie Bani
Top-grade communal baths in a handsome old red-brick building just south of the Mariinsky. Their lux section keeps slightly later hours and are also open from 5 to 11.30pm Monday.
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Ice Palace
Fancy arena built for the 2000 World Ice Hockey Championships. Although mainly used for concerts now, it does have a public skating rink. Hours are irregular, so call for more details.
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Divo Ostrov
It’s an amusement park with thrill rides that kids will adore and that Disneyland should get its lawyers onto for blatant copying of signs. You can also rent bikes and in-line skates here.
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Liberty
Specialising in wheelchair accessible tours in and around St Petersburg, this unique-in-Russia company has specially fitted vans. They can also advise on and book hotels with rooms for the disabled.
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Sports Complex
The Russian version of the YMCA has a heavenly 25m pool, under a glass roof. If you look clean, the staff will generally let you in without the required medical certificate. There’s also a weights room.
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Kazachie Bani
Following a trend that is occurring throughout the city, the communal banya is no longer open, but the private ‘lux’ banya is an excellent option for a group of up to 10 people.
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Kruglye Bani
One of the city’s best baths; has a unisex heated circular open-air pool. There are private facilities, too. The banya is opposite the metro; look for the round building across the grassy traffic island.
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Jubilee Sports Palace
This 7000-seat stadium is home to the local basketball team, Spartak, who play here from October to April. Buy tickets at the stadium box office or at a teatralnaya kassa (theatre kiosk scattered around the city).
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St Petersburg River Yacht Club
Established in 1860, Russia’s oldest yachting club is located at the western tip of Petrovsky Island on the Petrograd Side. They organise regattas and have a fleet of over 100 yachts. The chic restaurant More is also located here.
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VB Excursions
Offers excellent walking tours with clued-up students on themes including Dostoevsky and revolutionary St Petersburg. Their ‘Back in the USSR’ tour (R925 per person) includes a visit to a typical Soviet apartment for tea and bliny.
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Coachmen’s Banya
Multilevel complex with both ordinary and lux banya as well as private rooms and saunas for you to rent with up to eight friends. The attendants are friendly and the patrons take their bathing very seriously. Last entry to all baths is 9pm.
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Planet Fitness – Sennaya
While rates and facilities differ dramatically between Planet Fitness locations, the outlet near Isaakievskaya pl (St Isaac’s Sq) is among the most central and least costly. Facilities include weights and cardio equipment, as well as a steamy sauna.
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Velocity
The price of bike rental includes use of an mp3-player and a route map, so bikers can take a self-guided tour. Other offers include an all-night ride (summer only), two-for-one discounts at designated times and used bikes for sale. Enter through the courtyard.
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Wild Russia
Yachting and kayaking on Lake Ladoga can also be arranged through the friendly and capable guys at Wild Russia. They can also arrange many other outdoor activities including off-road biking, parachuting, quad biking and rock climbing outside the city.
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Tuutari Park
Ski resort Tuutari Park, which has hosted the snowboarding world cup and is in Restselya, less than an hour’s drive south of the city and also accessible by elektrichka from Baltisky vokzal to Krasnoe Selo, then by marshrutka 636 to the resort.
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Folklore Show 'Feel Yourself Russian' with Russian Buffet Dinner
90 minutes (Departs St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)
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The evening begins in the Nikolaevsky Palace restaurant where you will discover traditional Russian dance and music during an elegant reception.There is no…Not LP reviewed
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Beauty Formula
Indulge yourself at this amazing, all-in-one day spa. Whether you need a massage, a facial or a new tattoo, you can get it at this upmarket facility in the Akvilon business centre. In addition to the extensive menu of treatments, there is a Turkish bath, a Finnish sauna and a Russian banya.
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Summer Literary Seminar
Inspire your inner Dostoevsky. The Summer Literary Seminar has two- and four-week courses hosted by Herzen University. Award-winning faculty from all over the world offer seminars in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, travel writing, arts criticism and translation.
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