Eastern Siberia
Abakan's slickest sleeping option is this top-notch business hotel with large and tastefully furnished rooms and two sophisticated restaurants on the…
Must-see hotels in Eastern Siberia
Listvyanka
The 13 comfortable twin rooms in this timber guesthouse around 800m back from the lake are a good deal. Its sister guesthouse in Bolshie Koty offers…
Eastern Siberia
Chita's best deal has well-kept rooms, clean bathrooms, online booking, efficient staff and no-fuss visa registration. Often offers very good rates on…
Lake Baikal
Shumak valley is home to the rather comfortable Turbaza Shumak, which also arranges expensive weekly helicopter transfers to/from Irkutsk (one way/return…
Lake Baikal
A pretty and modern timber guesthouse, 6km away from Sobolinaya ski resort. Owners promote a quiet, meditative approach to holidays and discourage noisy,…
Eastern Siberia
You can get yourself exiled like Lenin in tidy 19th-century log houses that form a part of the Shushenskoe Ethnographic Museum.
Listvyanka
This stylishly upmarket complex, with very comfortable international-standard pine-clad rooms, dominates the hillside above Krestovka.
Ulan-Ude
The inconvenient location 2km south of the city centre is more than recompensed by pristine international-standard rooms, some with air-conditioning. The…
Lake Baikal
Six-bed hostel-homestay at the southern end of town providing a great opportunity to experience small-town Siberian family life. A fully equipped kitchen,…
Eastern Siberia
Run by the younger generation of the Maryasov family in their own flat, SB's original hostel is now reduced to a three-bed homestay. Kitchen, washing…
Lake Baikal
A friendly local English teacher runs this compound of 10 pine cottages, each containing two beds, a table, a stove ring and sometimes a kettle. Otherwise…
Listvyanka
Set just an endemic species’ throw from Baikal’s lulling waves/crumbly ice, this newish, clumsily named, purpose-built hotel by the market is a step up…
Tuva
Kyzyl’s most comfortable sleep is a R100 taxi ride from the city centre (or a short trip on airport-bound marshrutka 1A). The 37 standard rooms are clean…
Eastern Siberia
A block away from the main square, this purpose-built business hotel has immaculately snazzy rooms, though at these prices the plumbing could be a touch…
Eastern Siberia
A renowned Tomsk hostel has planted its clone inside an apartment block near the airport, 3km from the centre. Rarely full, dorms accommodate a maximum of…
Eastern Siberia
This glass structure looks like an alien spacecraft amid the uninspiring suburbia on the outskirts of Abakan. The interior is even more unusual. Large…
Lake Baikal
Around 2km away from Port Baikal and geared primarily for domestic tourists, this modern turbaza has summer-only rustic log houses with funky wooden…
Ulan-Ude
This tiny hotel, with 10 comfortable rooms on the 1st floor of a Soviet apartment block (entrance at the back of the building), is good value for money…
Krasnoyarsk
With its European business-standard facilities, waxy antique-style furniture, 21st-century bathrooms (with bidets!) and high-flying ceilings, taking the…
Listvyanka
Just 10m from the shoreline, it’s not surprising that all nine rooms (doubles only) at this small hotel have wonderful lake views. Rooms are a little too…
Eastern Siberia
Convenient for the bus station and close to a nice park, this modern if slightly bland facility has large rooms decorated in all shades of beige and…
Listvyanka
Spitting distance from the lake in the port area, this glass-and-steel hunk of incongruity has seen renovation in recent years, rendering the four lake…
Ulan-Ude
Fully modernised, the former Party hangout is a popular if slightly overpriced option. Most of the 70-plus rooms are of a decent standard – the only…
Lake Baikal
National park ranger and guide Alexander Beketov runs this very comfortable homestay. The Beketovs provide a superb base and run tours to the Barguzin…
Ulan-Ude
The 68 modern, if slightly cramped, rooms were arguably UU’s finest offering when first renovated a few years ago, and the central location overlooking…
Irkutsk
Within a Swiss chalet–style building, the 64 rooms here are modern and comfortable, service is pleasant and English is spoken, though you’d expect little…
Ulan-Ude
Sleeping on a comfy bed amid a wood-dominated interior, you may very well forget it's just another apartment-block hotel in a not-so-pretty location. But…
Irkutsk
If you’re in Irkutsk on business, this white and blue-glass tower is where you’ll want to unsheathe the company credit card. Rooms are just about…
Eastern Siberia
This renovated Soviet hulk contains cramped rooms packed with tasteless furniture, but bathrooms are clean and modern. Some staff speak English, guest…
Olkhon Island
A pleasant place to stay offering a good range of activities. Accommodation is in two-storey cabins and tiny single-room shacks with verandahs. Enter from…
Eastern Siberia
Located in the pleasant lakeside residential area of Severobaikalsk, this cottage contains several clean and well-equipped if uninspiring rooms. The…
Eastern Siberia
Severobaikalsk’s smartest sleep has spotless, cool, airy rooms, though the plumbing could be more professionally screwed down. For this price you might…
Irkutsk
Behind nine Doric columns, immaculate rooms are realistically priced at this gleaming four-star favourite. Reception staff speak English and the Western…
Eastern Siberia
Rooms here range from battered and cheap to almost design standard. Ask to see which you’re getting before you commit. Breakfast is extra and is taken in…
Eastern Siberia
A pretty little cottage in an unpretty industrial neighbourhood, not far from the centre, this new hostel has eight bunk beds and offers sumptuous…
Lake Baikal
A cluster of modern timber houses with tidy, well-equipped rooms. There is a kitchen for self-caterers. The owner can advise on Peak of Love treks, but he…
Lake Baikal
This hostel fills a traditional timber house where showers run hot and the 12 beds are all in double rooms. Booking ahead is essential.
Lake Baikal
Timber-built 24-bed guesthouse with rooms in a main building and three two-storey cottages. Cycle hire available.
Tuva
The yurt camp on the banks of Lake Tore Khol can be booked through Kyzyl agencies.
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