Northern European Russia
This friendly, centrally located hostel is perhaps the region's best budget option. Clean and bright rooms are equipped with bunk beds and shared toilet…
Must-see hotels in Northern European Russia
Northern European Russia
With three double-storey log houses, a fine restaurant and a woodsy setting, this is the island’s poshest hotel. Standard rooms are cosy, with wi-fi,…
Northern European Russia
With tirelessly helpful, multilingual staff and a super-central location, this very comfortable boutique hotel is still Vologda’s top choice. Some rooms…
Northern European Russia
Charming, family-run Priyut comprises two homely converted houses. The cheaper Yellow House (shared bathrooms) is adorably kitted out with dried flowers…
Northern European Russia
Well-located mini-hotel with a fresh colour scheme, friendly staff and a small guest kitchen. Also has a hostel out back with bunk beds in bright rooms…
Northern European Russia
Though the exterior resembles an air-traffic control tower, the professionally run Pur Navolok offers bright, international-style rooms accessed by glass…
Northern European Russia
Right near the river, Hotel Palisad has compact, modern rooms, decked out in neutral tones, attentive personnel and a generous buffet breakfast featuring…
Northern European Russia
Cute little hotel a couple of blocks from the kremlin, with classic decor in its several buildings and on-site restaurant (full board available). Rates…
Northern European Russia
Popular with tour groups, Prichal has fairly bright, well-maintained, pine-furnished rooms in eight chalet-style blocks. ‘Superior’ rooms have fireplaces,…
Turisticheskaya Derevnya Malye Karely
Northern European Russia
Just 200m from the Malye Karely museum entrance is this self-contained holiday-hotel complex. Bowling, billiards and fishing excursions are available,…
Northern European Russia
This friendly family run hotel is set amid trees on the banks of Lake Varyazhskoe. It has pleasant, spacious rooms and a banya (R1500 per hour) for guest…
Northern European Russia
Right beside the Church of the Entry into Jerusalem, this pink, two-storey hotel is rather institutional looking, but even the cheapest of the compact…
Northern European Russia
Don’t be put off by the Gostiny Dvor building’s decrepit entrance and stairways: the Zimnyaya’s vaulted cell-rooms are (aptly) austere and overpriced for…
Northern European Russia
This 13-storey pink Soviet beauty is a super-central, international-standard hotel that's been tastefully refurbished with quality linens, tiled bathrooms…
Northern European Russia
Instantly forgettable, compact rooms, but solo travellers are well catered for, and the restaurant is quite grand. Also has an in-house whiskey bar. A…
Northern European Russia
This monolith looks a bit like a UFO looming over the lake from which it takes its name. Thankfully its interior is a lot less gauche, with classically…
Northern European Russia
Nowhere near as grim as its institutional Soviet exterior suggests, the Hotel Sputnik's rooms are spacious and bright and even the cheapest come equipped…
Northern European Russia
A good upmarket portside option. Rooms are spacious, with decent linen and powerful showers, but the lack of netting on windows means you either roast or…
Northern European Russia
This centrally-located, refurbished Soviet-era hotel has a mixture of anonymous rooms and elegant en suite accommodation. Front-facing rooms suffer from…
Northern European Russia
The pine-furnished modern rooms with private bathrooms of Totma’s most upmarket option are on the 3rd floor of the building beside the bus station –…
Northern European Russia
A 15-minute walk from the centre, this lakeside hotel's bright and comfortable rooms all have terraces. There is also a good restaurant on the 1st floor…
Northern European Russia
This bustling multistorey tower feels a little like an upmarket clinic, with a health-spa complex offering various massages, baths and beauty treatments…
Northern European Russia
Appealing business hotel with a cracking location overlooking the Dvina. The compact, modern rooms are particularly well geared towards solo travellers…
Northern European Russia
This two-floor log cabin hotel is right on the bank of Lake Lekshmo and has great views. The cosy, compact rooms have shared bathrooms and toilets. There…
Northern European Russia
The rooms at this boutiquey hotel are designed to imitate a romantic 19th-century fantasy without actually investing in period furniture. Extra …
Northern European Russia
This new hotel still has that just-opened sheen and the compact, flowery rooms are good value. It is tucked away in a courtyard, just a short walk from…
Northern European Russia
Uyutnyy Dom consists of several fully equipped apartments for two to four people, all within a few minutes' walk from the pier. Ideal for self-caterers…
Northern European Russia
This centrally located brick hotel has modern rooms ideal for couples, groups and families. There's functioning wi-fi and a restaurant serving a mix of…
Northern European Russia
A tasteful alternative to traditional Valaam accommodation. From the outside, it looks more like a stately home than a monks’ cloister. Rooms are modest,…
Northern European Russia
Located right next to the train and bus stations, Hotel Vologda offers unspectacular, but comfortable rooms. Also has a decent cafe (main from R240).
Northern European Russia
Right by the lake, this tourist complex's comfortable rooms have their own kitchens.
Northern European Russia
Wood-panelled rooms inside the monastery with simple beds come complete with an icon in a corner niche. From the top of the main approach stairway, enter…
Northern European Russia
The good value rooms at central Veliky Ustyug’s most appealing option are smart and occasionally graced by the presence of Ded Moroz dolls. Single rooms…
Northern European Russia
Friendly and fairly cosy, most of the Dvina’s cream-coloured rooms are decent-sized and almost all have water heaters (in other hotels centralised hot…
Hotel at Grandfather Frost's Estate
Northern European Russia
For the full Veliky Ustyug experience, stay at Grandfather Frost's Estate. This two-floor hotel is situated in a pine forest. The rooms are clean and…
Northern European Russia
Dismiss the lobby’s chemical smells (a hair salon is attached) – this is a decent and very central base with spacious rooms. It’s also right across from…
Northern European Russia
Kargopol's best hotel, with modern rooms, all with fridge and good bathrooms (with underfloor heating in the suites). The basement restaurant is Kargopol…
Northern European Russia
Neat, presentable rooms shaped like pie slices in a circular building with balconies near the lake. Theatrical motifs are apt, given its location in the…
Northern European Russia
This friendly hostel is on the third floor of a rundown office building, but don't let the unappealing exterior put you off. The color-coded dorms are…
Northern European Russia
Compact, wood-panelled, mosquito-net-equipped rooms, most with equally compact bathrooms. Decent wi-fi. Cheapies share clean facilities. Also has a good…
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