Murmansk
Slap bang in the very centre of the city, the Murmansk branch of this international hotel chain boasts spotless rooms with underfloor heating and flat…
Must-see hotels in Northern European Russia
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…
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…
Kola Peninsula
Right next to the sandy beach, Teribersky Bereg offers eye-catching accommodation in red wooden huts. The cosy huts, which are open all year round, sleep…
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…
Kola Peninsula
This forest-green, outwardly classy, neoclassical-styled hotel has 61 good-sized rooms, some of which have massive bathtubs. It’s central, modern and the…
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…
Murmansk
This spotless business hotel has efficient, English-speaking staff, two bars, a restaurant, a nightclub with free blues gigs on Thursdays (winter only), a…
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,…
Murmansk
A good midrange hotel of the type that northern Russia could do with far more of. With completely refurbished rooms and an unexpectedly classy boutique…
Murmansk
This centrally located business hotel is tidy and the location is super-convenient, but beds are narrow and furnishings rather lacklustre given the price…
Kola Peninsula
This orange hotel has bright and compact rooms and is ideal if you intend to spend a lot of time on the slopes at the nearby Kukisvumchor ski station. As…
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
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
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
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…
Murmansk
Hidden in an apartment building, this small hotel consists of just a few spotless, compact rooms with supremely comfortable mattresses, a well-equipped…
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…
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