Hotel Review For The Nauka Hotel Complex

They have 3 locations. The Millionnaya ulitsa location is great. The Hermitage is a 5 minute walk down the road. But the conditions at this hotel are very poor. The stairwell was dark. They have an antique elevator that I sure wouldn't step into. And worst of all the stairwell has a very unpleasant Photo: Nauka Hotel Complex, St. Petersburg, Russia. The Hermitage Museum can be seen down the street. This hotel is awful.

Photo: Nauka Hotel Complex, St. Petersburg, Russia. The Hermitage Museum can be seen down the street. This hotel is awful.

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Photo: Nauka Hotel Complex entrance to courtyard. Don't even think of staying here.

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The corridors are old and the rooms don't have bathrooms. They showed us their best rooms and I would be completely miserable to stay in one of them. You've got to be tough to stay in a place like this. You need to have high tolerance for terrible odors and visual fortitude, because it's not pretty here and most ordinary people probably couldn't stay at this facility without becoming depressed with the surroundings.

The Engelsa prospekt (812-553-8455) location isn't much better. It is way north of the action at the Udelnaya Metro Station. We saw a sign at the reception desk that said we could take a shower for 2 rubles and 62 Photo: Nauka Hotel on Engelsa Prospect, St. Petersburg, Russia. I was highly unimpressed with these facilities.

Photo: Nauka Hotel on Engelsa Prospect, St. Petersburg, Russia. I was highly unimpressed with these facilities.

kopeks. So that was not an encouraging discovery. But they only showed us rooms with bathrooms. The $20 room they showed us was basic and the bathroom ceiling was loaded full of black mold. Geez! The double we saw was not nice at all with a very old TV that looked like it should have been thrown into the trash years ago. But they do have one sort of nice room. Suite 201 is much more modern and is available for 1575 rubles ($52.50). The corridors are old. This place is very plain, very basic. They have a cafe but it doesn't look that nice. You would probably find this place to also be depressing. (We had a good laugh about the price for a shower. If it was 2 rubles and 60 kopeks, that would have just been strange, but 62 kopeks? One kopek coins are so worthless that even the Russians throw them on the ground. Nobody wants them.)

The Toreza prospekt (812-550-0529) location said they accepted foreigners, but they strongly discourage it. They were so insistent that these rooms were awful that I decided I didn't need to see them. Judging from the entryway, I believe her.

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