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Press Release March 11, 2005..... topic: Saint Petersburg, Russia hotel infrastructure.

St. Petersburg, Russia Hotel Reviews
By Ed Ryder & Lena Morozova Of Russian Guide Network, Inc.

*Alphabetical Listing*

* Designates newest reviews. These hotels were visited in late summer/early fall 2004 by Lena Morozova.

Admiral Hotel - excellent location, inexpensive, cozy, only 5 rooms.
* Admiralteyskaya Hotel - poor location, far from the metro, crappy neighborhood.
* Alexander House - nice. Not the greatest location.
Anabel Mini Hotel at 88 Nevsky Prospect - people say you can hear your neighbor. Great kitchen.
* Anabel Mini Hotel at 147 Nevsky Prospect - attractive, clean rooms. But some rooms do not have bathrooms.
* Andersen Hotel - Petrogradskaya section of the city.
Angleterre Hotel - Saint Isaac's Square area. Close to Hermitage.
* Anik Inn - an amateur operation and probably not a legal business.
Anjuta Hotel - impressive 6 room hotel, but the location is terrible.
* Antares Royal Mini Hotel - a classy 9 room mini-hotel.
* Aolla Hotel - soviet style. Bad.
Arbat Nord Hotel - nice.
Arcadia Hotel - very good location, new facility, but the immediate area seems like a great place to get mugged.
* Art Hotel - nice.
Askur Hotel - old and tired. Just 5 rooms.
* Assembly Bed & Breakfast - four rooms, friendly place.
Hotel Ass-Tomp CKBM.... foreigners not accepted
Astoria Hotel - Saint Isaacs Square area. Considered an elite hotel.
* Aurora Hostel - crappy.
Austrian Yard Hotel - special place to stay.
Avto-Star Hotel  - same as Neva Hotel
Baltic Star Hotel - nice, but far from the action. Has $5000 a day VIP cottages.
Baltiets Hotel - northern suburbs.
Baltyskaya Health Center Hotel - they never answer the phone.
* Bear's Corner Motel (Medvezhiy Ugol) - bad location, bad rooms.
Bed N Breakfast, at Kazanskaya 11 - excellent location. For the budget adult traveller.
Belly Nochi Hotel (White Nights Hotel) - you don't want to stay here.
Hotel Belvedere Golf Hotel - under construction.
* Best Corner Bed And Breakfast - good. Just 7 rooms. Unusual.
Best Western Hotel Neptune - excellent bowling alley.
Bolshoy Puppet Theater Hotel - foreigners not accepted.
* Brothers Karamazov Hotel - good.
* BTK Hotel - it's bad.
* Cameya - two apartments near the Hermitage.
* Casa Leto Private Hotel - extremely difficult to find.
Central Inn Mini Hotel - Saint Isaac's Square. Budget, 4 room mini-hotel.
Hotel Chaika - I don't think you want to stay here.
Chorney E. Belly Hotel (Black & White Hotel) - northern suburbs.
Hotel Clarion - North Crown - when will they ever finish construction?
Columb Mini Hotel - just 3 rooms.
Comfort Hotel at 25 Bolshaya Morskaya - good. Near Saint Isaac's Square.
* Comfort Hotel at 2 Chekhova - good.
Composers Union Hotel - great Saint Isaac's Square location, cheap, but not comfortable.
Hotel Construction Board No. 42 - not recommended.
Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel - excellent location. Expensive. Quality facility.
Design Hotel - it's horrible! A ghetto! They do not accept foreigners.
Hotel Deson-Ladoga - good rooms, bad location, but the metro is close.
Doma Arkeetektorov Hotel - a bad hotel in Pushkin.
Dom Baltika... foreigners not accepted.
* Domik V Kolomne Hotel - you don't want to stay here.
Hotel Dostoevsky - a top recommendation.
Druzhba Hotel - is now the Andersen Hotel.
Duny Hotel - why would you ever want to stay here?
Dvorets Molodezhi Hotel (LDM Hotel) - good entertainment complex, bad location, mediocre rooms.
* Eliseev Palace Hotel - the most expensive hotel in the city!
Energetic... foreigners not accepted.
Hotel Eurasia - Petrogradskaya section of the city.
Fifth Corner Business Hotel - central location, spacious new rooms.
* Filippov Mini Hotel - five air conditioned rooms.
Hotel Fontanka - related to the sub-par Sovetskaya Hotel.
Hotel Fort Konstantin - this would be an odd place to stay, and cramped.
Fregat Hotel - terrible location, depressing neighborhood, isolated.
Galact Hotel - foreigners not accepted.
Hotel German Club - not an ideal location, but very nice facility at a good price.
* Golden Garden Hotel (Zolotoy Sad Hotel) - good.
* Gopeterburg Mini Hotel - this is just an agency that books rooms. Strange.
Grand Hotel Emerald - superb facility, best fitness center, great spa, not the best location.
Grand Hotel Europe - best location, very interesting facility, expensive.
* Guest House Mini Hotel - excellent value.
* Guyot Hotel - Petrogradskaya section of the city.
Helvetia Suites Hotel - worthy of consideration.
Herzen University Hotel - excellent location.
Hostel Holiday - real cheap, but it's a hostel.
Idillia Hotel - budget facility.
Inpred Service - good value, but bad location.
Iskra Hotel - interesting Petrogradskaya location.
Hotel Izhora - terrible location.
Business Hotel Karelia - terrible, terrible location. But they do have a few nice rooms.
Kazanskaya 11 B&B - excellent location, budget facility, shared bathrooms.
Hotel Kievskaya - you probably wouldn't like it here.
Kirovets Hotel - how would you like to spend less than $4 a night for a room? Only if you're Russian.
* Kolomyazhsky Visit Hotel Complex - far from the city center.
Korona Guest Center - excellent location, comfortable rooms.
* Krestovsky Ostrov Governor's Tennis Club - not yet open and nobody knows when it will open.
* Krestovsky Ostrov Hotel (previously known as the Sportivnaya Hotel) it is bad, bad, bad.
* Kristoff Hotel - good.
* Kronverkskaya Hotel - unimpressive.
Kurort Hotel - you'll never find it.
Hotel Kupchinskaya - out of business.
* Kvartirny Vopros - they don't have the service attitude.
Labyrinth Hotel - old, out of the way location, hard to find.
Hotel Lel - you would probably find this location shocking.
Leon Hotel (also known as Sirius Hotel) - Closed and due to be demolished to make way for a Mariinsky Theater      expansion.

* Ligovskaya Hotel - unfriendly staff. Tiny, basic rooms.
Management Training Center Hotel - in Pushkin.
* Maraton (Apartments) - bad smell.
Marine Plant Hotel - a bad hotel in Kronshtadt.
Marshal Hotel - nice.
Hotel Matisov Domik - nice facility, terrible location.
Mechta Hotel... also known as Arenda Guest Rooms - excellent location, cheap, nothing fancy.
* Medvezhiy Ugol (Bear's Corner Motel)
Hotel Mercury - a hidden mini hotel owned by the city.
* Mini Hotel - impossible to find. Nobody answers the phone.
Hotel Mir -there are better places to stay.
Hotel Morskaya - closest hotel to "Len Expo," but it's crappy. Strange architecture. Great bowling alley.
Hotel Moryakov - Seaman's Hotel. Closest hotel to the commercial port (where some cruise ships dock).
Hotel Moscow - one of the city's big hotels. So easy and quick to walk to the metro.
* Hotel Na Muchnom - pathetic front desk staff.
* Natali Hotel -a good place to stay in Pushkin.
Hotel Na Sadovoy - how would you like to share a toilet with everyone else on the floor?
Nauka Hotel Complex - this one is really bad. Yeesh!
Nautilus Inn - nice facility, bad location.
Navy Fleet Hotel - foreigners not accepted.
Neva Hotel - recently updated rooms, but soviet mentality. Unrenovated rooms will be bad.
* Nevsky Mayak - nice lobby, rooms are cramped.
* Hotel Nevsky 22 - couldn't find it!
* Nevsky 74 Bed & Breakfast - two toilets for 6 rooms.
* Nevsky 74 Mini Hotel - low prices, excellent location.
Nevsky 90/92 - excellent location.
Nevsky 91 - very good location, great cozy kitchen, but I hate the entrance - has a dangerous feel at night.
* Nevsky 150 Mini Hotel - opened January 2004. Air conditioned. Just 8 rooms.
Nevsky Prospect Bed & Breakfast - excellent location, but not recommended.
* Nirvana Club Hotel - is just an agency that sells tours to Nirvana Hotel in Thailand.
Niva-sv - foreigners not accepted.
* Nord Hostel - excellent location. I heard it was good, but nobody was home when we visited.
* Hotel Nord - so-so location, problems with yellow water, but they have new rooms.
* Northern Venice Mini Hotel - excellent location, big new rooms, good pricing. Only 3 rooms.
* Octaviana Mini Hotel - excellent location. Just 11 rooms. Keep fingers crossed when attempting to exit.
Okhtinskaya Victoria Hotel - not an ideal location. Real far from the metro!
* Okolitsa Mini Hotel - new, but there are definitely better places to stay.
Oktiabrskaya Hotel - big, old, close to Moscow train station, but don't stay here - stay at the branch.
Oktiabrskaya Branch Hotel - superior to the main building.
* Old Nevsky House Mini Hotel - nice, cheap, good location, but you must share the bathrooms.
* Old Town Mini Hotel  (Stary Gorod Mini Hotel) - Petrogradskaya section of the city. Cheap.
Hotel Olgino - northern suburbs. Camping.
Omis 2000 - foreigners not accepted
Onore Mini Hotel - opened July 2003. Seven rooms.
Hotel Orbita - foreigners not accepted. It's a military hotel in an unattractive neighborhood.
Ostrovok Hotel - cheap rooms, terrible location.
* Pension Na Konnoy - good location. Plain but nice rooms.
Peterhof Ship Hotel - it had sailed away. Never saw it, but heard it wasn't good.
* Petra Hotel - excellent location, friendly staff, clean, fairly low prices.
Petrovsky Hostel - bargain hostel. Close to a metro station. Neighborhood is not that great.
Hotel Piter - great location near the fortress.
Hotel Piterskaya - terrible location.
Polikoff Hotel - excellent location, sound insulated rooms.
Polustovo Hotel - budget hotel, clean new rooms, not a good location.
Premiere Hotel - near Mariinsky Theater.
Prestige Hotel - a nice, hidden mini hotel, but the interior design is ultra modern.
Prestige Sport Hotel - cheap new rooms, uninteresting location, metro is close.
Pribaltiyskaya Hotel - most won't like the neighborhood, but it is a good (and large) hotel.
Prin Business Center Hotel - good hotel, but it has a very industrial location (with smelly air).
Pulkovskaya Hotel - 840 rooms, close to airport, quality facility, but far from the interesting areas.
Pushka Inn - a top recommendation for location. Superb location.
Radisson SAS Royal Hotel - a very nice hotel in an excellent location.
Railroads State Administration Hotel - basic, real cheap.
* Randhouse - uncooperative.
Hotel Rechnaya - closest hotel to the passenger river port. Far from the action. Dull neighborhood.
* Red Tower (Krasny Terem) Guest Apartments - nice, excellent location, just 5 rooms.
* Regina Hotel - Petrogradskaya section of the city. Small, but comfortable and cozy rooms.
Renaissance Hotel - a top recommendation for comfort. Saint Isaac's Square area.
Repin Mini Hotel - review supplied by a former guest of this hotel.
Repinskaya Hotel - northern suburbs. A certain mistake to stay at this hotel.
* Hotel Respectale - nice, good location, only 9 rooms.
Motel Retour - northern suburbs, in the country with excellent views of the Gulf Of Finland.
Rinaldi Bed & Breakfast at 20 Moskovsky Prospect - budget facility. Tight, cramped rooms.
Rinaldi Bed & Breakfast at 6 Maly Prospect V.O. - budget facility. Hard to find entrance.
* Rinaldi B&B at 17 Grechesky Prospect - new, basic.
* Rinaldi B&B at 7 Bolshoy Prospect - similar to their other locations.
Hotel Rossiya - depressing.
Hotel Russ - the exterior looks like a moonbase; the interior has truly shockingly ugly decor.
* Russian Warriors (Russkiye Vityazi) Mini Hotel - nice. Only 4 rooms.
Saint Petersburg Hotel - remodeled river-view suites are dynamite, but the location is a bit isolated.
Saint Petersburg International Hostel - a good hostel.
Saint Petersburg State Technical University Hotel - not recommended.
Saint Petersburg University Hotel - most tourists probably would not feel comfortable in this area.
Severnaya Hotel - foreigners not accepted.
Shelfort Hotel - a good little hotel. Interesting pedestrian street nearby.
Sheraton Nevskij Palace - ownership change - now known as the Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel
Sirius Hotel (also known as Leon Hotel) - closed.
Hotel Skandinavia - an excellent hotel in the northern suburbs.
Sleep Cheap Hostel - a really nice hostel in a crappy building.
Hotel Smolneenskya - near the very unusual Smolney Cathedral.
Sodruxhestvo Hotel - foreigners not accepted.
Sonata Hotel at 50 Mayakovskaya - comfortable. Just 7 rooms.
* Sonata Hotel at 3 Gorokhovaya - nice.
Sovavto-Spb Hotel - foreigners not accepted.
Hotel Sovetskaya - interesting top floor views. Good pizza place on 13th floor. Great lobby. Bad rooms.
* 5 Sovetskaya Bed & Breakfast - good rooms, but you must share the toilet.
* Sovtours Hotel - in the future it will probably be good after the renovation; right now it isn't suitable.
Hotel Spbvergaz - great place for a stroll one block away.
Hotel Sportivnaya - now known as Krestovsky Ostrov Hotel - (real bad).
Hotel Sputnik - location is terrible.
Staraya Melnitza Resort - a high quality resort in the northern suburbs (in the country).
* Stary Gorod (Old Town) Mini Hotel - Petrogradskaya section of the city.
* Suvoroff Bed & Breakfast - thumbs down.
* B&B Suvoroff House - too difficult to find.
Svetlana Hotel - foreigners not accepted.
Swiss Center Apartment Hotel - now known as Helvetia Suites.
* Tatiana Hotel - it's bad.
* Tavricheskaya Hotel - in the center yet isolated and too far from the metro. Recently renovated rooms.
Tavricheskaya Mini Hotel - a gagging putrid odor in the building foyer. Unsuitable for foreigners.
Toaz Hotel - new, has apartments, nice facade, stairwell makes me dizzy.
Hotel Tsarskoye Selo Company - Catherine Palace is next door, but the hotel is an old dump.
Tourist Hotel - foreigners not accepted.
* Hotel U Fontana (near fountain) - foreigners not accepted.
* Universiterskaya Hotel - under construction.
Hotel Veronika - foreigners not accepted. The neighborhood is awful.
* Vesta Hotel - 12 rooms with air-conditioning. Plain interior design.
Vilma Hotel - terrible, terrible location, very basic, and not comfortable.
* Hotel Vladimirsky - an adventure to get to the lobby.
Vyborgskaya Hotel - an old budget hotel that isn't bad. Close to a metro station.
* Hotel Yards Of Capella - new, nice, good value, very good location, only 10 rooms.
Youzhnaya Hotel - really bad. How would you like to share a toilet that doesn't have a seat?
Zimmer Freie Hostel - very difficult to find.
*Zlatoust Mini Hotel - just 6 rooms. New, but plain.
* Zolotoy Sad (Golden Garden) Hotel - very nice new, small hotel. Expensive.

Reviews for St. Petersburg where done in January through March 2002 by Ed Ryder, again in January 2004 by Ed Ryder, and in late summer/early fall 2004 by Lena Morozova. Room pricing should not be relied upon as accurate since rates change for various reasons including strong demand and inflation, and where rates have been provided, it is only meant to serve as a guide and all pricing should be verified with the hotel.
 

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