EXCELLENT TOUR, GUIDE EVEN ARRANGED FOR ELEVATORS, WHEEL CHARS, EVEN PROVIDED A BIRTHDAY CHAKE FOR MY WIFES BIRTHDAY
Review by: Darwyn H, January 2018
From leaving the ship to boarding the very luxurious bus the experience was amazing. Our guides Maria and Alexi were great both with information and a very friendly attitude. A lot of walking through museums and palaces. The restaurants chosen were amazing both clean and serving very appetising food with pleasant and cheerful staff. We truly loved our time in St.Petersburg and would happily recommend this tour.
Review by: Ccsteu, November 2017
This tour is one of the best we have ever taken. Our tour guide, Maria, was fabulous and spoke perfect English. We saw so much the two days we were in St. Petersburg and Maria gave wonderful explanations regarding all the places we visited. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone going to St. Petersburg. You will see all the best of St. Petersburg and the small group made it very worthwhile. It is well worth the price and was better than any of the ship excursions that we took on our 12 day cruise.
Review by: Dudley R, November 2017
Because of our late start to the tour , particularly on our first day delays at port checkout , not the fault of the company our tour was rushed to the point of running after the guide on occasions._br/_ At Peterhof , in huge crowds and congestion , we were lost by our guide ! She failed to check she had group with her and quickly became out of range on the headset microphone . _br/_ This is very worrying in a country where we had no communication route apart from other guides with other parties , one of whom was able to contact head office for us . We were eventually collected about an hour later . But had spent a very stressful time and missed these wonderful gardens!_br/_ As lengthy delays are not an unusual feature I wouldn't think it impossible to have a plan B for such occasions ! _br/_ Sorry but our experience of St Petersburg was spoilt by our experience early on our first day of the two day tour !
Review by: Edgar C, November 2017
This was the best Shore Excursion that I've been on my last 14 cruises. Hats off to our Tour Guide Maria for doing such a great job with her familiarity with the history behind every place that we have visited. Every question was answered with my utmost satisfaction. Viator,_br/_ great job for putting such a great itinerary. Highly recommended to anyone wishing to join this tour.
Review by: Kaye M, October 2017
Our two day shore excursion was fantastic and so well organised. The driver and guide were fantastic, friendly and knowledgeable. One of the hardest things was to remember all the information they passed on. Entrance to sights was easy ... glad we weren't trying to do it independently as we might still be waiting in line! In two days we covered so many sights and all the ones we needed to see in our limited two days. Meal stops were excellent. We highly recommend this tour.
Review by: Joseph C, October 2017
This was a great tour and I would highly recommend it for Cruisers stopping for two days in St. Petersburg. It hit all the must see sights and the two lunch stops were at very nice venues with very good food and drink. our driver was Dimitri and our guide was Tatyana. They were both excellent and Tatyana was full of local info and told some very entertaining stories. The organization of the local tour company SPB Tours was excellent. The price was right, and all entry fees to the museums and other attractions were covered by the tour. This tour is an excellent value..
Review by: vblezius, October 2017
We did this 2-day tour first week of October. It was superb! Our guide, Luba, was tremendous. We saw all of the major attractions at much less cost than our ship's 2-day excursion. In fact, we spoke with some people who took the ship's tour and they were very disappointed in their tour and guide. We saw Catherine's Palace, Peterhof fountains, the Hermitage, toured the entire city by bus and also a canal ride, St. Isaac's Church, Church of Spilled Blood we went inside as well our ship's tour only did the outside, Yusopov palace which the ship did not tour at all and the subway which the ship did not do ...... I know, you're probably thinking - the subway? really? It is ranked as one of the ten most beautiful subways in the world and it certainly was incredible! It was a highlight!_br/_ This was one of the best tours I have ever taken - and we've taken a lot! I would highly recommend it!
Review by: Robert Alfred S, October 2017
So happy we booked with you small group, outstanding value, friendly knowledgeable guide, it was all it was made out to be. Thank you
Review by: Terry C, October 2017
The worst part was getting through passport control. Get there early as it took us over two hours. The tour that was supposed to start at 9:00 didn't start until 10:30 because of the delay. Maria was excellent and spoke English very well. The sites were interesting as was Russia in general. It was a great educational experience.
Review by: Marco B, October 2017
St. Petersburg was definitely the highlight of our cruise of the Baltics. Everything was organized quite well, there were no long lines to wait to get in anywhere. Our tour Guide Yekaterina was great and the only comment I could make even though she was pregnant it was pretty much always run - run - run. She was not slow by any means. On Catherines Summer Palace with the great gardens, she focused our attention on a squirrel. I was unimpressed. It's a rat with a fancy tail. Strangely enough, she was not the only tour guide, we witnessed several doing the same thing. What's up with that. Imperial Squirrels? The rest was great even though the weather didn't fully cooperate, 50 shades of gray she called it.
Review by: clemenl, October 2017
When we crossed customs at the cruise port, the company seemed to have a mess. Our names were on a list but they told us the group was full so they send us to another one that was supposed to be the same. We discovered that all of the people in the tour paid way less than ourselves between 220-240 and we paid 307. This made me kind of angry, why does viator offers the same tour but charges different prices? The tour is ok, but everything was so quickly. I know that the tour tries to cover a lot of things in 2 days but for example we spent 45 minutes at a gift shop in St Petersburg but we had 5 minutes at Peterhof main fountains. This was kind of disappointing. We didn't use the hydrofoil as well. The city is very pretty.
Review by: xiejane, September 2017
Overall speaking it was a good excursion!
Review by: nmccue, September 2017
This was a very good tour. We certainly visited all the St. P. highlights. There was almost too much to take in - so we were pressed to keep moving all the time._br/_ Our Guide, Irina, was excellent. Very knowledgeable, friendly and solicitous of our needs. A wonderful representative of the Russian people
Review by: James S, September 2017
Absolutely phenomenal 2 day tour. We saw a lot of St Petersburg and the outplaying historical sites. Our guide was a young lady Irina Furman. Her English was excellent, her knowledge about all sites was excellent. I highly recommend tour. If you are on a ship do not book thru them. St Petersburg Tour company is just as good for much less money.
Review by: Lorraine A, September 2017
Excellent tour n guide even though the weather did not co-operate._br/_ guide quite informative n knowledgeable
Review by: Henry d, September 2017
After waiting almost an hour to get through Immigration we finally found our tour guide. We were the first in the busand waited another hour before the tour gude realised the rest of our group was in another bus waiting for us. I asked if we would get the chance to visit the METRO and was told NO TIME. As the tour progressed i noticed the itinery had been changed. Instead of the HYDROFOIL ride to PETERHOF we travelled by bus for about another hour. I CHOSE THIS TOUR SPECIFICALLY to visit the METRO and do the trip to Peterhof by HYDROFOIL They were deleted from the programme, i guess it was cheaper to take us by bus than them having to pay HYDROFOIL tickets to PETERHOF._br/_ I still dont understand why they didnt load up one bus and send it on tour,then wait until the next bus was full and send that one next._br/_ I will not recommend the tour company PBS i PAID NEARLY 800 FOR THIS TOUR AND FEEL RIPPED OFF. I have done many tours with VIATOR but feel let down this time.
Review by: sheena.ellis, September 2017
Would highly recommend this tour as a great way to see the major sights of St Petersburg in 2 days with a small group._br/_ Our guide, Dascha was fantastic, great personality and very knowledgeable. Our driver, Roman, was also a fun character and always helpful.
Review by: karnofsky, September 2017
This is described as a small-group tour. It starts off in a van full of 20 people, but it turns out that there's a long string of 20-person vans that are brought to each venue. You are herded in huge groups quickly through each venue. The huge masses of people in the tour that are crammed together is overwhelming. Guide was friendly, but mostly repeated a monotonous memorized litany that you could hear other guides from the same company repeating. We had to wait over an hour in a massive line of people waiting to get into the Hermitage on a day that the guide claimed that the museum is only open to her company. It turns out that the company is probably a government affiliated organization that has a hold on most of the tours, so it seemed as though thousands of tourists were amassed in line and there was no way to see anything through the dense thicket of people surrounding you whereever you went. We skipped the second day because we were so disapointed in the first day. We picked this tour because of its positive reviews. Now, I'm wary of their veracity.
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