Our guide is very funny and introduce a lot of history stories to us. The driver also helpful and polite.
Review by: Leslie T, March 2018
Best guide, Mita! Highly recommend tour. Must see!
Review by: Wes P, March 2018
Amazing! Basically a personalised tour, with the guide being so knowledgeable in history of the city and palaces that we visited. So interesting to learn about the area's history, would definitely recommend.
Review by: Celine Chan, January 2018
Very nice and professional tour. Driven in a nice new and clean van. Guide was informative and pleasant.
Review by: Celine Chan, January 2018
Very nice and professional tour. Driven in a nice new and clean van. Guide was informative and pleasant.
Review by: Gwendolyn B, December 2017
Fabulous!!!!! Can't describe the beauty of the place. A dream spot.
Review by: dramarystella, October 2017
Amazing trip, excellent guide!
Review by: David F, October 2017
This is an incredible tour with a very knowledgeable and fun guide. Very professional. You go straight into the Palace skipping the long lines. A St. Petersburg must!
Review by: Rita, September 2017
Our guide was lovely and most knowledgable. _br/_ When booking this tour keep in mind whether the Hermitage and the Pavlovsk are open. We experienced long queues because it was a day when both were closed so everyone heads out to Pushkin, yet it was certainly a worthwhile tour._br/_ Even though it was a 4 - 5 hour tour we only had a chance for a coffee stop late morning and there was no real opportunity for a food stop, so bring some food with you.
Review by: Jane L W, September 2017
Well worth the trip out of Moscow. The palace was beautiful and the Amber Room unusual. Be sure to take the train, not a car. Moscow traffic can be awful.
Review by: Ana Maria H, September 2017
It was a very good tour. Fascinating place and a very knowledgeable guide. Highly recommended.
Review by: Sara F, September 2017
It was only 2 of us on the tour so we had the guide to ourselves. She was very knowledgeable and her English was very good. She answered many questions and made references to other sites we had already visited to link all the history together. The highlight of the tour is the ability to skip the long line outside the palace, it saves you so much time!
Review by: Tat, September 2017
The correct name of this tour should be Catherine Palace and Park because that's what the tour really included. Alexander Palace, Alexander Park, Pushkin Lyceum were not even mentioned. The transportation was well organized but the content of the tour and presentation were mediocre. The guide, I believe her name was Julia, was not exciting. Also, her accent was strong making it even harder to catch what she was saying. We'd have much preferred to go alone and use an audio guide at the museum so that we could have moved at our own pace.
Review by: Lori P, September 2017
Great experience. Highly recommend
Review by: Maria G, September 2017
It was OK. Our guide was really sweet but I like it when the guide tells us a lot about the history of the place or the people. Russia has such a rich history that I expected something else. Anyway, the palace is awesome, we had plenty of time to walk around the gardens which are really something and our guide answered everything we asked.
Review by: mario s, August 2017
Nice places, but very poor service. Highly disorganized tour. No time set aside for anything, not even lunch. We had a hurried munch, to be then kept waiting a long time for the tour operator to bring the entry tickets . This delay meant we had to rush through the rest of the tour to finish in time. Sometimes not even stopping for a photo. As said, sites were very nice, but seen in a hurry. The tour was supposed to be in English. But as some customers were locals, our guide did long explaining in Russian, very briefly in English. Very poor service. Not value for what was paid. Not recommended...,
Review by: Toppo P, August 2017
Reliable. We sent an enquiry before our arrival in Russian about the confirmation of pickup time and place. The tour operator was responsive.
Review by: Jeanette L, July 2017
Great from the driver, the car, to the tour guide Lidiya, who was very knowledgeable and enthusiastic all the way to the end of the tour. It was raining that day, but it did not dampen Lidiya's spirit, so much so that we enjoyed her company and information. The amber room was beautiful, however it is too bad, picture taking isn't allowed in that room. Overall, the rain did not stop us from having an excellent tour with Lidiya, of Marie Rose Tours. Thanks!
Review by: Raquel J, July 2017
Our guide Glenn was very professional, gave us good informations about the trip and Russian history in general
Review by: Mark A, July 2017
I liked our tour guide, Eugenia, and the two palaces we saw were magnificent, but in the Catherine Palace we felt very rushed and the place was mobbed with large groups of tourists that made it difficult at times to see or move from room to room. Between the two palace visits, I had wanted to stop and eat, because I am diabetic. I didn't get a chance, because it seemed we were on some sort of rushed schedule. The whole reason I had wanted a private tour was so that we could do things at our own pace, lingering where we wanted. The second palace, Pavlovsk, was more relaxed, but I didn't get to get anything to eat until the very end of the tour. Our driver did drive us around Saint Petersburg after so I could see some sites I wanted to, like the Battleship Aurora and the Peter and Paul Fortress. The guide herself, Eugenia, was very pleasant and informative, but I felt like the company that ran the tour put her on a tight schedule, which made me feel more like I was in a tour group, rather than seeing the sites with a private tour guide.
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