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Petro Palace Matisov Domik just minutes from the main
MAP L3 • Malaya MAP A5 • Nab. Reki sights. Occupying a historic
Morskaya ulitsa 14 • 571 Pryazhki 3/1 • 495 0242 building with plenty of
2880 • www.petropalace • www.matisov.com • ₽ period features, it also has
hotel.com • ₽₽ Popular with many an excellent restaurant on
Petro Palace is housed in famous Russian actors, the ground floor.
a 19th-century building this cosy three-star hotel
and is popular with is not well served by Tavricheskaya Hotel
wealthier Russians and public transport but guests MAP G2 • Shpalernaya
European business can take a taxi or a long ulitsa 53 • 326 6772
travellers. It offers a walk to the centre of town. • www.tavrhotel.ru • ₽₽
fitness centre and pool. This is a basic hotel –
Okhtinskaya strictly not for those
Alexander House MAP G2 • Bolsheokhtin- seeking luxury. However,
MAP J6 • Nab. Kryukova skiy prospekt 4 • 318 0040 its location makes it a
Kanala 27 • 575 3877 • www.okhtinskaya.com • ₽ great base for sightseeing,
• www.a-house.ru • ₽₽₽ This hotel is a little out of especially for those on a
This hotel takes real pride the way, but it runs shuttle budget. The rooms are
in its spacious and elegant buses to Nevskiy prospekt. clean and functional, and
rooms – two luxury suites There is a danger of being the staff are friendly.
even boast working fire- cut off in summer when
places. Reconstructed in the drawbridges are Central Hotels
the style of a 19th-century raised, so guests should
gentleman’s house, the be aware of the timings Arbat Nord
hotel also has a small bar for this. The building is MAP E3 • Artilleryskaya
and restaurant. modern and the rooms ulitsa 4 • 703 1899 •
are spacious. www.arbat-nord.ru • ₽
Mid-Range Hotels The Arbat Nord attracts
Stony Island Hotel tourists thanks to its prime
Azimut Hotel MAP C1 location close to the Field
MAP B5 • Lermontovskiy • Kamennoostrovskiy of Mars (see p75). Rooms
prospekt 43/1 • 200 0048 prospekt 45 • 337 2434 are stylish and equipped
• www.azimuthotels.com • www.stonyisland.ru • ₽ with all amenities.
• ₽ A good-value, modern
The glitzy Azimut is hotel a little way out from Arka Hotel
unexpectedly inexpensive, the centre, Stony Island MAP M3 • Bolshaya
and is a taxi ride or a has a good restaurant- Konyushennaya 17/3
tram journey away from bar and buffet breakfast. • 272 6493 • www.
the major sights. There baskof-hotel.com • ₽
is a wide range of rooms Tuchkov Hotel Right in the heart of the
available here. MAP A2 • Malyy prospekt historic centre, this great
Vasilevskogo Ostrova 7 budget option has clean,
Kvartira N4 Ginza • 240 2731 • www. simply furnished double
Project tuchkov-hotel.ru • ₽ and triple rooms with en-
MAP B2 • Syezzhinskaya Close to a metro station, suite bathrooms. It’s a
ulitsa 38 • 45904944 this mini-hotel is highly very popular choice, so be
• www.kvartira-n-4- rated for its cleanliness, sure to book well ahead.
ginza-project. comfort and service.
allpiterhotels.ru • ₽ The free pastries are Comfort Hotel
This enormously a welcome perk. MAP K4 • Bolshaya
characterful hotel Morskaya ulitsa 25 • 570
features retro decor Ekaterina Art Hotel 6700 • www.comfort-
throughout: 1970s-style MAP M2 • Millionnaya hotel.org • ₽
wallpaper and furniture ulitsa 10A • 4668042 A real find, Comfort Hotel
design is combined with • www.ekaterina-art- is reasonably priced and
all the usual modern hotel.allpiterhotels.ru • ₽₽ in an unbeatably central
facilities and exceptionally This atmospheric hotel has location, with simple yet
high service standards. an enviable central location spacious rooms.

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