Moscow - St Petersburg - with Alex Veit
Familiarization trip 14-22 July 2002
)Sunday-Monday(
Day 1, Sunday : Tel-Aviv-Moscow
Depart Ben Gurion airport with El-Al
flight LY 611 to Moscow at 06:50am,) not final( arrive 11:55am.
On arrival introduction tour of Moscow. Squares
and architecture. Kitay-Gorod district, the old streets, Ulitsa Razina and more.
Overnight: Choice of hotels in Moscow: Savoy Hotel )5 Star( or Cosmos
Hotel )4 Star(
Day 2, Monday: Moscow
Red Square, Lenin Tomb, Kremlin, Cathedrals:
Annunciation & Assumption, Armory.
Pushkin Museum of fine arts, and more.
Overnight in Moscow.
Day 3, Tuesday: Moscow
The Great Synagogue. Moscow Metro station,
Novodevichy Convent, especially the Icon collection,
Galinka Museum musical instruments, and more.
Overnight in Moscow.
Day 4, Wednesday: Zagorsk - St Petersburg
Morning excursion to Zagorsk. Afternoon return
to Moscow visit the open air museum of Kolomensk.
Afternoon train to St Petersburg. Overnight in
St Petersburg at Hotel Pulkovskaya )4 Star(.
Day 5, Thursday: St Petersburg
City tour: St Isaac's Cathedral, Kazan
Cathedral, Peter & Paul Fortress. Boat ride on the river Neva.
Overnight in St Petersburg
Day 6, Friday: St Petersburg
Hermitage full guided tour. Museum Yossipov.
Overnight in St Petersburg
Night activity: Kirov Theater - optional
)depending on program and availability of tickets(.
Day 7, Saturday: St Petersburg
Summer Palace of Peter the Great, and more.
Overnight in St Petersburg
Night Activity - optional Folklore evening.
Day 8, Sunday: St Petersburg
St Petersburg continue touring recommended
sites. Overnight in St Petersburg
Day 9, Monday: St Petersburg-Moscow -
Tel-Aviv
Depart St Petersburg with domestic flight to
Moscow and connect with El-Al flight to Tel-Aviv.
Depart Moscow with El-Al flight
LY 612 to Tel-Aviv at 13:20 pm, ) not final( arrive Tel-Aviv 16:30 pm.
*Familiarization trip.
This is first time that Alex is going to Russia, how ever, all services
will provided at the highest standards as he
always provides on his tours.
* Please
note: Tour is planned to cater both Israeli and English speaking clientele.
Tours are guided in English by specially chosen local guides )Alex does not
translate what is said in to Hebrew. ( How ever Alex will be bilingual, when it
comes to his explanations which deal maily with administrative aspects of the
tour.
Please note:
The order of the daily program might
change according to the domestic flights. Also you
must note that changes might be made to the
program, as traveling in Russia is not the same as traveling
at home. The level of service is some what lower
than we are used to and a lot of patience is called for.
Dine out:
Tour is on Bed and breakfast only. We will enjoy the experience of discovering
the
local recommended restaurants together. Cost of
dinners approximately $15/$20.
Choice of two
standards of hotels in Moscow:
Hotel Savoy 5
Stars: Cost per person in double room: $1985.
- Single supplement: $395.
Hotel Cosmos 4
Stars: Cost per person in double room: $1835.
- Single supplement: $295.
Please note:
limited number of single rooms available at all hotel.
+
Registration /cancellation fee: $47. + Airport and security tax: $50. + Tips to
Staff: $45. + Visas: $110.
+ Compulsory
travel insurance that must be printed in Russian.!!
Please note:
due to the high demand for hotel rooms in Russia during the summer months,
hotels demand early deposit, there fore we are requesting an early registration
: 1 May 2002
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