Visa Free St. Petersburg Cruise
Helsinki – St.Petersburg – Helsinki
Day 1: Arrival in Helsinki
- Welcome to Helsinki! A meeting point between East and West, inspiring the city’s distinctive phenomena and vibrant urban culture.
- Meeting at the airport and transfer to the hotel, check in.
- Overnight in luxury five star hotel in Helsinki.
Day 2: Helsinki – St.Petersburg
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Morning guided Helsinki City tour.
Helsinki Cathedral, Olympic Stadium, Senate Square, Presidential Palace, Sibelius Monument, Finlandia Hall designed by famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. - Hotel check out and transfer to Helsinki port.
- 16:00 Ferry departure from Helsinki to St.Petersburg.
- Dinner on the ferry.
- Overnight on ferry in De Luxe cabin.
Day 3: St.Petersburg
- Breakfast on the ferry.
- Welcome to St. Petersburg! Peter the Great's “window to the west” and without a doubt one of the most stunningly beautiful cities in the world.
- 09:30 Meeting at the port, guided St.Petersburg City tour, transfer to the hotel, check in.
Peter and Paul Fortress, Dvortsovaya Square, the Winter Palace of Peter the Great and the Hermitage, House of Peter the Great, “Our Savior on the blood”, St. Isaac Cathedral, the Cruiser Avrora, the Palace of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich, Vorontsovskiy Palace, Kazan cathedral, Beloselsky - Belozersky Palace, Novomikhailovskiy Palace, Stroganoff Palace, the Marble Palace Narvskie Triumphal Arches, Copper Horseman, Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - Afternoon at your leisure in Saint Petersburg.
- Evening performance at the Mariinsky Theatre.
For more than two centuries the Mariinsky Theatre has been presenting the world with a plethora of great artistes: the outstanding bass and founding father of the Russian operatic performing school Osip Petrov served here; this is where such great singers as Fyodor Chaliapin, Ivan Yershov, Medea and Nikolai Figner and Sofia Preobrazhenskaya honed their skills and rose to glory. Ballet dancers reigned supreme on this stage, among them Mathilde Kschessinska, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Galina Ulanova, Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. This is where George Balanchine set out on the road to art. This theatre has witnessed the dawn of the talents of such brilliant theatre decorators as Konstantin Korovin, Alexander Golovin, Alexandre Benois, Simon Virsaladze and Fyodor Fyodorovsky among countless others. - Overnight in luxury five star hotel in St.Petersburg.
Day 4: St.Petersburg
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Guided full day tour to Tsarskoye Selo and Peterhof.
Tsarskoye Selo - a splendid Russian Baroque style Catherine Palace including world famous Amber room, finest creations of Classicism style Alexander Palace.
Peterhof complex - The Grand Palace, the Upper garden, the Low park and Fountains, Royal Church Museum, the Special Treasury, the Monplaisir Palace. - Overnight in luxury five star hotel in St.Petersburg.
Day 5: St.Petersburg - Helsinki
- Breakfast at the hotel, check out.
- Guided tour to Hermitage, transfer to the port.
The collection of the State Hermitage includes more than three million works of art and artefacts of the world culture. Among them are paintings, graphic works, sculptures and works of applied art, archaeological finds and numismatic material. - 19:00 Ferry departure from St.Petersburg to Helsinki.
- Dinner on the ferry.
- Overnight on ferry in De Luxe cabin.
Day 6: Helsinki departure
- Breakfast on the ferry.
- 08:00 Arrival in Helsinki, meeting at the port, optional guided tour to Suomenlinna Sea fortress tour or Nuuksio National Park, transfer to the airport.
- Departure back home.