Bed&breakfast

BED&BREAKFAST

Bed&Breakfast

As a budget travel Travel Company "Service Bureau" offers you to stay in Hostels or in Russian family.

Hostels

Russia is filled with new and exciting opportunities for the budget traveller. Now you can afford to experience the beauty, art and culture of historic St. Petersburg and other great cities in Russia!

"Service Bureau" offers you accommodation in the St. Petersburg International Hostels. They are located in the city center and guarantee you high-quality budget accommodation and service. The Price for bed and breakfast is from 25 USD per night.

Homestay

For tourist who wants to feel Russian life Travel Company "Service Bureau" will recommend Homestay with Russian family.

Our tourists will be given their own private rooms, although in some cases a room may be accessible by others in the day but which is converted into a bedroom at night. In Russian households, it is typically expected for people to take their shoes off and put on slippers before entering the main premises. Russians are generally polite and reserved people, and loud and boisterous activities by western guests may be frowned upon. As a concern for safety, it should be understood that Russian acquaintances should not be invited into Russian households before first receiving permission from your host.

Russia, it should be understood, is an underdeveloped country, and as such standards of living are not at par to Western conditions. The water in Saint Petersburg, for instance, should not be drunk without first boiling it (Russian families realize this and themselves almost always drink water first boiled, or tea or coffee). Hot water is available in households, although during the summer whole areas of the city are hit by a maintenance shutdown of hot water facilities for periods of several weeks, and consequently hot water for tourists cannot always be guaranteed.

Russian cuisine provided for by Russian families will be different from that in Western countries, which may offer its surprises. Breakfasts in Russia, for instance, are oftentimes heavy, when it might be possible to receive a meal of macaroni and cheese or hot dogs, which may be topped off by a desert. Dinners are generally the lightest meal of the day, when, perhaps say, sandwiches, or blini (mini-pancakes) with sour cream/jam, or maybe a bowl of borscht may be served. A paradox of Russian food products is that at first glance they may appear unappetizing and bland because they lack Western food colorings and preservatives, but then in the West sometimes people pay extra for "natural" products. More and more, however, Western food products are inundating food markets.

Price for bed and breakfast is 25 USD per night. The supplement for the dinner is 7 USD.