Altburg On Vasilyevsky

Stuff is helpful and polite. Free breakfast any time - choice of sausages or pap. LAN internet is working fine.

Hotel is located in the regular apartment building at the 3rd floor. Impossible to fit for more then a one person in the elevator. Anyway you have to be brave to use it. If you want to take a shower, please be ready to hold it above your head yourself. WC & shower extremely small.

Room was large and comfortable. Staff was nice and tried to be very helpful but spoke absolutely NO english. Ethernet connection for internet worked well. If you could figure out bus routes. Catch trolley bus #10 or 11 to central downtown. I used my laptop with translation website to ask some basic questions which worked somewhat. The metro was a challenge because reading cyrillic was very difficult. I asked for help using my metro map and pointing to where I was going gesturing. The Russian people were all very helpful but spoke little english. Young people seem to speak more than the older... which was about zero!

None of the three women who I encountered spoke any english. Hotel is like 6 rooms 5 flights of stairs up in large apartment like building. The entry way from street is a little scary at first, but hotel rooms and area is okay. There is a very small elevator but hard to see. Closest metro stop is maybe 1.5 kilometers or farther away from hotel. From hotel, take bus #128 to closest metro stop on Vasilevsky Island. I would not recommend this hotel unless you speak some Russian.

The hotel is too far away from main touristic atractions of the city. The nearest metro station is about 1 km away and you have to walk, wasting lots of time. No reason to stay there!