Saint Petersburg

[asalnars]

Hi.

 

We are traveling in a group of five on a cruise with Costa Magica. Three of the group have passports that do not require visa and two who do.

 

We have booked a two day formal tour so as to have no problems with visas. One of the evenings we would love to go out on the town by ourselves to try out the local cuisine but our problem is what to do with the two of us that require visas???.

 

Does anybody with past experience know if there is the possibility of leaving the tour before entering the port upon return from the tour to spend a few hours on the town before returning to the port via taxi???.

 

Our tour tickets do not specify times and so the people at passport control upon return would not know that we had overstayed our time.

 

Anybody have ideas regarding this plan???.

 

Thanks.

[LHT28]

If you are using a private guide they can arrange to take you to a restaurant & have the driver wait to take you back to the ship that way you are covered under the Visa free rules

there is a fee added on top of the day tours but when we inquired it was nominal

[Eartha Kitten]

We are doing just that. Driver will bring us back after dinner

 

 

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[asalnars]

Many thanks for the replies and idea. I will try to arrange something like you suggest.

 

Much safer than a free trip to a Gulag in Siberia for breaking immigration laws!!!:):):):)