St Petersburg tours

[mourne]

Hi everyone am booked on Jewel of the Seas 4th July was wondering if it is better to take ship tours or local guided tours e.g. Alla etc any help appreciated. :)

Mourne

[Albert Ross]

Hi everyone am booked on Jewel of the Seas 4th July was wondering if it is better to take ship tours or local guided tours e.g. Alla etc any help appreciated. :)

Mourne

Suggest you hop over to the Europe boards where the subject is covered in depth!. Between a personalised tour with 10-12 pax and a coach load of 40 pax I don't think there is any contest myself. We used Alla and they were fab.

[djmutters]

mourne,

 

We did the Baltics last year and we done both the ships tour and a private tour and if given the choice again we would always do a private tour.

 

With the ships tour there was around 40-50 others and everything was just so rushed.

 

With the private tour we had a tour giude and a driver that showed us so much more of St.Petersburgh and because the tour guide was a Russian but spoke very good english we was able to learn a lot more then when we done the ships tour.

 

I personally would only ever do a private tour in St.Petersburgh.

 

I hope you have a lovely time,it's a lovely city

[gdayhoff]

The Europe has all the info you need. A private tour is the way to go.See more and with 4-6 people probably cheaper in the long run.We decided to do St Petersburg with SPB-Tours.By the way we are also booked on Jewell of the Sea July 4th sailing.

[English Jane]

Hi,

If you read my review in the review section - August 2007, you can read all about the two ship's tours I took.

 

http://www.cruisecritic.co.uk/memberreviews/memberreview.cfm?EntryID=32795

 

Jane

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[Aprille]

Here is a direct link to the Northern Europe & Baltics forum here on CC. Happy researching! :)

[mourne]

Thanks everyone for all your advice I have researched a little and it gives me the goosebumps just reading about St Petersburg its sights and history. I am really looking forward to this cruise now, a bit doubtful at first.

I took your advice and have already contact Alla for a quote, from reading other boards it seems that the all in price for two days private is less than two ship excursions.

Jane, I had already read your review on 'Jewel' it was the one that made me smile, your people observations and style of writing seem similar to my own.

 

:) Happy Cruising

 

Margaret

[djmutters]

English Jane,

 

That was a lovely review, you reminded me of what a great time we had in St.Petersburgh.

 

Thank you

 

Nigel & Rob