No wonder there is such a proverb: 'If you don't grease, you won't eat.'

I know that all the negative reviews about this company are carefully cleaned on the site, but I still dare to write my opinion about the rest in St. Petersburg in June (7-13) 2014. I hope my opinion will be useful to someone and some will take note of something. Many write that there is confusion with dates and departure times. Everything was on schedule and we left at the appointed time. But now, bad luck, all optional excursions together have risen in price by 350 rubles, and we learned this already while sitting on the bus. This is just the beginning of our adventure. We arrived on schedule, thank God we didn’t break down and didn’t drive for 38 hours, like some previous groups. But the TV was the same black and white, which your customers often remember and stops at paid bathrooms))) On the way back they were already asked to stop at least in the bushes, since no one had enough money until the end of the trip. Well, for example, with Peter's prices, 6,000 rubles were not enough for me.

Whoever decides to go, know that the main principle of the guide is “Seven do not wait for one”, which means that if you gape somewhere and did not have time to get on the bus with the group, no one will be waiting for you and you will have to get to your next destination on your own (if you remember it, of course). So, before leaving, please study the map of the city with bus and metro routes, otherwise it will be difficult. Although, as we say, “Language will bring you to Kyiv”))) This is another surprise that the tour operator is silent about when selling a ticket.

Even the drivers in our tour distinguished themselves, especially Nikolai Nikolaevich. It turns out that they decide what time we should come from the night tour and how many bridges to see. Although the program included 3 bridges, we saw only 2 from one point on the embankment, to save time. It also turns out that we were supposed to arrive at 3 am, but since the driver has a lights out according to the schedule, at 2 everyone should have already been in the hostel in which we were settled. And this is an optional tour. Although there were two drivers, and one could easily stay in the room and sleep, while the second evening would be spent with the group.

In this case, the principle “Seven do not wait for one” did not work for some reason. Moreover, after the bridges were raised, no one warned us how much time we had, and the whole group watched from the window for another 15 minutes as the ships sailed along the Neva under the drawbridges. It’s just that at 2 o’clock in the morning with drawbridges you can only get home by taxi, and no one has extra money, as the tour operators said that 4000 rubles would be enough for optional excursions and for souvenirs and food. Oh, I'll talk about nutrition separately.

The program included 4 breakfasts and 3 lunches. We were left 2 times without a full breakfast, as they served either stinky rice or pasta. Everyone together as a team guessed what they stink, either with slop or with a dirty rag ... I will not go into the details of our guesses ...

Well, of course, not everything is so sad. Peter's weather made us very happy - all 4 days that we spent there were amazing - the sun, the heat. Some even got burned. And of course the city itself with its unforgettable architecture. I want to come back here again and again, but not with the travel agency "Rest for 100!".

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