New Experience Rides - St. Petersburg

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New Experience Rides - St. Petersburg

When you visit St. Petersburg for the first time on your travel to Russia, you may expect various historical places, art museums, and architectural masterpieces, which is not wrong, you should expect those things on your trip to St. Petersburg, but they’re not the only things that can get from a city like St. Petersburg. The former capital of Russia has a lot more fun things to offer to its visitors, including several types of rides that they can try on their travel to Russia.

St. Petersburg Metro

 

New Experience Rides - St. Petersburg

Just like Moscow, St. Petersburg Metro is an example of luxury and the Soviet Union agenda. The idea of establishing a metro system in St. Petersburg was around in the 18th century, but every time it was suggested, there was multiple resistance against it. The main reason behind those struggles was the fact that a metro system would damage the historic look of the city, and would destroy the historical places. Many plans for a metro system had rejected during the tsarism era because of that fact. During the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, St. Petersburg got more populated, and the presence of a rapid transfer system felt more needed than before, but the idea of the metro system didn’t come to life until after the October Revolution.

It was only during the Stalin’s era that architects and engineers have the opportunity to design a new transfer system for St. Petersburg, but because the soil of the city was weak, they had a difficult time to create the best design for it. That was the main reason why St. Petersburg has the deepest metro system in the world by average, for example, the Admiralteyskaya station is about 85 meters under the ground, which is the deepest metro station in all Russia.

 

New Experience Rides - St. Petersburg

Just like Moscow, Stalin had used the metro station to display the Soviet Union Power and glory and also used it as an opportunity to depict the value of people for the government, and just like Moscow Metro Stations, he ordered architects of the stations to build them as they were imperial palaces rather than being used as metro stations. There you can find several magnificent palace look-alike buildings, which also house various pieces of art and sculptures. So when you use the metro system during your travel to St. Petersburg, it would be like a visit to one of the major attractions of the city as well. We at the Star Travel Company recommend our tourists a visit to at least one of these stations on their tour to Russia even if they don’t want to use the metro system as their transfer plan through the city because it’s like a free visit to a museum during the tour to Russia, which you should not miss. 

Daylight Boat Tour

 

New Experience Rides - St. Petersburg

If you have ever been to Venice in Italy, one of the main things that you would remember from that city is the canal ridings, which were beautiful, romantic, and enjoyable during the summer. However, if you have never been to Venice but you would like to experience the same thing, you can sign for a daylight boat tour on Neva River in St. Petersburg tour. Though the canal riding in St. Petersburg is much tinier than Venice, the feeling and enjoyment are the same. St. Petersburg has lots of canals and rivers inside it, which makes it perfect for the travel agencies, including us at the Star Travel Group to create various types of fun activities inside our Russia tour program. We recommend these daylight Boat Tour during your tour to Russia, especially if you are traveling with your partner because the canal ridings in St. Petersburg are as lovely and romantic as they are in Venice.

Night Boat Tour

 

New Experience Rides - St. Petersburg

One of the major attractions of the tour to St. Petersburg is the drawbridges, however, it has nothing to do with the tourism industry. There are multiple drawbridges in St. Petersburg that will be open at the specific time during the night for the commercial ships to pass through, and then they will be closed again after 30 minutes or so. Though this event has nothing to do with the tourism industry, still many tourists would love to see the process from up-close, and you can find many tourists around these bridges at night dancing and having fun while they wait for the process of opening the bridges to start.

Travel agencies, including the Star Travel Group, have taken advantage of this enthusiasm to create various types of fun activities in St. Petersburg during the tour to Russia. One of the best ways to observe the opening and closing of the drawbridges is from the river, and we at the Star Travel Group have several options to offer to our tourists who want to see this process on their Russia tour, including the night boat tour.

Hydrofoil

 

New Experience Rides - St. Petersburg

One of the main attractions of the St. Petersburg tour, when you travel to Russia, is Peterhof. Peterhof is one of the top suburb imperial estates of St. Petersburg, which had turned to the most major attractions of St. Petersburg suburban area in the tour to Russia. While the place is amazing enough for tourists, we at the Star Travel Group have an extra suggestion for people who want to visit Peterhof on their tour to St. Petersburg, and that’s Hydrofoils. Since Peterhof is outside the city, and it takes time and energy to go and see it and then return to St. Petersburg for the rest of your Russia tour, we suggest you return from Peterhof by Hydrofoil. Hydrofoils are some kinds of the boat that glide in the air a little bit instead of floating on the water, and because of their speed, it would be a fun experience for young kids and adults. However, we don’t recommend using hydrofoils when you want to go to Peterhof because of the palace policies, which indicate that if you enter Peterhof from the south entrance, you can only visit the Nizhny Park, and you wouldn’t have the ticket to visit the upper garden and the palace itself, so we recommend you ride these hydrofoils only on your return to St. Petersburg.

Helicopter Ride

 

New Experience Rides - St. Petersburg

The last but not least thing that you can ride in St. Petersburg is a helicopter. As shocking as it seems, Helicopter tours are one of the popular tours among tourists who are not afraid to spend a little more money on their tour to Russia because these 15 to 30 minutes ride with a helicopter are not very cheap, but it would worth the experience. You can see the city and its major attractions from above, and take various significant images of St. Petersburg from the sky. We at the Star Travel Group recommend these helicopter tours to our travelers on their tour to Russia.

 

New Experience Rides - St. Petersburg

As you can see, St. Petersburg has more than historical places and art museums to offer to its visitors, and that’s why we at the Star Travel Company would suggest you visit our weblog to find out about all of the things you can do and all of the places that you can visit on your tour to Russia.