Shore Tours

For our valued customers arriving to ST-Petersburg by cruise ships we would like to offer carefully designed tour programmes depending on duration of stay in the port. These are small group tours and the cost does not depend on an exact number of people in the group. However, for your comfort groups do not exceed 15 PAX.

“Marina Wilson Private Tours LTD” is an authorised tour operator (MBT Number 005618). All clients will be supplied with documentation required to disembark a ship and exercise a 72-hour non-visa status providing they are a part of a guided tour.

The tour cost includes English-speaking guiding service (other languages are available at request), comfortable transportation in an air-conditioned van, bottled water on board, pre-booked entrance tickets to museums (small groups and pre-booked entrance time to museums let us avoid queues most of the times)as per a tour itinerary as well as all the required port permits and fees. Attention to details and lots of fun is guaranteed.

Please contact us at tours@st-petersburg-visit.com for personalized itineraries which we are happy to design to meet your interests and requirements.

Classical ST-Petersburg (175 USD/pp)

Highlights: Comparing to the ancient cities of Europe or Russia, ST-Petersburg, which celebrated its 300 anniversary in 2003, is really a youngster. But not too many cities in the world can rival the grace of ST-Petersburg and architectural beauty of the former Russian capital.

Driving along romantic canals of Venice of the North, the city’s main boulevard, Nevsky Prospect, you will see such noted sites as the Hermitage Museum, spit of ST Basil Island, ST-Isaac’s Cathedral, and the Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood. The tour also includes a visit to Peter and Paul Fortress and Cathedral, the foundation of the city in 1703 and burial vault of Russian Emperors since 1725.

The State Hermitage Museum is an undisputable must see of ST-Petersburg. The Hermitage ranks with the Louvre, the British Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art as one of the world’s most important and richest art galleries. Your guided tour will introduce you to its immense collection of over 3 mln. art treasures.

8.30 After having disembarked the ship and passed through a passport control, you will be met by a “Marina Wilson Private Tours” representative and your guide at the pier with the company sign name.

8.30-11.30 City highlight tour incl. a visit to the Peter and Paul Fortress.

11.30-13.00 Time for shopping and lunch

13.00-16.00 Hermitage Museum Tour

17.00 Return to the ship

Venice of the North (290 USD/pp)

Day 1:

Highlights: see Imperial ST-Petersburg tour (above)

8.30 After having disembarked the ship and passed through a passport control, you will be met by a “Marina Wilson Private Tours” representative and your guide at the pier with the company name sign.

8.30-11.30 City Highlight tour which covers all the major famous city sites including the Spit of ST-Basil Island, ST-Isaac Square, Palace Embankment and Palace Square dominated by the Winter Palace which is a part of the Hermitage Museum Complex, Church of Our Saviour on Spilled Blood and inside visit to the Peter and Paul Fortress.

11.30 12.30 Stop for lunch

13.00 -16.00 the Hermitage Museum Tour

17.00 Return to the ship

Optional evening programme (Russian traditional folklore show or ballet performance)

Day 2:

Highlights: Join your English-speaking guide for an enjoyable drive through the famous suburbs of ST-Petersburg to the breath-taking Catherine Palace (Tsarskoe Selo/ Tsar Village). This is one of several former imperial summer residences with a unique Golden Suite of Rooms and certainly the renowned Amber Room which was recreated here in 2003.

Set in magnificent gardens often referred to as Russian Versailles, Peterhoff is the first summer imperial residence of ST-Petersburg. The palace ensemble along with its gardens is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

8.30 Meet your guide at the pier

8.30-9.30 Drive to Tsar Village (Tsarskoe Selo)

10.00-11.30 Tour of Catherine Palace incl. Amber Room

11.30-12.30 Drive to Peterhoff

12.30-13.30 Lunch break

13.30-15.30 Peterhoff Park tour incl.visit to one of the pavilion palaces

15.30 Departure to the city by hydrofoil

16.00 Arrival to ST-Petersburg

16.30 Return to the ship

Necklace of Palaces (350 USD/pp)

Day 1:

Highlights: See Imperial ST-Petersburg tour (above)

8.30 After having disembarked the ship and passed through the passport control, you will be met by “Marina Wilson Private Tours” representative and your guide at the pier with the company name sign.
8.30-11.30 City highlight tour incl. a visit to Peter and Paul Fortress.

11.30-12.30 Stop for lunch

13.00-16.00 Hermitage Museum Tour

17.00 Return to the ship

19.30 Russian traditional folklore show

22.00 Return to the ship

Day 2:

Highlights: Join your English-speaking guide for an enjoyable drive through the famous suburbs of ST-Petersburg to the breath-taking Catherine Palace (Tsarskoe Selo/Tsar Village) and Pavlovsk, set in the full of enigmatic energy park of Pavlovsk.

Traditional Russian lunch is offered in the restaurant Podvorye, known to be a favourite restaurant of Mr. Putin in ST-Petersburg.

9.00 Meet your guide at the pier.

9.00-10.00 Drive to Tsar Village (Tsarskoe Selo)

10.00-11.30 Tour of Catherine Palace and gardens incl. a visit to the renowned Amber Room

11.30-11.45 Drive to Pavlovsk

12.00-13.30 Lunch in restaurant “Podvorye”

14.00-15.30 Tour of Pavlovsk Palace and gardens

17.00 Return to the ship

Evening optional programme

Day 3:

Highlights: You will have a chance to experience land and water ways to Peterhoff, the capital of fountains, known as Russian Versailles.

Yusupoff Palace is certainly connected with one of the most enigmatic figures of the Russian history, Grigory Rasputin. You will have a chance to visit the basement where Grigory Rasputin had spent last hours of his life as well as outstanding interiors of this magnificent palace which miraculously survived turbulent years of the revolution and the WWII.

8.00 Meet your guide at the pier

8.00-9.00 Drive to Peterhoff

9.00-10.30 Tour of Peterhoff Big Palace and Lower Gardens

11.00 Departure from Peterhoff by hydrofoil

11.30 Stop for lunch

12.30-14.00 Tour of Yusupoff Palace

15.00 Return to the ship