Hotel Admiralteyskaya

For the price, the Admiralteyskaya hotel can't be beat. For budget travelers it's fantastic and a great bargain. I just spent 7 nights here. The rooms are quite small but nice as are the bathrooms. The hotel restaurant is cozy, serves great food also at a good price. There is a free shuttle from the hotel that takes you to the closest downtown metro station. It runs every half hour in the morning and shuts down around noon and then starts up again in the afternoon running every half an hour. There is nothing to see in the neighborhood and the hotel is a bit out of the way but if you want to save A LOT of money to spend on other things then this hotel should be your top choice in St. Petersburg. Be prepared to pay about 120 roubles for your VISA to be registered if you are a foreign visitor. I would stay here again.

Close to main attarcations, but the street is agly

Why pay more for those luxurious marble, granite and lobby? This hotel has all you need. Clean room and good breakfast. The hotel staff are all very helpful. Even with limitted English skill, I could see that they always tried their best to help me. Location is not the best but it was good enough for me. Tour operators usually provide free pick-up and drop-off from this hotel. If you take taxi from city center, it would cost you around 200 roubles ($7). However, please beware of taxi scam. I took a taxi from Hermitage museum back to the hotel once and it cost me 1400 roubles ($45). The ride was less than 10 minutes. The car was an old white mercedes and the driver was an older man. He insisted on using meter and I was not suspicious at all, but the meter was running so fast. Unfortunately, I was in hurry to go to airport so I did not argue much with him. My advise is that if you take taxi, please ask the estimate cost beforehand if the driver wanted to use meter. If the driver did not want to answer, simply take another taxi.

Decent room, excellent breakfast and restaurant, free internet, friendly staff. AC is just a fan, no elevator (4 floors in total). Location is central, but a bit sidelined on a quiet island. There is a shuttle van operating 5 hours a day to the nearest subway. Excellent value for money.

Convenient shuttle from the hotel to the nearest subway station.

the hotel is clean, the staff is courteous and the price is right but: The first two floors are used as dormitories for young woman, they don't interact with the hotel guests. I could only guess what they do for a living

Great everything. Cab over to the tourist attraction for 200-300 rubles ($7-10) and enjoy this wonderful small hotel and their excellent food at a very affordable price. Would stay again.

I really enjoyed my stay here and it is one of the best "boutique" hotels I have stayed in Europe and I have stayed at many, many of them. It was especially clean. The location is a little out of the way, but they do have a shuttle bus to the Metro and also a city bus a block from the hotel that will take you right to the historic area and a block from the Hermitage for 18 Rubles or about 50 cents. Also, please keep in mind that in Russia these days, even in the most touristy areas and attactions, no English is spoken, even though these days, English is the international language of business and tourism among other industries. However, the hotel almost always had someone who spoke English on staff, who not only helped you but in a 5 day stay there were 3 different all giving superior service. They really took care of us and helped us with the language barrier and the women acted kind of like "mother hens" and looked out not only for their guests, but you like you were "family" since not only is there a huge language barrier with the most signs in the cyrrllic alphabet, it is twice as hard to decipher and an attempt to communicate if you do not speak Russian. The breakfast buffet was a amazing and like I said the hotel is a little out of the way, I live in NYC and used to walking long distances and/or public transportation everywhere, however, once you are in the center, St. Petersburg is a very pedestrian friendly city, and the historic area is complete walkable, so once you were out for the day, you pretty much had no reason to return for the evening anyway. For about $5 a person, they will pack you a picnic launch of 2 sandwiches, fruits, yogurt and a dessert and few other things. It is pretty filling since their breakfast buffet of meets, cereals, fruits, etc(This was NOT a continental breakfast by any meens It was a real bargain and came in handy since the hermitage does not allow "re-entry" so you either need to bring a lunch or pay astronimcally high museum cafe prices. The hotel has a full service restaurant open until 11pm, that serves Russian and European food, which was better and more reasonable for native ethnic than anywhere really in the center anyway, so again, the hotel is a little out of the historic center. For a small hotel the size it was, the restaurant was semi-private in that it did not have a seperate "street entrance" so in addition of good meal, the service was excellent because it is all hotel guests. You can easily go out and return in the evening for a nice dinner in the hotel restaurant and get some sleep after a long day on your feet touring. The free wifi also came in handy. One last thing, the hotel has no elevator, HOWEVER, do NOT expect to have to carry anything up or down the stairs. They always have at least one stong burly man working there at all times to carry your bags or purchases up the stairs for you.

Good hotel, friendly staff, nice free brake. Only one problem - no elevator. But man on reception helped me to lift my case in a floor without any tips.

RECEPTION-Excellent/Speaks English perfectly. Decor-Very Nice, Beds-Good, Lighting - good, Cleanliness-excellent, Bathroom-Good/Excellent water pressure and hot water. Atmosphere-Quiet. Wireless did not work in my room, I was out of range, but it was lightning fast in the lobby. Breakfast- Very good! Coffee and Espresso drinks available 24hrs at the lobby. I would definitely stay here again but would ask for a room closer to a router for my wireless.