Frommer's Moscow and St. Petersburg (Frommer's Complete Guides) [Paperback]

Angela Charlton (Author)

Book Description

Series: Frommer's Complete Guides | Publication Date: February 2, 2010

• Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg features gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you.
• Our author, a former Moscow-based AP correspondent, hits all the highlights, from Red Squaqre to the Hermitage. She's checked out both cities' best hotels and restaurants in person, and offers authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget.
• You'll also get up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife;  detailed walking tours; accurate neighborhood maps; cultural insights; and side trips to Sergiev Posad's magnificent 14th-century monastery, the palaces of Peterhof and Tsarskoye Selo, and more.
• Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg also includes a glossary of useful Russian terms and phrases.

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From the Back Cover

With views of St. Basil's and the Kremlin, ice skaters glide across the katok (rink) on Red Square (see chapter 7).

• Detailed maps throughout

• Exact prices, directions, opening hours,and other practical information

• Candid reviews of hotels and restaurants,plus sights, shopping, and nightlife

• Itineraries, walking tours, and trip-planning ideas

• Insider tips from local expert authors

About the Author

Angela Charlton moved to Russia in the early 1990s and spent most of the ensuing decade in the former Soviet Union working as a journalist. She was the Moscow correspondent for the Associated Press for six years, and she also studied in St. Petersburg and worked in Kiev. She is currently a journalist based in Paris.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Frommers; 3 edition (February 2, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470537639
• ISBN-13: 978-0470537633
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #660,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #19 in Books > Travel > Asia > Russia > Moscow

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lightweight guide with plenty of fluff, June 27, 2006

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Stephen J. Vincent (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg (Frommer's Complete Guides) (Paperback)

I was very disappointed by this book, which feels largely like a cut-and-paste job. It opens with a bunch of general travel advice and then goes on to describe a few things to do and see in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Many blocks of text are repeated in various parts of the book and I felt the actual amount of information about things to do and see in these two amazing cities was pretty limited, especially given the number of pages I carried around with me. I found all the hotel info I needed on the Internet (see tripadvisor.com) and would have liked this book better if they'd left out all the hotel info and left out the repetition.

I feel like I could write you a better travel guide after spending just one week with natives in each city. Surely somebody else has done a better job!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Outdated when it comes to attraction closings, July 23, 2007

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Jeff Chisholm (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg (Frommer's Complete Guides) (Paperback)

Many of the main attractions in St. Petersburgh and Moscow are museums and the like.

Museums in both cities tend to be closed at least one day during the week. It is different days for different museums.

There were a significant amount of attractions (probably about 1/3) in both cities where the book had incorrect days. So we'd show up on a day it was supposed to be open, and they were closed. Or the hours were wrong. Or the book would say that they had english tours and they did not.

I was extremely disappointed at such a major oversight.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Non-Existent Restaurants, August 20, 2009

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D. Nehme (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg (Frommer's Complete Guides) (Paperback)

The reason we got the newest edition of this book was so that we can look up restaurants and clubs to visit, and three times, we used the reviews in this guidebook to eat in one of the recommended places. One such place was in Moscow - we found the exact address, but it was a travel agency and there were no signs of that place ever being a restaurant. The other two places were in St. Petersburg, one was even a starred review. We did find one place, "beer exchange", but it was such a sad place that the blurb about it in this book was more like a deceptive ad than an unbiased review. We finally stopped trying, so who knows how many more places recommended in this guidebook aren't really there.
Also, the street names in the book are all in english only, but the street names in Russia are mostly in Cyrillic.