Abacus Guided Tours of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region

The best way to get to grips with the vast array of attractions that St Petersburg has to offer is to take one of our half day familiarisation tours.

All our tours are conducted with a driver and a multilingual tour guide dedicated to your own private party. This will typically be for two or four people, although we have vehicles able to carry up to ten people in comfort.

We will start by collecting you from your hotel or at a collection point of your choice at a time that suits you, and drive you comfortably around the city at an unrushed pace stopping off at some of the most fascinating architectural and historical parts of St Petersburg.

We normally include the Russian Museum, the Church of Spilled Blood, St Isaac's Cathedral, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, the Nevsky Prospekt, the Stieglitz Museum, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan, the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, the Winter Palace and the Hermitage.

While travelling around we will do our best to understand what you are most interested in and adjust the tour accordingly.

Having taken our familiarisation tour, you will no doubt be keen to explore the city in greater detail, either on your own or you can continue with us and visit the great sites with your personal driver and knowledgeable guide to take the hastle out of queuing and act as an interpreter for your visit.

If you would like to sample the Opera, Ballet, Circus, Classical Music, Folk Music, Casinos, Restaurants or Night Life in general we are able to recommend the best places, obtain tickets or accompany you.

If you have more time our day trips to outlying places like Peterhof, Oranienbaum, Repino, Tsarkoe Selo, Pavlovsk, Gatchina and Novgorod are essential.

Or for a bit of luxury why not treat yourself and join us for a helicopter trip over St Petersburg, a Hydrofoil trip to Peterhof or a Champagne Boat trip.