Russia Moscow Classic tour 8 days
This week-long tour features many interesting excursions that offer the opportunity to discover Moscow from various perspectives and also visit Sergiev Posad, located 200 kilometers from the city. Tour highlights – the Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow Kremlin rerretory and cathedral; the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, Bunker-42 on Taganka, Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Kremlin, Pushkin museum.
Itinerary
Day 1 – Moscow
Arrival to Moscow. Meeting with driver in the arrival hall.
Transfer to hotel.Free time.
Services: bus transfer (Mercedes Sprinter or similar)
Day 2 – Moscow
Breakfast at the hotel.
Free time.
18.00 – Meeting with guide at the hotel lobby.
19.00 – Evening river cruise by Radisson Royal yacht with dinner (etra)
Menu:
– Salad: Vegetable salad with spicy greens
tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, cilantro, basil, tarragon, hot pepper, olive oil
– Main dish: Salmon steak with «Champagne» sauce with pumpkin puree and mushrooms
– Assorted bread rolls
– Larme natural still water
– Three chocolate cake
– Espresso 60 ml/Americano 150 ml/Double espresso 120 ml/Cappuccino 150 ml
21.30 – Transfer to the hotel.
22.00 – Back to hotel. Overnight.
Services: transport and English guide from 18:00 to 22:00.
Day 3 – Moscow
07.00-09.30 – Breakfast at the hotel.
09.45 – Meeting with guide in the hotel lobby.
10.00 – Moscow city tour
Moscow sightseeing tour accompanied by an experienced guide give you rare experience to see personally main sights of the city: Moscow Kremlin with its the best cathedrals, Novodevichy cemetery, Sparrow hills, Victory Park, Arbat street, Red Square and more.
13.30 – Excursion to Moscow Kremlin (territory + Cathedrals).
On its territory of 27 hectares are the Faceted Chamber, Arkhangelsk and Assumption Cathedrals, the Armory, the Diamond Fund. Today it is the main residence of the President of Russia.
Optional.
Visit of Armoury Chamber (self inspection)
Armoury Chamber is jne of Moscow Kremlin museum founded in 1806.
The extensive museum collection is based on treasure items that were kept by centuries in the royal treasury and patriarch sacristy including the precious gifts of foreign embassies.
16.30 – Return to hotel.
Optional.
Evening performance in Bolshoy theatre (entrance extra).
It is a national treasure of the country. The oldest theater in Russia located on Theater Square. Its history began in the 70s of the XVIII century. More than 800 performances were born on the stage of the theater,the best operas and balletts by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky.
Services: transport and Enlish guide from 10 to 16:30, Moscow Kremilin entrance
Day 4 – Moscow
07.00-09.00 – Breakfast at the hotel.
09.00 – Meeting with guide in the hotel lobby. Transfer to Sergiev Posad (about 200 km.)
12.00 – Upon arrival, proceed to visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Trinity St.Sergius Monastery
The largest Orthodox monastery in the country. The complex of monastic temples was included in the UNESCO world heritage list in 1993 as an outstanding architectural monument of the XV-XVIII centuries.
There are about 50 objects on the territory that were built at different times. Trinity Cathedral, Assumption Cathedral, bell Tower of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, small churches and other structures. Currently, there are about 200 monks living here.
14.00 – Lunch at the Russian courtyard restaurant (Extra).
15.30 – Transfer to Moscow.
18.00 – Free time. Overnight.
Services: transport and and guide from 09:00 to 18:00.
Day 5 – Moscow
07.00-09.00 – Breakfast at the hotel.
10.30 – Meeting with guide in the hotel lobby.
11.30 – Visit of The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum traces its history back to 1898 present one of the best collections of foreign paintings in Russia. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is famous for impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces collections, graphic paintings by Western European and Russian masters, decorative and applied arts items, collections of numismatics, archaeological exhibits, Egyptian antiquities, monuments of Eastern culture.
13.30 – Free time without guide. Time for Shopping.
18.30 – Back to the hotel.
Free time.
Services: transport (Mercedes minivan or similar) from 10:30 to 18:30 and Enlish guide from 10:30 to 14:00.
Day 6 – Moscow
07.00-09.30 – Breakfast at the hotel.
10.00 – Meeting with guide in the hotel lobby. Transfer to Tretyakov Gallery.
11.00 – Visit of The Tretyakov Gallery
The Tretyakov Gallery is one of the biggest collections of russian fine art in the world includes paintings, graphics, sculptures, works of decorative and applied art of the XX-early XXI centuries. The gallery is particularly proud of its collections of old Russian icons, paintings by Peredvizhniki artists and the collection of Russian avant-garde.
13.30 – Tour of the Moscow metro “Underground palaces of Moscow”
The Moscow metro is one of the most beautiful in the world. The first stations opened in 1935. In the Moscow metro, you can see many amazing exhibits. Thus, fossils of prehistoric animals can be found at Belorusskaya, Dobryninskaya, Kievskaya, Komsomolskaya and other stations. The station “Taganskaya” is adjacent to a real underground bunker, which has long been classified. Many stations are decorated with bas-reliefs, sculptures, frescoes and mosaics.
15.00 – Back to the hotel.
Free time.
Services: transport (Toyota Camry or similar) and guide from 10:00 to 15:00.
Day 7 – Moscow
07.00-09.30 – Breakfast at the hotel.
10.00 – Meeting with guide in the hotel lobby.
11.00 – Excursion to Bunker-42 on Taganka
It’s is the only underground bunker in the world, located at a depth of 65 meters underground and one of the most secret military facilities of the former USSR, in the past the reserve command post. Bunker was built in the 1950s on case of a nuclear war. 7 thousand square meters of labyrinths, corridors, special rooms with military equipment, chemical protection suits, real in the ventilation shaft recreate the living atmosphere of the Cold War times.
14.00 – Visit of Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.
Sightseeing tour of the museum ‘Exploit and victory of great people’
The theme Museum and Victory Park have been hosting visitors since 1995. Museum sections tell about the most outstanding feats on the war fronts, ordinary everyday life withing the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.
Near the main museum building you see about 300 samples of original military equipment of the Great Patriotic War times.
15.30 – Transfer to the hotel.
Free time. Overnight.
Services: transport and guide from 10:00 to 16:00.
Day 8 – Moscow
Breakfast at the hotel.
Meeting with driver at the hotel lobby.
Services: transfer (Mercedes Sprinter or similar) to the hotel with English guide/
Excursions are already included in this tour. You can make any changes: add, reduce, change the order, request any others that may be more interesting to you.
For this tour you can order a guide who speaks another language.
We provide professional guides who speak Chinese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Arabic (Farsi/Persian), Japanese, Turkish, Slovenian, Polish, Thai, Mandarin, Korean, Hungarian, Serbian, others.
All our guides are licensed and have extensive experience and will be your main assistant in communication.
Below there are basic model classes that we provide, including passenger cars 2018-2019.
Standard cars (Skoda Octavia, Ford Focus, Volkswagen Jetta , Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sentra, Hunda Elantra)
Comfort cars (Toyota Camry, Ford Mondeo, Hyundai Sonata, Nissan Teana, Hyundai i40, Opel Insignia).
Business cars (Mercedes-Benz E-class, BMW 5, Audi A6).
Executive cars (Mercedes-Benz S-class, BMW 7, Audi A8).
Minivans (Mercedes-Benz Viano, Hundai Starex, Mercedes Vito).
Minibuses (Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Ford Transit).
Buses (Iveco, Neoplan, Setra, Higer, Young, others).
The price of this tour may vary depending on the date of your arrival, as well as on the exchange rate of the local currency rubles against the US dollar.
For this tour you need to arrange entrance visa to Russia in advance. We are a licensed tour operator provide you with a letter of visa support. It will allow you to apply to the Consulate of Russia in your country and obtain an entry visa to Russia.
A number of countries of the world have the right to visa-free entry into Russia.
For this tour you can order additionally any services. Book a table in advance at the popular restaurant.
We will offer a selection of quality restaurants with different cuisines: Russian, European, Asian, Chinese, Mexican, Arabic, Halal, Indian, Gourme, others.
- Hotel accomodation is extra;
- The tour is possible in any day;
- If change the exchange rate of the local currency (rubles) prices may be recalculate
