[Renee Stillings | Alinga]

We assist with student-level travel arrangements for groups. We are
Boston-based, but have our own staff and partners in Russia.

There are a few decent hostels in St. Petersburg that are perfectly fine for
student groups. I am familiar with the Herzen U. hotel and have visited it.
It is great for location and prices are good, but there are some very
strange conditions for booking - you can't book it more than a week or two
ahead of time for some reason and while that may be OK for an individual,
taking such a risk with accommodations with a group of students doesn't make
sense. It is my understanding that this booking peculiarity is due to the
fact that the university has first and last minute rights to request rooms
for visiting professors and their own students.

Regards,
Renee Stillings
Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
www.sras.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Kollmann" <jack.kollmann at STANFORD.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:21 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS]


>          I need to arrange a student group stay in St. Petersburg for
three
> weeks in September.  I've been consulting agents I know, but they are
> accustomed to handling only first-class tour arrangements.  Can anyone
> recommend a local travel agent with experience handling student groups?
>          Re: modest but clean accommodations in or near city center, does
> anyone have recommendations?  E.g., does anyone have experience with the
> Herzen U. Hotel?
> Thanks,
> Jack Kollmann
> jack.kollmann at stanford.edu
>

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