hotels

[Rebecca Jane Stanton]

This is the kind of information that I always find useful myself, so 
I'll chip in my two cents in the hope that they're of use:

In Petersburg, the Hotel Vesta (Nevsky pr. 90-92) is right on Nevsky, 
about a 5-minute walk from the Mayakovskaia/Ploshchad' Vosstaniia Metro 
station and Moskovskii Vokzal (useful if one is travelling from SPB to 
Moscow or vice versa by train).  The hotel staff are all multilingual, 
and there's an excellent Internet cafe right next door.  Link:
http://www.inyourpocket.com/russia/st_petersburg/hotels/midrange/venue/9299-Vesta_Hotel.html

In Moscow, as others have said, it's virtually impossible to find 
something that central unless you're a millionaire; however, the Hotel 
AST-Gof is located "on" the Bagrationovskaia Metro station (about a 5-10 
minute walk), which is surrounded by useful amenities, and the staff, 
though not of a particularly sunny disposition, speak English.  There's 
a reasonably-priced cafe and a couple of computers with Internet access 
in the lobby.  I was there in the summer of 2006 and they were 
renovating, so by now it should be quite spiffy.  Link:
http://www.allrussiahotels.com/russia/moscow/hotel/ast_gof.html

best regards,
Rebecca Stanton

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