Our July trip to St Petersburg was delightful! Ou...

Our July trip to St Petersburg was delightful! Our guide, Elizabeth, was very knowledgeable and pleasant. She suggested additional places to go, and some of them turned out to be favorite destinations! We especially enjoyed early or timed admittance to the Hermitage and to Yusupov's Palace, providing opportunities for photos FREE of other tourists in the rooms! Being able to visit the Amber Workshop at Catherine Palace and the grotto at Peterhof were excellent advantages other tourists didn't even know about. The Angleterre Hotel was very comfortable & convenient. We walked to dinners each evening, and easily found our way around the central part of the city on our first Sunday there alone. We even stood 2 hours participating in the mass at St Isaac's, which was incredibly interesting. When the sunset looked promising, we zipped across the street to climb up to the St Isaac's dome walk for great photos! Our evening at the Mariinsky seeing Ravel's "Cleopatra" was exceptional. So much history and visual opulence! Thank you for your great planning.