Impressions of Russia
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Highlights
- Explore fascinating monuments of Russia’s imperial and communist past
- Craft your own unique Christmas decorations and traditional church candles
- Experience rural Russian living with an overnight stay at an eco-farm and a traditional shashlik for dinner
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- 9 nights’ accommodation in boutique hotels and a farm stay
- Experienced Back-Roads tour leader
- Luxury mini-coach transportation
- European breakfast daily Breakfast
- Seven evening meals Dinner
- Three lunches
- Christmas decoration and church candle craft workshops
- Vodka and Pastilla tastings
- Bagatitsa show
- Moscow Metro tour
- Cruise to Peterhof Palace
- Boat transfer to Fort Alexander
- Entrance fee included to: Peter and Paul Fortress, Cruiser Aurora, Vodka Museum, Hermitage Museum, Catherine Palace, St Isaac’s Cathedral, Peterhof Palace Gardens, Fort Alexander, Vitoslavlitsy Open-Air Museum, Valday Iversky Monastery, Goldwork Embroidery Museum, Tchaikovsky House-Museum, Klinskoe Compound Museum, Trinity Lavra of St Sergius Monastery, Moscow Kremlin, Pastila Museum, Stalin’s Bunker.
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What's excluded
- Unless otherwise specified in the listed inclusions, airfares are not included in the tour price.
- Driver/tour leader gratuity is at your discretion.
- Lunches (unless otherwise stated), social drinks, meals on free nights,’ items of a personal nature and entrance fees when not listed in the schedule of inclusions.
- Occasional optional evening theatre/festival visits and entrances not detailed in the tour inclusions.
- Incidental expenses, such as room service incurred at hotels. All expenses are to be settled prior to leaving the accommodation.
- Laundry costs and any shipping charges for the return of purchases made on tour, or for the return of property lost on tour.
- Pre and post tour accommodation.
- Unless otherwise listed in the inclusions, transfers are not included in the tour price.
Cancellation of a booking by you must be made in writing and sent to Back-Roads Touring, Level 1, 107 Power Road, Chiswick, London, W45PY, UK; either by you or your travel agent; an oral message is insufficient. This avoids any misunderstanding. We will not treat a booking as cancelled until written notice is received by us (fax or email is acceptable). If the cancellation is received 42 days or more before departure, only the deposit is forfeited and any other payments made upfront will be refunded.
10. If the cancellation is within 42 days of the departure date, the following charges will apply:
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Over 42 days Deposit
42-29 days 50%
28-0 days 100%
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