Saint Petersburg During the White Nights Vasily Petrenko Conducts Eugene Onegin 5 Nights: 18 - 23 July 2014 (PLEASE NOTE NEW DATES!)
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Saint Petersburg during the White Nights Vasily Petrenko conducts Eugene Onegin 5 Nights: 18 - 23 July 2014 (PLEASE NOTE NEW DATES!) Cost per person sharing a Twin or Double room £1595 Cost per person in a double room for sole use £1795 Includes: Return air travel from the UK to St Petersburg inc 23kg baggage allowance, 5 nights bed & breakfast at the Courtyard Pushkin Hotel, top price seats for Eugene Onegin & Romeo and Juliet at the Mikhailovsky and one performance (details to be confirmed) at the Mariinsky Theatre or Concert Hall; 4 days of sightseeing and all entrance fees; two dinners and two light lunches. Standard visa service (see important notes overleaf). NOTE - TOUR DATES ARE SLIGHTLY CHANGED TO THOSE IN OUR ADVANCE MAILER Join us during the “White Nights " in Saint Petersburg when Vasily Petrenko will conduct Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin at the historic Mikhailovsky Theatre. We will return to the Mikhailovsky for a performance of Prokofiev's ballet Romeo et Juliet and also attend a performance by the Mariinsky Orchestra (performance details to be confirmed). The White Nights are the evenings, running from May to the end of July, when the city emerges from long months of cold and darkness and celebrates the brief return of near round-the-clock daylight. Russia’s cultural capital — situated just five degrees south of the Arctic Circle, at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland — has been welcoming the summer with relief and celebration ever since Peter the Great founded the city in the early 18th century. During our stay we have included sightseeing to all the major sights of the city including St Isaacs Cathedral , the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood , the Peter & Paul Fortress and, of course, the Hermitage . Outside of the city we will also visit the Palace of Catherine the Great at Pushkin and the magnificently restored Grand Palace at Peterhof . Maestro Tour Management Ltd • 11 Seymour Terrace, Seymour Street • Liverpool L3 5PE • United Kingdom Tel: 0800 678 5747 • Fax: 08700 717 747 • [email protected] • www.maestrotouring.com The Mikhailovsky Theatre (also known over the years variously as the Maly Theatre and Moussorgsky Theatre) is situated on Arts Square with the Russian Museum and Great Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic as neighbours. We have secured top price seats for two performances from their extensive repertoire, Tchaikovky's lyric opera Eugene Onegin and Prokofiev's masterful score for the ballet Romeo & Juliet . We will stay five nights at the excellent Marriott Courtyard Pushkin located on the Griboedova Canal and very close to the Mariinsky Theatre and Concert Hall (where we also hope to include a performance). The hotel is situated in a good area of the city to the west of the downtown area and it's important to mention why we have chosen it (as you may read reviews saying it's not central). The Courtyard a modern well appointed hotel with all the facilities tha t you would expect from a 4* hotel. It has an excellent breakfast buffet and a very good 'German pub' serving good quality, well priced, food & drink until late evening. The hotel is less than 500 metres from St Nicholas Naval Cathedral , 10 - 15 minutes wa lk to the Mariinsky , 3km from the Admirality and Hermitage and around 4km from the mid point of Nevsky Prospekt (the main shopping 'drag' of the city). As all of your sightseeing is included you need not worry about transportation. If you do decid e to venture out on your own it's actually a nice stroll along the banks of the Griboedova Canal all the way to Nevsky Prospekt and the hotel has it's own inexpensive car service to take you further afield. Flights (at civilised times ) are with KLM from Ma nchester, Birmingham or London via Amsterdam. Flight times: Manchester - Amsterdam depart 0905 arrive 1130 Amsterdam - St Petersburg depart 1245 arrive 1735 St Petersburg - Amsterdam depart 1830 arrive 1930 Amsterdam - Manchester depart 2115 arrive 2135 VISA REQUIREMENTS! All UK passport holders require a visa for Russia . The current cost of the visa and processing is approximately £100 and this cost is INCLUDED within your holiday cost. The earliest that we can apply for your Visa is two months prior to departure and we will need to have your passport for a minimum of two weeks for processing . Please keep this in mind with any other Spring plans that you may have and let Stacey Friend know if you for esee any difficulties. If we have to submit your application on an 'Express' basis (one week turnaround) then an additional cost of £50 will be payable. All holidays by air are operated by Maestro Tour Management Ltd and as such are fully bonded under ATOL License 9141 granted by the Civil Aviation Auth ority. This is your absolute guarantee of financial protection. Maestro Tour Management Ltd • 11 Seymour Terrace, Seymour Street • Liverpool L3 5PE • United Kingdom Tel: 0800 678 5747 • Fax: 08700 717 747 • [email protected] • www.maestrotouring.com .