Travel
Insider Tips
• During your visit, ask if you
can join this engaging chef
while he shops for the best,
freshest ingredients at the
morning farmer’s market.
• For a memorable splurge,
reserve the impressive,
1,636-square-foot, Lobanov
Presidential Suite, with a
private furnished terrace, an
exquisite hand-painted ceiling
fresco above and a deep
bathtub carved from a single
slab of marble.
• Across the street is St.
Isaac’s Cathedral (also
designed by Auguste de
Montferrand), the third largest
cathedral in the world, capped
by a shimmering dome made
from 100 kilos of gold! Climb
the stairs for the best birdseye view of the hotel and St.
Petersburg.
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