In St. Petersburg, not to drink, but to live beautifully! We found 10 options for unusual housing in St. Petersburg - from budget apartments with antiques to fabulously expensive but chic palace apartments. Get inspired, check in, enjoy!
We are convinced that good accommodation is half of your vacation success... Therefore, we decided to make for our readers a series of short notes about hotels and apartments in Russian cities with the best accommodation options. These collections do not include advertisements, all options are our unbiased choice. As experienced travelers, we select only comfortable and cozy accommodations with excellent reviews from vacationers, which you will surely enjoy.
Where is it profitable to book accommodation:
- Hotelluk - will find a hotel with a discount.
- Airbnb and Daily - a huge selection of rooms, apartments, houses from the owners. Cozy, beautiful and economical for a large company!
Apartment-museum with the spirit of old Petersburg
I love apartments with a million cute details that can be touched and viewed without the gaze of a strict old woman, who sooner or later will shout: "Girl, get away from the picture! And don't grab the doorknobs!" Such apartments are an attraction in themselves.
Some museum apartments look cool, but life in them is full of surprises: the faucet will fall off, the walls are cardboard, or the doors are creaky. In the same apartment, antique furniture, pre-revolutionary editions of books, an old fireplace, paintings, modern renovation and household appliances with conveniences organically coexist. Ideally! As the owners write, "all furniture, interiors, accessories have been assembled and created over many years, which allows you to completely immerse yourself in the atmosphere of old St. Petersburg."
A beautiful and unusual apartment is located in an old house of the late 18th century, in the very center of St. Petersburg, but at the same time in a quiet area, so you will not hear any noise from the metropolis. Near the Summer Garden, Fontanka, Mikhailovsky Castle.
Read the reviews about it and you will definitely be inspired for the trip. In addition to the interior, all guests, without exception, thank the hosts Vera and Yakov for the warm welcome. The price of a museum apartment in the summer is 8700 rubles per day for two. Accommodation is often booked, so you are very lucky if you find free dates. Well, if not, add it to your wishlist to live another time.
Futuristic apartment
The designer of this unusual apartment in St. Petersburg seems to have been inspired by films about the future: original lighting, broken lines, minimalism with bright accents. But the most remarkable thing about it is the glass bathroom and the glass floor with plants! In summer, an apartment costs from 12,800 rubles, in low season - from 9,000 rubles.
Creative communal apartment
There is a beautiful house on Mokhovaya Street, the history of which began in 1718, when it was built by the elder brother of Catherine I. There lived princes, counts, nobles ... And now you can live too. In this house, Dina and Liana creatively designed a former communal apartment, and now they are renting five rooms. The apartment turned out to be bright, special, youthful, very St. Petersburg, and all the rooms are different, so just look at all the announcements of the owners. In the apartment you will not see stucco, antiques or a fireplace, but you will get a warm and soulful space that will help you better experience the St. Petersburg atmosphere.
It is interesting that the film "Heart of a Dog" was filmed in the interiors of this house. And since the days of communal apartments, there has been an atavism - a shower in the kitchen. Rental prices are very low for the center of St. Petersburg - from 2000 rubles, the cost depends on the chosen room.
"Bulgakov" room with antique furniture
This room in a former communal apartment reminds me of the scenery for Madame Bovary. Cozy bourgeois life, flowers in a vase, paintings on the walls, fireplace, antique furniture of the 19th century. And sunlight, like Flaubert: "Breaking through the cracks in the walls, the sun's rays in long thin strips stretched out on the floor, broke on the corners of kitchen utensils, trembled on the ceiling."
The bathroom is shared, but this does not bother the guests - everything is clean and civilized. Moreover, as guests write in the reviews, on the way to the bathroom you seem to move in time, meeting things from different eras: a hundred-year-old oak door, antique tiles, clocks from the early 20th century.
If you have time, be sure to chat with the hostess. She will tell many interesting stories and feed the tame albatrosses. The price for the pleasure of living in another era is simply ridiculous - from 1900 ₽ in high season and from 1400 ₽ - in the off-season.
