The hotel can not only become a place to spend the night, but also provide an unforgettable experience. Meet: secluded houses without neighbors on the riverbank, fabulous chambers, luxurious palaces, a mystical hotel for horror fans and cabins on board a research vessel. Choose any of these options on the Island — and rather for sooooo different emotions!
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- Find Lukomorye
- Stop right at the stadium
- Live in the palace
- Have fun at the amusement park
- Spend the night on the museum ship
- Be a hermit
- Tickle your nerves
- To stay among the arts
- Feel like a hero of Chekhov’s plays
- Go outside the city to the alpacas and geese
Find the Lukomorye and live in a Russian fairy tale: the amazing village of Mandrogi
- Where: Leningrad region
A Russian fairy tale with ancient huts, the Lukomorye, a windmill, grandmother’s homemade pies and talented craftsmen. A stylized tower, a tavern with a carved roof, painted houses and huts of the 19th century are freely located on the banks of the Svir River in perfect harmony with the northern nature. The interiors and many decorative artifacts, from furniture to harps, preserve the spirit of antiquity. But this is not a museum: they play the harp, steam and cook in a Russian stove, and craft workshops are held in restored huts.
- More Russian-style hotels on the Island
Discover ancient crafts: here you will learn how to cook Mandrozh pies and Arkhangelsk goats, play the harp or roll a pipe made of birch bark. It is also worth photographing a 3.2-meter-high valenok, walking along the Lukomorye and finding a mermaid, a Gray Wolf and Uncle Chernomor, steaming in the sauna, tasting fragrant tea from an almost two-meter Tsar Samovar and riding horses. There are plenty of enjoyable activities, so stay longer to digest new experiences.
A stylized tower, a tavern with a carved roof, painted houses and huts of the 19th century are located at ease on the banks of the Svir River.
Stay right at the stadium: People Hotel
- Location: Kazan
A godsend for fans of team sports. The hotel is located at the Ak Bars Arena football stadium, where each room has a personal podium. All rooms are thematically decorated — the coat of arms of one of the top football clubs is emblazoned above the bed. Everyone has a balcony with a view of the football bowl of the stadium and direct access to the stands: you live right in the thick of the action.
Guests are offered a tour of the stadium with visits to places inaccessible to ordinary fans, including VIP stands, and the opportunity to take cool photos.
Football fans will be delighted — write down the idea and prepare a surprise for those who cannot imagine life without heads and chants! The main thing is not to be accommodated in a room with the enemy’s coat of arms.
After that, you can leave the stadium and go for a walk to other iconic places in Kazan.
The hotel is located at the Ak Bars Arena football stadium, where each room has a personal podium.
To stay in the palace: Talion Imperial Hotel
- Location: Saint Petersburg
- Historical hotels of St. Petersburg
Get ready for a shock dose of grandeur and splendor: marble, stucco, atlantes and red caviar with spoons on the buffet are commonplace for the guests of this magnificent hotel. Guided tours are conducted through the halls, suites and living rooms.
On the 6th floor there is a restaurant “Victoria” with a panoramic view of the city center and the dome of the Kazan Cathedral. And in the neo-Baroque lobby bar, decorated with Atlantean sculptures, a real fireplace is lit in winter.
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Get ready for a shock dose of grandeur and splendor: marble, stucco, atlanteans.
A pleasure vacation
Choosing the right accommodation is the key to enjoying your trip. On the contrary, an unsuccessful hotel can spoil the impression of even the most wonderful place. Just in case, we remind you how to avoid mistakes when choosing a hotel and how to find the perfect apartment on the Island.
Have fun at the amusement park: Bogatyr Hotel complex
- Location: Sirius
This family-run hotel on the Black Sea coast has towers and domes reminiscent of the Disney logo, especially with evening lighting. The large-scale Sochi Park amusement park is located next door, where guests receive tickets as a gift.
- Where to relax with children: hotels with water parks and fairy tale characters
It’s easy to spend the whole day at the import—substituted Disneyland, because there are as many as 24 attractions, including a Perpetual Motion Machine with 360° rotation and free fall effect and an extreme “Quantum Leap” – an inverted boomerang slide with a maximum speed of 105 km/h. And the local Ferris wheel, one of the largest in the country, allows you to admire the surroundings from a 60—meter height.
The park is divided into eight themed lands: from the “Land of Heroes” and the “Enchanted Forest”, where the fire-breathing Snake Gorynych lives, to the Medvediya children’s center with a large playground. Kids will also have something to do: get to know the inhabitants of the Lapyushki Zoo, watch a dolphin show and have fun visiting Baba Yaga. Family skating in giant teacups has not been canceled either!
This family-run hotel on the Black Sea coast has towers and domes reminiscent of the Disney logo, especially with evening lighting.
Overnight on the museum ship: guest cabins of NIS Vityaz
- Location: Kaliningrad
The idea for those who are already hard to surprise is to stay in the guest cabins of the Vityaz research vessel moored at the museum pier. Guaranteed immersion in the atmosphere of sea adventures and life on a legendary ship. Under the flag of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Vityaz made 65 flights to the Pacific Ocean.,The Indian and Atlantic Oceans: it was from its side that the depth of the Mariana Trench was measured and many scientific discoveries were made.
The cabins on the ship are named after Alexander Belyaev, Jules Verne, Alexander Green and Ernest Hemingway. They are spartanly cramped and ascetic: keep in mind that the shower and toilet are only shared (but the water is not seawater). A small inconvenience more than pays off with a real porthole, the opportunity to feel like a participant in an ocean expedition and walk around the deck at any time of the day or night. The price includes a tour of the ship’s museum exhibit with the captain’s cabin, laboratories, hold, engine room and bridge. Don’t worry, there’s a shark’s jaw hidden in the hold.
Under the flag of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Vityaz made 65 voyages in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
How to relax and save money
With discounts on the GURU Island loyalty program, the trip will be even more enjoyable. After the second trip, participants can expect a 15% discount. The maximum discount is up to 40%, plus pleasant bonuses and complimentary services: breakfast, late check-out, parking, spa access. The levels do not burn out or reset. How do I get all this? Just register.
Stay a hermit: Mazanaya Gorka Bungalow
- Location: Leningrad region
Seven cozy houses are located along the banks of the Lemovzha River, a hundred kilometers from St. Petersburg — and it feels like in another world. Silence and solitude are the hallmark of the complex: it seems that there is only you and nature around. I can’t hear the neighbors: the nearest house is 300 meters away.
There is almost no communication here, but the forest is full of mushrooms and berries, and there are fish and water lilies in the river. Each house has its own terrace with a rocking chair and a sauna. All the interiors, of course, are made of natural wood, massive and strong, like the will of a person going to happiness. On chilly evenings you can bask by the fireplace, on a warm summer day you can walk along the ecotrope and admire the views, and then swing in an armchair and listen to the noise of the forest and the birds singing overhead. Rabbits and pheasants, tame donkeys and yaks, and busy chickens live in the eco—complex. If anyone breaks the privacy, it’s only them.
Silence and privacy are the hallmark of the complex.
To see a horror movie and tickle your nerves: Mysterio Boutique Hotel
- Location: St. Petersburg
Fans of thrillers and gloomy interiors in blood-red and black tones will find the mystical boutique hotel Mysterio. Guests can spend the night in the lair of a maniac or in the chambers of an immortal count, meet a terrible clown, a ghoul or a ghost living in the hotel, look into the astral world inhabited by demons or purgatory.
The intimidating atmosphere of the place is accentuated by the original brickwork, vaulted ceilings, chimneys, and clouded mirrors and paintings.: who knows what evil spirits come out of them at night.
All the passions, creepy interiors and horror stories of the haunted house are accompanied by impeccable service and a gastrobar, created with respect for classic horror. There are cocktails “Yellow-eyed demon”, “Freddy’s Nightmare” and “Zombie Apocalypse”.
The frightening atmosphere of the place is accentuated by the original brickwork, vaulted ceilings, chimneys and clouded mirrors and paintings.
Visit among the arts: Nikola-Lenivets Art Park
- Location: Kaluga region
Stay in a tube room, a mezzanine house, or a submarine control room. There are more than 20 houses in the park, so everyone, to the best of their acceptance of modern landscape art, will be able to choose the right one. Well, long walks will help you immerse yourself in the creative and slightly insane atmosphere of the art park.
Feel like a hero of Chekhov’s plays: Che Art Hotel
- Location: Moscow
This art hotel has little in common with the traditional perception of Anton Palych and the quiet charm of his Yalta cottage. Rather, its creators offer a shocking reading of Chekhov’s works and the image of Chekhov himself. Just a portrait of a writer in the style of the famous comandante photograph already requires reflection. Add to this the author’s quotes and the spirit of creativity in the air — and perhaps, after spending the night here, you will discover a creative vein.
The hotel team carefully warns: if you tell in advance which story or play of the great one the guest prefers, the room will be selected for him.
The creators offer a shocking reading of Chekhov’s works and the image of Chekhov himself.
Go outside the city to the alpacas and geese: Orlovsky Park Hotel
- Location: Moscow region
The Country Park Hotel boasts not only a variety of accommodation options from standard rooms and cottages to a fishing village and carved fairy-tale chambers with majolica stoves. For lovers of antiquity, we recommend going on an open-air tour of the “Village of Russian Architecture” and immersing yourself in the atmosphere of the past centuries. The guests will see the houses of the well-to-do and poor peasants with their household items, a collection of rare irons and samovars, and a replica of a 17th-century wooden temple.
Another point of attraction on the territory is a huge private zoo, where more than 400 animals and 1300 birds live. And if a hedgehog, geese or rabbits do not surprise the guests, then a tiger, alpaca, vicuna, emu and a colorful Chinese pheasant will make you take out a camera and admire along with the children.
The Country Park Hotel boasts not only a variety of accommodation options from standard rooms and cottages to a fishing village and carved fairy-tale chambers with majolica stoves.
It’s time to stock up on wonderful stories! Whether they’re about alpacas, a foggy morning on the river, scientific expeditions or ghosts is up to you.
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