Luxurious hotel and cool spa

Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge is an ideal solution if you are spending a few nights on pleasure in St. Petersburg. It has big and well-maintained rooms, an excellent breakfast buffet, and a top-notch spa. The hotel is operated by a Finnish hotel chain that has three hotels in the city.

The rooms are typical business level hotel rooms; nothing fancy, but everything just works. The bed is good, and the room is big enough to fit an extra bed and a crib. The breakfast buffet that is included in the price is the best I’ve ever encountered so far. And trust me, I’ve ate breakfast in numerous hotels. Both the quantity and the quality of the items is astounding.

The spa is probably the highlight of the hotel. There are almost ten different saunas, one ice room, hot tubs, cold tubs, a huge swimming pool, and a children pool. All of this free of charge in the morning for hotel guests, and around ten euros per person later during the day. The spa was spotlessly clean, everything worked like a charm, and the different saunas were fun to experience. I didn’t know that there is at least five different variations of steam saunas.

The only downside of the hotel is the location — it’s about fifteen minutes walk to Nevsky Prospect and the city centre. Fortunately there are restaurants and services around the neighbourhood, too, but shopping possibilities are limited to groceries.

www.sokoshotels.fi, Birzhevoy pereulok 2-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, +7 812 335 2200