River Services

St. Petersburg is often referred to as Northern Venice, because this city embraces a lot of islands, canals, channels, bridges, rivers, harbors, quays, bays. Many cultural and historical sights face river and sea spaces, so tourists are always fascinated by the views of St.Petersburg attractions from a boat or a ship. Today Saint Petersburg waterways are widely used for transport purposes, including passenger transportation, and river services play a great role in this process. 

The best time to visit St. Petersburg for a boat ride is for sure summer time, althought the navigation period lasts from April to late October. Sightseeing tours on boats are very popular and many operators offer river excursions of various types and routes starting from individual river trips on small boats and finishing with river cruisers on comfortable ships. According to your free time, budget and preferences, you can join a small group of other tourists for a short river trip or choose a timetabled cruise or order individually scheduled journey around the places that are the most interesting for you. The variety of vessels available for a river trip is amazing in St. Petersburg but most of them adhere to certain popular routes such as trip along the Neva River, journey around the Golden Ring of central rivers and canals, night tour dedicated to rising bridges, travelling to suburban Imperial palaces and some other. In case you are going to visit St. Petersburg during high season, it is better to book a boat and foreign-language tour guide in advance as well as to order individual river tour if you’d like to.