Foreign VIP-tourists will see the Northern Lights New Year in Russia
On New Year’s Day, Russian Railways Tour opens an exclusive VIP-tourist product based on the Imperial Russia train, a five-star railway hotel on wheels. The first passengers will be foreign visitors.
The Northern Lights program on the Imperial Russia train is a cruise in northwestern Russia. The first train will go on the road at the end of 2018. New Year’s Eve is scheduled for the Arctic Circle.
The tour includes a tour of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Then the train will stop in the capital of the Republic of Karelia. petrozavodsk.
In Murmansk New Year celebration, city tour, acquaintance with the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Kola Peninsula will take place. On the way back, the train will stop at Vologde.
In the train "Imperial Russia" there is a restaurant car or a bar car, their interiors are stylized for the era of the Russian Empire, luxury passenger cars.
Each car has 5 or 6 double compartments, equipped with sleeping shelves, a chair, a bathroom and shower, an information system. The price of the trip depends on the class of the chosen car and starts from 4,100 euros.
The price of the tour includes: accommodation by train; cultural and entertainment program on the road; excursions in each city of the route; restaurant; escort by guides-interpreters; transport at tourist facilities; rooms in five-star hotels on the day of the start of the tour and its final; transfer from the airport / to the airport.
Russian Railways Tour specialists explain that the project is focused mainly on inbound tourism, but the tour operator sees demand among Russians. In the first round of the "Northern Lights" on the train "Imperial Russia" will go travel from Switzerland, France, Great Britain.
The Northern Lights journey will be available during the New Year and one of the winter months. In summer, tourists will be offered a route along the Trans-Siberian Railway - Moscow - Vladivostok and Moscow - Beijing in both directions.
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