Reviews

Hello parallel 60 team, I wanted to thank you and others at Parallel 60 for helping me make the trip to St.Petersburg a very pleasant experience! Your very knowledgeable tour guide, Alexandra, and the driver, were very professional and punctual. The three days we spent in your gorgeous city, will be the most memorable trip we have ever! taken Thank you again for all your work helping me organize it. Please, send my thanks and best regards to Anastasia and Lena as well. Helen Gringolts and 5 others!

Dear parallel 60 team,
We leave in AM. Just to let you know that Marina was an excellent tour guide. We appreciated her knowledge, congeniatilty and personalized attention. Our driver Nail was also very good
We will certainly will recommend you and your company to our friends and contacts

Ellei JC Goldstein MD
Clincial Professor of Mediicne
UCLA School of Mediicne

Dear Slava Bochekov,

On behalf of the hole group I would also like to thank you. It was a very nice tour and everybodye enjoyed it very much. Also you help regarding the late organizations where great. I have no remarks on the tour. The English was clear and we have seen and learned a lot.

Best regards,

Lisa Blanken

Dear Slava,

I was actually planning to send you an e-mail, but you were faster))

So here is our post-program evaluations:

Our guide Svetlana was very helpful and knowledgeable. The driver was very good as well, always at the right place at the right time.

The program was very satisfying and comprehensive for a 2-day tour. No complaints there. As for the restaurants, the place where we had lunch on 1st day (cant remember the name) had good food and nice waiters but the service was really slow, plus we couldnt find place inside the main hall. Last night, after the tour, we went to the Cafe Literaturnoye for dinner, and it was fantastic. As the prices of these two restaurants are on par, you may consider switching to Cafe Literaturnoye for lunches if you have the chance to do so. As for the Orangine Restaurant at Peterhoff- that was fabulous. The food, the waiters, the view, everything was excellent.

So overall, we were really satisfied with the tour. The only complaint we have is that our feet are hurting pretty bad, but I think that??™s our own fault because we could spare only 2 days for your lovely city, which deserves much more.

Friends and colleagues at the Embassy are asking about our tour and we??™re telling them the things I wrote above, so don??™t be surprised if you receive a few calls from our Embassy for similar programs.

Again, thanks a lot for the excellent work, and I hope we??™ll have other opportunities for working together with your company. (If you are arranging tours in other parts of Russia, like Lake Baikal for instance, please let me know.)

Best regards,
Yagmur

Hello Slava,
Just a note to let you know that we really enjoyed our trip to St.Petersburg and that Stanislav was an excellent guide.He certainly knew a great deal about his subject and we now feel that we have had a good education in Russian history.(Also a few Russian words!)

We will certainly recommend your services.

Thankyou again,
Best wishes,
Viki and Colin Cooper

Dear Anastasia,

My family enjoyed themselves very much! They informed that the tour in Moscow was very nice, although too short...and the tour guide was excellent!

Many thanks for all your help...

Re: St.Petersburg weekend city break on March 14-15th, 2009

Yes, everything was great. The hotel was very convenient and the owners were very helpful and nice. the guide was EXCELLENT. I will recommend your services to any of my colleagues who come to Petersburg.

Thank you,

Hunter

Let me take this opportunity to thank you very much for the excellent guide you sent us during our visit in St. Petersburg on December 29, 2008. Vera was very knowledgeable, and together with the driver, she managed to show us very important aspects of this wonderful city.

Hi Slava,

Well i would have to say that the whole group loved the guesthouse in Suzdal.
We were actually split over two different houses that were at complete opposite ends of Suzdal. 6 people sayed with Zina, and 5 others, including myself stayed with her Sister Ira. They made us feel very welcome and although they only speak Russian, i managed to communicate and get my point across to them (they are both full of energy).

They had actually prepared breakfast for the first morning we arrived as well as the next day which was amazing. We then took taxis to the other house before meeting for the walking tour at 12:00. The people who stayed in house number 2 (Iras) got a lift by her husband to the Monastery where we met the others. Later in the evening we again took Taxis back ti Zinas for Dinner. The food was fantastic.

As for the Walking tour. The guide was excellent but maybe a tour of the Kremlin as well as the Monastery would be a little better as this is one of the main sights in Suzdal.

Overall i thought both the Guesthouse and the walk were very good and would like to stay here again.

We thoroughly enjoyed our stay and were treated very well by Marina - who is very knowledgeable - and also by our driver Slava! I wanted to make sure I told you this myself but I do hope that in the meantime Marina passed on my feedback to you because i asked her to make sure she told you that we were very pleased with the tours and the service.

I will certainly reccomend your company if I hear of anyone I know visiting St Petersburg in the future and I will definitely be in touch with you if we make the decision to visit Moscow in the future. Thank you again.

Best regards,

Jacqui