Itinerary: The days of the week may change based upon your schedule, but we have found the following to be a very workable schedule. Also, we will make changes at your direction and based upon what is happening at that moment in Moscow’s dining, entertainment and nightlife. This is a sample and events will necessarily require flexibility. It is important for us to communicate that your tour will be customized to your schedule and interests. Our strongest desire is to show you the best possible time. Day 1 (Thursday): Arrival in Moscow. Your Personal Concierge and limousine and drive are awaiting you at the airport. You and your group are driven to your hotel in the city center. Along the way you enjoy a bottle of champagne and the sites of the city. You check in at your hotel, the lavish and historic 5-star National, located adjacent to Red Square. After a brief interval to unwind and refresh yourself, the Personal Concierge who has been assigned to you for your stay will show Red Square. There you will see fantastical Saint Basil’s Cathedral, the Kremlin walls, Lenin’s tomb and walk across Red Square itself-the site of many parades and the backdrop for much of Russian and Soviet history. Following this tour, we will show you back to the hotel, so that you may rest from your journey and prepare for the evening ahead! 9:00 p.m. Your Personal Concierge meets you in the lobby of the hotel and together with your group you embark in your waiting vehicle for dinner. We take you to one of Moscow’s ultra-hip restaurants to enjoy a drink in the bar, dinner and the fabulous scenery of Moscow’s nightlife. Then if your group chooses, we will take you to a very discreet and tasteful, but naughty exotic dance club. The next stop after this is one of Moscow’s most refined casinos. It is also a popular dance club with live shows and a guest list that includes some of Moscow’s most attractive and powerful people. 3:00 a.m. We return you to your hotel at (unless you make other arrangements). Another alternative is an evening at a blues club enjoying some of Moscow’s best music and mingling with performers and local music-lovers.
You breakfast in the hotel, if you choose or sleep in to recover from your long journey (and the previous evening!). 12:00 p.m. Lunch at an exotic Georgian restaurant in the city center, walk Arbat Street and enjoy the street performers and lively crowd. 2:30 p.m. Victory Park. Tour the museum devoted to the tremendous sacrifices of the Soviet Union in World War Two (the Great Patriotic War) 9:00 p.m. Your Personal Concierge is waiting for you in the lobby. He joins you in your car and together you go out to dinner. We take you to one of the most chic and acclaimed restaurants in Moscow’s dining scene. Here you enjoy dinner and drinks in opulent surroundings and mingle in the social scene. 12:00 a.m. Next stop is a nightclub or maybe you will go club-hopping and hit several of the most exciting clubs.. The club scene is constantly changing, even by the season, so we will not commit specifically at this point. Perhaps it will be Cabaret, or Propaganda or Zeppelin or yet another. You are escorted past face control and spend an evening enjoying Moscow’s nightclub scene. Your Personal Concierge is with you to make sure that there are no translation problems with the new friends that you meet! Your car will take you back to hotel at 3 a.m. (unless you make other arrangements).
If you choose we will have your Personal Concierge available at 10 a.m. However, we recognize that everyone needs some rest so your tour of the Kremlin and its museums is put off until 1:00. You lunch in the hotel. 1:00 p.m. Kremlin tour and museums (including the fabulous Diamond Fund). 3:00 p.m. Your car and driver and Personal Concierge take you on a driving tour of the architectural highlights of Moscow, including the 7 Sisters of the Stalin period. 5:00 p.m. Drinks at a fashionable café in Pushkin Square. 8:30 p.m. Personal Concierge meets you and you go to a very sophisticated bar with a breathtaking view of Moscow from the top of one of its’ tallest buildings. 10:00 p.m. Dinner in a trendy nearby restaurant. 2:30 a.m. If we can pry you away from the last place, we take you to one of the clubs that no one else will tell you about. This is a dance club that stays open very late and where almost anything goes! Day 4 (Sunday): 2:00 p.m. Lunch at a Ukrainian restaurant. 3:30 p.m. We take you to GUM. This unique facility has many high-end stores and is located in a 3 level, 3 row historic building immediately adjacent to Red Square. This is a great place to spend several hours people watching, shopping or enjoying a coffee as the world goes by. 5:30 p.m. Return to the hotel for a sauna and preparations for the evening 7:00 p.m. Evening performance at the historic and grand Bolshoi Theatre. 11:00 p.m. Sunday night and we take you to several bars in the happening district close to the Bolshoi Theatre and Lubyanka.
10:00 a.m. Today your Personal Concierge and car and driver will take you to Sergeiv Possad for a day touring the grounds of this ancient monastery and medieval fortress. You get to experience some of the Russian countryside and to see a bit of life in a smaller city outside of fast-paced Moscow. An alternative in the summer months will be to spend a day at a rustic dacha (cottage) with a family in the rural area outside of Moscow. There you will be treated to homegrown and homemade food and many vodka toasts with your friendly and very hospitable hosts. For many people this is an absolutely unique and unforgettable experience. The dacha does not have electricity or running water, so we do mean rustic, though! However these people and their neighbors will more than make up for it with their friendliness and warmth. There will be an additional charge for the dacha experience of $200 for 2 people and an additional $50 per person if your group is larger than 2. 6:00 p.m. Return to the hotel 8:30 p.m. Dinner at a restaurant in the center. For your last evening, we might recommend a very interesting Armenian restaurant. 10:30 p.m. At this point, you may wish to pack or simply rest before your return, but the choice is yours. We can take you to your favorite of the places you have already been for your last night or to another of the many choices in Moscow.
Your car and driver meet you in front of your hotel to take you to the airport for your return flight.
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Red Star - (Moscow 5 Nights)