When you think about Moscow three things come to your mind: big city, Red square and extraordinary history. This is a city that fascinated a lot of people among the years and there are many places for you to visit, so one day will not be enough to embrace all the amazing cultural and futuristic places and buildings.

Moscow is located in the center of European Russia, between the rivers Oka and Volga, at the junction of the Smolensk-Moscow Upland (west), Moskvoretsko-Oka plains (east) and Mescherskaya lowland.

You can begin your journey by choosing a nice place to stay from hundreds of hotels, hostels and apartments that you can find in Moscow depending on your financial status, the prices at Moscow Hotels began from 50 €  to 350 € per room.

At Dvor na Polyanske hostel a double room cost 50 € and also a bed in dormitory room for 6 people is 16 €. The features that include this hostel are a night club, a restaurant and is within a walking distance from Kremlin, Tretyaok Gallery and Park of Arts.

One of the amazing hotels that will impress you is Hotel Peter the 1st, is housed in an imperial-style building, dating back to 1895, with luxury marble bathrooms and modern decorated rooms.

There are number of the hotels that you can choose from Cosmos Hotel, Mandarin Moscow Residences, Pekin Hotel, Izmailovo Vega Hotel, Gostiniy Dom and the facilities includes great room service, many activities like Russian traditional bath: banea, indoor pools, tennis court, billiards, bowling, spa and wellness center, gym and a great hospitality.

Russians have a phenomenal cuisine, if you are in Russia I recommend you to try traditional dishes like pelimeni, blini are kind of pancakes filled with cheese, meat, caviar, suba is a traditional fish salad and a variety of cakes filled with fine ice toppings.

At Restaurant Kalinka in Cosmos hotel you can find about 200 diverse dishes, riches variety of traditional food, the restaurant is styled as an old Russian country house with a stove and every night at dinner time a folk band perform Russian folk songs, ballads and dances.

Inna Lorentz, at Aerostar Hotel the winner of international culinary delicious cakes and pastries, the interior bar decorated with a white piano where you can enjoy live music in the evenings.

There are a number of activities that you can do in Moscow depending what are your hobbies, if you like art you can visit Tretyaok Gallery, Moscow State Historical Museum, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, if you are a fan of theater or ballet you defiantly should visit Bolshoi Theatre, and of course you can find anything from the haute couture stores at the upper trading rows at GUM near Red Square.

The major and one of the most popular nightlife areas is around Tverskaya Street, surrounded by bars and pubs where you can party in Russian style.

Walking through a long and dramatic history, this impressive city regained it’s title as Russian capital in 1918. Nowadays Moscow is a world known megalopolis, with an energy and pride that is almost impossible to match. A blending of outstanding places of all descriptions and sometimes bullying sights, this city can intimidate any casual tourist. Moscow can also be described as an competition for space between historical monuments and urban renewal. The economy of this mighty metropolis grew fast in last 10 years becoming the home of largest number of billionaires on the planet.
Becoming one of the most expensive cities in the world to boot, Moscow is desperate to share it’s fantastic aspects to all willing visitors. If it’s adventure you are after, than it’s the right destination to come.
The most popular tourist attraction and normally the starting point of any Moscow trips
Is “Red Square”. Possessing very rich surrounding attractions like : “Kremlin”, “Lenin’s Mausoleum”,
“St. Basil’s”, and a large number of shopping places with “GUM Shopping Center” in front. If the Russian culture you are looking after, than just few minutes away by foot you can see stunning “Theatre Square” with the well known “Bolshoi Theatre” and “Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts”. Heading further to west from Moscow’s heart you will meet an district that is considered to be the most touristy area in the entire megalopolis, called “Old Arbat Street”. The beloved place of such important historical characters like Tolstoy and Pushkin, it provides a pleasant and romantic atmosphere with incomparable scenes. Other interesting places to visit are “Tretyakov Gallery”, “Gorky Park” and “The Hermitage”.
Moscow has an amazing spread of restaurants, bars and night clubs to choose from, where every type of cuisine can be found and every tourist’s desire matched, depending on his affording. The most popular restaurants are “Café Pushkin”, “Pivnushka”, “Bunker”, “Kambala”, “Moo Moo” and “Scandinavia”. Among famous clubs we can name “Rai”, “A Priori”, “Zona”, “Fabrique” and “B3”.
The number of Moscow hotels is truly fantastic. Lodging and accommodation system is very developed due to it’s vast experience. The service level in Moscow hotels is outstanding, but being the most expensive city in the world, prices are huge. The possibilities of choosing a hotel in Moscow are very diverse, from middle section hotels for a fee of 50 €-70€ per night, to marvelous and luxurious rooms at world top-rated hotels in change of a fee over 200 € per one night. Popular mid-priced hotels are considered to be : “Best Easter Cosmos Hotel”, “Novotel Moscow Sheremetyevo Hotel” and “Iris Congress Hotel”. If you are interested in splurge hotels the number is overwhelming : “Moscow Marriot Grand Hotels”, “Metropol Hotel”, “Le Royal Meridien Hotel National Hotel”, “Sheraton Palace Hotel”,
“Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel”, “Moscow Marriot Royal Aurora” and of course “Hotel Baltschug Kempinsky”.