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| Address: 93/a, Naberezhnaya Obvodnogo Kanala, St. Petersburg, 191119 |  |
| Nearest metro: Puschkinskaya |
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The area surrounding the Neptun is not the most attractive in St. Petersburg, thanks mostly to the heavy traffic and industrial decay along the Obvodniy Canal. However, the beautiful Fontanka River is only a few minutes' walk from the hotel, and the Neptun is very central, with good transport links and plenty of shops, restaurants and cafes nearby. Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg's main central thoroughfare, can be reached on foot in 20 minutes, or in 5-10 minutes by car.
The Best Western Neptun is very close - a few minutes walk - to the Vitebsk Station, and the neighbouring Pushkinskaya Metro Station. All other mainline stations are less than 30 minutes' drive away, and to get to/from Pulkovo-1 and Pulkovo-2 airports should take no more than 40 minutes by car.
Vitsebsk Station was the first train terminal in Russia, opened in 1837. It is still the most beautiful, a glorious art nouveau building dating from the turn of the last century, with fine recently restored interiors. Trains run from here to Byelorussia, Ukraine and the Baltics, and also to the suburban palaces at Pushkin and Pavlovsk.
A little further from the hotel is the yellow, baroque Vladimirskiy Church, the center of an area that is most famously associated with Feodor Dostoevsky. The Dostoevsky Museum is located in his former apartment near the Kuznechniy Market, which is probably the best in the city and worth visiting for the atmosphere alone.
Zagorodniy Prospekt, also nearby, is one of the city's main streets, with a number of good shopping opportunities.
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