Baltic cruise - russia

[surreysnapper]

would I need a Russian visa or would I be covered under the ships visa?

I went on ships visa but escorted by Russi an guide at all times and only allowed to go where they said.

If you don't have a visa, you can only go on official escorted group tours.

DCs and I had a couple of days in St Petersburg on a cruise and we really wanted to do things that weren't on the organised tours, so I got visas, but it is expensive (more than £100 a person, and this was going back a few years, so probably much more now), there are lots of ridiculously detailed forms to fill in (they ask for every overseas trip you have been on in the past decade etc), and takes quite a long time to organise through an agent in London, so you have to do it well in advance. I am glad we did it, but if you just want to see the main tourist sites of St Petersburg, it is probably easier to just go with the group tours.

We got tourist visas as we were in Russia for ten days. Cost loads as you have to go in person to get them. Faff form filling.

But it was so worth it, had a fantastic time.

SPB tours just book they do the rest
www.spb-tours.com