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Saint Petersburg Berlin to St. Petersburg xx
Posted: Sun July 13, 2008 03:35 PM UTC
Howdy all,

can anyone advise me on the most efficient way to get from Berlin to St. Petersburg please also on a
tight budget if that narrows it down a wee bit........ thanks..xx
gingerbadger
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Saint Petersburg Re: Berlin to St. Petersburg xx
Posted: Sun July 13, 2008 06:20 PM UTC
Fly, otherwise it depends on what you mean by ‘efficient’ you may get there slightly cheaper overland but it’s going to take you a while.

If you have the best part of two days to spare there is a direct train, which is maybe the most interesting (if not efficient) way to travel (http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/e)

You may get a bus ticket for around $100 one way (that’s a guess, try www.eurolines.com) but it would be an ordeal and if you went direct you would need to pass through Belorussia so you would need a transit visa, maybe better to go from Berlin to Tallinn or Riga and then on to St. Petersburg

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Maxus
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Saint Petersburg Re: Berlin to St. Petersburg xx
Posted: Sun July 13, 2008 09:17 PM UTC
Flying is also an option. I just checked www.harefares.com and I found that Air Berlin flies that route and had flights for as low as 136 euro in late August/early September (one way). I don't know when you're planning to travel though, and July looks like of pricy.

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kammie
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Saint Petersburg Re: Berlin to St. Petersburg xx
Posted: Mon July 14, 2008 11:23 AM UTC
St. Petersburg and tight budget do not go together. I just got back from St. P last week and I tell you, it is so far the most expensive European city I have visited. If you don't have a pressing business in St. P, I recommend you go someplace else to best stretch your funds. Krakow, Budapest, Prague? Although they, too, are now getting expensive, but still not as exepnsive as St. Petersburg.

Good luck!

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lifeisatrip
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Saint Petersburg Re: Berlin to St. Petersburg xx
Posted: Tue July 15, 2008 05:37 PM UTC
Use the flight to Helsinki or Tampere and then to St.Petersburg.

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/?culture=GB
http://www.blue1.fi/en/
http://www.airberlin.com/site/start.php?LANG=eng&all=1

and then a train from Helsinki - 50 euros.

A very budget way of transportation is a bus from Berlin to St.Petersburg but not good if you have a back ache :-) 2 nights in a bus!!.
http://eurolines.ru/list/german/berlin/ but only in Russian. The price is 5663 roubles (here and back), 1 euro=37 roubles.
Their email agenstvo@eurolines.ru

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