Russia Trips For Students - Fall 2009

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ussia trips

for students, Fall

2009

Russia Trip I – 7 days Stockholm-Tallinn-St Petersburg-Moscow-Stockholm Dates: Monday 12 October to Monday 19 October 2009 Deadline for registration: Sunday 13 September Destination: Tallinn, Estonia - St Petersburg and Moscow, Russia - Helsinki, Finland Available places: Minimum 30, maximum 108 Required: : At least 6 month valid INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT (normal or temporary kind) Participating Groups: University students from Stockholm, Copenhagen and Bergen (non-students are welcome to join to some degree) Price: 355 EUR (or 3740 SEK* or 2830 DKK* or 3300 NOK* )+ individual Russian Tourist Visa cost (prices listed below) *Holding the right that these prices might change slightly for reflecting current exchange rates towards Euro.

Included in Trip I: • My own personal participation as personal leader and coordinator during the entire trip • 2 over night cruises on the Baltic sea with beds (complete with sleeping necessities) in 4-person cabins you share only with friends on both of the ferry journeys • Three or four star HOTEL rooms (twin bed), 2 nights in St Petersburg (breakfast buffets included)and 1 night in Moscow • The total process of getting Russian tourist visa (support papers + processing) • Personal travel insurance from Ingonord insurance company • Half day guided sightseeing tours in both St Petersburg and Moscow plus transportation to hotels. • Beds complete with sleeping necessities on night trains (same kind of trains as on the Trans Siberian) St Petersburg to Moscow and Moscow to Helsinki. • The hotel's mandatory passport and visa registration fees. • Personal guide files put together over the years that tell you everything from the most practical to the best clubs or vodka brands

* Preliminary Itinerary * (Exact departure time and locations to be announced later by e-mail) Day One: Monday 17:00 — Gathering in Stockholm Frihamnen harbor 18:00 — Departure towards Tallinn with M/S Victoria or Romantica , Tallink Silja line. Day Two: Tuesday 10:00 (+1h time difference CET)— Arrival in Tallinn —Free time for sightseeing and enjoying the great Old town, amazing restaurants and the low price levels in this medieval capital 17:00 — Bus departure to Russia. Border procedure around 21:00. (+2h time difference CET) 00:00 ca — Arrival in the magnificent city of St Petersburg. After a night view of town check in at our Hotel (Most probably Pribaltiskaya****, Russia*** or Moskva***)

Day Three: Wednesday 07:00 – 10:00 — Complimentary Buffet breakfast in the hotel 10:30 — Buses meet us in front of the hotel for 4 hrs of guided tour around city. 14:30 ca— Drop of in front of the beautiful Hermitage, where you can visit the Winter palace for the rest of the day (free entrance for students) — In the evening you can enjoy a wonderful Opera, ballet in the Marinsky theatre or the great night life of StP – all for affordable prices Day Four: Thursday 07:00 – 10:00 — Buffet breakfast in the hotel — Free time to see all the wonderful things in St Petersburg all on your own 23:00 ca — Night train departure from Moskovsky station towards Moscow Day Five: Friday 09:00 ca — Arrival in Leingradsky station, Moscow 09:30 ca — We go to the buses and start our guided city tour around this impressive and huge city, a true melting pot of cultures. 13:00 ca — Arrival and check in at the hotel (most probably Izmailovo ***) — Free time in the afternoon and later some great night life. Ballet in Bolsjoy theatre or elsewhere is a good bet for the evening. And later Moscow nightlife! Day Six: Saturday. — Free day! You can go and see the Kremlin or visit the amazing souvenir market next to the Izmailovo hotel… 22:50 — Night train ‘Tolstoy’ departures towards Helsinki from Leningradsky station Day eight: Sunday, 12 April (again only +1h time difference CET) Day Seven: Sunday 11:37 — Arrival in Helsinki — Free program for you to discover Helsinki, the modern capital of Finland on your own. 17:00 — Departure from Helsinki by overnight cruise to Stockholm Day Eight: Monday 09:30 (Back to CET time) Arrival in Stockholm harbor.

Please observe that your trips to and from Stockholm and any overnight stays in Stockholm are not included, so that you can individually decide how you plan your visit of beautiful Stockholm. But a package including night bus trips Copenhagen-Stockholm, Sunday 11 October and Stockholm-Copenhagen, day bus tour Monday 19 October will be offered for those living in Copenhagen. (Price ca 60 Euro).

Russia Trip II – 7 days Stockholm-Tallinn-St Petersburg-Moscow-Helsinki – Stockholm Dates: Monday, 16 November to Monday, 23 November 2009 Deadline for registration : Sunday 27 September For other details see Trip I above!

Deadlines for registrations : Trip I: 13 September Trip II: 27 September You sign up by first sending me an email on

[email protected] including in the email the following information about yourself: 1. your last name(s) 2. your first name(s) 3. your gender (male or female) 4. your citizenship (according to your valid passport) 5. your date of birth (dd.mm.yyyy) 7. your PASSPORT NUMBER 8. the e-mail address where you would like trip info sent to 9. your TRIP CHOICE 10. the name of the university that you study at in Scandinavia 12. your telephone number in Scandinavia (if you have one) Within 1 week you will receive an e-mail message that confirms or denies your registration on the trip of your choice and more information about payment methods and visa. Your e-mail address will be added to an e-mail list for your trip/university that we maintain, and more details about the trip will be distributed through this list to the registered participants. There will be many personal meetings planned for Copenhagen (CBS) but also in Bergen and Stockholm if time allows. You can choose to arrange the visas on your own and only with my support and the papers I send you by email – visa prices will be the same in that case but you can benefit from holding on to your passports depending on if you need it for other trips. Russian Tourist Visa costs by nationality (only a selection): Argentina 60€

France 40€

Australia 40€

Germany 40€

New Zeeland 30€ Norway 60€

Austria 40€

Greece 40€

Poland 40€

Belgium 40€

Hungary 40€

Portugal 40€

Brazil 55€

Iceland 40€

Romania 40€

Bulgaria 40€

Ireland 40€

Slovakia 40€

Canada 65€

Italy 40€

Slovenia 40€

Chile 40€

Japan 40€

South Korea 40€

Croatia 40€

Latvia 40€

Spain 40€

Cyprus 40€

Lithuania 40€

Sweden 40€

Czech Rep. 40€

Luxembourg 40€

Switzerland 70€

Denmark 55€

Malaysia 60€

UK & NI 50€

Estonia 40€

Mexico 35€

USA 65€

Finland 40€

Netherlands 40€

The trips are organized by my own small company, Corsi Travels HB. Taxes are paid according to Swedish law. Your payments are also protected and insured by Swedish law of ‘Kammarkollegiet’ in case of unexpected failure from the company’s side. This responsibility is restricted only for failure from my side. Any consequences from participants not keeping times or missing deadlines for payments or shortage of passport availability for visa process is on participant’s responsibility and can be repaired only on good will.

A little bit about me: I am a former student of Stockholm School of Economics, where I arranged nonprofit Russia trips for the student association and our exchange students twice a year from 2003 and forward. Since 3 years we decided to also include the other universities of Scandinavia, more specifically Copenhagen School of Business and Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen – for the fun of gathering all enthusiastic international group of young people for an unusually fun and free trip full of adventures and memories for life ! Now I am continuing as student, this time in Copenhagen and CBS and arrange the Russia trips for my own 1 person company since last year. The profits of the trips are marginal, only compensating me for the time I myself spend on arranging and taking part of the trips, and the prices almost the same as the ones arranged for the student association. There is a lot of personal service involved and you can always count on me answering your weirdest questions and doing extra ordinary things for achieving the sometimes hard to get (make it impossible in some cases) Russian visa. Ironically I know quite many languages except for Russian (I do know a little though!) I think it is amazing to meet so many fun people and see them enjoy these trips so much that I still participate in the trips myself! Hope to see you! Natali