Курсовая работа: Accommodation in St.Petersburg

· Secretarial services

· Shoe Shine

· Non-smoking floor

· Shopping Gallery

· Pastry and Flower Shop

· Famous Ananov Fabergé Egg Shop

· Front Desk with multi-lingual concierge

· Packing / unpacking service upon request

· Hand-laundry and dry cleaning service

· Safes for valuables in every room

· Twice-daily maid service

Business Services & Facilities

The Hotel's Business and Convention centre provides exceptionally strong support for our guests. The Grand Hotel Europe can provide you with secretarial assistance, with interpreters and translators, and with a private Meeting room or temporary office. International communications, including fax, e-mail and Internet, postal and courier services are all available through the Hotel as well. Our concierge will be happy to confirm your transportation, to make onward travel arrangements, to reconfirm airline tickets, to offer advice on restaurants and to arrange all tours and excursions in and outside St.Petersburg. Our private function rooms are ideal for important meetings and conferences, discreet negotiations, presentations, seminars, and training sessions. The Hotel will be happy to assist you with all arrangements, including the supply of audio-visual aids and simultaneous translation equipment.

Banquet Planning & Facilities

Over the course of its long history, the Grand Hotel Europe has been the venue for innumerable spectacular occasions. Today our Banqueting team upholds this fine tradition, providing the careful organization, the considered advice, and the attention to detail essential to a successful event. Our many different function rooms, each with its own special character, provide the perfect setting for any gathering. Whether you are planning a small private dinner, an elaborate banquet and dance, or simply an intimate cocktail gathering, the Grand Hotel will ensure that the occasion is a resounding success. If you wish, we can also arrange special functions at venues outside of the Hotel, including a number of imperial palaces and some of St.Petersburg's most beautiful private theatres.

Special Packages

If your dream is to go ice-fishing on the Finnish Gulf, dine on the battleship Aurora, dance with gypsies or enjoy a private ballet performance from the favored seat of Catherine the Great, the Grand Hotel Europe can make the dream a reality.

Our dedicated and experienced Group Coordination Team is ready to help you organise colourful and exciting Incentive Programmes and Special Events, taking advantage of the rich cultural and historical wealth of St. Petersburg and its surroundings to provide enthralling experiences in magnificent settings. Kempinski’s guests at the Grand Hotel Europe can be waited on by the courtiers of the Czar, be entertained by Cossacks and traditional Balalaika bands, or even dine with Lenin and his comrades in an imaginative journey to the days of the Revolution. Private theatres, including the Hermitage Theatre, can be hired for exclusive ballet performances

During the famous "White Nights" in summer the sun hardly ever sets.Numerous palaces offer ideal settings for elegant summer garden parties, accompanied by champagne, cocktails, live music, barbecues, buffets, and delicious desserts. In the summer, tranquil boat trips on the Neva and its myriad canals are also very popular, as are picnic excursions to Lake Ladoga, quiet barbecue evenings by wooded lakes, and even lively beach parties along the Gulf of Finland.

In the winter St. Petersburg truly comes into its own, as its fairytale palaces glimmer and gleam with fresh snow and the iridescent beauty creates endless, romantic evenings. Winter incentive programmes can start with a visit to the country cottage of the Empress Alexandra, where you will enjoy a champagne concert in one of the cottage’s elegant, evocative salons. As evening approaches enjoy a troika ride through the crisp winter air, anticipating vodka, blinis, and caviar ahead.

For the more intrepid, we can arrange an unforgettable ice fishing expedition on the Gulf of Finland.. An evening can be spent in a quiet country Datcha nestled deep in the forest, warmed by a wood stove and by traditional Russian food as you are entertained with folk songs and dances.

2.3 The Astoria Hotel *****

The Astoria Hotel makes an ideal starting point from which to discover Saint-Petersburg, Russian history and culture. It was in December 1912, that the doors of the Hotel Astoria (architect Fedor Lidval) were first opened to the public. The luxurious interiors in the Northern Modern style have always impressed the wealthiest and most respected of Russian high society.

Astoria Hotel has welcomed many well-known guests: American businessman Armand Hammer, English wrirer Herbert Wells, Russian writers Maksim Gorky and Mikhail Bulgakov, poet Sergey Esenin, singers Fedor Shaliapyn and Leonid Sobinov, composer and singer Aleksander Vertinsky, ballerinas Aisedora Dunkan and Anna Pavlova. Since the end of reconstruction work carried out between 1987-1991, the Astoria Hotel has been honoured to welcome the Ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thaicher, the U.S. Secretary of State, James Baker, members of the Royal Romanov and Faberge families, the conductor and composer Mstislav Rostropovich, film producer Nikita Mikhalkov, sculptor Mikhail Shemiakyn, opera singers Galina Vishnevskaya and Elena Obrastsova, singer Dmitry Hvorostovsky and many others

The Astoria Hotel enjoys superb location in the very heart of the city, situated on Saint Isaac's Square opposite the impressive Saint Isaacs Cathedral, the Mariinsky Palace and the equestrian statue of Nicholas I. The proximity of the Senate and Synod, the Admiralty, the offices of major companies and banks underline the importance of the Hotel's location in the city.

FOOD AND BEVERAGES:

For a traditional continental cuisine try our "Astoria" or "Angleterre" restaurants, perfect for those in search of civilized, elegant dining. You'll feel at ease on the dark leather chairs of the "Rotonda" bar, decorated in the style of an English pub.

you can enjoy traditional Russian cuisine in the light and airy "Winter Garden" restaurant, possibly one of the most beautiful in Europe. Even during winter months, white marble nymphs hide behind the bright greenery of the hall and sunrays filter through the milk glass ceiling. Our banqueting hall is ideal for celebrating an important event or festivity.

you are welcome to savour a slice of Russian pie and try a delicious doughnut at the "Russian Tchainaya" cafeteria. Excellent cuisine and accommodation, modern conference facilities - your meeting and stay in the "Astoria" hotel will be a complete success and a memorable experience.

No room or lounge here is identical, diversity and originality prevails in every detail. And what a captivating view of Saint Isaac's Square can be seen from the Hotel rooms!