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Airport  
St Petersburg is served by two airports 12km south of the city: Pulkovo 1 for domestic flights, and Pulkovo 2 for international. There is no public transport between the terminals, which are 10 mins apart by road. Currency exchange facilities, a post office and left luggage lockers are available in both terminals 24 hrs a day. There are no conference rooms at the airport, but the 840-room Pulkovskaya Hotel has meeting space for 500 people midway between the airport and the city centre.
Airport to City Centre
The St Petersburg taxi mafia is worse than Moscow’s, having total monopoly on gypsy cab business into the city. It is essential to have someone pick you up. As the main road is an unwalkable distance, taxis can charge more than it costs to fly to Moscow. If you are absolutely forced to take a taxi from the airport, it is a good idea to team up with fellow travellers in the Arrivals hall to at least make the trip a little less painful. At the time of writing the 30-min trip into town cost $40-60. The city administration attempted to outlaw gypsy cabs in 1987, but they are still very much in evidence at the airport and elsewhere in the city. Prices should be agreed beforehand and should be at the lower end of the fare scale. 
Buses connect both terminals with Moskovskaya metro station, 20 mins away on the edge of town. Bus 39 operates from Pulkovo 1, while bus 13 and several enterprising minibus operations link Pulkovo 2 with the station. Unlike Moscow, St Petersburg now operates a conductor system. You will be expected to purchase one ticket for yourself and another for your luggage. Due to chronic overcrowding, public transport is to be avoided from 0800 to 1000 and from 1600 to 1900.
Orientation
St Petersburg straddles the mouth of the river Neva at the easternmost spur of the Baltic, dividing the city into northern, eastern and southern sectors. Peter the Great’s rigid town planning bestowed a grid-like legacy of wide boulevards dissected by canals, towered over by imposingly chilly architecture. The earliest settlement is marked by the soaring gold spire of the SS Peter and Paul Fortress on a delta of islands in the Neva known as Petrograd side. The main commercial zone is clustered around the artery of Nevsky Prospekt on the south bank of the Neva, with the tourist centre of the Winter Palace and Admiralty a little to the north. Nevsky Prospekt is trisected by three canals. Many of the tourist attractions are along the embankments of these beautiful canals. They are: the Moika, the Griboedova and the Fontanka canals.
Getting Around
The metro is the cheapest and quickest way to negotiate greater St Petersburg. Not only is it efficient, but beautiful, too, with marble-festooned stations boasting stunning statuary and art depicting Russia’s history. Fares operate on a token system which must be purchased before travel. For city-centre journeys, take a bus, trolley-bus or tram. Tickets are sold at kiosks at major interchanges or in strips of ten by the drivers. 
Taxis are also an easy, cheap and safe way of getting around. They can be hailed in the street or ordered from your hotel. It is unwise to take cabs immediately outside your hotel or major tourist attractions. At best they will be ridiculously expensive. Simply walk past these drivers and hail a passing car on the road. Gypsy cabs are an easy mode of transport – as long as you follow a few common-sense principles: agree a price in advance, know exactly where you want to go, and avoid taking a cab with anyone other than just the driver inside. Cabbies speak little, if any, English, so take a written copy of your destination in Russian. Gypsy cab prices are about half those in Moscow.
What to see               Lågprisflyg - Weedend resa            Queensway Travel
Peter and Paul Fortress: This fortress on the banks of the Neva was one of the first structures in the city and marks the spot where Peter the Great conceived of St Petersburg as his shimmering neo-classical window on the West. Built between 1703 and 1733 to protect the new settlement from attacks by the Swedes, it is dominated by the soaring spire of Petropavlovsky Cathedral which, at 122m tall, was deliberately designed to eclipse the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in the Kremlin. The cathedral is the burial place of Peter and all his successors, the most recent addition being the last Tsar, Nicholas II, who was laid to rest here in Jul 1998. Other points of interest in the fortress are the nearby dungeons where Peter incarcerated (and later murdered) his son Alexei, the Neva Gate chronicling the city’s many floods, and the Engineer’s and Commandant’s houses, which now host exhibitions. On the north bank of the Neva river by the Troitsky Bridge. 
The Hermitage: This ranks alongside the Louvre in Paris and the Prado in Madrid as one of the world’s greatest museums. Just glancing at each of the 3 million exhibits would take nearly a decade. The vast collection includes Russian art, works by Da Vinci, Raphael, El Greco and the French Impressionists, some of which are part of the so-called Trophy Art collection taken from Nazi Germany after WWII and kept secret for half a century. Many of the artworks are housed in the Winter Palace, the frothy, baroque Imperial residence that was built by Bartolomeo Rastrelli between 1754-62, and which was stormed in the October Revolution of 1917. Many of the lavish state rooms are still intact and on view. 36 Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya. 
St Isaac’s Cathedral: This massive structure is one of the most prominent features of the St Petersburg skyline and sports the third largest cathedral dome in Europe. The Mariinsky Palace on St Isaac’s Sq, now the home of St Petersburg city government, and the legendary Bronze Horseman on the Neva are other points of interest. 
The Summer Garden: This elegant garden laid out in rambling English style, surrounded on all sides by water and adorned with 80 baroque statues, was the favoured haunt of Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s greatest poet. In the northern corner is the Dutch-style Summer Palace of Peter the Great, the third oldest building in the city. 
Pushkin House museum on the Moika canal has recently been refurbished and is open to the public. These museums of Russia’s most famous writers and poets see hordes of Russians pass through every year in the reverent silence usually reserved for saints. Pushkin’s house itself is one of the best, boasting a large collection of his personal belongings. It was in this house that the poet died following a duel with a French officer, who had made a move on the poet’s wife. Nominally you have to join a group, but foreigners who hire an ‘audio-gid’ can wander through the house unaccompanied.