Moscow Hotels

Moscow is the heart of Russia and reflects the contrasting facets of the country. Be it in terms of art and architecture or the disparities between the haves and have-nots, Moscow says it all. Moscow hotels range from luxury properties to reasonable budget rooms. A Moscow hotel accommodation starts from US $ 70 per night and goes on to US $ 200 and more, if you stay in one of the luxury Moscow hotels. Hotels in Moscow have attractive discounts during the year and a Hotel in Moscow availability can be checked and reservations made online.

The Kremlin is symbolic of Moscow in every sense of the word. The best months to come here are July and August when weather is the warmest, winter is most miserable and not recommended to tourists. Some places which are absolute must to visit while you are here are, the Arbat, Central Moscow, Tverskaya Ulitsa, Gorky Park, the Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum, the Tretayakov Gallery, the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre, the Sandunovskiye Baths, and the Central Artists' House.

There are also many literary museums to commemorate the lives and works of greats like Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol and Lermontov. The Novodevichy Convent (New Convent of the Maidens) has one of the most exalted cemeteries where legends like Chekhov, Eisenstein, Gogol, Khrushchev, Kropotkin, Mayakovsky, Prokofiev, Stanislavsky and Shostakovich have been laid to rest.

As the trend goes, most activities specific to a particular place depend on the weather conditions. Moscow gets a lot of snow so its not surprising that cross-country skiing is the most popular sport here, and is closely followed by ice skating.

There are five airports connecting Moscow with the rest of the world and daily flights by most airlines to and from nearly all European cities and other parts of the world. Within Moscow, the bus service is pretty comfortable. Moscow has a fabulous Public transport network of trams and buses as well as the metro.

Some festivals specific to Russia include the Orthodox Easter, known as Pashka, every alternate year there's the Moscow Film Festival and the Russian Winter Festival is made more lively with the 'troyka' rides, folklore shows and games, not to forget the Russian Vodka of course.