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Dear Anna,
I just wanted to write to you and tell you what a wonderful time we had: Nick is an amazing tour guide, lovely to be around, and really made our trip enjoyable:Everything you suggested and set up was excellent. We all loved the motor boat ride. That was the perfect ending to a perfect trip:. We all just want to thank you so much and all of us agreed that we will recommend your services to anyone planning a trip to Russia: Thanks again for a perfect trip, and thank Nick for us as well.

Robyn, Nicola, Chas and Doug
Robyn Beasley
USA
contacts upon request
August 2009

Dear Anna,
Thanks to you and Julia, St. Petersburg became the highlight of not only my Baltic Cruise, but the month I spent in Europe. I only wish I could have spent more than three days in your fantastic city. You outlined two great days of sightseeing and gave me a real inside look at your city, the people, the food and the culture. Thank you so very much and I will recommend you to anyone who wants to see St. Petersburg, and not just the tourist sites!

Best regards,
Rene
July 2009
Rene A. Henry, Author and Columnist
Website - www.renehenry.com

We are pleased to say that we had a great 2 day tour of St. Petersburg with Anna and her staff. I can tell you absolutely that her service was top rate and completely reliable which was a big initial concern given all that I read on the internet and travel sites about russia. We had a family of five and it is only thanks to Anna and her staff that we were able to see so much and come to appreciate so much the complexities of life as a russian. We enjoyed our tours and had a very personable and intelligent guide. We were on a cruise and the cost of the tour with Anna was 10 times better than the "cruise" garbage tour on a bus and the cost was not much different. We love Anna and her team.

Dr. James Wasson
Texas, USA
contacts upon request
June 2009

Dear Anna,
We are back home finally . I want to thank you on behalf of the four of us for organizing a wonderful tour for us in St. Petersburg. The tour was efficient, comprehensive and enabled us to see the beautiful sites of your city.
We want to thank you especially for assigning Svetlana as our tour guide. She is a very nice person, agreable and extremely knowledgeable. We enjoyed spending two nice days with her. Please also thank Yuri the driver. He is also a nice person and excellent driver.
I will not hesitate to recommend you to friends who intend to visit your city.

Thanks again,
Arlette Levin
USA
June 2009

Anna,
thank you so much for the wonderful tour of your beautiful city. We would never have learnt so much without you. We are glad we hired you. Rest assured, you are the best. Although we got tired of walking at times, we appreciate the effort you put into trying to enlighten us about your wonderful city and its great history. If ever in Oslo, Norway or Kaafjord, North of Norway look us up.

Best Regards
Oivind Reinemo & Gunn Oda Idaksen
Norway
contacts upon request
May 2009

Hi Anna,
Returned and left for the lake but I wanted to let you know how much we enjoyed the tour. You services were above and beyond. We were very impressed with your knowledge. Please know that we will highly recommend your services should the occasion arise.

Best to you,
Sandy Vincent
USA
contacts upon request
August 2008

"My husband and I toured St. Petersburg with Anna last year. We found her to be an excellent guide. Her English is superb, her knowledge of St. Petersburg and environs very extensive and her ability to organize a tour, get tickets without long waiting time on queues, and arrange for a wonderful, safe, reliable driver with a comfortable Mercedes was perfect. We have traveled a lot and found Anna to be one of the best guides we have ever had. We recommend her without reservation.
Hope you have a wonderful trip.

Wilma Harrison
wilmaharrison@optonline.net
June 2008

Dear Anna,
We wanted to send along our thanks to you for making our trip to St. Petersburg a truly remarkable experience. Rather than taking tour options where passengers are crammed into buses and rushed through sites, we wanted to do St. Petersburg our way. The service and support you provided from pre-trip planning to obtaining our own Russian visas was easy and highly reliable. You tailored a most enjoyable tour, for just the two of us, taking into consideration what we wanted to see, but also giving us glimpses of the real Russia through your amusing and fascinating stories. You clearly take pride in your city, passing along your wealth of knowledge on art, architecture and Russian history through your enthusiasm and engaging personality. One of the highlights of our trip was the evening canal cruise taken during the white nights of summer. Our photos managed to capture something of that special light. We only spent two days and one night with you, but we have come away with unforgettable memories and a special place in our hearts for St. Petersburg.

Don & Vivian Myers
Canadians from Bern, Switzerland"
June 2008

"Dear Anna,
Just a short note to thank you for arranging the wonderful tour of the palaces at Pushkin, we really enjoyed the day. Olga was such a pleasure as a guide, her commentary was informative and entertaining, she is obviously very knowledgeable about her topic. She was very engaging and so patient with all of our questions.
The guided tour to Tsarkoe Selo was the highlight of our trip to St Petersburg.
Please pass along our thanks to Olga; tell her that we loved the pie shop.
If any of my friends decide to visit St Petersburg, I will certainly recommend they get in touch with you.
Thanks again, Rob"

Robert Lachance
June 2008

"Dear Anna & Julianna,
Thank you very much in helping make my friends' stay in St Petersburg very enjoyable. They had a fantastic time. They really enjoyed their tour.

Thank you again. Raquel Beale"
April 2008

Anna, Mrs.Futaba Yu, Anton (the driver)

"Dear Anna, Thank you for a very informative and enjoyable tour of St Petersburg. You have presented St Petersburg with great knowledge and compassion of its history and present day events. We have become great admirers of St Petersburg all because of your very well guided tour".

Lawrence & Futaba Yu
Singapore
miyabi2@gol.com
February 2008

"Dear Anna
thank you so much for being our tour guide for our short time in Russia. We very much appreciated your expertise and knowledge and I will highly recommend you to anyone i kinow who may travel to St Petersburg in the future.

thanks again
Stephen"
Stephen Elliott & Eva
January 2008

    "Dear Anna,
    I just wanted to thank you for being our guide in St. Petersburg, and for making the trip so special. We loved everything you arranged for us. I could spend a week in the Hermitage looking at the Impressionst and Post Impressionist paintings!
    If anyone I know is going to St. Petersburg, I will be sure to recommend your services to them.

All the best,
Dorothy Burton"
djburton100@yahoo.com
June 2007

"I came to St Petersburg needing to put together quite a specialised itinerary and found Anna absolutely first class. Her preparation and organisation of my trip was superb and made it a really memorable stay. Anna's translation and interpreting was excellent and her wonderful knowledge and enthusiasm for the city always shone through. I highly recommend her as a guide."

Mike Jones
mikejones_owl@hotmail.com
March 2007

Dear Anna:
Thanks again to you and Elena for the wonderful introduction to St. Petersburg. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting you and hearing, not only your personal stories, but your wonderful historical perspectives. You took great care of us and we appreciate that very much. Please give our regards to Elena.

Mary Kay Brennan
Mrbandmkb@aol.com
September, 2006

    "Dear Anna,
    Thank again for the wonderful day we spent with you at Catherine Palace and Peterhof. It was a long day, but truly awesome.
    I am happy we got the opportunity to visit your country and beautiful city. We will have many happy memories".

Regards,
Doriel and Carlisle

"We had a great two day visit with you!"
Linda Ducruet linda@ducruetsearch.com

"We spent one wonderful week at end of January 2005 in St Petersburg with Anna as our guide. We wanted to experience St Petersburg in a way that would not have been possible as part of a large tour. Anna designed an itinerary around our interests and shared her beautiful city with us. Since my husband is a hockey fan who sorely missed the season in the US this year... Anna arranged excellent seats at a hockey game in St Petersburg Ice Palace. She satisfied our need to experience Russian winter and also see something a bit off the beaten track with a trip to Kronstadt. The beauty of the Gulf of Finland and this Naval town in winter was breathtaking. My husband wanted to visit a particular painting at the Hermitage and we spent one day there. Anna's level of attention to her client is extraordinary. She is extremely knowledgeable and always professional. You leave feeling that you have begun to understand something about the spirit of the Russian people and St Petersburg. I really cant recommend her highly enough in this note and so I would welcome requests for references."

Joan and Charles ONeill
cjoneill71@yahoo.com
pictures from the trip

"Anna was our guide for four days in St. Petersburg. Her four tours (one day a walking/subway tour of St. Petersburg, one day by car to Pavlovsk and to Pushkin, one day at the Hermitage, and one day by hydrofoil to Peterhof) filled four wonderful days. Her knowledge of Russian history and culture are extensive, her English is excellent, and she never tired of showing us her delightful city. I highly recommend using her services if you are looking for an energetic, interested, knowledgeable, and very reasonably priced guide."

Dorothy Rubinoff
drubinoff@rogers.com
pictures from the trip

"Most importantly, thank you, thank you, thank you for making our two days in St. Petersburg the very best time we have ever spent in your city in our many visits. Your knowledge of the city (architecture, art, history, economics, ever day life, etc.) is absolutely outstanding, your idea of the canal cruise was brilliant as was the cruise itself, your restaurant suggestions were great, our time together in the Hermitage was the best we have ever had in that museum, your English is superb, your fees are, if anything, too low for the services provided, and we could go on and on.
"Simply put you are an outstanding guide for St. Petersburg, and on top of that a truly delightful, lovely young lady with whom it was our pleasure to share time. Once again, thank you for a memorable time".

Steve & Catherine Schifter
stephan.schifter@comcast.net

     "Mr. & Mrs. Y. A. Tittle have known Anna for approximately seven years. They were on a cruise in Russia and Anna happened to be their guide. They were very impressed with her knowledge of history, language skills, river cruises and walking tours. Two or three years later they returned to St. Petersburg and Anna arranged a wonderful excursion for them. She is exceptionally well versed in languages, knows so much of the history of Russia, especially St. Petersburg. Andrei does the river and canal cruises, usually with Anna narrating.
     "My husband and I were privileged to visit Anna two years ago and Anna and Andrei (her husband) conducted a tour for us that was outstanding. Again, the knowledge of history, knowing all the beautiful palaces, the art, etc. It was a most delightful experience for us. We plan to revisit them in the near future.
     "We are confident if you choose Anna as your guide she will provide you with an outstanding trip. Just inform her of your interests and she will design a trip especially for you. She will also include theater, symphony, ballet tickets, car tours, etc.
     "If you have any questions please feel free to mail me at: maraquistain@yatittleins.com"

Melba Araquistain
maraquistain@yatittleins.com

Just a note to thank you for providing us with a wonderful experience while visiting St. Petersburg. While our time was limited we visited so much and received a massive amount of information. We hope to return one day and take in even more of the exciting city. Let us know if there is anyway we can help you in the future. Thank You,

Jamee and David Phillips
jameephillips@cox.net

"St. Petersburg is a beautiful city. My only regret is that I was not able to stay longer and see more. I very much appreciated your professional guiding services. Your knowledge of the history and architecture of the city made my visit much more meaningful. If I ever have the chance to return (and I hope to) I will definitely will be contacting you again."

Hugh Wenger,
Pennsylvania
HEWENGER@aol.com

"We can't thank you enough for all you did to make our trip so special. We did a number of things that were off the beaten track, and did them well, thanks to your expert guidance. I was especially impressed with the translation services you provided at Smolny.
"The day you planned for us with David and Susann was truly fantastic. The boat trip was incredibly beautiful--even better than we had expected. Thank you for taking good care of our friends the next day as well."

James Baker
baker634@fctvplus.net

Anna, we had such a wonderful time in St Petersburg with you. Thank you so much for making the trip special. I'm so glad we could become friends in the four days we spent together. We felt so comfortable with you. That means a lot to us.

Carmen Schiavone
carmends@comcast.net
2004

"During early December 2000, I experienced a pleasant tour provided by Anna throughout the beautiful city of St. Petersburg. Anna is a very pleasant lady, who displays mush knowledge of St. Petersburg. I feel that whoever takes a tour guided by Anna, would be quite comfortable with her and satisfied upon the given tour."

Michael G. Stevens
10072 Custer Circle
Orlando, Fl 32817