Where to meet and how to plan a vacation for the New Year 2022 in Russia, what are the prices for tourists? Consider the best destinations for a January weekend or winter vacation with children, find out the cost of the trip yourself and select the most optimal accommodation options. Most importantly, we have selected great places to really spend time in an unforgettable setting compared to other popular tourist resorts.
Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi
Active holidays for the New Year in Russia - the first association that arises - Sochi and the ski resort Krasnaya Polyana.
- Weather conditions for rest:
Very comfortable weather, you can forget about frosts. Holidays with children are especially worth noting, the humid climate will only be a plus. The average daily temperature is 8 ° С, but sometimes the air warms up to 18 ° С in spring. In Sochi itself it is windy and sometimes it rains. It is cooler in the mountains and there may be frosts at night, but during the day, as a rule, the temperature is above zero. Pleasing enough long daylight hours up to 10 hours and sunny weather.
- Flight prices:
Inexpensive tickets have already been sorted out. Now you can fly to Sochi with Aeroflot for an average of 11,300 rubles. The cost of a single flight will cost 6900 rubles one way.
- Where to stay?
The cost of New Year's holidays in Sochi directly depends on the cost of renting housing, very excellent options are booked in the fall, now you can find good hotels, but already far from the ski lifts or in the center of Adler. You can rent a room in a guesthouse for the holidays from 600 rubles. For accommodation, we recommend a cozy apartment with a sea view Studio on Serafimovicha will cost 3150 rubles per day. Accommodation in Krasnaya Polyana is more expensive, so accommodation in the "SPA hotel Belarus" 3 * in the mountains will cost from 5400 rubles.
- What to do on vacation?
Life in the resort town of Sochi in winter is no less bright than in summer. Concerts, attractions, an oceanarium and an autodrome. Lovers of walking excursions will find the slopes of the Caucasus Mountains, gorges, waterfalls on the territory of the huge Sochi National Park. The ski resort Krasnaya Polyana expects not only alpine skiing enthusiasts. Beginners can enroll in ski and freestyle schools, visit an ice rink, climb to a mountain restaurant on a ski lift, or visit the high-altitude art space in the Rosa Khutor resort. For extreme lovers, SKYPARK awaits. With children, you can visit the husky center and mountain water parks.
Baikal (Irkutsk)
Where to spend the New Year holidays in Russia so that the impressions of the trip remain for a long time? It is difficult to think of a place more mysterious and exotic for an exciting vacation than a winter vacation on Lake Baikal.
- Weather conditions for rest:
Irkutsk is a Siberian city. The average daily temperature is -17 ° С, in January warming up to -4 ° С occurs, and at night frosts down to -40 ° С, especially after the 19th. Directly on Baikal it is 3-5 degrees warmer and more sunny days, but stronger winds.
- Flight prices:
Pobeda Airlines sells tickets Moscow-Irkutsk-Moscow during the holidays for 15 808 rubles, a one-way flight will be about 7900 rubles. The flight from the capital will take about 6 hours. You can fly to Ulan-Ude and arrange a vacation in the southern part of the lake.
- Where to stay?
The cost of housing starts at 350 rubles for a hostel stay. An apartment in "Studio on the Bank of the Angara" can be rented for 1000 rubles per day. The name speaks for itself. Hotel Central 4 * in a historic building in the center of Irkutsk will cost 3200 rubles. On the very shore of Lake Baikal, you can stay at the Mayak 4 * hotel with a bath complex and a gorgeous view of the lake. The hotel is especially recommended in February, when you can already walk on the ice or go on excursions. The cost of the room is from 4500 rubles.
- Things to do?
Irkutsk will traditionally have New Year's festivities, an ice town with slides, Christmas trees, skating rinks, New Year's performances for children and shows in large hotel complexes and in the city center on Kirov Square. In the Kayskaya grove it will be possible to feed birds and squirrels, and in the Novaya Dacha shopping and entertainment center you can fly in a wind tunnel. On the bank of the Angara, ski tracks will be equipped for all holidays, there is an opportunity to ride dog sleds, horses or snowmobiles. On Baikal (Eastland ski resort) there is a cable car up the mountain to the “Chersky stone”, you can take a walking tour along the lake shore, arrange fishing or visit the Baikal museums.
- If you decide to relax on Lake Baikal, then the information will definitely come in handy:
Where do we recommend to go for the New Year holidays? If you are staying in Irkutsk, be sure to set aside a day for a trip to the village of Listvyanka, then take a walk around the city and plan a trip (allocate 2-4 days) to Baikalsk to the Sobolinaya Mountain resort. bars with discos.
Karelia. Petrozavodsk. Sortavala
If you think about where to go for the New Year in Russia inexpensively and at the same time spend the holidays outside the box, then Karelia is just such a place.
- Weather conditions for rest:
In Karelia, high air humidity and even a slight frost is felt as strong. Daytime temperatures average -7 ° C and slightly colder at night. Small daylight hours and remoteness from settlements allow you to observe the clearest sky, a huge number of stars and sometimes the aurora.
- Flight prices:
S7 Airlines sells tickets Moscow-Petrozavodsk-Moscow for only 6,930 rubles, and the flight is less than two hours. It takes 5 hours to get from St. Petersburg by the Lastochka train.
- Where to stay?
The minimum cost in Petrozavodsk at the Cottage Inn mini-hotel is from 1000 rubles per room. Clean, cozy rooms with a lake view and their own kitchen are ideal for independent travelers in the winter season. Nice apartment for 3 people - from 2500 rubles. A guest complex with a spa area and a swimming pool on the shores of Lake Ladoga - from 6800 rubles for a house for two. The house has panoramic windows, warm and homely cozy.
- Things to do?
In Karelia there is an opportunity to visit unique parks and reserves, Lake Onega and Ladoga (Valaam Island), Solovetsky Islands and Kizhi. You can visit the non-freezing waterfall, live next to the zoo complex, where bears, lynxes and other predators live in their natural environment. You can arrange a safari in the taiga and lakes by car, hovercraft, snowmobiles, dogs and even a helicopter. The Yalgora ski resort and SPA hotels on the Marcial waters await guests. You can go downhill skiing, sky-boarding, "cheesecake" in Petrozavodsk itself. With children, you can visit the amusement park, "House of the Doll" and go to visit Snegurochka Lumina and Santa Claus Pakkaine.
Altai (Belokurikha)
Choosing a vacation for the New Year 2022 in Russia, many prefer Gorny Altai and its locality, where you can really relax away from the hustle and bustle and problems.
- Weather:
Altai has a mild, windless winter, the average daytime temperature is from -14 to -18 ° С, there are warming up to 0 ° С. More snow falls in the mountains, in the area of Lake Teletskoye.
- Flight prices:
In 4 hours from Moscow, you can fly to Barnaul with an airline, S7 Airlines or Ural Airlines, then transfer to the selected resort. The cost of a round-trip flight is from 17,400 rubles. A flight to Gorno-Altaysk is more expensive - from 22,400 rubles, but this city may be closer to the chosen resort. It is cheaper to fly through Novosibirsk - from 9 540 rubles, but then go more than 400 km.
- Where to stay?
The minimum cost for a room in the Abazhur hostel in Belokurikha is 1100 rubles. The hotel "Spa Resort Kedrovy" from natural cedar is in demand. Accommodation in it from 6,000 rubles per day, not far from the ski lifts. Resort SPA-hotel Belovodye with a water park will cost 8,300 rubles.This is the place where to celebrate the New Year with children is inexpensive and healthy. A visit to the salt room and gym is free, and there are good discounts in the water park. The hotel also offers a course of treatment.
- Things to do?
Visit one of the ski resorts of the Altai Territory and warm up in one of the water parks, for example, in Belokurikha. The most popular ski resorts are located on the shores of Lake Teletskoye. Someone will be interested in the thermal waters of the Belokurikha resort. You can go on a trip to natural attractions: visit Swan Lake, where whooper swans winter, an ice-free emerald-blue lake near the village of Askat or a geyser lake near the village of Aktash.
There is hardly a place where you can hand feed wild bison. The animals return to the bison nursery in the village of Cherga to feed themselves in winter. You can admire the mountain valleys by taking a chair lift to the top of the mountain near the village of Manzherok or in Belokurikha and dine in a cafe-yurt there. Fans of underwater fishing go to Lake Utkul or the Argut River, there are tours for hunters and photo hunters.
St. Petersburg
- Weather conditions for rest:
Winter daytime temperatures average -5 ° С, at night -7 ° С. During the daytime, the air warmed up to 4 ° С in winter. There are strong winds in the city, but it is calm in the ski resorts.
- Flight prices:
The cost of the flight Moscow - St. Petersburg - Moscow is from 3010 rubles, the Pobeda airline flies.
- Where to stay?
Prices for New Year's in Russia for housing in St. Petersburg do not rise much, there are many offers. Accommodation in St. Petersburg hostel from 600 rubles. A good apartment for three Alice in Wonderland will cost from 3800 rubles, and a room for three in the mini-hotel Venice 3 * on Nevsky Prospekt can be rented for 6 600 rubles. Accommodation in the hotel "Moscow" with gorgeous views of the center and the river is popular, the cost of a room in the hotel starts from 6,000 rubles.
- Things to do?
St. Petersburg has an unrealistic number of museums, cathedrals, temples and exhibition halls. During the holidays there will be many shows and concerts, holiday trees, quests and performances for children. Festive events, horse riding, fairs and fireworks will be held at the suburban residences of the Russian emperors: Pavlovo, Peterhof and Lomonosov. You can take exciting excursions with departure for two hours or for several days.
It is worth visiting the Grand Model Russia Museum and seeing the main cities of Russia from above. You can stay in one of the hotels in ski resorts near St. Petersburg and come to the city only on excursions. The closest to the city is Okhta-Park, a 20-minute drive away. There are ski and snowboard schools and a one and a half kilometer skating rink on the territory of the park.
* The examples of hotels in the text are based on two people staying with breakfast.
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