We recently stayed at the Pribaltyiskaya while on tour in the Baltic State and Russia. According to the tour guide, the hotel was built in 1980 for the Olympic Games held in Moscow (the US did not participate that year). Apparently some water events were held in St Petersberg.
Of the 7 hotels we stayed at on this tour, this one was by far the worst. The room was not clean, hair in the bathroom and dust everywhere. The air conditioning was a joke, the vent located on top of the desk. There was no thermostat , only control of the blower (low, med or high) but the high barely had enough power behind it to move any air.I guess in normal conditions this would be okay but we were there during the recent heatwave. The rooms have no in-room safes either. When showering I noticed a strange metalic smell which we later determind to be rust. When we filled the sink, the water was yellowish.The included breakfast was barely edible and sparse. For the first time in my life I could not eat the bacon. I cannot tell you name of a better hotel in St Petersburg but I know there must be better choices.

There are probably much better places to stay in St. Petersburg. Pribaltiskaya is a huge hotel (> 2000 beds) in a remote location, nothing worth to see in the direct surrounding of it. It takes app. 30 minutes to go downtown by bus or metro (10 minutes distance). Service is chaotic, breakfast low standard. Rooms are ok. WiFi costs extra. Prices in the bar / restaurant much too high. Never order a taxi in the hotel, the ones they get you are double of the normal price!

I stayed at Park Inn Pribaltiskaya from 28 Sept till 05 Oct . The rooms are big and comfortable . The room service have no provision to make your food warm ( micro wave) if you are carrying your food from outside. I opted for a laundry service ( 29.09.2009) and paid for the charges at the time of delivery at my room for which I was given a receipt. But while checking out I was asked for making of payment once again as their computer shows the due amount ( Ru 200.00) . However, I was lucky enough to keep my bill with me from the first day and even after showing the bill it took nearly 15 mins. for them to settle.

I stayed at the Park Inn Pribaltiskaya hotel for several nights in June ’09 as part of a tour group. The hotel is a former Soviet -era Intourist behemoth (1000s of rooms!) recently brought up to date as a member of the Park Inn group. But although the hotel has lots of useful services you would expect of an at least three-star hotel and the rooms now have modern Park Inn-branded furnishings (though the underfloor heating in the bathroom can make it stuffy) most will find its location too remote to select this hotel as a first choice.

But what to do if you’re part of an organised tour and this is your hotel? Don’t panic. On offer within, or accessed from, the hotel are: a number of restaurants serving a range of cuisines (but don’t expect the hotel staff to be able to adapt anything or deal with vegetarians, dairy free or gluten free requests – their English is simply not that expansive. Stock up on snacks elsewhere), a breakfast room with decent selection to fit most palates, room service, several bars, three souvenir shops and stands (very friendly and helpful staff, especially the kiosk to the left of reception), ATMs, internet access, a water park and spa, and a view out to the Gulf of Finland

If you want to get into St Petersburg the hotel runs a private, though limited, day time shuttle service with several departures during the day though you will need to ask the reception staff about this (they give out printed timetables), as it’s not in the hotel room information guide. Although others here have noted you can’t use the shuttle if you are part of a tour group, we didn’t find any information to confirm this.

Alternatively, a local bus line takes can take you right into the heart of central St Petersburg and leaves from the bus stop across the plaza directly in front of the hotel. It costs about 18 roubles one-way. Several of our group used this bus without any problems; hotel concierge staff can provide further information. There is also a smaller local bus that does a run between this bus stop and the nearest Metro station.

If you need water, snacks, soft drinks there is a small supermarket in the building to the left of the hotel (on exit) with a decent selection of staples, including fruit. There is also a small pharmacy located here too.

But even with extensive services on offer in the hotel, the comfortable rooms, and the transport on the doorstep, I wouldn’t recommend staying here as why waste valuable time “commuting” twenty to thirty minutes into the centre of town? If you have a choice, select from the large number of Western style or updated Soviet-era hotels within the central city instead.