Experience Builder

Real tank off-road driving: ravines, water obstacles, 45 min of adrenaline

Fire AK-74, Makarov pistol, Glock and sniper rifle with an instructor

Free flight in SPb's largest wind tunnel: briefing, suit, 2–4 min flight

30 min over palaces and embankments — a clear aerial view of the city

Guided snowmobile tour: forest trails, frozen lakes, gear included

Legendary Soviet jeep through Karelian forests: fords, mud, tank ruts. You drive or ride shotgun

A real icebreaker crushes Neva ice in winter: deck access, engine room, hot tea. Only December–March

Real steam locomotive, Nicholas Express interior, 1 hour ride

Night outing with a photographer: hot tea, blankets, tripods. Aurora not guaranteed

Traditional Russian troika: three horses, bells, snow — 1 hour

Folk games, sledding, blini with halal caviar and honey, effigy burning in Catherine Park

Europe's largest flat waterfall (10.7 m) and Karelian birch collection

Husky sled ride through snowy forest with an instructor

Snowmobile transfer to a Saami village: reindeer feeding, lavvu tent, hot tea, photos in national dress

From a safe platform with an instructor: perch, pike, whitefish. Gear, thermos, hot fish soup from the catch — halal

One of Russia's oldest zoos (1865): 600+ species, kids' petting area

Feed reindeer, short ride, photos with the animals

After storms, amber washes ashore. Search with nets in water and on sand — keep what you find

Pelmeni, blini, borscht — cook with a chef (halal meat)

Bake Karelian kalitki with potato and millet, drink herbal tea — 1.5 h

Real charcoal samovar, baranki crackers, Karelian berry jam, herbal blends. Stories of Russian tea traditions

Fresh Ladoga trout or whitefish: salting, alder chips, hot smoking on the shore. Tasting with kalitki

Naval fortress: Naval Cathedral, Forts Island park, submarine museum

Live music, traditional Cossack dances, costumes — 1 h 50 min

15 tokens included: sea battle, basketball, hockey — USSR nostalgia

Ballet tickets at the legendary Mariinsky — Swan Lake, Nutcracker

The world's only Amber Room — extended access with an art historian

Lit underground mine: marble halls, stalactites, mining history

Ancient tradition of Russian tsars: falcons, hawks, owls. Glove perching, photos, falconer's stories

Underground Cold War command post: 30 m below ground, blast doors, comms, gas masks. Tour with a military historian

9 imperial Fabergé eggs, the Rudolf collection, private entry and an hour with an art-historian guide

Yusupov princes' palace on the Moika: state rooms, private theatre and the cellar exhibition on Rasputin's murder

Mariinsky tickets: Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Spartacus — middle tier, delivered to your hotel

Traditional banya with venik brooms, steam and ice plunge — 2–3 hours

Private banya: venik steam, lake swim, kalitki pastry tea

Russian winter tradition: plunge into an ice hole, then hot banya and herbal tea. Instructor and robes included