May Day Getaways: Suzdal Tops List of Priciest Hotel Stays in Russia

If you’re planning a trip for Russia’s May holidays, be ready to open your wallet wider in Suzdal. New data from the travel service T-Travel, reported by Interfax, shows that this historic town has the most expensive hotel rates for the long weekend.

A single night in Suzdal or in Vityazevo, a resort village near Anapa, will set you back about 10,600 rubles. By comparison, a room in Kazan costs 7,300 rubles, in St. Petersburg it’s 5,600 rubles, and in Moscow the average is 5,100 rubles. Interestingly, prices in five of the most expensive destinations have actually dropped compared to last year.

But not everywhere is getting cheaper. The average nightly rate in Krasnodar jumped 21 percent to 4,500 rubles, a spike tied to the city’s airport reopening to full traffic. Other notable increases include Yekaterinburg (up 12 percent), Nizhny Novgorod (5 percent), and Vladivostok (3 percent).

For travelers on a tighter budget, the best deals are in Maikop at 2,500 rubles a night, followed by Adler (3,400 rubles), Stavropol and Novorossiysk (both 3,500 rubles), Astrakhan (3,600 rubles), and Mineralnye Vody (3,900 rubles).

Earlier reports highlighted the nation’s most extravagant single booking this May: a Moscow hotel room that went for a staggering 294,000 rubles per night.