The Solovetsky Islands are located between the Summer coast of the White Sea and the Karelian Pomerania, in the Onega Bay. The Solovetsky archipelago includes six large and about 70 small islands.
In Solovki, the tourist season lasts from the beginning of summer to October, but you can go to the islands in winter too. To explore the main attractions of the archipelago, it will take at least three days. In addition, a reserve of a couple of days is needed in case of inclement weather, so communication with the mainland is interrupted. Since it is quite cool here in June, it is necessary to bring warm clothes with you. It will take mosquito repellent and comfortable shoes.
All hotels (Solovki) listed below are almost entirely booked by travel companies during the season. But you can try your luck by contacting directly. Some are closed off-season, others continue to work with guests on an individual basis. In this article we will look at the most popular hotels. Solovki is not the poorest region in terms of the availability of hotels, but some of them are designed to be populated only during the season, and some are year-round. Let's consider different options.
Solovki, Petersburg Hotel
Hotel Petersburg is located near the historical Solovetsky Monastery.
It offers tourists - double, triple and quadruple rooms. There is also a conference room, tour desk, exhibition center.
Hotel "Solo"
The room stock of this institution is 38 rooms. Over the past 3 years, all public areas have been repaired, rooms and utilities have been put in order. The appearance of the fence, building and facade was further improved.
Hotel "Solo" (Solovki) is suitable for every traveler. It offers nice rooms with excellent service, and all for a reasonable price. In this place you can relax in comfort and coziness, as well as gain strength for further impressions. This hotel is no different from expensive hotels - neither the level of service, nor the level of comfort.
Hotel "Solovki Hotel"
“Solovki Hotel” is located in one of the most beautiful places of the islands on the White Sea coast, not far from the Solovetsky Monastery. In the traditional style - made of wood and using the technology of the real Russian North - this institution was built, which is not the case with many hotels. Solovki attract visitors including its interesting architecture. The mentioned institution is located in 6 buildings, of which 5 are designed to accommodate guests, and in the 6th there is a porter service, a bar and a restaurant. At the disposal of visitors are 46 double rooms: 7 junior suites, 35 standard, as well as 4 deluxe rooms. The junior suites and standard rooms are equipped with a shower, while the suites have a bathtub. The hotel can accept guests with disabilities.
Here is the restaurant "Solovetskaya Izba", which is designed for 100 seats. It offers guests delicious European and Russian cuisine. In addition, the hotel has a cozy bar and 2 small rooms for seminars, banquets, meetings.
Club Hotel Shelter
Before the people who arrived at Solovki, the Shelter Hotel is happy to open its doors. Two wooden log houses have 10 double rooms, while some of them can be accommodated by three of them. It offers guests all the conveniences of modern civilization, rare for Solovki, including a shower with warm water, a telephone, and heating from a boiler room. At the same time, you can relax from the indifference of the usual European-style renovation, having lived in the cozy atmosphere of a provincial stylized house.
The hotel has its own landscaped area where you can smoke fish or fry kebabs. Only for the guests of the "Shelter" there is a small cafe with a real fireplace room, where you can order three meals a day at home. Nearby is a bathhouse, in which after a day full of impressions you can fully relax.
Tourist complex "Solovki"
If we consider local hotels, Solovki is a tourist complex, which is located in a forest near the monastery on the coast of the picturesque Varyazhsky Lake. The tourist complex consists entirely of wooden houses, each of them has all the amenities (including a shower with warm water, heating from its boiler room).
There is a Russian bathhouse on the shore of this lake. The hotel has its own landscaped area. There is also a cozy restaurant with a bar and a fireplace room, where you can order homemade three meals a day (paid at will and additionally on the spot). For the period of long field trips, you can also take meals with dry rations.
Hotel "Green Village"
There are only 17 rooms created in accordance with traditional European standards: two two-room suites, two VIP suites, three junior suites, 9 standard double rooms, as well as a security room. Each room has amenities (toilet, shower, hairdryer), TV, the suites also have refrigerators, which is not the case with all hotels. Solovki attracts more and more tourists every year, due to which the appearance of local hotels improves. So, in the "Green Village" flights of stairs, a hall, and relaxation rooms are decorated with handicrafts, which were carried out by the caring hands of the guest house. Home atmosphere, comfort and coziness increase the mood.
It offers guests a refectory with dishes of Pomeranian cuisine and home cooking (there is a peasant's own farm), a sports bar with TV on a flat large screen, a Russian real sauna-heater, a conference room for fifteen seats.
Complex "Berth - Eurohostel"
“Dock” is a hotel (Solovki), which can be fully attributed to tourist hotels of high European class. The complex was built in 2004. It is located on the shores of Lake Varyazhskoye, 1.5 km from the Solovetsky Monastery.
Dining is organized in a cozy summer cafe, which provides a home three-time menu. For a period of long field trips, you can take it with you with a dry ration.
This hotel has its own landscaped area, in this place there is a place for comfortable cooking of barbecue, in addition, a dance floor.
Reviews
Reading the reviews of tourists about local hotels, you understand that in this place the hotels are successfully trying to recreate the atmosphere of old Russian houses, filled with comfort and hospitality. Judging by the comments, only the fact that the bulk of these institutions do not work in the winter is frustrating to vacationers.