Residents of St. Petersburg are already preparing for the velvet season. They are actively buying tickets to go on vacation at the end of the warm period of the year. According to data on demand for train tickets, the most popular destination for residents of St. Petersburg from August to the end of October is Moscow. The average cost of a trip is 3.6 thousand rubles, and the average booking horizon is just over a month, according to a study by the "Yandex Travel" service.
"Other popular cities that residents of St. Petersburg plan to visit are Rostov-on-Don (average ticket price - 6,500 rubles) and Nizhny Novgorod (average ticket price - 4,300 rubles). On average, tickets to these cities are booked 66 and 56 days in advance, respectively," the company notes.
The top 10 most popular cities in Russia for St. Petersburg residents during the velvet season include trips to Simferopol (average ticket price - 8.1 thousand rubles), Anapa (7.5 thousand rubles), Sevastopol (8.5 thousand rubles), and Krasnodar (6.9 thousand rubles). Tickets to these destinations are usually purchased about 2 months in advance.
The most budget-friendly destinations are cities near St. Petersburg such as Pskov (1.1 thousand rubles), Tver (2.7 thousand rubles), and Yaroslavl (2.8 thousand rubles). The booking period for these destinations ranges from 42 to 51 days.
In popular hotels in the Kaliningrad region, there are already no available rooms for the velvet season by mid-September in Zelenogradsk and Svetlogorsk.
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