We chose this hotel for its excellent location near many of St Petersburg's famous sights and were very happy with this aspect. However, from the beginning, they made a huge error which affected our opinion of every other aspect. From the selection of rooms offered on hotels.com, I selected (and paid the price for) a room described as SO Club Panorama, which promised a nice view. However, when we checked in, we were put in a room on the second floor, overlooking a road, which not only meant no view, but also more noise. Their excuse was that the hotel was full, which, given that I had booked about 6 months before our stay, made no sense, and we could only surmise that someone whom they considered more important than us had booked later and we had been bumped out. Other than that, the room was spacious and comfortable, but we felt the hotel, in general, tries too hard to be trendy.