Just returned from St. Petersburg. The hotel is located in the heart of historic city. The Borsalino restaurant was excellent. I'm italian, and I don't make this comment very often. Room was very confortable and very quite. Staff at the reception was very helpful. Can reserve seats at Marijnski Theatre if you want. You can also use the facilities of hotel Astoria, just next door (5 stars hotel). Would recommend this hotel.

The hotel is located close to major attractions. It is clean and relatively well kept. The rooms are simple, amenities are elementary and basic. The prices for stay and for services are very high - well above the quality of services rendered. The Internet service works, but the price for use of the service is the highest I have ever paid in any hotel ($32 per day). Copies at the business center are 80 cents per page (no discount for high volume). The guards appear to be heavily engaged in illicit activity - mainly controlling the traffic of their favorite prostitutes and drug dealers into and out of the hotel.

We had the most amazing time. The Hotel was lovely. The staff very helpful and the restaurants really very good. The breakfast buffet was superb. Everything about the Hotel was excellent. The whole experience was so memorable for all the right reasons. I would recommend this Hotel to anyone I knew planning a visit to St Petersburg.

I stayed at the Angleterre in October of 2006 and really liked it, but this time I was a little disappointed. I think my main reason was that it was August rather than October---meaning that the prices were higher and it didn't seem like you got as good a value for your money. During our October stay we had nice perks (and cheaper room price) like free breakfast, free access to the office center/lounge on our floor with computer and printer, slippers, tea/coffee maker, and nightly turn down service. Maybe those things aren't absolutely essential, but they make you appreciate the hotel a bit more. The hotel feels like it could use a renovation, the wooden floors in the rooms are quite scratched and the furniture seems a bit overused. And the breakfast is ridiculously overpriced--$40 for a decent buffet but nothing spectacular--and identical from day to day so it gets old after a few days. And you are basically trapped, because we couldn't find any other breakfast place within a few minutes walk---so if you have time to take a walk further out for breakfast you'll be ok, but we had to leave for meetings by 9:30 most mornings so just didn't have time. And most of the staff (especially the restaurant "hostesses") could use some customer service training---I know it's Russia and not Disney World, but there are some basic rules of civility that everyone should follow. At times you are made to feel as if you are imposing on them for visiting their nearly empty restaurant. We were frowned upon and made to sit in the smoking section for not having a dinner reservation when we were practically the only people there. Then when we did make a reservation the next day we had to wait about 10 minutes at the table, then finally had to ask for a server. I would say that the servers are more friendly in general but twice in one meal they got our order wrong and we were made to feel it was our fault. The absolutely best thing about this hotel is the location---right across from St. Isaac's Cathedral. And this time our room had a view facing the dome, so that was a bonus. Next time I go to St. Petersburg I will try a new hotel.

It's a few months since we left St Petersburg, but it will be a lifetime before we forget it and we've already booked to go back. The Angleterre is billed as a five star hotel and in truth it probably falls slightly below most people's vision of five star. BUT, it is a great hotel, with a fantastic restaurant, superb location and great staff. Located on St Issac's square the hotel is opposite the stunning cathedral and adjoins the prestigious Astoria hotel. The Astoria is very grand and equally decadent (well worth having dinner there) and the Angleterre is rightly thougfht of as its modern, cheaper counterpart. Rooms are nice, clean but a little lacking in luxury - but in a city such as this I can't see why you'd be spending too much time in there. They are more than adequate as a base camp but unless you can go for a suite the rooms are a little small. The one obvious failing of the hotel is its comparative lack of public rooms - the foyer area is very transactional and certainly not a place to hang around. The restaurant 'Borsalino', is in my opinion absolutely fantastic. Cool, chic but without being pretentious. Lots of stylish dishes and plenty of variety - their borsch is divine! They also have the finest club sandwich I've ever tasted!!! The breakfast is a little disapointing - plenty of it, but if you want a good full English get there early because the food does tend to get left to cool, but I'm being picky. The staff are fantastic, accomodating and friendly and there is even a glass of champagne on arrival. One word of warning - if you intend to take a trip to somewhere a little out of town - Tsarskoe Selo / Pushkin etc a 'taxi' booked through the hotel is rather expensive, as they tend to order high end chauffer style transport. Just make sure you know what you're booking. Location is the real selling point with this hotel. You can literally walk anywhere without too much effort. The Winter Palace, Yussupov Palace, Summer Palace, Nevsky Prospect and Kazan Cathedral are all very close by. I think the Angleterre is a great hotel. What it lacks in five star luxury is more than made up for in location and the restaurant. For anyone wanting to visit St Petersburg at a reasonable cost and with the ability to walk to almost every 'must see' it is spot on.