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The grand hotels of Moscow
The Metropol and the National face the Kremlin and the Bolshoi, The Carlton looks down Tverskaya, the Savoy hides on Rozhdestvenka and the Hotel Ukraina rises over the river. Here is where to stay, district by district.
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Image courtesy of © Nikolay Andreyev · Public domain via Wikimedia CommonsMoscow’s great hotels sit within a few minutes’ walk of Red Square. The Hotel Metropol, built between 1899 and 1905, is the city’s Art Nouveau landmark on Teatralny Proezd, facing the Bolshoi. The Hotel National, opened in 1903, stands on the corner of Mokhovaya and Tverskaya, looking across Manege Square to the Kremlin. Up the street, The Carlton, Moscow (formerly The Ritz-Carlton) has 334 rooms. The Savoy, opened in 1913, is a smaller, older-world address, and the Hotel Ukraina, one of the “Seven Sisters”, rises 206 metres on a bend of the Moskva.
By the Kremlin and the Bolshoi
The Hotel Metropol, at Teatralny Proezd 2, has Savva, its restaurant, under the same roof. The Hotel National, on Manege Square, keeps the Grand Café Dr. Zhivago on its ground floor.
Tverskaya and Kuznetsky Most
The Carlton, Moscow, stands at the foot of Tverskaya, and the Ararat Park Hotel (formerly the Ararat Park Hyatt, built in 2002) is on Neglinnaya, behind the Bolshoi. The Savoy is on Rozhdestvenka.
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Image courtesy of © Andrey Yachmenov yachmenov · CC0 via Wikimedia CommonsOn the river
The Hotel Ukraina, run today as the Radisson Collection Hotel, Moscow, is at Kutuzovsky Prospekt 2/1, with views over the river towards the White House embankment and Moscow City.
Stay by the Kremlin to walk everywhere; the Hotel Ukraina is the one for river views and the Seven Sisters.
Our advice: ask for a room facing the Kremlin or the Bolshoi, and book early for the New Year holidays.
Why it's on our list
- By the Kremlin and the Bolshoi
- Tverskaya and Kuznetsky Most
- On the river
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