Perhaps the best located hotel in Novosibirsk for those who need to be right in the city centre. A two minutes walk from the Lenin Square, ten minute drive from Novosibirsk Glavniy train station, and about 40 minute drive from Tolmachyovo airport.
Tsentralnaya Hotel is a budget option, covering the basics like free wifi, free parking, ATMs, air tickets office, sushi bar and a buffet, laundry, ironing and hairdressers.
The hotel offers studios, as well as deluxe and standard double and single rooms.
This is a satellite town, some 20 km to the south from the centre of Novosibirsk, amid enchanting woodland close to the Ob Sea. Accessible by local train or minibus from the city, too.
Set up in Soviet times by one of Russia’s greatest minds, mathematician Mikhail Lavrentyev, it allowed the young forward-thinking scientists who moved East from Moscow and St Petersburg a pleasant lifestyle, enabling them to work successfully.
It is home to 32 institutes and researching centres, the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Novosibirsk State University.
One of Novosibirsk's gems, Nord Castle is described as a 'luxury boutique hotel', with a very good quality spa and wellness centre, indoor pool, fitness centre, and free wifi.
Rooms are air conditioned and spacious, with balconies overlooking one of the city’s most beautiful pine forest in the city, Zayeltsovskiy Bor.
The Nord Castle attracts a high number of returning guests, who come both for business and pleasure. The restaurant, with a nice summer terrace, offers a good selection of Russian, French and Mediterranean dishes, and boasts an an extensive wine collection.
A Soviet-era hotel which has undergone substantial and welcome renovation and now offers good value for money 3* facilities for its guests.
Very good location on Lenina street makes it convenient for most amenities in the city centre.
With apartments, business deluxe, business single, business double and comfort class accommodation, it aims to meet most tastes.
A great new addition to the Novosibirsk hotel scene, especially for business travellers, as well as for tourists doing the Trans-Siberian in style, who fancy being pampered on a four star stopover.
The level of comfort is world standard and should ensure Western visitors thoroughly enjoy their Siberian exile!
Located in a quiet corner of the city centre, the hotel offers a good a la carte restaurant, called ‘Paris’, a bar and 24 hour room service.
Apparently the only USSR museum in Russia, opened in 2009 and situated in a pretty 1917-built wooden house, nestled between the city centre office and residence blocks.
So far it is more a chaotic collection of all kinds of items from the Soviet times, from iron hair-straightener to an old fashioned TV set, and famous Soviet perfumes, rather than a systemised museum exposition-but it is still worth a visit!
Some of the items are for sale.
As a reminder of its Soviet past, a vast brooding statue of Lenin still glowers over a city centre that has already lost much of its Communist feel.
Good for souvenir photos, as a meeting point and just as beginning of your walk or drive about the city.
You may see just married couples visiting here and sipping champagne. Pleasant gardens around this square and open air exhibitions.
A modern Western-style hostel popular with travellers on a budget, including those seeking a night or two off the Trans-Siberian train.
Seen as great value for money with good security. Run by entrepreneurs Marina Nikiforova and Ksenia Chernikova, who say on their excellent website: ‘Attention backpackers and penny savers! Good news from Siberia. Recent university grads launched the first Western-type hostel in Novosibirsk.
'The city is notorious for lack of affordable decent accommodations. Dostoevsky Hostel: great location, English-speaking team and everything you need during your budget travel’.
The luxurious new 175-room Marriott is changing the face of the city in readiness for a 2014 opening.
Perfectly located at Novosibirsk's Tolmachevo Airport, ideal for both arriving and departing passengers, with wi-fi and good conference hall, the hotel also offers gym, swimming pool, two saunas, cosy lobby bar and a restaurant.
Sky Port is some 17 km from the city centre, so about 40 minutes drive, depending on traffic. There are 149 rooms - standard, studio and apartments - all equipped with conditioners, satellite TV and minibars.
There is a choice of smoking and non-smoking rooms, as well as family rooms and rooms for people with limited physical abilities.