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Byline: Anna Nemtsova
If there is any doubt that Moscow has arrived as a high-end tourist destination, just try booking a hotel room. Accommodations in the hotel-starved Russian capital are already going for $1,000 a night--not including breakfast. The number of travelers to Moscow is projected to increase fivefold, up to 5 million, within the next two years. Where will they all stay? Fortunately, the city is undergoing a hotel-building boom. And given the mega-high real estate prices, five-star accommodations seem the only way to go.
Among the newest arrivals, the 11-story Ritz-Carlton offers 334 guest rooms and suites facing Tverskaya Street and Red Square. For $700, waiters will serve a tsar's breakfast--complete with Beluga caviar and champagne--on the terrace overlooking Lenin's Tomb (from $1,400 to $18,000 per night; ...
Source: HighBeam Research, With Rooms to Grow.(The Good Life; TRAVEL)(Moscow hotels)(Brief...