Definitely do and see 1. Svetlanskaya Street and city center in general Vladivostok has many buildings from the end of XIX and beginning of XX centuries and they are awesome. It is easy to walk around and check many of them and if I were you that would be the first thing, I would do…

Before you come to Vladivostok you probably will find out, that this city is located near the sea, so of course you will think that seafood is everywhere. Well, there are way more Chinese and Korean restaurants than seafood restaurants. I will give a list of places with very VERY tasty food, but it is…

Obviously, Hotels.com, Booking.com and Airbnb.com are at your service nowadays, but let me give you few advices. Stay in a city center. Most of the interesting places are located there. Streets like Aleutskaya, Svetlanskaya (from 1 to 60), Naberezhnaya, Semenovskaya, Fontannaya, Okeanskiy Prospect (from 1 to 30), Uborevicha and others form the city center. Also…

Usually, people from Vladivostok who have an opportunity to travel try to shop anywhere else, but Vladivostok. Not a best place for shopping in my opinion as well. But you can benefit from exchange rate a lot nowadays, everything will be cheap for you if your homeland currency didn’t change its cost compare to US…

Vladivostok has many bars and nightclubs. My general recommendation for foreigners is do not go there for the safety reasons. Many people are drinking and at nighttime, it is much easier to get in trouble and even though places are safe in general, have security and might be fun, better to occupy your time with…

When is the best time to come to Vladivostok? The answer is easy – in September. Most of the time the weather in September is perfect for anybody in a world. It’s not too hot and not cold yet. You can still go swimming if you really want to. When is it a good time…

Most of the foreigners come to Vladivostok via Vladivostok International Airport (code VVO). First of all, here is it’s website – http://vvo.aero you can find a lot of information there. This airport is all right. It is new, it is not very big, but it has good places for coffee, food and a duty free…

Oh you, asking so tricky questions. If you’d  lived few years in Russia and came to Vladivostok and asked me this question, I would definitely tell you “yes, get a car”. But since you are a foreigner… Well, let me put it down like this. You can get it, it is cheap, it is more…

If you are wondering is it safe in Russia and in Vladivostok in particular, yes, it is safe in general. But you have to be alert and follow basic rules. Take care of your personal belongings all the time. I wouldn’t say that there are that many of pick-pocketing, but you can lose your stuff…

You really have two options: public buses and taxi. And feet of course. Buses Buses are cheap and go almost everywhere in a city. For foreigners it might not be the best option, because there is no single map in English inside buses, most of the bus stops don’t have it’s name written anywhere in…