Bike Rental
Skat Prokat. Mountain and road bikes for rent: $10 US per day, $100 US deposit (+ documents), or $200 deposit (without documents). The bikes can be rented in the center, or delivered to the address you specify.
Address: Glinki st., #3 (inside 'Kit-Sport' store not far from Mariinsky theatre) , Phone: (812) 325-7198, 717-68-38, -901-301-0547 (English, Russian) info@skatprokat.ru Opened from 10.00 till 21.00
Ski & Snowboarding
Okhta Park. A picturesque area to the north of St. Petersburg near Kuzmolovo town. There you can ski, snowboard, make ice-skating or sledging.
There are 5 different slopes with average height 50-60 meters and about 400 meters long. The park is equipped with elevators, snow machines, night lighting. The elevators cost 20 to 300 R ($1-$10) for 10 rides. The lowest price is from 11.00 to 17.00 on weekdays. The highest price is from 21.00 to 11.00 on weekends.
You can bring your own equipment or rent it there. They rent ski (atomic, scott), snowboards (salomon, rossignol), ice-skates, sledges.
Rental prices for ski or snowboard (full complect) weekdays / weekend: 1st hour - 150 R ($5) / 200 R ($7), 2 hours - 250 R ($8) / 350 R ($12), every next hour: +50 R($1.7) / +60R ($2), whole day: 400R ($13)/ 600R ($20).
To rent the equipment you need to pay for the time and leave a refundable deposit of $300 or your driving license.
Open hours: weekdays: 10.00-22.30, weekends: 9.00 - 22.30.
How to get there: this park is located 30 minutes by car from the city, or 1 hour by a bus from Petrogradskaya metro station.
If you go by public transport, go to metro Petrogradskaya (blue line, Vasilievski island) and take a bus #333 to Okhta Park. It'll take about 1 hour.
Contacts: phones (812) 118-18-70, 325-74-37, e-mail: iq@dss.spb.ru internet: http://ohta-park.spb.ru/
Fitness
Vint Sportclub. Martial arts, yoga lessons, fitness.
Address: Vasilievski island, 15th Line, 32, Tel: (812) 323-3057,
Opened: 11.00-01.00 daily
Ice Skating
Here are a few ice-skating areas in St. Petersburg.
1. Saltykova-Shchedrina st., #50 ||| 2. Fontanka river embankment, #112 (metro Sennaya Ploshchad) ||| 3. Kuznetsovskaya ul., #25 (metro Avtovo) ||| 4. Perekopskaya st., #6/8
Swimming
These sportclubs have swimming pools.
1. Sport Life. Address: Aptekarski pr., #16, tel.: 322-5858 | 2. ORCA Club. Dekabristov, #38 (metro Sadovaya) | 3. Diving club. Kima prospekt, #22 (metro Primorskaya) | 4. Petrogradets club. Lva Tolstogo, #8 (metro Primorskaya), tel. 232-1074
