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Bookmark & shareIf you're really frugal, avoiding plane trips, taxis, overseas phone calls and decent restaurants, as well as always looking for the very cheapest place to stay, you should be able to get by on US$40.00 a day. If you always stay in comfortable hotels and eat in restaurants two or three times a day, you're looking at more like US$100.00 a day. If you prefer to spend your day eating in Moscow's finest restaurants and sleeping between their crispest sheets, plan on around US$500.00 a day.
Very few places in Russia expect you to tip. Top-end hotels and restaurants add 5% to 15% to your bill, while porters expect around US$1 a bag. Shops have fixed prices, but in markets you'll be expected to bargain.
- Name
- Russian Ruble
- Symbol
- Rbl
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Sample Price Guide
- half a litre of beer
- Rbl 70.00
- half a litre of brand vodka
- Rbl 100.00
- letter posted international
- Rbl 17.00
- public toilet fee
- Rbl 14.00
- 750g bottle of restaurant wine
- Rbl 300.00
- 750g bottle of supermarket wine
- Rbl 200.00
- night club cover charge
- Rbl 150.00
- traditional fine woollen babushka scarf
- Rbl 300.00
- Russian CD or DVD
- Rbl 100.00
Average Room Prices
Low Mid High Deluxe US$10-45 US$45-80 US$80-100 US$100+ Average Meal Prices
Low Mid High Deluxe Rbl110-200 Rbl200-280 Rbl280-600 Rbl600+
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