Hey guys i need some advice from other Aussie guys out there who have recently travelled to Russia. I want to visit Vladivostok , ussuriysk in the first couple of weeks of July and need some visa advice. I wish to stay in a hotel in Ussuriysk however the particular hotel i want to stay in isnt authorised to issue the invite letter number thing needed to obtain a visa. Doi need to find a different hotel or book one night in a Vladivostok hotel and the rest of my stay in Ussuriysk or what ? Im sure there is a way around this and what better way than to ask the people who have done this before. Any help is much appreciated . Cheers :)
I ain't an Aussie however I did reside at 274 South Terrace, Adelaide 5000 for some months of my life during the Aussie pilots strike/dispute of 1989/1990.
Perhaps ..... find a hotel somewhere in Russia, perhaps a Holiday Inn, Sheraton, or whatever whereas a fully flexible reservation can be made online and book it ... then contact the hotel to the effect "excuse me, I need an invite", use the invite, get visa approved, then revisit said website and cancel said reservation. :)
Ivor,, hell that makes you all but the worst part of a kangaroo tail.
hey can you Aussies not get an invite through any Russian visa site? this is how i always have done it. google it,,,, its got within minutes of replying at a very small fee from memory, and i have used such for that side of russia..
never would i use a hotel for such, that sh*t is pure f*ck around i would think.
Thanks Ivor , Also wondering if anyone has used Visalink i was reading their website and they seem to be able to solve all my problems. Is it really that easy ??
Just for the record, if you want to stay at a hotel in Russia, and they are willing to issue an invitation, it is fine to take advantage of that.
But it seems to me that most visitors to Russia who don't go on some package tour use a service like those mentioned here. As far as I know, visalink is OK -- there are lots of companies in the business, I've only heard of one that left their customer in a bad bind, and that one was here in the USA (and endorsed by the Russian consulate!)
When you get your invitation, you will probably see that it has the name of some hotel -- but it won't be one you'll visit (eet eez Roshyan Seestim).
Danny and all, Russia changed the rules this spring, it is now 7 business days before registration is required, so a foreigner visits for 9 days or less can skip registration and comply with the law.
I visited less than a week after the rule change, but didn't know about it yet, so I wasted a few bucks on a registration I didn't need.
Danny, you mentioned time zone difference -- in 2010, I had many Skype conversations with a girl in the Ural mountains region (I live in eastern USA). She had no internet at home, but could use Skype in the office just after she came to work in the morning. So our conversations were between 1 and 2 AM my time.
No doubt, if you tell her that, she will get pissed off. However, keep on telling her, at least several times each time you visit her. Never mind, if the place you put her in is a good place. Tell her anyway.
Why does it matter if she knows what a scam is? She can tell you that all she wants to. You won't listen. Keep on telling her. Get her totally pissed off. Then when she gives you crap, slap her with a dead fish.