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Moscow has a heap of “soviet legacy” hotels, which we cannot recommend, and don’t offer. Crummy rooms, and rude or off-hand staff are the best you could hope for – others feature hookers working the corridors, unsavoury characters and room-pilfering, alongside hopeless locations. That’s why we don’t feature these hotels, and instead present a much more civilised choice of accommodation below!

TIFLIS HOTEL 4*

Ostozhenka, 32; Metro Park Kultury: The “restaurant with rooms” concept comes to Moscow – but when the restaurant is the most exclusive Georgian gourmet eaterie in town, you know their hotel is going to be a little special? A select handful of rooms only, superbly tasteful in the Georgian style (that’s Georgia in the Caucasus – not the one with Atlanta and a Midnight Train) style, and on Ostozhenka – downtown Moscow’s most chic address. Your neighbours are the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Our prices are based on standard rooms, we are able to book rooms with Ostozhenka view and Fountain Yard view Prices are available on request.

Prices are per person, and include bed & breakfast for 3 nights.

ARBAT HOTEL 3*

Plotnikov Pereulok 12; Metro Smolenskaya: We've finally got a deal at the Arbat. 3* downtown hotel. This one's not open to the public, it's owned by the Federal Govt – but they made an exception for us. Rooms are small and a little dowdy, but here you pay for location. In London terms you're in the heart of Covent Garden – Arbat Street's souvenir-hunting is outside your window, and adjacent is the immense soviet monolith of the Foreign Ministry, looking bizarrely like the 'Ghostbusters' building – who ya gonna call? Book early, this one's in hot demand.

Prices are per person, and include bed & breakfast for 3 nights.

HOTEL ZARYA 3*

Gostinichnaya Ul 1; Metro Petrovsko-Razumovskaya: Zarya is home for us – we have our Moscow office at this hotel. Building 12 where the 3* rooms are located is decorated to western standard, in spick'n'span Germanic style. There's a cheerful street market here, and although the metro station is a bit of a mouthful ('Petrovsko-Razumovskaya') it's just 4 mins walk past the market... a fifteen-minute ride takes you to the Circus, Pushkin Square, or the Kremlin.

Prices are per person, and include bed & breakfast for 3 nights.