This is a small 3* hotel compared with some of Novosibirsk's cavernous options, with 33 rooms -  studios, luxury rooms and apartments available as well as standard singles and doubles - aimed mainly at the business traveller. 

The hotel offers conference hall, sitting 120 people.  

There is a round-the-clock grill bar and several saunas with billiards. All rooms are air-conditioned, with television and minibars. 

Perfectly located at Novosibirsk's Tolmachevo Airport, ideal for both arriving and departing passengers, with wi-fi and good conference hall, the hotel also offers gym, swimming pool, two saunas, cosy lobby bar and a restaurant. 

Sky Port is some 17 km from the city centre, so about 40 minutes drive, depending on traffic. There are 149 rooms - standard, studio and apartments - all equipped with conditioners, satellite TV and minibars.

There is a choice of smoking and non-smoking rooms, as well as family rooms and rooms for people with limited physical abilities. 

A 175-room Marriott hotel is to open on a landmark site in Novosibirsk, while Irtuksk is set to get both a Kempinski and a Hyatt. 

Overlooking mighty Ob’ River, The River Park is a renovated 3* hotel, now offering five different categories of accommodation in its 310 rooms: apartments, studio, standard, economy twin and economy. 

Free wifi throughout, gym, sauna and swimming pool, beauty saloon, as well as a promise of ‘the best breakfasts in the city’. 

The 'Il Faro' restaurant offers ‘a blend of European entrees and Siberian largesse’. The lobby bar, with comfortable sofas, never closes, there is also a summer terrace. 

Yana on her dream to create a magazine matching Vogue, and Taya on photographing Siberian women to rival the world's top models.