Gardens where beautiful, but we discovered that the gardens are part of a different hotel, “Winter Palace” that’s the nice hotel, our hotel “Winter Pavillion” was really hard to find because there is no sign on the street, it’s just a little alleyway next to Winter Palace, we had to pay extra to be able to use the facilities and dining in the Winter Palace, nice place, if you have to chose, do the Winter Palace not the Winter Pavillion, those are older, ill maintained, unkept rooms…