{"id":7319,"date":"2017-05-05T22:15:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2017-05-05T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T05:49:09","slug":"transiting-transit-hotel-sheremetyevo-svo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2017\/05\/transiting-transit-hotel-sheremetyevo-svo\/","title":{"rendered":"Transiting and the Transit Hotel at Sheremetyevo (SVO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gonna spend the night in the in-terminal capsule hotel at SVO. 5300 rub ($91ish) for 8 hours. Booked a room with no windows but UPGRADE! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RLtZ5cmjUZ\">pic.twitter.com\/RLtZ5cmjUZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Khoo (@jonk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonk\/status\/860600214037647360\">May 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>i just left the &#8220;Capsule Hotel&#8221; at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow and since i posted that tweet last night, a couple people asked me about transiting in Moscow so i figure i should write a blog post about it.<\/p>\n<h3>transiting in russia<\/h3>\n<p>you can transit without a visa at Sheremetyevo (the hub for Aeroflot) as long as you don&#8217;t leave the airport and your next flight is within 24 hours of your arrival. i can&#8217;t speak for the other airports in the Moscow area (there&#8217;s also Vnukovo and Domodedovo) but if you&#8217;re doing an international to international connection with Aeroflot or Skyteam at SVO you probably fall in this category (with a couple notable exceptions like Minsk). see the Transit Without Visa (TWOV) section of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeroflot.ru\/ru-en\/before_and_after_fly\/airport\/visa_and_passport_control\">this page<\/a>&nbsp;for more info. note that if you need to check which terminal your flight arrives and departs from. if you need to leave terminals D\/E\/F (which are connected) you&nbsp;<em>will<\/em> need a visa because you have to exit into Russia.<\/p>\n<p>the actual transiting in Russia is the easy part as everyone here knows the 24-hour rule. i had problems (well, not problems, but a long HUH WHAT&#8217;S GOING ON) at both San Francisco where i started my journey and Paris (where i connected) because they were not aware of the 24 hour rule and had to look it up and\/or ask someone else.<\/p>\n<h4>when you arrive<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>follow the signs to international connections. this may mean going up a floor or two.<\/li>\n<li>you will need to show your paper boarding pass to someone who will verify you are in the right location. yes, paper. they don&#8217;t like mobile boarding passes in Russia (still &#8212; this has been going on for years now). they will accept home-printed boarding passes from other airlines (mine was an Air France boarding pass that i printed at home after checking in for my flight at home, for an Aeroflot flight). i didn&#8217;t see a transfer desk so i don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s possible to get a boarding pass here on arrival.<\/li>\n<li>you will then go through a passport check (it looks like you&#8217;re going to exit into Russia but you&#8217;re not) although the person doesn&#8217;t really do anything to your passport except look at it and your boarding pass. no stamp, no nothing.<\/li>\n<li>then a standard security screening, although they didn&#8217;t ask me to remove my liquids or electronics.<\/li>\n<li>ta-da! you&#8217;re in the departures area.<\/li>\n<li>follow the signs to the capsule hotel which is located on the left end of Terminal E if you&#8217;re facing the planes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>so yeah, the employees at the airport were quite friendly and the whole process was super easy. like i said, the only hard part will likely be at your origin and connection airports. again, know the rules for transiting without a visa, make sure you&#8217;re following the rules for transiting without a visa, and you should have no problems. (some people advocate printing out the rules; you may wish to do this.)<\/p>\n<p>it was much easier when i had a Russian visa (it has since expired) because you can just point to that &#8212; plus it gives you more options because you can leave the airport to a cheaper and nicer hotel, but nothing beats the ease of a transit hotel. in terms of hotels in the area (that require a visa), at SVO i stayed at the Park Inn and it was about $20 cheaper for a nicer room, and it&#8217;s only a short walk away from the terminal.<\/p>\n<h3>the transit hotel<\/h3>\n<p>i booked and paid for my room beforehand using <a href=\"http:\/\/v-exp.ru\/en\/\">their site<\/a>. note that there are two hotels run by the same company here. you want the one that&#8217;s Terminal E, as that&#8217;s the one that&#8217;s inside the secure area of the airport. the Aeroexpress hotel is located &#8220;in Russia&#8221; (so you will need a visa) in an adjoining building, but again, you don&#8217;t want that one.<\/p>\n<p>like the pictures above show, it&#8217;s a &#8220;capsule hotel&#8221; in name only; it&#8217;s really just a basic hotel with small rooms. you have your own bed and your own bathroom. there is wifi but it&#8217;s not speedy, and there&#8217;s no desk (at least not in my room). you do get a bottle of water and there is hair\/bodywash in the shower. the bed was comfy if not a bit short, and the duvet was nice and fluffy and warm.<\/p>\n<p>some drawbacks that may or may not affect you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the walls are super thin so you will hear alarms from the next room, doors opening and closing, etc.<\/li>\n<li>there are no blackout curtains and sunrise this morning was around 4:30 AM. guess when i woke up? (i booked a windowless room because it was the cheapest and got upgraded at check-in to a room with windows. who knew it would be problematic!) bring your eye shades!<\/li>\n<li>the shower is your typical compact European size; larger folks may find these difficult to use, i&#8217;d imagine.<\/li>\n<li>tons of TV channels, but none in English<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>you do pay by the hour &#8212; 8 hours was around $6 more than 7 hours so i decided to splurge; depending on your layover and lounge access you may or may not want more time in the hotel, but you&#8217;ll have to weigh that against the cost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>remember<\/strong> this is a transit hotel so you will&nbsp;<em>not<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>be allowed to go out and fetch your checked baggage. if you will check a bag be sure to pack a change of clothes and your toiletries. i had a carry-on but was prepared in the event of a forced baggage check (if it was too heavy or too large or whatever) and had these things easily accessible so i could pull them out if necessary, which luckily it wasn&#8217;t. this may also be problematic if you are on separate tickets since you will not be able to recheck your bag and you will need to get a printed boarding pass for your connection before they let you back in the terminal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonna spend the night in the in-terminal capsule hotel at SVO. 5300 rub ($91ish) for 8 hours. 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