Originally Posted by simon_n10
I had not used SVO-1 since my Transaero (UN) flights out of there a good few years back. I assumed it had improved. Wrong.
With all due respect you are simply wrong!
Originally Posted by simon_n10
You have to go through security to enter the building.
They didn't have that when I was last there!
So all up it sounds like Russia really hasn't changed that much since I was last there. Or, and please tell, I no longer need a visa, foreigner pricing in hotels now a thing of the past, the telephone in the hotel room is no longer buzzing with offers of 'company', the taxi drivers are now all respectablthe reference to '10 unshaven men from the "Kavkaz" with big zipped up bags' is a joke - all Russian men are now 'new men' (not 'New Russians'!!) - non smoking, non-drinking, get-home-early-to-cook-dinner-for-the-wife types, every bar has a well segregated non-smoking area,...