As Russia struggles to come to terms with a new identity outside the Soviet sphere, new hotels and developments are springing up all over the country all the time. On the whole, hotels in Russia fall into two categories, new ones that are very good, and old ones that are very bad. In the main cities, such as Moscow and St Petersburg, not ony are the hotels are on the whole a lot better than the rest of the country, they also offer incredible value for money in comparison to their equivalent's in western Europe.