Due to very many inquiries about tours for summer 2014 that I am unable to proceed all individually, I decided to publish the best options of day tours for travellers that stay in a hotel as well as shore excursion itinerary options for cruise ship travellers. I publish the descriptions of tours alongside with the prices of each of them to save time on giving them to each of the inquiring persons individually.
It is possible to request for additional attractions to be added to the tours (I will quote the extra sum to you), however I do not offer half-day tours during the summer (except if you book 3.5 days because of an early departure on the 4th day or alike) as guides are not lining up to confirm the half-days and loose the other half of the day unpaid during the high season when better alternative job offers are waiting for them every day.
As you see, I try to consider the guide's opinion as well as a happy guide is a very if not the most important factor to ensure that the guests are satisfied with the service. For this same reason, I set my prices in the way that allows me to pay my (and ultimately your!) guides a much higher salary than for example the company that organises 90% of the group tours for the cruise ships in St. Petersburg does. Thus, I do not negotiate the prices as cutting on guide's happiness is ultimately cutting on your satisfaction. And if you are satisfied, please show it to your guide leaving some tips as this is customary even though completely at your discretion.
I run my small business the best I can, trying to ensure that both my customers and guides feel treated as friends even if it means that I get less orders as my service is a tick more expensive than other ones. But this way you get better guides and guides like to work for me and my guests and ask for more work with me just the same way hopefully, you will ask for more tours for your friends and relatives who are planning to visit St. Petersburg, the city of culture, imperial palaces and cathedrals, and romance of the "Northern Venice", the city that me and my guides love so much that we have plenty of love to it to share with you!