Noticed most of the posts here end up turning into discussions about Mail Order Brides and Scammers.

Some people on this forum are actually interested in talking about the city and what there is to see and do. Cheboksary is a very scenic city to visit, and with EuroSport coming in 2008 there should be an increase of tourists. I thoroughly loved my vist there and I am sure others will as well.

So if anyone has questions about visiting the beautiful Capital of Chuvashia, Natalia and I will be more then glad to answer here.

I add my opinion to that topic, I live in Cheboksary, and can help you, if you need info, etc...

deux17@mail.ru
Pavel

> Vonopol, Maska and Onar

Those are all in Yoshkar-Ola !

Silly scammers can't remember what city they are scamming from.

I enjoyed Lama and Lama No. 2 Restaurants in Cheboksary. There were some other nice restaurants whose names escape me for the moment.

It would be really cool if Graham added a Restaurant Page, a Night Life Page, and a Shopping Page to better facilitate Cheboksary Tourism information.

Good idee. I was looking for a place to eat in October, near past the main Post building but it was closed so with no time and getting late we only found this Cafe. Very clean but not much food, but my friend was nervous of the group of men sitting at the next table, who kept staring to our direction. She was happy to leave, nothing happened but sometimes a foreigner attracts this attention in Russia.So a restaurant guide with personal experiences is good. I can make contribution too here
Also I would like also to see the links to the airlines, that fly to Cheboksary. S7 (Siberia) fly regular to Kazan services but I prefer to go to Cheboksary but not easy to locate departure information. Also Grham I think the information on the site needs refreshment. cheers

I can be short about the airlines. There is only one aircompany that offers passenger flights to Cheboksary. It's Orenburg Airlines, the flight leaves daily at 21:40 from Moscow Vnukovo. Duration is about 60 minutes. From the airport in Cheboksary is about 10-15 minutes drive to every destination in the city. The return flight from Cheb to Moscow leaves daily at 07:40. Because it's such a short flight the stewardesses really have to hurry to hand out everybody's breakfast

I think it's great to share tourism questions about Cheboksary. It helps clear up misconceptions people may have about traveling there. The funny part is that I would not have heard of Cheboksary if a woman, claiming to be from there, had not contacted me. Russia is such a big land mass that I couldn't imagine how many cities make up the country. While I was growing up and attending school in Miami, it was mandatory to learn about Russian History and the evolution of the population there. I learned general things but nothing specific about city geography. There's a large Russian community in Miami but I was never able to get much information about Russia. To Graham: there's a city called Wellington in Florida. It's in Palm Beach County. I know a woman called Beth Wellington. You're probably not related to her. I find the forum interesting. This helps me open my knowledge horizons.

What are you served for breakfast on the Moscow > Cheboksary flight? I'm shocked, cause on domestic flights here in the states you won't even get a pack of peanuts!

I guess it was a typical airplane breakfast with the expected Russian accents. As usual in airplanes you get a plastic box. It contained a little white cottagebread and a small slice of darker bread that tasted a little like black bread. There were slices of cheese and meat and also jam and cheese spread. Tea or juice was off course also served. The quality was good, but it felt a little out of balance: too much cheese and meat for too little bread

Sounds just like the same breakfast served on the Moscow > Nizhniy Novgorod flight.

Maybe a good suggestion would be that this forum established
new topics separately for "Flights", "Shopping", "Nightlife, "Cafe/Restaurant" ?

and my female connection who claims to be in Cheboksary, now
suggests these restaurants if I would eat russian food:

Balovenj

BuketChuvashii X(
Vonopol

and only Buket I can find in Cheboksary, I find a Monopol
in Joshkar-Ola and Balovenj in Moskva (Moscow).

The nicest restaurant we dined at in Cheboksary was called Na Arbate and it also had a great Night Life. Speaking of Night Clubs, we visited a club called Fabrika on the waterfront, It was a very large club, but the crowd was too young for us. From there, we went nearby to a very nice club called Nostalgie and had a great evening with people more of our own age group. Large amounts of chilled vodka went down like water that night!

Hi

I am travelling to Cheboksary for new year with my Chuvash wife, can you guys recommend any really good restaurants and nightclubs as wew want to bring her sister who still lives there out for a big night, no expense spared (within reason of course!)

Thanks, love the site

I got a recommendation on Akatuj from "Elena Kislitsina".
In an other topic in this forum they mention Na Arbate,
which also has got night life.

I believe "Ekaterina"/"Svetlana" (russianbeauty11@rambler.ru)
and other scam-profiles who claims to be living in Cheboksary
will have problems with recommending restaurants and cafes.

Almost every day I check in on this forum to see if there has
come anything new.

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I found these restaurants on internet catalog listings:

Akatuj
Alladin
Buket Chuvashii
Vechernie
Gentsiana
Ekhrem khusa
Kurortnyj
Moskovskij
Na Arbate
Favorit
Tsentralnyj
Tseilinj
Chili
Yappi
Taverna Ostrov Sokrovichts

I can yet not find "Spartak" at my little list of
restaurants in Cheboksary, and I also looked at my
little list of cafes, where I found "Sport", located
at Ulitsa Gagarina (Gagarin Street).

Till now, I have got recommendations on these:
Akatuj
Buket Chuvashii
Na Arbate

I am a bit uncertain whether
Ekhrem khusa
does still excist.

So far, this is my list of restaurants in Cheboksary:

Restaurant - Street it's at
Akatuj - Skladskoj
Akatuj - Universitetskaya
Alladin - M.Pavlova
Buket Chuvashii - Gagarina
Vechernie - Traktorstroyteley
Gentsiana - Tsibiljskaya
Ekhrem khusa - K.Efremova Blv??
Kurortnyj - M.Pavlova
Moskovskij - Eljgera
Na Arbate - Vorobyevych
Rossiya - Gagarina
Favorit - Privokzaljnaya
Tsentralnyj - K.Marksa
Tseilinj - T.Krivova
Chili - Lenina
Yappi - Moskovskij

Taverns and other:
Taverna Ostrov Sokrovichts
Taverna Belyj Popugaj
Taverna Tri Peskarya
Traktir Emelya - Dzerzhinskovo
Bar Molly Malone - Tsibiljskaya

I hope for further comments on this list
and recommendations/experiences.

You don't have Lama and Lama No. 2 on your little list of
restaurants in Cheboksary either...

But I have 2 Lama-s on my very long
list of cafes.
One at Ulitsa Gagarina 14 and one
art-cafe at Ulitsa Kalinina 60.

Maybe some cafes in Cheboksary are
more like restaurants. Certainly I see
many of them are open until late at night.

When I hear the word "restaurant" I think
of waiters/waitresses who bring the dishes
to the tables.

When I hear the word "cafe" I think of
ordering my meal and then carry it by myself
to the table.

In that context a MakDonalds would be a cafe.
It is a fastfood-restaurant, but . .. how
often does one consider a fastfood-restaurant
as equal with a real restaurant...

I have not found any "Spartak" yet. Maybe there
were more bad recommendations on that one from
other customers, so they had to shut down.

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My list of restaurants in Cheboksary
has become a few lines longer:

Restaurant - Street it's at
Akatuj - Skladskoj
Akatuj - Universitetskaya
Alladin - M.Pavlova
Buket Chuvashii - Gagarina
Vechernie - Traktorstroyteley
Gentsiana - Tsibiljskaya
Dom Tatarskoj Kuchni - Khuzangaya
Ekhrem khusa - K.Efremova Blv??
Kurortnyj - M.Pavlova
Moskovskij - Eljgera
Na Arbate - Vorobyevych
Rossiya - Gagarina
Favorit - Privokzaljnaya
Tsentralnyj - K.Marksa
Tseilinj - T.Krivova
Chili - Lenina
Yappi - Moskovskij

Taverns and other:
Taverna Ostrov Sokrovichts
Taverna Belyj Popugaj
Tavarna Krab
Taverna Tri Peskarya
Traktir U Armana
Traktir U Petrovicha
Traktir Emelya - Dzerzhinskovo
Bar Molly Malone - Hotel Dis Tsibiljskaya

I hope for further comments and
escpecially recommendations/experiences.

I heard of Lama at Ulitsa Gagarina 14 and my wife went there. I went to the Lama at Grazhdanskaya 40A and Lama 2's building was designed to look like a hat, but I do not remember the street address. They were all proper sit down restaurants. As you have seen, you can't tell from a list on the internet, you need personal recommendations and experiences.

I heard that Lama was a chain in Cheboksary. At Lama at Grazhdanskaya 40A - we ordered our food and paid at the cashier, then a waitress brought the food to our table once it was prepared. At Lama No. 2 - a waitress brought us the menu and food to our table. At Na Arbate - a waitress brought us the menu and food to our table.

Spartak - had Aquarium Booths that looked cool and provided privacy. It was also a popular Night Club. If they hadn't ripped us off so bad, we might have gone back.

What is the most romantic restaurant with russian food
on their menu in Cheb? Could it be Akatuj?

I got a recommendation on Akatuj from a Elena
who says she is from Cheboksary (but not IP).
Maybe she is an ignorant monkey from we-know-
where, who has only heard about Akatuj....

Hallo, I will visit Cheboksary for New Years.

If some person is routing via UK London airports at this time check good that there not on strike. I read in Google News Virgin, also LHR, Gatwick & Manchester ground personnel will make a strike on New Years. Assholes.

So this time I take Lufthansa via Frankfurt, overnight to Kazan. Scheduled arrival at Kazan 0520! Shit, this is to early, then I must find a taxi to Cheboksary. How much must I pay? I think maybe 4000 Rb? Please advise me.

I will go maybe to Akatuj, or Buket Chuvashii or Na Arbate restaurant with my friends to give a thank you to them, if I am sober from New Years fest. I will tell you my experiences. I hope also soon to tell the visa experience of my friend to visit me. Now we wait since November 6 and must send more dokuments. Kashmar!

I would catch a GAZelle at the bus station from Kazan to Cheboksary, it will definitely be much cheaper than a Taxi! I know the bus station runs that early. You can't go wrong at Na Arbate restaurant.

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Yes, one of these, very efficiant when you only
bring one bag (sumka) which you can place underneath
your seat.
Charge between Sankt-Peterburg and Lomosov was about
45 rur, about 1 rur per km. Maybe it is possible to
get from Kazan to Cheboksary for 150 rur? or 200?

Hallo, these guys drive too crazy for me. I know its is more expensive if I am driving to Cheboksary by taxi but I can invite the driver to slowdown with the promise of no tip at the destination. This route is terror road in summer, in -20 degrees it is real scary.
Djoeye that is real nice picture from Kazan Kreml. I have crossed this road. There is first class 5 star hotel near called Mirage and also on the river just to left of this foto you find the Paris restaurant on the waterfront. I have eaten a 3 courses meal here for $13. The meat was I think Horse, but the waiteress was a beautiful blackhaired Tatarish moslem girl who speak better English than I, also is computer programing. I try to pick her up in bad Russian, she say no way in clear English. Crazy. Cheers

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Some people always think that the worst incident
must happen with them. (see photo hehehe)
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I have been with marshrutki several times, and
the driver knows the vehicle and the road, and
that GAZelj does not go faster than 90 kmh
anyway.
Could anyone who knows what 120kms with GAZelj
costs, say it here in this forum? 150 or 200 rur?
Cheboksary - Kazan is about 120 kms.
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Taksi (taxi) costs about 35 rubles per km,
120 x 35 = 4200. But at daytime, with nice
weather, good road conditions and with some
nice russian phrases, maybe you can have your
ride in a Volga 3110 for about 3500 rur.

Hallo, this is very good information. Thank you, I will inform you from the cost and any adventure when I return from vacation there in Cheboksary. Cheers