WORKING OUT

World Class Gym has small and pricey fitness centers in the Grand Hotel Europe and the Nevskij Palace Hotel which include solariums, saunas, some weight machines, and jacuzzis. They also have a larger complex out of the city center with a work-out room, exercycles and stair machines, an aerobics room, a solarium, and massage parlor. Grand Hotel Europe. Mikhailovskaya Ulitsa 1/7. Metro: Nevsky Prospekt. Open 07:00-22:00. Nevsky Palace Hotel. Nevsky Prospekt 57. Metro: Mayakovskaya. Open 07:00-22:00. Viborgskoye Shosse 6. Metro: Ozerki. Open 09:00- 22:00. Tel: 325 1481; Fax: 325 1488.

Astoria Hotel Fitness Center has a swimming pool, a sauna, weight machines, solarium and massage. Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa 39. Metro: Nevsky Prospekt. Open 07:00-22:00. Tel: 210 5869.

Russian Federation of Shaping Club provides body toning exercises, has a solarium, massage, computerized testing. Ulitsa Kazanskaya 33. Metro: Ligovsky Prospekt. Open Tel: 315 9465.

Nika Club has a gym, a solarium, massage, basketball and tennis courts and provides computerized testing. Ulitsa Vosstanya 8. Metro: Ploshchad Vosstanya. Open 14:00-22:00. Tel: 272 3994.

Diana Sports Club aerobics classes, a gym, a boxing hall. Nikolskaya Ploshchad 1a. Metro: Sadovaya/Sennaya Ploshchad then trams 5,14, 54 (two stops) to Teatralnaya Ploshchad. Open 10:00-22:00 Mon- Fri;10:00-20:00 Sat, Sun. Tel:114 1439.