Oktogo.ru Started Cooperating With Russian Railways Service

Oktogo.ru, online hotel booking service, and Company Russian Railways (JSCo RZD) that operates Russian Railways´ service centres signed an agreement whereby Oktogo.ru will offer its database of Russian and foreign hotels to ticket offices located at Railroad stations throughout Russia.

Russian Railways Service centres opens at railway stations across Russia in order to provide passengers with a wide range of complementary services "´ from ordering of transport tickets and taxis to hotel bookings and organization of guided tours.

This summer by virtue of the agreement between Oktogo.ru and Russian Railways´ service the hotel database of service centres has been complemented by new hotels. Customers of service centres now have an access to the richest database of Russian and CIS hotels "´ 2,000 "´ and about 100,000 hotels worldwide in over 80 countries. Travellers will have a chance to book hotel rooms via Oktogo.ru at prices set by hotels without any extra service fees.

"We are pleased to cooperate with Oktogo.ru and we hope that the service of hotel booking via Oktogo.ru will be launched in all Russian Railways´ service centres in the nearest future," says Mr Alexei G. Abramov, Deputy General Director Russian Railways Service. "For now this service is available to customers of Moscow-based service centres, as well as service centres in Nizhny Novgorod, Kirov and Chelyabinsk. Service centres in other the largest Russian cities will start working with Oktogo.ru shortly."

"We are happy to offer this hotel booking service to customers of Russian Railways´ service," says Marina Kolesnik, General Director at Oktogo.ru. "Quite often these customers are transit travellers whose plans have changed at the last moment, and the opportunity to find an adequate accommodation they can afford is essential for them. We are pleased that this service helps Russian travellers."