I'm planning on taking the Allegro high-speed train from Helsinki to St. Petersburg. I believe it's a Russian train. I haven't been on a Russian train since 1967, and I wasn't very impressed then.

Has anyone taken this train or a similar train from Helsinki to St. Petersburg? If so, what were your impressions?

Any advice?

Allegro is a Finnish train. It´s run by VR, which is our national train company

We took the train from Helsinki to St. Petersburg in 1995. I did not have the impression that it was substantially different from any other western European trains.

We took this train last year, it was great. Very nice trip. You will enjoy it.

Thanks for the replies.

http://www.seat61.com/helsinki-to-st...m#.VU_e_JMWJko

Looks very nice.