Kiev is the city where the modern and the old make excellent opportunities for historical and aesthetical exploration. However, before you become a visitor to this incredible city, take your time to decide on at least 2 things: accommodation and transport.

Let us consider selecting a flat. Depending on what you can afford and personal preference, you can either choose to rent a room in a Kiev hotel, or rent an apartment. Count the stars on Kiev hotels to estimate the comfort you require and the price you can afford.

Kiev has a number of high-class hotels. There are literary dozens of less chic Kiev accommodation facilities. A five star hotel is going to cost you around $400-850 per night, 4 stars will cost $150-$500, 3 star hotels will be about $70-300, two stars will cost from $50 to 120 and small and one star hotels cost around 25-100 per 24 hours.

There exist as well several hostels in the city for students and young people. In an ordinary hostel you can find unpretentious but clean accommodation facilities and several sofas or beds in one and the same room.

If you are looking for an opportunity to save some buck, you might want to rent an apartment. Instead of a small hotel room for about $90-150 you could rent an excellent flat in the downtown. Inexpensive one-room apartments can be found for no more than $50. Some owners that allow you to rent this kind of Kyiv apartments may as well meet you when you arrive. It would be much safer to book the apartment at least a couple of days in advance.

If you are pressed for money or would like to have something more extreme, you could rent a sleeping berth inside a train compartment. There's a train station