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hotel seemed confused that I'd turned up in Vladivostok with a Moscow and St. Petersburg registered visa, with nothing in between... in fact, they seemed confused about someone turning up at front desk and trying to purchase a room for the night... they seem mostly used to dealing with package tourist Japanese and Chinese, as far as I can tell... alas, there is no running hot water here (which seems to be why they actually have free rooms -- everywhere else I tried was full). At least its hot and sunny here.