Floating hotel (floatels), restaurant, bar on the Svir Shipyard pontoons

The Svir Shipyard is a renowned shipbuilding yard in Russia and abroad. It has been a participant of first-rate international maritime defense shows and it works out and produces pontoons with various applications as one of its production areas. These pontoons, made mostly of reinforced concrete, possess a number of remarkable characteristics: high buoyancy, massiveness (stability), possibility of rapid set-up in shore and off-shore, possibility of deployment in any water area, possibility to have any configuration and any surface area.

The following features allow using the pontoons as fixed and non-fixed berths, moorings accommodating vessels with various displacement, temporary bridges. Such constructions can be easily equipped with a necessary infrastructure; they are reliable and widely-used by the Ministry of Defense and The Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Apart from the government order, the Svir Shipyard is receiving more and more orders from the small business, particularly from the tourist and hotel business. Evidently, the bearing capability of our pontoons equals 800 tons, which allows constructing of a swell floating building of any type on it. This floating building may become a modern country house, floating hotel and even the floating restaurant that can meet expectations of every refined taste.

These constructions can be equipped with the entire hotel infrastructure, including such attractive premises for rest and relaxation as the Russian baths or the Finish bath (sauna). You can do it single-handedly or we can do it for you according to your peculiar demands – we are highly experienced in this, we have requisite building materials and equipment.

If you have such a magnificent floating hotel or a country house, you can easily give it for rent to host all sorts of conferences, workshops and meetings with comfort level of Davos or Saint-Petersburg. But your house-boat or floating cafй will be emerged in the atmosphere of romance as it will glide on the mirror-like surface of water with the help of a fixed or outboard motor. Your guests – tourists and businessmen – will go to bed seeing one water and landscape and will wake up to enjoy the beauties from another perspective. Without doubt, these advantages will attract new tourists, businessmen, visitors again and again.

Specialists point out that the absence of lease of land payment and land-use tax is one of the main benefits of floating islands construction. It pushes up commercial viability and makes it attractive for the tourist and hotel business. Especially, these projects are sought-after for such territories as Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad region as there are a great number of rivers, canals, lakes and other water basins.