[Drazil]

We adopted from St. Petes in 2004 and if we were going to do it again we would bring our son (he is 4 now). But...only if we were going to adopt from St. Petes again, we felt it to be very contemporary and there is an American clinic right in the city. We stayed at the Waldorf in St. Petes (4 star hotel) and the water was fine in the hotel and we just brought bottled water when we went outside the hotel. We found most of the restaurants to have menus in Russian and English and there was fast food and many casual restaurants just like here. St. Petes is very different from the rest of country and our agency provided us with a car and driver/translator so we had personal service and this is the only way I would go again (same agency and same city). There is so much to see and do in St. Petes that it is like a vacation in many ways (as least that was our experience due to our agency mostly) and the baby home was 7 blocks from our hotel so we did not have to drive far. I guess you need to look at all the elements of the trip first but based on our adoption we would have no issues with taking our son at 4. Good Luck...