liked it very much

Written: 3 august 2012
Travel time: 26 june — 7 july 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
We rested with a family with a child 3.5 from the end of June to the beginning of July 2012. I’ll make a reservation right away, for those who like to count money, for “for so much you can have a chic vacation in Turkey”, the hotel will not work, as well as rest in the Crimea as a whole. My review is designed for people who are ready to spend quite a lot on a comfortable and interesting vacation. The hotel is wonderful - small (probably 15 rooms), clean (we didn’t wipe it under the bed a couple of times during cleaning, that’s all you can find fault with), very comfortable - large rooms, with a large bathroom, a balcony with a table and chairs ( important for a family with a small child - they put bainki in the evening, and they themselves arranged gatherings on the balcony), plenty of beach towels (they were changed more often than we had time to use, plus towels on sunbeds by the pool), a restaurant with a varied menu, including children's and optional client delivery to the beach by car for free.
Linen was definitely not changed every day, it seems, once every three days, to us, to be honest, and that was enough. To be honest, I don’t really understand who bothers with the daily change of linen, they don’t wash at all, or what? ...The territory of the hotel itself is very small, but it manages to accommodate a tiny front garden planted with a dozen cypresses, along the paths of which the resting children really like to run, and there is a gazebo for parents. But in a five-minute walk, a half-abandoned Artek park is spread, I don’t want to walk, in the middle, which sticks out the cyclopean figure of Lenin’s grandfather, forgotten by everyone. We were so impressed that in the evening, upon arrival, we didn’t even reach the sea, until dusk we climbed this creepy place, reminiscent of the scenery for the Stalker game. You can also take a walk to the Bear Mountain and, if you wish, climb along its picturesque paths.
I did not really understand the review of one of my predecessors, which spoke of the need to go to the sea along a carriageway without a pedestrian sidewalk. Firstly, as I said, if desired, we were taken to the sea in a passenger car, and we had to go down on our own along the again abandoned Artek road, on which a huge chain hung at the entrance, blocking the entry of vehicles onto it. The hotel does not have a beach as such, we used the one where the Artek employees rested, it took about 10 minutes to go down from our mountain (but go up - wow! but the road is picturesque, worth it, and tasty - like everywhere else in Crimea, there is a lot of wild yummy here).

The beach is not equipped, you will not find sunbeds and umbrellas there, but it is not crowded, clean, pebbly, wide enough, in the middle of it a tiny river flows and flows into the sea, haunting neither small nor adult beachgoers - there is always someone in it fumbling, arranging dams, dams and other hydraulic structures. The sea for the entire time of our stay was clean, the water was clear, it was very good to swim with a mask. The hotel pool is small but there. By the way, about the service. At some point, four or five days, we floundered in it alone, only our small family and that’s it, however, they didn’t stop cleaning the pool for us every morning, coming for breakfast, each time the child admired from the restaurant terrace on, as he put it , "water vacuum cleaner".
The food in the restaurant is wonderful - tasty, varied, can be quite intricate, for connoisseurs, or you can just serve chicken schnitzel in company with cabbage salad, in both cases - you will lick your fingers, at prices comparable to prices in Moscow eateries like "IL Patio ", Planet Sushi", "Chocolate Girl", etc. The restaurant is proudly called "Eco" and fully justifies its name, the owners vigilantly monitor the quality of their products, growing most of the raw materials for their restaurant on their own - including poultry and various vegetables, the rest take from trusted farmers and fishermen. For not being deceived, I can vouch for my head - the fact is that my son is allergic, sensitive just to all sorts of chemicals in food, he ate everything he could reach there, and nothing was done to him.
There are some other spa treatments, but I don’t understand them and again I can’t evaluate them. There is no animation, the hotel is too small for this, on the website they had a children's room with a nanny, but in reality it was not, like a playground. True, the site is planned to be built in the near future. Without animation and a babysitter, we managed remarkably, but, here, the little one missed the playground with a sandbox and swings, of course. Near the hotel, a five-minute walk is a minibus stop, which can take one way to Gurzuf, and the other way to a wild beach with large stones and rich marine life. And there and there to go for about 15 - 20 minutes. Under the mountain, on which the hotel is located, there is one very remarkable place - the brand shop of the Massandra wines factory. Go to it at a normal pace for about half an hour. Massandra wines are presented there in an assortment that significantly exceeds Moscow.
And the prices are impressive - what we have is about 700 rubles. for a bottle, there, in terms of rubles, it was somewhere between 240 - 300. It is clear that we immediately decided on souvenirs! : ) In the evenings, from the restaurant terrace, we enjoyed the views of all kinds of Artek festivities held there every day, then spotlights on Bear Mountain drew all sorts of patterns, then fireworks-salutes decorated the sky. On the roof of the hotel there is a small observation deck, the views from it are amazing!

The conclusion from all of the above is that it is very pleasant and very comfortable to relax in the Thyssen House. True, not everyone. Definitely, lovers of beach and seal holidays in Turkey and Egypt should not go there. Also, young people will have nothing to do there - until the nearest disco, as they say, "two days on the dogs. "
There is nothing to do there for adventure hunters either - the place on the mountain is almost deserted, except for the flocks of Artek pioneers, respectively, you will not find promising companies of enviable men languishing from loneliness during the day with a lantern. Mainly, people who are in love with the Crimea, its nature, the sea, mountains, prefer a fairly active holiday, should go there. Demanding living conditions, but not in need of a pool bar and all-inclusive food on the beach. For example, families with children from five years old (ours was still too small, almost everywhere on walks you had to hold your hand so as not to fall down from somewhere), who love not only to sunbathe on the sea, but also to take a walk, climb, stare at surrounding wonders of both natural and man-made origin, it will be very wonderful there, and adults and children will like it.
Well, in conclusion, I want to once again praise the hotel itself and its staff.
Thank them very much!
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