Soul country.

Written: 4 august 2009
Travel time: 10 — 26 july 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
So we returned from such a beautiful country a few days ago and are ready to share our impressions about the rest in Pine Grove.
It all started with a branded train, namely 102 branded (compartment) . . Friends, I have never seen such excellent conditions on trains ! ! Ultra-modern train, Cleanliness, Comfort, Coolness, LCD TV in each Compartment, Super-modern toilets equipped with everything you want!!
Unfortunately, on the way back, train 104 was old but clean. ! ! So when choosing, buy tickets only for 102-101 YOU WILL NOT REGRET! We arrived in Adler, met our company with a sign in our hands, waited 20 minutes for the driver to arrive, and, finally, we are sitting in a gazelle and driving to the border with terrible expectations. ! ! And Wow!!! ! We pass it in 20 minutes. (Lucky, I guess). AS and on the way back we were lucky to pass it without inspection in the same 20 minutes !!

On the reverse side, a driver from pine already met, and we happily set off on our way. A land blessed by God and forgotten by civilization. So Apsny (Country of the Soul) They are called quite rightly. Lush vegetation (Much more magnificent than in the Crimea) Mountains with snowy peaks, etc. , etc. From the border to the pine tree, an insanely beautiful road through Gagra! After 30-35 minutes we reached the boarding house. We were met in the lobby, but the room was given another, side, with a view of the bathhouse instead of the sea, which was written in the contract, referring to the fact that there are no other rooms! ! Brad, of course, the sea view rooms were completely empty, in which the maid successfully put things in order, saying that people had moved out there. I wanted to figure it out, but my mother did not allow me to swear! So we lived all 15 days in this room, where vociferous frogs sang under the windows in the evenings (but my mother liked it). (Yes, it was the 5th floor of the 9th floor of the building)
The room itself - nothing, but for three terribly cramped. All the rooms, as I understood from the conversation, are in this building. with different conditions - whoever is lucky, Lotereyas. Some have a conder, while others have a fan, although the price is the same. ! ! Oh . . , there was no kettle, thank God we brought our own, and there were still not enough sockets, Who goes to the 9th floor - TAKE TREES! Otherwise, while watching TV, you won't turn on the fan and vice versa (but it's hot). The beds were changed 1 p in 5 days and only swept from cleaning. And yet, laughter, I had to run after the maid for toilet paper, she herself had no idea of ​ ​ putting it down.
About nutrition, they rightly write that VERY much, VERY satisfying, tasty, but somewhat monotonous ! ! Morning - porridge, broth, sweet salads, crazy delicious cottage cheese and cream-colored sour cream, whole milk not diluted with anything, sausage pancakes, honey, cheese, eggs, butter, and you can’t list everything in general . .
Lunch is even more lethal than breakfast, meat of all kinds, salads, fruits, side dishes. In a word, they were fed to the slaughter! ! First we went for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Then for breakfast and lunch without dinner, as there was enough lunch food in the stomach until the morning. And then my mother and my 8-year-old daughter got lazy and sent me to the dining room to bring them breakfast in bed. ! ! No one said a word that I was taking food out of the dining room !!
The territory is amazingly beautiful, Palm trees, Feijoa, Pine trees, pine smell, flowering pomegranates and oleanders, small tangerines on trees, which are in abundance next to the houses of the 2nd coastline, shameless squirrels that arrange races in the morning . . Everything breathes calmness, measuredness and safety .

A charming playground in the shade and coolness, right among the great pines, and a free tutor to whom you can hand over your children for two hours on weekdays (from 12 to 14) and be absolutely sure that the children will be busy with games and other entertainment and everything will be okay. A super cafe is also among the pines on the territory of the boarding house. Amazing Abkhaz cuisine. Most of all I liked in this cafe, juicy shish kebab, asytsbal sauce, I generally keep quiet about khachapur, in a good sense. And what eggplants with nuts and suluguni were served there . . ! There are no words!
Be sure to try the Abkhazian wine from the private Kojari winery. We met him only in Gagra (Continent store)
About the sea. Unusually clean, semi-desert beaches, always calm in the morning, more often waves in the evening. But the sea is warm and gentle.
Sunbed 50 r for the whole day, umbrella 20 r. Moreover, if you put a stone or a towel on the sunbed, this means that you will return in the evening and no one will touch it, like the towels that lie on it.
Separately, I want to write about a small cafe next to the boarding house called CHEBUREKI. The hostess - Asida prepares such pasties that you can’t eat and tear yourself away (as my child says) and I absolutely agree with her. 30 r for a delicious cheburek with meat and 40 r for an equally delicious cheburek with cheese.
But in the cafe Delight, which is nearby, you can run into outright rudeness. We watched as the owner of the cafe covered visitors with a 3-story mat, who were not satisfied with something in the menu. The desire to go there again is gone!
Be sure to visit the proposed excursions with Irina.
More about them for those who are interested:
O Ritsa - 700 rub per person 600 per child
Evening Gagra (about 300 people) Beautiful, but after Sosnovka it seemed too noisy, crowded and humid.
An evening boat trip in Pitsunda (300 rubles per person, children up to 12 for free) generally led me and the child into a storm of delight (BUT, ADVICE, GO IMMEDIATELY TO THE BOW OF THE SHIP, EVEN IF THERE IS NO ONE THERE YET, THEN THE LATE GET THE BEST PLACES, AS STRANGELY, THE FIRST STREAM OF PEOPLE IS SEATED AT THE Stern WHERE IT IS NOISY FROM HUMAN HUMBLE AND THE SMELL OF SMOKE FROM THE PIPE.

Sukhum (700 r) The trip is not for the faint of heart! ! It hurts to tears to look at the dead eye sockets of the destroyed houses, and the traces of bullets on the houses where people live . . This Georgian massacre immediately appears. It is a pity that the country has not yet recovered from the devastation caused by the war. The monkey nursery is in a deplorable state, buy in advance at the Sukhumi market, where the first stop will be, more bananas to feed the animals, since they are too expensive near the nursery.
Trout farm! ! (we went with a private trader for 1200 plus entrance 250 r from three) And plus 250 r for a portion of 2 fish that you can catch yourself! and cutting vegetables and sauce. BUT!!! ! The fish, which seemed to us the most delicious on the entire coast, is WORTH IT.
About mobile communication.
The boarding house offers Akvofon - 5.80 in Russia, but the same incoming paid for 2 r min!
Do not be lazy, go to the fountain, there is a store there and buy A-Mobile from him all incoming calls are free and Calls to Russia 5.85r
(Although, maybe these Sims have already appeared in the boarding house !! )
Well, I seem to have told everything, if you need a quiet, calm paradise for relaxing in two or with children, then you are in the right place. Youth and companies will be bored there!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original