Хорошо, что море рядом. It's good that the sea is near.

Svetlogorsk military sanatorium. For some reason they call it Central, although there are no others in this town. This year I received a trip there for three weeks, as a retired military man, at a preferential, obscenely ridiculous price. Brief impressions, without embellishment.
Accommodation. The sanatorium is located in the seaside town of Svetlogorsk, very close to the coast of the Baltic Sea. Two buildings, the old five-story building, and the new eight-story building. I got a double two-room suite in the old building on the fifth floor. No frills, but quite decent by sanatorium standards: TV, refrigerator, sideboard with a set of dishes, kettle, iron, ironing board. Two balconies.
Treatment. The procedures are standard for a sanatorium: massage, radon and pearl baths, mud therapy, spinal traction, apparatus therapy (all sorts of UHF and magnets), mineral water. The water is good, its own pump room with a well. There was a sea water pool, now closed. Because of this pool, the sanatorium was wildly popular, now it has become easier to get there, but not so interesting either. Doctors approach appointments formally, literally pinching off medical procedures bit by bit.

Nutrition. Custom menu, as in most resorts. They cook well, heartburn and diarrhea have never happened. Portions for men are small, after dinner had to be refreshed in the room. A separate issue is tea. I never drank such a shmurdyak even in the guardhouse, serving time there in my wild youth. Tea is brought there on a cart in a huge bucket (! ) and poured into a samovar with a leaking tap, under which there is a crumpled pan. Terrible memories, brr. . . We drank tea in the room or in the coffee shop opposite the sanatorium. Yes, more. The dining room always stinks upon entering. It stinks, but does not smell, to the gag reflex. This smell is not from cooking, but most likely from the air conditioner at the entrance, which has long been in need of cleaning and disinfection.
Staff. For the most part, he is unfriendly and uncommunicative, many have been working in the sanatorium for decades, that is, since Soviet times. Extremely unfriendly staff in the tour sales department, in the reception department, a dietitian in the dining room. A pleasant exception and a bright ray is the hostess of our building, maids, waitresses.
Infrastructure. There are many souvenir shops, cafes with delicious coffee in the town. Modern variety theater Yantar Hall, organ hall "Makarov" with excellent acoustics. Good bus service to the regional center, inexpensive and convenient electric trains, the station is only three hundred meters away. It is 500 meters to the sea, it can be hard to climb back, the ascent is steep. There are comfortable benches and gazebos on the seashore, there is a good free (! ) Wi-Fi along the entire coast. By the way, there is no Wi-Fi in the resort, even for a fee. I was amazed when I found out that it was not by chance, but on purpose, by order of the minister, it was forbidden to use Wi-Fi so that no one would find out the military secrets of the military sanatorium))).
Leisure. There is a sanatorium club, a sanatorium museum, there are good concerts, dances, many excursions are organized around the region, to the Curonian Spit, to the amber plant. The prices are reasonable, the time is chosen so as not to miss the procedures and meals.
Conclusion. A sanatorium from the Soviet past, not shabby and not terrible, but not developing at all, but decrepit before our eyes. There is nothing to do there for the full price, young people will be sad in general, but for a reduced price it is quite possible to relax and heal.