We are still here, food for a weak three, in the thermal pool of chlorine, complete boredom...
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They flew by plane from Boryspil. They met us in Poprad. Transfer quickly. They provided a magnificent room, a maisonette, two bathrooms, heated floors all around, a minibar with drinks and all sorts of sweets. Everything is clean, the bed is snow-white, carpet is everywhere. The hotel has a New Year's atmosphere - decorations, a Christmas tree in the lobby, friendly staff.
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They flew by plane from Boryspil. They met us in Poprad. Transfer quickly. They provided a magnificent room, a maisonette, two bathrooms, heated floors all around, a minibar with drinks and all sorts of sweets. Everything is clean, the bed is snow-white, carpet is everywhere. The hotel has a New Year's atmosphere - decorations, a Christmas tree in the lobby, friendly staff. It was very nice after skiing (and we skied from morning to . . - the sun was already setting) put on a white terry bathrobe (provided in the room) and go down the elevator down to the SPA center - where there was a huge thermal water pool covered with a glass dome (in the afternoon you swim in it and see how snow falls behind the glass), and in this center there are 5 saunas and a jacuzzi. I would like to note that immediately after breakfast a bus arrived, the driver got out and dropped off (himself! ) Our ski-pole backpacks and drove us to the hills. There were 10 stops and you yourself chose a place where to ride - as there were slides for children, beginners, medium difficulty and for pros. I personally chose those for myself - where you can ride with a player or talk with your daughter - that is, almost running, with a slight slope, you can freely even without sticks... There were cafes on the slides - you could buy a light snack from boiled corn to hot dogs. We preferred to dine in local restaurants - we ate trout and drank their becherevka and beer (I won't say anything here, because it was very tasty).
Dinner at the hotel is beyond praise - snow-white tablecloths, crystal wine glasses, porcelain dishes, expensive cutlery (it's nice when they don't save on such trifles). And the most memorable is every dinner - a musician plays the piano!
And also we had breakfast included (European cuisine, plus croissants, coffee, juices)
We met the New Year - I have never seen such fun and bright atmosphere! Tourists from all over Europe - it was fun to drink for Petersburgers, Poles, Slovaks, us - Ukrainians. There was an orchestra, a lottery, dancing, champagne by the river! National treats are beyond praise! After the festivities, all the vacationers were taken by transport - so that, God forbid, someone not quite sober fell and broke something
In short: the holiday was wonderful! I recommend this hotel to everyone!
Dinner at the hotel is beyond praise - snow-white tablecloths, crystal wine glasses, porcelain dishes, expensive cutlery (it's nice when they don't save on such trifles). And the most memorable is every dinner - a musician plays the piano!
And also we had breakfast included (European cuisine, plus croissants, coffee, juices)
We met the New Year - I have never seen such fun and bright atmosphere! Tourists from all over Europe - it was fun to drink for Petersburgers, Poles, Slovaks, us - Ukrainians. There was an orchestra, a lottery, dancing, champagne by the river! National treats are beyond praise! After the festivities, all the vacationers were taken by transport - so that, God forbid, someone not quite sober fell and broke something
In short: the holiday was wonderful! I recommend this hotel to everyone!
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We were in Slovakia for Christmas 2008. We arrived in the morning at 8-30 local time, the city of Poprad, went through customs in 30 minutes, everyone is friendly, smiling, and this is at the peak of the season. We were met by a guide and invited everyone to the bus, we drove for about 30 minutes along the narrow roads of Slovakia, but neat, smooth, without holes.
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We were in Slovakia for Christmas 2008. We arrived in the morning at 8-30 local time, the city of Poprad, went through customs in 30 minutes, everyone is friendly, smiling, and this is at the peak of the season.
We were met by a guide and invited everyone to the bus, we drove for about 30 minutes along the narrow roads of Slovakia, but neat, smooth, without holes.
We arrived at the hotel around 10-00, our suite was not yet ready and we went for a walk around the territory. There was a lot of snow, the temperature was -8, the nature is super!!!!! ! Very similar to the Carpathians.
Now about the hotel: the room is just class, two-story, we were 2 adults. 2 children. Everything is clean, warm and cozy. The furniture is good (the beds do not creak), they were cleaned every day and with high quality. The bathroom is large with a toilet on the ground floor and just a toilet on the 2nd floor. We thought that only suites like this went to see how other rooms are simpler, and were very surprised, all rooms with similar furniture, clean and comfortable, only the footage is smaller.
Meals: morning and dinner buffet, quite normal, no frills, delicious.
A big plus SPA-center for the residents of this hotel is free, located on the 0th floor, pool +36 C with hydro-massage around the perimeter (25m by 50m), 4 saunas, jacuzzi, very warm and pleasant especially after skiing or before them, in the morning there is no one in the SPA THE ENTIRE pool and saunas are just for you PLEASANT!
From the hotel to the ski lifts there is a free skibus every 25 minutes. The mountains are flat without potholes and mounds, for beginners it's just a paradise. The equipment was taken on the spot, all in good condition.
For families with children and not only a very good place!
We were met by a guide and invited everyone to the bus, we drove for about 30 minutes along the narrow roads of Slovakia, but neat, smooth, without holes.
We arrived at the hotel around 10-00, our suite was not yet ready and we went for a walk around the territory. There was a lot of snow, the temperature was -8, the nature is super!!!!! ! Very similar to the Carpathians.
Now about the hotel: the room is just class, two-story, we were 2 adults. 2 children. Everything is clean, warm and cozy. The furniture is good (the beds do not creak), they were cleaned every day and with high quality. The bathroom is large with a toilet on the ground floor and just a toilet on the 2nd floor. We thought that only suites like this went to see how other rooms are simpler, and were very surprised, all rooms with similar furniture, clean and comfortable, only the footage is smaller.
Meals: morning and dinner buffet, quite normal, no frills, delicious.
A big plus SPA-center for the residents of this hotel is free, located on the 0th floor, pool +36 C with hydro-massage around the perimeter (25m by 50m), 4 saunas, jacuzzi, very warm and pleasant especially after skiing or before them, in the morning there is no one in the SPA THE ENTIRE pool and saunas are just for you PLEASANT!
From the hotel to the ski lifts there is a free skibus every 25 minutes. The mountains are flat without potholes and mounds, for beginners it's just a paradise. The equipment was taken on the spot, all in good condition.
For families with children and not only a very good place!
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Small, poor country. It looks like old Europe, like Chernivtsi or Uzhgorod. We lived in Ruzhbaakh in the Strand Hotel 4 *. Quiet calm hotel. It was winter. Everything is covered in snow, beauty. Rooms are warm with underfloor heating. There is TV in the room, but there is not a single program in Russian or Ukrainian.
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Small, poor country. It looks like old Europe, like Chernivtsi or Uzhgorod. We lived in Ruzhbaakh in the Strand Hotel 4 *. Quiet calm hotel. It was winter. Everything is covered in snow, beauty. Rooms are warm with underfloor heating. There is TV in the room, but there is not a single program in Russian or Ukrainian.
The food is ordinary, no frills, rice every day. Buffet in the morning, semi-buffet in the evening. Drinks at your own expense (only morning tea is free). The hotel is inexpensive. The beer in the bar is excellent and cheaper than in Kyiv in any eatery. Mug 0.5 Kruš ovets cost 45 sl. CZK about 1.5 euros!
There is no one in the baths in the morning, they row up in the evening. There are a lot of people in the pool in the evening, vacationers are free, but anyone can buy a subscription. So it wasn't just the hotel residents there. The pool smells terrible of chlorine. The sauna is not bad, an excellent wet steam room for 7-8 people, a jacuzzi for 4 people, but there is always a crowd. On weekends, Poles come to the hotel by car to go skiing. They behave worse than ours.
The ski slopes are not bad, especially for families with children, not very steep. The language is understandable if spoken slowly. For a family vacation, I advise you to go.
The food is ordinary, no frills, rice every day. Buffet in the morning, semi-buffet in the evening. Drinks at your own expense (only morning tea is free). The hotel is inexpensive. The beer in the bar is excellent and cheaper than in Kyiv in any eatery. Mug 0.5 Kruš ovets cost 45 sl. CZK about 1.5 euros!
There is no one in the baths in the morning, they row up in the evening. There are a lot of people in the pool in the evening, vacationers are free, but anyone can buy a subscription. So it wasn't just the hotel residents there. The pool smells terrible of chlorine. The sauna is not bad, an excellent wet steam room for 7-8 people, a jacuzzi for 4 people, but there is always a crowd. On weekends, Poles come to the hotel by car to go skiing. They behave worse than ours.
The ski slopes are not bad, especially for families with children, not very steep. The language is understandable if spoken slowly. For a family vacation, I advise you to go.
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We were looking forward to the upcoming vacation. For two years in a row we went to rest in the Carpathians in the winter. Every year we were greeted by a lack of snow and a lack of service. This year it was decided to go abroad. That's just the difficulty was in the choice. My husband wanted to go to warm countries, but I wanted to go skiing more.
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We were looking forward to the upcoming vacation. For two years in a row we went to rest in the Carpathians in the winter. Every year we were greeted by a lack of snow and a lack of service. This year it was decided to go abroad. That's just the difficulty was in the choice. My husband wanted to go to warm countries, but I wanted to go skiing more. The choice still fell on Slovakia. I dug into the Internet for two weeks: I read reviews, asked, looked for prices. And somehow by chance I saw an advertisement for the travel agency Totmakoff Tours in Slovakia, which offered resorts at hotel prices. I note that before that I had already called a couple of travel agencies in Kyiv and their prices were SIGNIFICANTLY different from the prices offered by the Slovak travel agency (about two times higher).
I went to the site and wrote a letter. I was immediately answered, and we began to choose a hotel. There were a lot of offers, but we chose the Grand Hotel Strand. We were billed and sent a voucher. We paid through a travel agency in Kyiv, they also made us a visa and insurance. Transfer from Uzhgorod to Ruzhbakhi and back was also taken from them. We couldn't wait for the day of departure.
And here we are in Uzhgorod. A minibus driver approached us with a sign (yes, we decided to take a minibus, because there were 4 people driving us and we didn’t really want to crowd in a passenger car). He put us in the car and drove to the border, we drove through it very quickly, because. overtook a string of buses with our tourists. Stopped only once at the gas station to go to the MF and buy something on the road, in our case it was beer. There was almost no snow, it was March 3rd and we were very worried that there would be no snow or there would be little. When we arrived at the hotel there was about 1.5 meters of snow. We got to the hotel very quickly, even the rooms were not yet ready.
We were first placed in double rooms with separate beds and were told that rooms with a double bed would be tomorrow. The next day we were actually settled in a double attic room.
Now about the hotel.
The hotel is new, bright and very comfortable. Usually in the pictures all the hotels are normal, but when you arrive, you see something completely different... This is not the case, it looks even better than we expected. Very friendly staff. The room is clean, warm, I would say even hot (we slept with the window open). Heating comes from the floor, which is especially nice after a shower . The price includes a swimming pool with thermal water and 1.5 hours of water light (saunas, whirlpools, etc. ). Imagine: in the morning before breakfast, right in your bathrobe and slippers, you go down to the pool (on the -1st floor), plunge into the water at a temperature of +36 degrees. Beautyaaaa…
Breakfast - buffet. Good choice, everything is delicious!
Then everyone skis! Skis and boots can not be taken with you, because. right next to the mountain you can rent them, they are in good condition. We didn’t know how many days we would ride, so they charged us only for one day and said that when we ride, they will immediately calculate everything for us. When we returned the skis, we even got a discount for this paid day. Regarding discounts, I think it’s not worth telling that the more days you ride, the more discount you have and the cheaper you pay. Therefore, it is more profitable to take everything at once. To the maximum.
It takes 15 minutes to go from the hotel to the slopes, every 20 minutes there is a skibus from the hotel to the mountain and back.
We were skiing for the first time, so we immediately took instructors. At the bottom of a distant mountain there is an excellent school, only you need to agree in advance, because. all good instructors are quickly sorted out The trails are good, long... for extreme lovers: there are no black trails... but for beginners and lovers of calm skiing, just right!
I was very surprised at the bottom of the mountain toilet. Sorry for the details, but it's worth it! I had ski overalls and I thought with horror how I would take it off. Immediately I was very surprised that the toilet is free (ours would definitely make a paid one). In my view, a free toilet is dirt and a lot of garbage. No, everything is sterile clean there, there is always (! ) paper, napkins for hands. There are no (! ) locks on the booths and there has never been such a thing that someone broke in. They just do not close the door behind them and everyone knocks before pulling the door)
Skating ends at 16-00, then the tracks are prepared for night skiing. We didn’t go to night skiing... We quickly took a shower, and then either to the pool, and then to “Water Light”, or to “Water Light”, and then to the pool. And dinner. . . dinner at the hotel cost 8 euros/person. without drinks, buffet. We tried it once, it's delicious, the choice is large....but expensive !!!
We dined at local restaurants, much cheaper… The restaurant near the crater is excellent. My husband and I ate there many times and with alcohol and desserts we didn’t eat more than 6 euros / person, while we didn’t deny ourselves anything !! ! Yes, and in Slovakia very large portions.
Beer. Beer is a separate item. After Slovak, I can't drink Ukrainian beer. I liked the dark Saris the best. In the lobby bar, they make it with raspberry syrup, called Fiesta-beer. I recommend!
There is an ATM in Travertine, there is a currency exchange in the hotel. The hotel also has Internet, for a fee, but not expensive. From entertainment there is a disco twice a week (we did not get there), almost every evening there is live music in the lobby bar, there is billiards in Travertine. We had enough dinner in the restaurant, a cocktail in the lobby bar and that's it.
Time flew by unnoticed and I really did not want to leave... There was not a single bad moment or situation. Thanks to Alexei Totmakov for a great vacation. I hope my review will help someone in the choice. Go to Strand, you won't regret it!! ! We are going in 2007 at the end of February, maybe we will meet someone.
I went to the site and wrote a letter. I was immediately answered, and we began to choose a hotel. There were a lot of offers, but we chose the Grand Hotel Strand. We were billed and sent a voucher. We paid through a travel agency in Kyiv, they also made us a visa and insurance. Transfer from Uzhgorod to Ruzhbakhi and back was also taken from them. We couldn't wait for the day of departure.
And here we are in Uzhgorod. A minibus driver approached us with a sign (yes, we decided to take a minibus, because there were 4 people driving us and we didn’t really want to crowd in a passenger car). He put us in the car and drove to the border, we drove through it very quickly, because. overtook a string of buses with our tourists. Stopped only once at the gas station to go to the MF and buy something on the road, in our case it was beer. There was almost no snow, it was March 3rd and we were very worried that there would be no snow or there would be little. When we arrived at the hotel there was about 1.5 meters of snow. We got to the hotel very quickly, even the rooms were not yet ready.
We were first placed in double rooms with separate beds and were told that rooms with a double bed would be tomorrow. The next day we were actually settled in a double attic room.
Now about the hotel.
The hotel is new, bright and very comfortable. Usually in the pictures all the hotels are normal, but when you arrive, you see something completely different... This is not the case, it looks even better than we expected. Very friendly staff. The room is clean, warm, I would say even hot (we slept with the window open). Heating comes from the floor, which is especially nice after a shower . The price includes a swimming pool with thermal water and 1.5 hours of water light (saunas, whirlpools, etc. ). Imagine: in the morning before breakfast, right in your bathrobe and slippers, you go down to the pool (on the -1st floor), plunge into the water at a temperature of +36 degrees. Beautyaaaa…
Breakfast - buffet. Good choice, everything is delicious!
Then everyone skis! Skis and boots can not be taken with you, because. right next to the mountain you can rent them, they are in good condition. We didn’t know how many days we would ride, so they charged us only for one day and said that when we ride, they will immediately calculate everything for us. When we returned the skis, we even got a discount for this paid day. Regarding discounts, I think it’s not worth telling that the more days you ride, the more discount you have and the cheaper you pay. Therefore, it is more profitable to take everything at once. To the maximum.
It takes 15 minutes to go from the hotel to the slopes, every 20 minutes there is a skibus from the hotel to the mountain and back.
We were skiing for the first time, so we immediately took instructors. At the bottom of a distant mountain there is an excellent school, only you need to agree in advance, because. all good instructors are quickly sorted out The trails are good, long... for extreme lovers: there are no black trails... but for beginners and lovers of calm skiing, just right!
I was very surprised at the bottom of the mountain toilet. Sorry for the details, but it's worth it! I had ski overalls and I thought with horror how I would take it off. Immediately I was very surprised that the toilet is free (ours would definitely make a paid one). In my view, a free toilet is dirt and a lot of garbage. No, everything is sterile clean there, there is always (! ) paper, napkins for hands. There are no (! ) locks on the booths and there has never been such a thing that someone broke in. They just do not close the door behind them and everyone knocks before pulling the door)
Skating ends at 16-00, then the tracks are prepared for night skiing. We didn’t go to night skiing... We quickly took a shower, and then either to the pool, and then to “Water Light”, or to “Water Light”, and then to the pool. And dinner. . . dinner at the hotel cost 8 euros/person. without drinks, buffet. We tried it once, it's delicious, the choice is large....but expensive !!!
We dined at local restaurants, much cheaper… The restaurant near the crater is excellent. My husband and I ate there many times and with alcohol and desserts we didn’t eat more than 6 euros / person, while we didn’t deny ourselves anything !! ! Yes, and in Slovakia very large portions.
Beer. Beer is a separate item. After Slovak, I can't drink Ukrainian beer. I liked the dark Saris the best. In the lobby bar, they make it with raspberry syrup, called Fiesta-beer. I recommend!
There is an ATM in Travertine, there is a currency exchange in the hotel. The hotel also has Internet, for a fee, but not expensive. From entertainment there is a disco twice a week (we did not get there), almost every evening there is live music in the lobby bar, there is billiards in Travertine. We had enough dinner in the restaurant, a cocktail in the lobby bar and that's it.
Time flew by unnoticed and I really did not want to leave... There was not a single bad moment or situation. Thanks to Alexei Totmakov for a great vacation. I hope my review will help someone in the choice. Go to Strand, you won't regret it!! ! We are going in 2007 at the end of February, maybe we will meet someone.
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