Good option for Zatoka

Written: 20 march 2010
Travel time: 1 — 10 september 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 10.0
Mini hotels are a good option for Zatoka - not a wild Soviet "boarding house" and not a "real" hotel at prices more expensive than in "real" resorts. A separate plus of the "Guest House" is its proximity to the estuary, you can walk both to the sea and to the estuary. A rather pleasant place with pleasant hosts, suitable for a relaxing family holiday with children, we can safely recommend it for the first visit to Zatoka, if you are not in the mood for "surprises".
There are more disadvantages in general for the "resort" than for the "Guest house". Communication problems - where in winter the population is 2000, in summer a million people hang on one cell tower, so the mobile Internet works very thoughtfully. You can’t drink local water if your kidneys are dear to you, for some reason in the hotel at first there was tap water as drinking water, then they began to give normal water, but in principle you just need to know about this feature of Zatoka and buy water and drinks for yourself. Food - food is ordered at the hotel and there are no problems with it, but it seemed to us that in Zatoka itself there were somehow few catering points and they were either too expensive or not intended for three meals a day. Rest with meals a la dining will cost as "all inclusive" in 3-4 stars in Turkey. Mosquitoes! You definitely need a fumigator, otherwise you will spend half the night destroying them, somehow they penetrate the room even through the grid.
The minuses are offset by the pluses - Zatoka is an ordinary Soviet village, where everything is your own, dear, you can go or go anywhere, and not sit in a hotel, as in other places. You can get to Odessa by train, or by minibus, or by taxi, or buy some kind of excursion.

In the center of Zatoka there is an excellent market that sells everything you need for a beach holiday, near the city of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky-Akkerman with a Turkish fortress where you can sail on a ship, the Shabo winery and many other interesting things. An excellent sandy beach, an interesting estuary, where you can go tens of meters away from the coast and the water will still be knee-deep. True, we did not dare to swim in the estuary - jellyfish and other living creatures swim in the water.
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