двоякое впечатление (отдых понравился, но гостиница неплохая, но грязновата) mixed impression (I liked the rest, but the hotel is not bad, but dirty)

Rested in August 2013 in a standard single room on the 1st floor (380 UAH).
The staff is friendly, pleasant and unobtrusive. At the reception (Natalya Yuryevna, a man and a girl) there are very nice people, and the man who picked me up and took me to the station is also a very nice person.
The room is very cramped, as a single, and they put another bed in there, plus two chairs and a table, and there is absolutely no space. I think double rooms are more spacious. The bathroom is not very good, the plumbing is old, shabby, a lot of fungus. There is no glass for a toothbrush (probably they have this item worthy only of deluxe rooms) and it is clear that we are not talking about a set of cosmetics, only a bar of soap. The nice thing is that the bedding and towels (3 pieces per person) were changed every three days and cleaned, although the cleaning was very superficial. The air conditioner blows directly on the bed and lying on the bed with the air conditioner on is not very good, the windows do not open, only the door that opens onto the courtyard. At first I was very uncomfortable, but then I got used to it. In a word, normal, although dirty. And I also forgot, the TV remote control is just disgusting to hold in your hands, well, very dirty. In short, the girls don't bother with cleaning the room. Well, the soundproofing is bad.

Cafe is a separate issue. For a 3 star hotel, having such a dining room is simply not decent. This is the biggest negative in this story. The staff sleeps on the go, the service is terrible, it seems that these are random people and they have nothing to do with the profession of a waiter. Only dirty cutlery is removed from the tables, and the tables themselves are not wiped. In the morning you come for breakfast, tea is spilled on the table, dried spots are sweet, probably the day before yesterday, crumbs, etc. There is just a layer of gray dirt on the chairs, I rub it with my finger and it rolls off. The food is not very good. For breakfast, only white “loaf” is served bread, only black tea, and I don’t drink white bread or black tea, well, I had to. Milk porridge, there was no water, very sweet, pancakes are also very sweet, plus they are also sprinkled with powdered sugar, I personally didn’t go very sweet on an empty stomach in the morning. Of course, you can choose breakfast, but the food itself, regardless of the dish, was not very good. For lunch, I somehow ordered baked fish with vegetables, they brought it, it didn’t taste good, there was only bitterness, I still didn’t understand how it was possible to spoil a simple dish, and I ate Caesar salad in such a serving for the first time. And in general, after this meal, my stomach was twisting (well, it's all very individual). Well, then I went to have lunch at the hotel near the Mare Nero, it's delicious there, a set lunch (soup or borscht, chop, porridge or potatoes, salad) 48 UAH, if there is tea then 56 UAH. I even ate a lot.
And now the best part is the rooftop pool. He saved me, because I am allergic to the sun and I need to dose the time in the sun, and until you get to the sea, while back, then there is no time for swimming and sunbathing a little. The view is amazing, sea on one side and mountains on the other. The sunbeds, though dirty, but a towel and normal. Pool This is a plus that can slightly smooth out the shortcomings.
The hotel is located in the center, everything is nearby. In the Alupka park, you can wander endlessly. I went to a paid beach (30 UAH per adult and 15 per child). The beach is good. Excursions from 75 UAH.
The impression about the hotel is such that everyone seems to be trying and want the best, but it turns out as always. Although I do not rule out that if I go to Alupka, I will also consider this hotel, now I know all the pros and cons and understand what to expect and how to build my vacation.