Пляж и лестница к нему - для оптимистов с хорошим здоровьем. The beach and the stairs to it are for optimists with good health.

I absolutely agree with the reviews for 2012. Pluses - this is its own territory with a variety of vegetation, including coniferous trees, which provide amazing air; magnificent view from the loggia (we lived on the 4th floor, sea view); air conditioning (at that time it was very hot, even at night about 25-26 gr. ); a fairly large room for 2 people (about 18m) good, spacious; there are blinds on the window, not dusty curtains; a large TV on a separate cabinet (and not a small one on the refrigerator, as in other boarding houses at the same price); quite comfortable beds, a large table, 2 chairs, a nightstand (although the furniture is old, still Soviet, but strong), refrigerator, large built-in wardrobe in the hall; amenities in the room and a shower cabin, not a shower tray with a curtain; on the loggia, also quite spacious, a table and 2 chairs. The 5-storey building has an elevator, which broke down only 2 times during our stay. Cons - bed linen is terrible, old. with incomprehensible stains, it's time to put towels on rags; the old refrigerator rattled so that at first they shuddered, and when it turned off, the same noise was heard very well from the next room (if you do not sleep well, then this test is not for you). Cleaning the room was reduced to taking out the garbage and a few movements with a dirty rag in the hallway. For the sake of interest, I did not begin to raise a patch of dust almost in the middle of the room by the TV, so it lay there for 5 days, then I threw it away. When asked about cleaning, an elderly cleaning lady swore that she always cleans, and when asked about the 2nd roll of toilet paper (about a week later), she was so sincerely surprised "you were given paper upon check-in, but no longer allowed. " I changed the linen 1 time (we lived 14 days), or rather, she brought it, and I took it off and covered it myself and there were even more incomprehensible spots on the "fresh" linen. You can’t even talk about cleaning the bathroom, it simply didn’t exist. Hot water according to the schedule, but it was not always respected, several times my daughter washed her hair with cold water, although according to the schedule, water should have been for another half an hour. I completely agree with others about nutrition, the portion size and "variety" can be experienced (the main thing is that there were no poisonings and intestinal disorders, which is more likely +), but the expectation of food and service is "3 with a minus" Interns worked, so that everything depended on the shift and the boss who led them, when it was better, when it was worse. And the 2 biggest minuses are the beach and the stairs to it. I tried to count the steps several times, but after 350 I got lost, and between them there are also several even sloping sections. The bus only took away from the beach (2 flights at lunch and 2 for dinner). It is small, there were a lot of people, it was hot, stuffy. And several times they even got into a "traffic jam" at the exit from the embankment. Theoretically, private cars are prohibited from entering the embankment, but, of course, people don’t care about this, and that’s where problems arose. There are a lot of people on the beach, apparently the guards were either very greedy or simply negligent in their work, because for the whole time we were asked to pass only 3 times. The sunbeds were only wooden in the shade, which were occupied early in the morning or even in the evening, and the plastic ones were only in the solarium on the breakwater for a fee (10 gr) and for the guests of the boarding house as well. A wooden path for descending into the sea (1 piece) appeared 3 days before our departure, before that it was not there (maybe it was before us? ). By the way, on the neighboring beach of the Kyiv sanatorium there were 3 times less people, and the paths were laid all the time, and the plastic sunbeds were free in a pile in large numbers (I don’t know if they were paid). As a result, if you have strong nerves, good health, you are not demanding in food and everyday life, you want to lose weight and train your legs and heart, then you can safely go to "Friendship".