Душевный отдых! Soul rest!

We booked a hotel in April, having found on the Internet at the link "vacation with children in the Crimea. " I must say right away - we are 5 people: my husband and I and three children: 9.12 years old and a year old and 2 months old. I was looking for a not very expensive hotel, a quiet place. I was immediately bribed by the fact that after the application on the site a young man called me back, he suggested everything, which number is better to choose, in which building. Still, you can't always tell from pictures. And then from April to July I had a lot of questions - after all, three children and just a baby! - they always answered my e-mail within 5-10 minutes !! ! To my misfortune, the day before departure, I decided to read the reviews. I came across this site, read about rubble, about a bad children's room, about disgusting food and was horrified. What to do? I even called with my husband to another hotel, but, of course, there were no places anywhere. We went in complete depression. We traveled from Rostov-on-Don by train for 16 hours (I must say right away that this is the worst impression of the whole holiday! ) The train is old ((Well, this is from another opera. I ordered a transfer from the train, a minibus, so there are a lot of us ourselves, and bags 6 pieces. Immediately at the car, we were met by a driver with a sign "Hellas", helped to carry things, told us the history of the Crimea all the way, brought us to the exchange point (we only had rubles with us). Very pleasant meeting! The transfer cost us 480 hryvnias , it would be cheaper by car, but everything suited us. We, tired after the train, had a great time in a spacious minibus. We settled in the Park building and I was pleased all the time that we lived right here, in the Beach on the embankment constantly people go, in the evening there are concerts, then karaoke, but we have peace and quiet. For some reason, there are sometimes mosquitoes on the embankment, but we don’t have them in the park of the Semidvorye boarding house either. On the playground near the Morskoy building They also exist. By the way, about the playgrounds. I don’t know where I walked there a girl with a lifeguard, we walked either near the "Sea" - there is sand, a sandbox, a swing, a house, or in the park of the boarding house "Semidvorye" - it’s generally gorgeous there - we have adult children playing there, climbing up the slides, stairs, and the baby in sandbox, there is a football field, and a volleyball field, and in general we liked to take a walk among the fragrant trees in the evening. The Helladian platform on the embankment, of course, is meager, but it didn’t make sense for us to go there - it’s far and not interesting, but here access is free everywhere. Regarding the children's rooms: we were in the children's room from "Ellada", there is an air conditioner there! There were 10 children, who drew, who sculpted, who watched cartoons. But it’s also uncomfortable for us there - far from the Park, and the kid doesn’t have much to play with. We also went to the children's room from "Morskoy", there for strangers the entrance is 20 hryvnia per hour, there are more toys, but there are two or three children, or even none at all, how many looked in.
The building, as we were told, was put into operation only in June, so it is brand new, clean.
About food. The breakfast buffet is quite normal. They say that it's better in Morskoy, but I haven't been, I don't know. Everyone lies about scarcity. Either the Elladians have corrected themselves. I tell you: they ate semolina, buckwheat, millet, oatmeal. Rice with vegetables. Fruits: oranges, apples, grapefruits, watermelon, banana. In a tent on the embankment, we bought melon, watermelon, grapes, peaches. As adults, our children ate either dumplings or dumplings (with potatoes, cottage cheese) for breakfast. And, of course, pancakes! There are 4 of them in one serving. We never stood in line longer than 15 minutes. In Turkey, the queue was much longer! Sausages and wieners, no blue ones, everything is fresh and hot. For dessert, besides pancakes, there are two types of pies. Yes, there are also cereals of different types, my boys also like to eat. Tea green and black, coffee from the machine. In general, except that there is no red caviar, but this is a different level of the hotel.

Special thanks to the staff! The waiters are all friendly, friendly, the maids always say hello, if anything, they will always help. They clean up well, only advice: hang a sign on the door if you want them to clean up, and cleaning is only until 13h. I didn’t hang it up once, and didn’t know that until 1 pm, they didn’t clean up. But the towels were changed at my request. Our room is "Standard+", spacious, clean. The five of us are not cramped at all.
Now about the beach. It is pebbly, there are really stones and gravel. If you like sand, this is not the place for you. You must always walk in slates, and preferably in special closed slippers. But none of my children got hurt all the time. We rode on a banana - 50 hryvnia per person, on a catamaran (I don’t remember how much).
We usually dined at Achilles in Ellada Park, and dined here if we watched a movie, children like to eat pizza with Crimean lemonade for movies, or french fries))) (movies are shown here every day and this is a separate happiness for children - at 4 p. m. cartoons like "Masha and the Bear", "Ice Age", at 6 p. m. . ), but more often in other restaurants: "Limone" on the embankment - they have the best children's menu and are served quickly, in the "Sky Lounge" the highest level of cuisine and service and another playground nearby - you can leave the children there while they cook. Greek salad is the most delicious here. Hellas Beach also has a children's menu, the most delicious Caesar salad there. At Da Vasco we only ate once - they brought me a heavily seasoned chicken, which raised doubts about its freshness.
About electric cars. This is class! I, like a child, rejoice every time, by God, when I go. It is not true that they are waiting in the heat. As soon as he approached, people sat down, immediately drove off, and they go all the time. They have a leaflet with a schedule on them, as if they go in half an hour, but they do not follow it, they go as soon as people sit down. When we arrived, two boys worked as drivers, very friendly, each time they said "Have a nice holiday" after each trip, and then one boy was replaced by a man, for some reason he drives silently))).

In general, in general, we really liked the rest, a beautiful landscape around, the view from the window is magical. I didn’t like the fact that there is no elevator, it’s hard to get up with a child in my arms, especially after swimming. And the staff is smart, real hard work! It seems that I didn’t forget anything, it just boiled up, how people write so many nasty things. I wanted to tell the truth. Good luck to all vacationers!