It is difficult to imagine a more suitable place for families with children.

Written: 17 june 2012
Travel time: 19 may — 2 june 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 10.0
Went with my husband and 2 small children for 2 weeks. It took a long time to choose a place to stay, read a lot of reviews. Therefore, I will not crucify for a long time in epithets and thanks, I will tell you an approximate daily routine for those who are still thinking about whether to go or not:
8-10 breakfast, beach until lunch or even before afternoon tea, because sometimes the kids had a quiet hour there. On the beach there is a playground, a cafe. True, at the end of May it did not work and the problem is generally in the nearest district to buy even drinking water. I understand that your summer season begins, but you position yourself as a hotel for all-year-round holidays and family holidays. With small children, they try to come before the heat. It would be great to be able to buy baby water on your territory or for the same nursing mothers good, not suspicious Crimean water, on which instead of GOST there is the inscription TU.
Then from 18-20 dinner. After dinner, games in the children's room (older children generally spend days there). At 20 o'clock every day some kind of program. The children's room is located by the pool. Wi-fe everywhere, including the nursery. Our daughter, who does not go to kindergarten yet and is not on friendly terms with the regime at all, already on the 4th day, everything adjusted by itself. The child at 21.30 asked himself to sleep! We couldn't handle it for a year.

The animators are great, they try to involve even those kids who do not have time to delve into the tasks. Many thanks to them for this. Special regards to Jeanne! When I could not pick up my daughter from the playground for a quiet hour, it was proposed to relax in the bedroom of the children's room.
The lobby bar also has an entertainment program, though for parents. You can just come with the children to drink tea / coffee, listen to live music. There are not many places where you can come with a stroller, with two small children and not worry if they suddenly start acting up. No one will look askance at you, there are many of them and everyone treats this with understanding. And in general, looking at others, you understand that your child is the same as everyone else.
You can safely go there alone with a child, because. even on the beach, the staff lowers and raises strollers. The hotel can take their stroller. The restaurant has high chairs. The rooms have baby cots.
The area is clean and beautiful. Small but very well maintained.
The rooms are great! Cleaned up every day. Bed linen is changed every 3 days. The only thing I missed in the room was a children's stool with rubber legs, so as not to lift the child every time he wants to wash his hands or climb onto the toilet. At home, you don’t get distracted by such things.
For those who haven't been:
In the "Rooms" section, you can virtually visit each room of each category. There are both single rooms and double rooms, the layout of the rooms is different, even if the rooms belong to the same category.
The hotel has 2 five-story buildings. In the main building there are rooms of the categories Standard, Standard Plus, Junior Suite and Suite, in the Apartment Hotel - Studio, Studio Plus, Apartment-Family and Apartment-Lux.
All rooms with the letter "A" in front of the number are located in the Ap-Hotel building. The first digit of the number is the entrance number, the second floor, the third is the number on the site.
Ap-hotel has rooms on the ground floor. They have a terrace, it's much more than a balcony. This is what the first floor is. And not a basement at all, as I read somewhere in the reviews.
BUT

Something needs to be done with the children's room, there is clearly not enough ventilation there. You need a quartz lamp and not one. After the first week of stay, the whole family fell ill. The children got off with only a runny nose, but for more than 10 days I treated both my nose and throat, and my bones ached. Until now, the consequences drag on. And we are not the only ones. I would love to come again, but we are afraid of repetition. So far, our dad is categorical and vowed not to go to any children's resort at all! We chose your hotel precisely because of the children's animations, as a result, I did not let my daughter go there for a week. And when we went in before leaving, there were a lot of newcomers who were coughing, and with such a “beautiful” cough, almost bronchitis. By the way animators including! You are waiting for this vacation, you dream, you plan, you save money. Hooray! I arrived... and on you - you lie in a layer and do not want anything. It's a shame! And it's great that we arrived not in the season when our room costs 15.000 hryvnias! I'm even afraid to convert to rubles.
And secondly, the children's menu could be improved. When there are steamed vegetables, boiled veal, steamed meatballs, an apple is great! But sometimes there was only rice and boiled chicken breast. Pediatricians generally do not recommend chicken meat for small children and nursing mothers. Shop. Of course, I do not count on homemade turkey, rabbit, but for 4 stars and a children's menu, which is exactly what you promise, the cuisine could be more varied and of high quality. It is better to cook the same dried fruit compote than to treat it with packaged juices.
And for adults, the choice is not bad. I liked the kitchen. I read somewhere in the reviews that the tables are dirty. I don’t know, now they clean it with lightning speed.
Special thanks to the reservation department. They respond to emails in detail and quickly. I just bombarded them with questions and endless clarifications about numbers, territory, location, etc.
The place is convenient. Close to the beach and walking distance. We only went a couple of times, for the sake of interest. In Alushta itself, you can go to shops, to the market, to a pharmacy. Across the road is a small park and a city beach. We walked on foot to the water park Almond Grove. You can also take a trolley bus, who without a car.
For the third week we rested in Yalta, in a rented apartment. How I missed the snow-white sheets of Porto Mare.
Thank you for the rest, despite some "buts", we really enjoyed your stay.
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