Phew ... not everything is so rosy, to put it mildly ...

Written: 6 july 2015
Travel time: 25 — 29 june 2015
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
1.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 1.0
Service: 1.0
Cleanliness: 1.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 1.0
It is very difficult to write about this place without emotions, but I will try.
Our family got there by accident. We were part of a large company and did not participate in the choice of this vacation spot.
10 days before departure, I read the site of this "eco-resort". The idea seemed interesting. It's so great to be in a secluded, ecologically clean place. This is after the bustle of the promoted resorts of the Crimea.
This is how the picture was presented: neat, clean, small houses right on the seashore, silence, peace, fresh air, clean water, healthy and tasty food 3 times a day.

So, we had 4 houses booked and we arrived with a group of 8 adults and 5 children. What we saw surprised us a little. The appearance of the houses was very different from those photos that were presented on the site. Yes, sheds appeared near each of them, but the houses themselves turned out to be shabby. Inside, we were also disappointed. The houses were upholstered with ordinary plywood. The floor is rearing up and everywhere is very, very dirty. Apparently they don't get removed. Rather, they are removed by those who live there. The beds are homemade, but solid, good mattresses and pillows, old blankets. The linen is ok, there are towels. Instead of a closet, there was a kind of plywood structure without doors (shelving? ). A problem immediately arose: one family in our company consisted of 2 adults and 2 children of different sexes, 13 and 8 years old. But then it turned out that 3 beds is the maximum that can be accommodated in this house. And there are no more options. So they were accommodated: the four of us on 3 single beds (while paying for 4).
I immediately asked for a refrigerator, since I have a baby and I had perishable food for him with me. By the way, the refrigerator is paid - 200 r / day. 30 minutes later they brought it. And then another problem emerged. Or rather, immediately 2. In our house (where we had already unpacked our things) there was no electricity and hot water. And if the problem with electricity had a chance to be solved, then with hot water - without options, since in some houses there was no boiler. Generally. Why we were settled in houses without hot water is still a mystery to me. And this despite the fact that more than half of the houses were empty. Well, or I will assume that they also did not have hot water. Besides, the cabin stank of gasoline. This is all because they were mowing behind the house with a gasoline scythe and all the smells went through the toilet window to us. After I expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of electricity and hot water, we were offered to move to another house. My sister, who also found herself in a house without hot water, was told that it would be possible to move in tomorrow.
The bathroom was funny. There is no shower cabin, not even a curtain, no tray, no side between the shower area and the toilet. Just a faucet with a shower head and a hole in the floor. At the same time, in our house the slope of the floor was in the opposite direction (towards the toilet). And taking a shower ended with 2 cm of water in the whole room. In the bathrooms, there was immediately something like a water drain. But in our version, it was just a mop without bristles and it was impossible to drive water into the drain. Speaking of shower water. . . It was salty. This often happens in coastal dwellings, but here it was quite salty and washing her hair had a funny effect.
Cigarette butts were thrown around the house in huge quantities (we arrived at an eco-resort, yeah). Thorns grew everywhere. What was mowed with a trimmer was not removed. And my still not very confident walking one-year-old child constantly came across burdock either lying on the ground or still growing. Near our house, all 4 days, construction of some kind of structure was carried out. They kept knocking. True, on the second day a common language was found with the builders and at the moments when the child was sleeping, they did not knock.

Food. During the 4 days that we were there, they gave porridge for breakfast 2 times (half a plate of oatmeal, apparently the cheapest, as it was bitter), 1 time they gave pancakes (2 pieces per person, pancakes 7-8 cm in diameter) and once thin pancakes with a teaspoon of filling (apple puree). Actually, everything. For lunch there was soup (I have never seen such a liquid pea soup), for the second - buckwheat with a spoonful of salad. Or pearl barley with beetroot salad. From meat (we adults do not eat meat) there was a kind of barley cutlets with a small amount of minced meat. Our kids couldn't eat it. What chicken, meat and fish? There has never been such a thing... For dinner, about the same as for the second, but in a different combination and without "meat". If the adults could somehow eat it, then the children did not (hooray! We had a certain amount of food and a slow cooker with us). At the same time, it was clear that the chefs were trying. They simply cooked from what they were allocated money for. A couple of times there were vegetable cutlets. Delicious. There were kettles, crockery and tea/sugar available all the time in the dining room. This is a plus.
But the dining room is dirty, that's very. Dirty tables and floors.
Score. The local "shop" has a limited range of goods. Within 10 items. Sweet cherry 200 rub. (on the market the same was for 100 rubles). In general, there was no food there... Draft wine is for sale - 200 r / liter. The site says about a car shop that comes regularly. But it's not. She arrives, but in Maryino (it is 3.5 km).
In the dining room, we passed by a garbage dump, which is supposedly intended for separate collection of garbage. In fact, there are 3 tanks that were full and stank. There were a huge number of flies throughout the "eco-resort". They woke us up EVERY morning. It's not 2-3 flies. It's a few dozen. The same situation in the dining room. Crowds of flies. One kind man (alas, I don’t know his name) on the third day gave us a fly tape. This did not completely solve the problem, but the number of flies in the house decreased.
One fine day, I found a dead mouse near the house. Well, yes . . nature and all that, but it's good that I found it before my one-year-old child. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not, but out of 13 people in our company, 4 got sick. The symptoms are the same: vomiting, indigestion. It all started with my one-year-old child, to whom I foolishly added raw cold water to porridge (I was assured that the water is clean and you can drink it just like that). The water was in a special tank. An hour later, the child vomited and away we go. Then the same thing happened to 3 more from our company. Maybe this is a coincidence, but it happened in this "eco-resort".

Sea and beach. The sea is amazing in color. The water is purest. Very petty. The beach has fine white sand. But still there was a huge amount of cigarette butts (comrade vacationers, how many of you smoked Gitan brand cigarettes and threw them on the beach? ) The beach is nearby, but not right next to the houses, as it may seem from the pictures. It takes about 5 minutes to walk to it (and I dreamed of putting the child to bed and going for a swim so that he was in sight, but this is impossible there). Near the dining room there is a descent to the water. But the entrance is rocky. The sea smelled strongly of hydrogen sulfide. There can be no complaints here (the natural environment and all that), but someone may be confused. I didn’t really understand what was meant by “shadow canopies” (information from the site). There were none.
There is Wi-Fi on the premises. In the houses it catches badly. If you need stable Internet, you need to go to the dining room.
There is a small "zoo". Children can interact with ducks, peacocks, hares (or are they giant rabbits? ), roosters, and more. There is a place for children to run. Since we had many children, they did not get bored. The site says that there is a trampoline for children. In fact, this is an old iron bed with a spring bottom. The kids loved it, but it's not a trampoline. The site also says about an inflatable children's pool. I won't even write what it is. You can guess for yourself. Even in the reviews on the site it is written that there is table tennis. And where did they find it?
About privacy. The houses are located close to each other. When we were there, only a few houses out of 25 were occupied. And that was the feeling of a communal apartment. After all, just a couple of meters from you, someone else's laundry is drying, strangers are sitting. If suddenly all 25 houses are filled, then there can be no talk of any privacy.
Probably the main points I have already described.
So, the cost of a house with a refrigerator for two is 2600 rubles. per day. This is in June (we paid less, since the reservation and payment were made in advance and we were also given a discount for having 4 houses). In July-August - 3400 rubles for two. This is quite a market price for accommodation and 3 meals a day.

There was a feeling that the employees seemed to be trying, but they didn’t really understand that people didn’t just come to share their passion for “permaculture” (c), but also paid, in general, not the smallest money and count on normal living conditions and normal food. Well, normal behavior. That is, to the question of vacationers about the schedule and routes of the nearest buses, you do not need to send them to look on the Internet. There is no need to offer to take you to the nearest village for 150 rubles, despite the fact that all possible buses (2) have already passed that day, and the vacationers have a lot of things and a one-year-old child in their hands . .
At the same time, I admit that such a "resort" may have its fans and supporters. The idea is generally good. Simply, if you are already going into the sphere of commerce, then you need to change your attitude towards those who pay money, think about different management. Well, or stay in the niche of volunteers / volunteers.
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