Лига-клуб - отель контрастов) League club - hotel of contrasts)

Just returned from the League Club, rested with three children (4.15, 19). The place is good, quiet, to Evpatoria - 15 minutes. and 50 UAH. by taxi, we went every other day to have fun and look at fish in the beautiful new city aquarium, and at dolphins in the dolphinarium, in the old city, etc. All children were happy.
Now about the hotel. Much here is done not just with knowledge of the matter, but with love and respect for customers. And all the more ridiculous is the cynical approach to catering. In short, the Liga-Club is really a "hotel of contrasts": having all the prerequisites to become the No. 1 hotel not only in Zaozerny, but also one of the leaders in the region, literally in every key position an unfortunate, often ridiculous flaw was found, which is a general (very positive) impression messed up a bit. But first things first.
ANIMATION

I put excellent animation in the first place among the advantages of the boarding house, because I have not heard of a similar level of work with children in Crimean hotels. From the very morning, the children were "covered by cultural and mass work" - games on the beach, on the territory, in the children's room, on the huge indoor dance floor - the girls gave all their best at 100%, thank you very much, Vika, Lyuba, Nastya !!!
Minuses. 1. Extremely inconvenient schedule for the children's room (from 16 to 18). My child does not sleep during the day (I'm sure he is not the only one), and from 14 to 16 it would be just perfect to spend time there. And after 16, the children's room seems to be no longer needed - they still went to the beach.
2. For teenagers, there is little entertainment (only sports), and in the evenings they stupidly wander around the territory.
BEACH
Just a great beach! Clean, comfortable accommodation - at any time you can find a free sunbed, and from 7 to 9 in the morning we were alone on the beach and a nice lady from St. Petersburg. There are civilian showers with cold and hot water, toilets, a small bar, a wide canopy under which you can safely spend at least a whole day. There are no outsiders, the place is full, garbage and algae are removed. By the way, the distance to the beach is not 300 m, but about 800, but it takes exactly 10 minutes to walk along a shady alley, which did not bother at all.
Minuses. 1. The toilet on the beach does not close from the inside. The purpose of this phenomenon has remained unclear.
2. The assortment of the bar is extremely scarce, so the potential profit floated away to a lively couple with "baked honey" and other food, which (a couple, that is) was literally besieged by hotel vacationers twice a day.
ROOMS

The original architectural solution of the entire complex as a whole and the rooms in particular inspires respect - how ergonomically everything is arranged, while the total area of ​ ​ the two-room suites is small. Cleanliness is perfect, daily cleaning is thorough - many thanks to our maid Svetlana! Minuses. 1. Due to the bizarre polygonal curves of the walls, the balconies are turned almost "to face" each other, which unexpectedly created a problem. Neighbors liked to smoke and talk about life for hours until two in the morning. Since our balcony was constantly open due to the unbearable stuffiness (the air conditioner is located in the living room, and there is not enough air for the bedroom), then all the cigarette smoke was in our room, plus the constant “boo-boo-boo” above the ear. We had to wait for the end of these romantic evenings, opening and closing the balcony door in the rhythm of smoking breaks (although people were, of course, not to blame - they were just talking on their balcony). Which way out of this situation, I do not even know. Maybe, when settling, be interested in the time of going to bed for temporary neighbors?
STAFF AND TERRITORY
All the staff of the hotel, as if by choice, are friendly, kind and competent - well, just abroad, by golly! Administrators Elena, Alena, Olya, Svetlana - you are doing a great job, thank you! Beautiful smiling waitresses, alas, I don’t remember all of them (- only Svetlana, who even had the patience to supplement the capricious babies!
The territory is magnificent for such a small body: a clean pool, well-groomed flowerbeds, a lot of landscape design details that were pleasing to the eye; cozy pavilions. . . It would seem that rest and rejoice. But there was still a catch, and it lay in the culinary part of the program.
GASTRONOMIC ZILD
If the first two days we were still getting used to the status of vacationers, we liked everything - and the food too (excellent fried pangasius, vegetable salad with olives and cheese, large portions of ripe watermelon, etc. ). Or maybe these were some special days, because it was from the third day onwards that the food got worse and worse, until it sank into frank culinary crap, for a minute, for 255 UAH. per person per day! I offer the top 10 dishes that are especially amazing (arranged in the order of serving in the canteen, and not according to "delicacy" - I can’t decide on the leader’s choice, as in a joke: “Girl, what will you drink - alcohol, moonshine, vodka? - Oh I don't even know, everything is so delicious. . . ")
So:
1. LAST YEAR!! ! apples, oak, with streaks of rot on the inside, kindly offered for dessert for dinner (1 pc per person);
2. Dried fruit compote (in the middle of summer!!! );
3. Green kiwi (in the sense of ripeness) and green peaches (we had the good fortune to try and immediately throw away these fruits on different days, also 1 pc per person);
4. Pale pink water with sugar for lunch - obviously, this is the so-called. compote, cooked in the proportion of 2 apricots per bucket of water (hello from the Soviet public catering);

5. White cabbage salad with carrots as a lunch snack (hello from the winter menu of student canteens);
6. Barley porridge-slurry, lovingly crushed on a plate with a "cake" (we cooked this for the dog when there were interruptions in buckwheat. At the same time, the dog was sorry);
7. For some reason, the liver, cut into thin strips and boiled down to the state of rubber;
8. Disgusting in appearance and sour in taste (if IT is licked) rice porridge with lumps of cottage cheese and a burnt crust on top, laid out in a picturesque pile and called a casserole;
9. Graciously sliced ​ ​ vegetables for breakfast - 1/8 of (I'm not kidding !!! ) a lettuce leaf;
10. And yet, this is the leader: to the sound of fanfare, the breakfast of our last day appears on the stage in full force. I speak slowly and sadly. Snack plate: three slices of cheese, two slices of smoked oily fish, a piece of butter, a lettuce leaf. I repeat, if anyone forgot: it's BREAKFAST! European, as we were told. Next - the squeak of fusion cuisine, the fruit of the chef's wild imagination, an amazing addition to the fatty smoked fish from the morning - Her Majesty SAUSAGE! Such a big one. Thick. With squash caviar.
Who in Europe eats breakfast with such a set? ! I even imagined: he smears himself, which means that a European is a piece of bread with butter. Above - shmyak fish. Well, cheese for taste, of course, it turns out an excellent sandwich. And then trample the whole thing with a sausage - delicious! Oh yes, this culinary frenzy was accompanied by a Yuppie-type drink. For complete, so to speak, harmony.

. . . I would laugh if these varied, but completely UNSEASONAL dishes were not so expensive. Solid cereals and pasta, meat, soups - everything is edible, but in any cafe or restaurant in Kyiv such a business lunch costs about 50 UAH, not 110. when buying a room in the high season, paying for food is obligatory) the family was deprived of seasonal vegetables - there were no vegetable stews, no stuffed peppers, no eggplant saute, etc. - this list of dishes that are just asking for the August table can be continued by anyone. Yes, put, damn it, just sliced ​ ​ ​ ​ vegetables on the table - is it really impossible for me to give me an individual tomato for that kind of money ? ! A miserable stale salad for lunch, in which you could catch a couple of pieces of stunted tomatoes, does not count. The fish was only once in two weeks! Breakfasts are generally some kind of vague, with European (or continental) practically nothing in common. No eggs, no omelettes, no cottage cheese (as was, by the way, promised in the menu on the site). The special cynicism of the administration is that there is no alternative - there are no catering establishments nearby. Why not organize meals on the model of fast food restaurants? But, obviously, the lack of competition is relaxing. It is sad to think that this time we have also witnessed "business in Russian": at least in something, but to trick the client. It's a pity. After all, I would come to this hotel again.