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We rested in the sanatorium "Ukraine" from 10 to 21 April 2011. We got from Simferopol from the railway. bus station Simferopol-Yalta (25 UAH), then from the bus station by minibus No. 27 Yalta-Alupka to the stop sanatorium "Ukraine" (6 UAH) in 2 hours. Then they found out. What is better to go by bus "Simferopol-Semiiz", which stops near the sanatorium "Ukraine": no need to change in Yalta and a little cheaper. True, the bus stands in Yalta, at the bus station, for 30 minutes, or even more.
We were at the reception at 9-30 in the morning, where we were met by a friendly girl Marina. She identified us in room number 328 in building number 1-south, as agreed in advance, told about the time of meals in the dining room, and said that they have a strict dining room, they work only according to the schedule. No delays, and because breakfast from 8 to 9-00, then today we will not have it. The pool and gym, which I had a lot of interest in, are closed on Sundays. So only from tomorrow. The swimming pool is open from 10:00 to 13:00 (lunch from 13:00 to 14:00) and the gym from 15:00 to 18:00 (dinner from 18:00 to 19:00). Since we took vouchers without treatment, the rest of the time we have at our own discretion - walks in the park of the sanatorium, excursions offered by the organizer Katya in the lobby in front of the dining room or independent excursions to nearby attractions, because. sanatorium "Ukraine" is located in the center of sightseeing places - palaces and parks. Almost opposite the main 1st building of the sanatorium, where we lived and ate, there are the majestic peaks of Ai-Petri, the highest in the Crimea. Indeed, in clear weather, the panorama of the mountain peaks here is unique, stunningly beautiful.
My wife and I were accommodated in a 2-bed standard room, which pleasantly surprised us with its dimensions: spacious, with high ceilings of more than 3 meters, majestic architecture with beautiful stucco at the top. Everything is clean, cozy and comfortable. Cleaned daily, if you do not refuse.
In the room: a color TV with cable TV with more than 30 channels of excellent broadcasting quality, 2 wide beds with beautiful and new linens, 2 towels each, floor lamps, bedside tables, a sofa with a coffee table, an armchair, a refrigerator, dishes. The wardrobe even has a safe! The dimensions are not large, the “laptop” will not fit, but you can put documents, money and valuables, such as photographic equipment or jewelry. True, the key to it costs 6 UAH / day additionally. But in certain cases, this is a wonderful option, as we later had the opportunity to verify, although we immediately refused to use the safe.
Of course, a spacious bathroom with hot and cold water around the clock. The room is large in size, despite the abundance of furniture, it was quite spacious, you can freely do exercises or sit with friends. Large loggia with outdoor furniture - table, chairs and clothes dryer. View of the sea and the park. In summer, in the heat, tall cypresses will provide a saving shade.
The resort itself has 4 buildings. During our stay, vacationers lived only in the first building, perhaps the most beautiful and well-groomed. There is also a dining room, where food is organized according to the "buffet" principle, i. e. you can eat anything and as much as you want. You choose your dishes yourself, you determine how much. You can’t just take something with you to eat later in the room. In terms of assortment, quality of cooking and variety, it can be rated as a solid four (according to a 5-point system). There are many vegetable dishes, in the evening there is always kefir in unlimited quantities, pancakes with jam, sour cream or condensed milk, pastries are generally wonderful, however, if they are fresh, and not the remnants of yesterday. For lunch, there were always fresh fruits: apples, oranges, bananas, and everything was peeled, cut without pits (apples) and, most importantly, delicious!
We especially liked the first courses, borscht for me, and soups for my wife: fish, peas and others. Meat dishes were always and in abundance for the second: liver, chicken, heart prevailed, less often pork, for example, pilaf. Everything is usually well cooked. So, I can assure those who are afraid to lose weight or not eat enough (men) that there will be no problems with this. Is it only for a refined taste that requires caviar not “foreign” (this one, “overseas”, was also in abundance) or delicacies like tongue or barbecue will be additional expenses. All this can be ordered (quickly and not very expensive) in the restaurant of the neighboring sanatorium "Dnepr" or here on the territory of the sanatorium "Ukraine", only in the summer season. Although, in fairness, there were complaints about the lack of "real" meat in the dining room diet, from a scrupulous woman, he himself saw. But this is an isolated case.
The second building was preparing to receive guests, preening itself. Next to it there is a swimming pool: covered with a transparent roof, beautiful architecture inside, heated by sea water, standard length (25 m), quite spacious.
Photos of the pool on the site of the sanatorium are true.
Sanatorium swimming pool
And everything would be great there (in the pool): you can swim in plenty for lovers of this sport, and swim, lovers of floundering in sea water: changing cabins, hot showers, even a hair dryer at the exit near the duty room, but... the water in it is sometimes cold!
When the water is 24-25 ° C, this is still normal (although according to the standards for not quite healthy people, the water temperature in it should be at least 26 ° C), when 22 ° C or lower it is noticeably cool - the air is also not yet warm, almost like outside. Even the kidneys in the water can grab the cold. The "weather" in the pool, as it turned out, depends on the mood of the operator, who heats or does not heat the water in the pool at night. At the same time, the thermometer (the operator is guided by it), which floats in the pool, shows a constant temperature of 26 ° C. The thermometer is simply not working - the meniscus is knocked down, and it is already pretty "worn" or broken - it is wrapped with tape, and the liquid inside the capillary has faded. For fidelity, I had to buy a thermometer in household goods and control the temperature of the water in the pool. During the 9 days that I had a chance to swim in the pool, there were 2 days when the water temperature was below 23°C.
In the 3rd building, only the 1st floor worked, where the offices of the administration of the sanatorium are located: the director, the head physician and their deputies. The fourth, which is completely closed on the very shore. It will open, perhaps, only at the height of the season.
At the sanatorium there is a very good and fairly spacious park (they write 10 hectares). It has many beautiful and cozy corners where you can sit quietly on a bench, admiring the landscapes of the sea, mountains, the architectural ensemble of the 1st building, cozy paths, ladders and observation platforms. True, they say that earlier the park was better groomed, but even now it is in an attractive condition. Of course, in the neighboring sanatorium "Dnepr" the park is more polished, richer in plantings, infrastructure and much larger in territory, it is calmer and quieter here.
On the embankment of the sanatorium "Ukraine" there is a wonderful gym, which for some reason is undeservedly overlooked in review materials on the sanatorium "Ukraine" on various sites. The gym or exercise therapy room includes a spacious lobby-cloakroom, where medical scales are freely available. Immediately at the entrance to the lobby there is a pleasant green carpet, then a large hall, the exercise therapy room itself, where, in addition to 2 tables for table tennis, there are 3 exercise bikes and one “ski” simulator, a “soft” corner with mats for gymnastics, a few simple simulators. There are huge windows in the hall with a wonderful view of the sea and the beaches below. There is a lot of space in the hall and even in windy weather you can play badminton there, which we did with great pleasure! For games, there is the necessary equipment, which is issued by the instructor Victoria Alexandrovna. She very professionally and kindly conducts classes for beginners on simulators, gives recommendations depending on the doctor's prescriptions and the state of health.
The gym has a separate entrance directly from the exercise therapy room and it houses more than a dozen modern exercise machines, mirrors for training
We were at the reception at 9-30 in the morning, where we were met by a friendly girl Marina. She identified us in room number 328 in building number 1-south, as agreed in advance, told about the time of meals in the dining room, and said that they have a strict dining room, they work only according to the schedule. No delays, and because breakfast from 8 to 9-00, then today we will not have it. The pool and gym, which I had a lot of interest in, are closed on Sundays. So only from tomorrow. The swimming pool is open from 10:00 to 13:00 (lunch from 13:00 to 14:00) and the gym from 15:00 to 18:00 (dinner from 18:00 to 19:00). Since we took vouchers without treatment, the rest of the time we have at our own discretion - walks in the park of the sanatorium, excursions offered by the organizer Katya in the lobby in front of the dining room or independent excursions to nearby attractions, because. sanatorium "Ukraine" is located in the center of sightseeing places - palaces and parks. Almost opposite the main 1st building of the sanatorium, where we lived and ate, there are the majestic peaks of Ai-Petri, the highest in the Crimea. Indeed, in clear weather, the panorama of the mountain peaks here is unique, stunningly beautiful.
My wife and I were accommodated in a 2-bed standard room, which pleasantly surprised us with its dimensions: spacious, with high ceilings of more than 3 meters, majestic architecture with beautiful stucco at the top. Everything is clean, cozy and comfortable. Cleaned daily, if you do not refuse.
In the room: a color TV with cable TV with more than 30 channels of excellent broadcasting quality, 2 wide beds with beautiful and new linens, 2 towels each, floor lamps, bedside tables, a sofa with a coffee table, an armchair, a refrigerator, dishes. The wardrobe even has a safe! The dimensions are not large, the “laptop” will not fit, but you can put documents, money and valuables, such as photographic equipment or jewelry. True, the key to it costs 6 UAH / day additionally. But in certain cases, this is a wonderful option, as we later had the opportunity to verify, although we immediately refused to use the safe.
Of course, a spacious bathroom with hot and cold water around the clock. The room is large in size, despite the abundance of furniture, it was quite spacious, you can freely do exercises or sit with friends. Large loggia with outdoor furniture - table, chairs and clothes dryer. View of the sea and the park. In summer, in the heat, tall cypresses will provide a saving shade.
The resort itself has 4 buildings. During our stay, vacationers lived only in the first building, perhaps the most beautiful and well-groomed. There is also a dining room, where food is organized according to the "buffet" principle, i. e. you can eat anything and as much as you want. You choose your dishes yourself, you determine how much. You can’t just take something with you to eat later in the room. In terms of assortment, quality of cooking and variety, it can be rated as a solid four (according to a 5-point system). There are many vegetable dishes, in the evening there is always kefir in unlimited quantities, pancakes with jam, sour cream or condensed milk, pastries are generally wonderful, however, if they are fresh, and not the remnants of yesterday. For lunch, there were always fresh fruits: apples, oranges, bananas, and everything was peeled, cut without pits (apples) and, most importantly, delicious!
We especially liked the first courses, borscht for me, and soups for my wife: fish, peas and others. Meat dishes were always and in abundance for the second: liver, chicken, heart prevailed, less often pork, for example, pilaf. Everything is usually well cooked. So, I can assure those who are afraid to lose weight or not eat enough (men) that there will be no problems with this. Is it only for a refined taste that requires caviar not “foreign” (this one, “overseas”, was also in abundance) or delicacies like tongue or barbecue will be additional expenses. All this can be ordered (quickly and not very expensive) in the restaurant of the neighboring sanatorium "Dnepr" or here on the territory of the sanatorium "Ukraine", only in the summer season. Although, in fairness, there were complaints about the lack of "real" meat in the dining room diet, from a scrupulous woman, he himself saw. But this is an isolated case.
The second building was preparing to receive guests, preening itself. Next to it there is a swimming pool: covered with a transparent roof, beautiful architecture inside, heated by sea water, standard length (25 m), quite spacious.
Photos of the pool on the site of the sanatorium are true.
Sanatorium swimming pool
And everything would be great there (in the pool): you can swim in plenty for lovers of this sport, and swim, lovers of floundering in sea water: changing cabins, hot showers, even a hair dryer at the exit near the duty room, but... the water in it is sometimes cold!
When the water is 24-25 ° C, this is still normal (although according to the standards for not quite healthy people, the water temperature in it should be at least 26 ° C), when 22 ° C or lower it is noticeably cool - the air is also not yet warm, almost like outside. Even the kidneys in the water can grab the cold. The "weather" in the pool, as it turned out, depends on the mood of the operator, who heats or does not heat the water in the pool at night. At the same time, the thermometer (the operator is guided by it), which floats in the pool, shows a constant temperature of 26 ° C. The thermometer is simply not working - the meniscus is knocked down, and it is already pretty "worn" or broken - it is wrapped with tape, and the liquid inside the capillary has faded. For fidelity, I had to buy a thermometer in household goods and control the temperature of the water in the pool. During the 9 days that I had a chance to swim in the pool, there were 2 days when the water temperature was below 23°C.
In the 3rd building, only the 1st floor worked, where the offices of the administration of the sanatorium are located: the director, the head physician and their deputies. The fourth, which is completely closed on the very shore. It will open, perhaps, only at the height of the season.
At the sanatorium there is a very good and fairly spacious park (they write 10 hectares). It has many beautiful and cozy corners where you can sit quietly on a bench, admiring the landscapes of the sea, mountains, the architectural ensemble of the 1st building, cozy paths, ladders and observation platforms. True, they say that earlier the park was better groomed, but even now it is in an attractive condition. Of course, in the neighboring sanatorium "Dnepr" the park is more polished, richer in plantings, infrastructure and much larger in territory, it is calmer and quieter here.
On the embankment of the sanatorium "Ukraine" there is a wonderful gym, which for some reason is undeservedly overlooked in review materials on the sanatorium "Ukraine" on various sites. The gym or exercise therapy room includes a spacious lobby-cloakroom, where medical scales are freely available. Immediately at the entrance to the lobby there is a pleasant green carpet, then a large hall, the exercise therapy room itself, where, in addition to 2 tables for table tennis, there are 3 exercise bikes and one “ski” simulator, a “soft” corner with mats for gymnastics, a few simple simulators. There are huge windows in the hall with a wonderful view of the sea and the beaches below. There is a lot of space in the hall and even in windy weather you can play badminton there, which we did with great pleasure! For games, there is the necessary equipment, which is issued by the instructor Victoria Alexandrovna. She very professionally and kindly conducts classes for beginners on simulators, gives recommendations depending on the doctor's prescriptions and the state of health.
The gym has a separate entrance directly from the exercise therapy room and it houses more than a dozen modern exercise machines, mirrors for training
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