Наш отдых в санатории Our stay at the resort

In September 2013, I, my husband and a 4-year-old child rested in a sanatorium Ukraine. Having reached from Simferopol to Gaspra and the sanatorium Ukraine, we easily found the first building of the sanatorium and the registration room for visitors. There were several people in front of us and we, tired from the road, sat down on the sofa to rest. Then an insurance company agent clung to us and in the most impudent manner began to insist that we insure our lives for the period of our stay in the sanatorium. I answered her that we should not do this and that it is our right to insure or not to insure. They registered us quickly, gave us a coupon for settling in building 2 and told us not to pay much attention to the insurer. When I left the registry, this insurance agent already insisted not on insurance, but that I write my refusal since I am not insured. We did not write anything, we did not give her our data, and I advise you to send such businessmen away. It was such a negative moment during the settlement.
We had a two-room suite on the first floor in building 2. This is simply two standard rooms connected by a door in the wall. At the entrance there is a toilet with a washbasin, a door, then a room with a sideboard, a sofa, a wardrobe, a refrigerator, a TV, a French window and access to a common balcony. The second room with one double bed - nothing needs to be moved))) a dressing table, bedside tables, an ottoman - there is plenty of furniture, you don’t even use so many drawers. Also a French window to the balcony. From this bedroom there is an entrance to a small shower room. There is a faucet and a shower in the wall, the drain works well, there is always hot water, it turns off only late at night. Cleaning was daily, BUT except Saturday and Sunday. You can, of course, without cleaning, but it is advisable to take out the trash can on the weekend. Linen change every 7 days. Towels and bedding were white. The furniture is new, there was a set of plates, spoons and cups in the sideboard. Cons - not everywhere is clean! I wish the bedspread was cleaner, there was someone's hair in the nightstand. The closet is dusty. We slept with the light on in the shower (there is a window above the door) so that the bedroom was light. So less centipedes ran along the walls. My hair stood on end when on the first evening I went from another room into the bedroom and saw two street bugs sitting by the bed where the child is sleeping and a centipede that quickly ran along the wall and wound up under the door frame. (I have a photo) . When the rain passed, it became damp, huge black worms crawled out, they sat outside on the walls of the building and we found a few in our room - they sit motionless either on the curtain or on the wall. I don’t know if there was such living creatures on the 2nd and 3rd floors... They left both money and equipment in the room - there is no theft. The maids and indeed the entire staff of the resort are very responsive and friendly. Not for money like Arabs or Turks, but just like that.
The area is very beautiful! Huge landscaped park, wonderful air around, tennis court, volleyball court. Three resort beaches are also clean. On one they offer sun loungers for 30 UAH per day, but you can also on pebbles. And on one of the walls a pipe sticks out, drains flow into the sea. And on the same beach, just sharp rubble is poured, not yet rounded by a wave. On the beach, of all the places where you can eat, only the "Deck" restaurant is worthy of attention, everything is delicious, there is a children's menu. The rest of the establishments are rather dubious. In the village itself, you can go "At the mother-in-law" and "Malibu". In the village there is a mini market, a shop of Crimean wines, a very small fruit market, fruit prices are expensive.

In the sanatorium dining room, the food is decent, you can always find something to eat from what is offered. The waiters clean up quickly, the girls bake delicious pancakes in the hall, but there are queues everywhere, which of course bothers. There are a lot of people, even though they go in three shifts. You need to look for a free table. We "in bad faith" attended meals, often just went to a cafe.
Tours were not taken. They themselves went by bus to the zoo, the Vorontsov Palace and climbed Ai-Petri. From the beach, you can still take a big cable car to the Yasnaya Polyana sanatorium and see the Palace of Countess Panina, where Leo Tolstoy lived.
In the resort every evening entertainment for children and adults. Gaspra itself is boring, crowded and nothing interesting. Vacationers of the sanatorium in our period were 85% elderly people.
It was also interesting to watch the shooting of the film - a Russian film crew worked on the territory for 3 days. The administration warned about the filming and apologized for the inconvenience. Although we did not feel any inconvenience.
Of the procedures, they visited the salt room, 25 UAH per procedure.
I came to the conclusion that the price of the ticket does not meet the conditions. Only nature is good. The southern coast of Crimea is stunning, where fences have not yet been set up and private mansions have not been set up.