Отдых в санатории "Ай-Петри" Rest in the sanatorium "Ai-Petri"

I ordered a ticket from the site of the sanatorium. For 14 days, a voucher with accommodation, 5 meals a day and basic treatment cost us 33.264 rubles for two. Plus this sanatorium: checkout time 12-00, ie. Breakfast is provided on the day of departure. Usually in many sanatoriums and d / o the check-out time is 8-00, i. е. As a rule, people do not get breakfast, and on the day of departure it is no longer allowed : -)))), but it is paid for : -(((((We just arrived for dinner.
The room is ordinary, clean, the furniture is ordinary, old, but not collapsed: two beds with bedside rugs, two bedside tables, two stools, a table, a large mirror. TV with remote control (6 channels, from Russian only ORT) a tiny refrigerator without a freezer. In the hallway there is a closet, well, very small, 4 hangers clearly fit into it, there are no horizontal shelves at all. The bathroom is basic with no frills. Balcony overlooking the sea. On the balcony there is plastic furniture: a table and two chairs. There is a hot-melt sheet, a tray and two glasses on the table. there is no decanter. 2 towels per person: for hands and feet. We asked the maid on duty for a decanter and a bath towel, they provided it to us without talking. So feel free to ask whatever you need. And then our maid also brought an ashtray.
A small detail: building number 11 faces the sea. Some of the balconies are arched, some are straight. There is more shade on arched balconies, so take them if possible. On odd floors, these are even numbers; on even floors, the numbers are odd. In each building at the security point there are safes in which you can leave valuables. The views from the windows are amazing! From our room there is an endless sea and seagulls that fly right onto the balcony. There are also pigeons, but we chased them, although they climbed impudently anyway.

After checking the room and turning on the refrigerator without dismantling things, we went for lunch. When they returned, they found that the refrigerator was not working. I immediately went down to the reception. I was told that it's just that the refrigerator "heats up" for so long, but in fact it works. I requested another number. I was given the key to a room on the 11th floor with a great favor (ours was on the 13th). This number was just awful! First, it smelled of paint. Secondly, it had terrible crumbling furniture. I didn't even look at the fridge. I go down again. I say that the elevators do not work well, that the room does not suit me. Please give me a room on the floor below. They look at me as an enemy of the people, but they give me the key to the room, again on the 11th floor. They say it's not below. Okay, I'm going to see what this number is. The furniture seems to be nothing, the refrigerator seems to work, but the view is not on the sea, but towards Yalta and there is no furniture on the balcony. It doesn't suit us. I'm going down again. I demand my voucher, I copy the coordinates of the travel agency from it (the mobile phone of the travel agency employee was indicated there, but I only had the city travel agency recorded, and it was on Saturday). I say that now I will call the travel agency and let them deal with you themselves, but I'm tired of all this. The threat worked. They asked to spend the night in this room, and in the morning move to the next one, it will just be free, the refrigerator works in it.
I asked him to show me to make sure that the furniture there was not wrecked and did not smell of paint. The room was ok. On Sunday morning we moved into it. By the way: the refrigerator did not "warm up".
I went to the doctor on Monday morning. The husband did not want to be treated. Doctor Eremin Alexander Nikolaevich (he receives in the 10th office of the medical building) turned out to be an extortionist and a charlatan. I came with a sanatorium-resort card, in which it was written in black and white about all my problems, which are being treated in this sanatorium. He didn't even look at the map. Any procedure had to be pulled out with tongs. The answer is the same: "You don't need it. " I firmly insisted that it was necessary. I asked about massage. He seemed to pay. I didn’t doubt it, I just asked for the sake of order. Mr. Eremin immediately offered me his services as a massage therapist and even a chiropractor! Saying at the same time that he is an excellent specialist, but works as an ordinary therapist, because the position of a massage therapist is busy. For the sake of interest, I asked how much one session costs. The answer was that 25 hryvnias and that 3 sessions would be enough! Well, isn't that charlatanism? ! Any more or less literate person knows that there should be at least 10 sessions! Those. nothing will happen to me from 3 sessions, and 75 hryvnias will break off for him! Naturally, I refused his services.
Somehow I got directions for procedures from this "doctor": aromatherapy, salt cave, inhalations (I'm allergic), physiotherapy (magnet) and Charcot's shower (osteochondrosis from constant sitting at the computer). Total 5 procedures. Three before lunch and two after, 10 sessions each, as well as an oxygen cocktail (carry a glass with you) and a mineral water (machine, pours water into a glass you bring with you using a plastic card, the security deposit of which is 10 hryvnias, just like in the subway! ) . The attitude of the medical staff to vacationers is not bad, but it could be better.

On Saturdays, treatment is until 13-00, Sunday is a day off. We arrived unsuccessfully: just on Saturday. The maid also works until 13-00 and on Sunday and her day off. For some reason, she puts the iron in the closet and closes it with a key, so that the maid on duty cannot give it. Keep in mind that if you arrive on Saturday, you will be able to iron things only on Monday. And you will also start treatment from Monday - this is inconvenient, the days disappear. If you arrive for 12 days, you will not have time to take even 10 procedures.
Dining room 3-storey. Nearby stalls with all sorts of things. On the 1st floor there is a grocery store, a printed matter store, an exchanger, teas and photo services. There is also an information stand that when and what time it will take place and registration for hiking with a hiking instructor (more on this below).
There is also a tour desk (travel agency "Crimean local historian"). What is bad (in our opinion) in the work of a travel agency: groups are prefabricated from different points, and not just from a sanatorium. Those. it may be that when the bus is served, there will no longer be empty seats in it, or there will be no window seat, or you will not sit together, but alone. So be sure to specify where the bus will depart from.
Dining rooms 5 pieces. Three halls on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors for suites and superior rooms, they have a poor buffet. They have tables for 4 people, furniture and tablecloths are more decent than in a regular room. And two halls for vacationers in standard rooms. Here the tables are shifted in such a way that they form a long table for 8 people, but each table has its own serving, so it also turns out to be 4 people. There is no air conditioner. The heat is terrible, the windows do not open, and all because the children will blow. Is it really not clear that children are the same people, only small, and they are also hot and stuffy? And they are capricious precisely because of the heat and stuffiness. In addition, the breeze is blowing warm, it was very hot. And if they are so afraid for the children, then is it possible to put all their children in one room and let them soar there? And I wonder how the children eat in the halls for suites, because air conditioners blow there? Or are they turned off? Somehow I doubt it.

Since we are talking about children - a small digression. A lot of children rest in the sanatorium, including very small ones (2-3 years old) and very babies. We saw several couples with strollers. Going to the dining room, every day we observed a charming baby, peacefully lying in a stroller. Nearby, on a bench, dad, then mom, then grandmother, then grandfather were sitting in turn, and the rest were eating. This is information for reflection for those parents who ask in which sanatoriums they accept small children. In Ai-Petri they accept. I don’t think that everyone we saw is semi-legally on the territory of the sanatorium, there are too many of them. I think the administration allows it. By the way, in building 11 there is a children's room where you can leave your child and go on an excursion.
The service in the dining room is good, the waitresses are very friendly and nice, in any case, those who served us. The menu is custom-made, the choice of 2-3 dishes, and sometimes 4. Moreover, the side dishes are separate from meat and fish, i. е. can be arranged like this: fish with stewed cabbage, and not necessarily with mashed potatoes. There is such a thing as a "seasonal dish". What they don’t write about in the summer is: stuffed peppers, zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes. Those. when ordering a season you do not know what they will bring to you. I really liked the fact that there is a so-called "Yalta breakfast". These are: always fresh vegetables, stewed vegetables (sometimes) sausages or ham, cheese, yogurt or glazed cheese, boiled egg or scrambled eggs, cookies, butter, bread, coffee. And no porridge for you - class! And if you want porridge, take a regular breakfast. It consists of an appetizer, a 2nd course and a 3rd course (this is some kind of porridge or carrot pancakes, brrr! ). Fruit was given, but not much. Basically, these are green unripe and sour apples and local peaches, i. e. small, hard and green, but sometimes good ones were given. In general, the food is good, there has never been such a thing that would not be edible. The portions are decent, not too big, but not too small either. The first two days they give an ordinary dish, but you can always ask for what you want, the waitresses never refuse. But in our opinion, the food is a little worse than in the sanatorium "Utes" last year. For example, here in the menu you can choose between mitets in a pan or steamed meat pudding. In fact, it turned out to taste the same thing, only a different shape! In the Utes they gave juice in small bags with a straw for breakfast, very convenient, you can take it with you to the beach. There is no juice here. Tea and coffee bags, you pour yourself from the kettle. The kettle is across the table. At lunch, each table has its own pot of soup.
Pleasant, mostly instrumental music plays in the dining room. True, sometimes it is interrupted by all sorts of announcements and congratulations. And if announcements are useful information, then why should I know that Masha from the village of Gadyukino has a birthday today? Moreover, they announce this not once, but twice at a meal and at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Those. 6 times a day you will definitely hear that Grisha congratulates Masha, as well as Misha and Klan. Personally, it bothered us a little. I generally don't like concerts by request and all sorts of wishes for people I don't know.
Dining room hours: Breakfast from 8:30 to 9:00 (from 9:30 to 10:00 - second shift), lunch from 13:30 to 14:00 (from 14:30 to 15:00), dinner from 18 -30 to 19-00 (from 19-30 to 20-00). But they try to put everyone on the first shift, there are very few people on the second shift.

The beach consists of three sectors: the so-called children's with smaller pebbles, located opposite the playground, which is located on the waterfront. It is the smallest in area and everyone and sundry swim on it, not necessarily children. There is a nice grotto on the same beach. The second sector is the largest and widest, but the pebbles on it are large. And the third sector is located directly under the windows of building 11, it is smaller than the second one, the pebbles on it are smaller and there is a boat station right there. From July 1 to September 10, the entrance to the beach is paid - 10 hryvnia. So there are enough people there, but not so that everyone is sitting on each other's heads. You can always find a place. On the embankment there are toilets, showers, changing rooms. Everything is very clean. A staircase leads to the embankment, not very high, about 80 steps. Half in the shade, half in the sun, there are benches. There is another descent, it goes from building 11 towards Miskhorsky park, almost gentle, a few steps, almost all in the shade.
The sanatorium has its own boat, which twice a day (at 11-00 and 16-00) goes for an hour walk towards Lastochka or towards Simeiz. The route is determined by the wish of the vacationers. The cost is 50 hryvnia. And in the mornings (from 7-00 to 9-00) the same boat takes you fishing. It costs the same 50 hryvnia. Fishing rods and spinning rods are included in the price. The motor ship "Konstantin Paustovsky" approaches the same berth, which goes along one route to Cape Aya. The cost is 70 hryvnias, for children 50. Sometimes the same ship goes to Yalta at night with a landing there for 2 hours.
As such, the sanatorium has no territory. Everything is very close. Here is an old diagram that hangs in building 11. So all these dachas are fenced off with a fence and you can’t go through there. All these dachas are for rent, so there is a great opportunity to rent them and live on the territory of the sanatorium and use its beach. You can’t go to Cape Kommunarov at all - it’s a private territory. There is no park area of ​ ​ its own, only Miskhor Park, and it is nearby. It takes 15 minutes to walk from the buildings in circles))) There is a nice gazebo in which it is good to sit, the breeze almost always blows there, though the places are always occupied.
In building 11 there is a hairdressing salon, a beauty parlor. Here, from 20 to 21, they give out kefir strictly according to sanatorium-and-spa books. In general, one cannot take a step without this book; it must be shown everywhere. I agree with this, but is it possible to make it smaller in size so that it at least fits into a pocket? After all, there is absolutely nowhere to put it, you have to carry it with you in your hands, it insanely interferes. Building 10 has a small winter garden, slot machines and billiards.

The medical building also has a winter garden. There is also a machine with mineral water. There is also a swimming pool here, which is closed in the summer, no matter what any travel agencies write there: do not believe it, the pool is open only in the off-season!
What I didn't like: Terrible elevators. I read on the Internet that the elevator has to wait a long time, but not to the same extent! Of the three elevators, only two are constantly working. One is off all the time. Once I waited for the elevator for half an hour! Went downstairs to the administrator. She said the elevator didn't work. The answer was amazing! "What do you want, 400 vacationers, the elevator can't cope" "And why should I walk to the 13th floor now? " I asked. Her answer pissed me off: "These are your problems. " Well, no dear, these are not my problems, but the problems of the sanatorium. I took a complaint book and rolled a complaint there, warning that if I ever wait for an elevator for more than 10 minutes, I will write complaints daily, I won’t be scrapped, but will be rude, I’ll write a complaint to the Crimean Ministry of Resorts, let they will be shocked a little, otherwise they have become completely insolent, they sold all the places before October 1 and sit in their mustaches do not blow and do not want to do anything. Of course, the money has already been received! After my complaint, all three elevators were turned on at once. Several times I heard from people that after complaints, all elevators work. From which we can conclude that the third elevator is turned off to save money.
In addition, they have the wrong policy for the resettlement of people: they settle older people with small children on the lower floors, and young people are settled higher. So these elderly people with children are standing all the way waiting for the elevator from the 3rd floor. It is understandable, go hard for them. But they cannot enter the elevator, because it is already crowded with young people living on the upper floors (there are 14 in total). But if young people would live on the lower floors, they would walk on foot. Of course, I can’t say for everyone, but we would definitely go. But from the 13th floor (and especially to the 13th!!! ) walking is too much.
Another minus: almost everything is open until 15-00. And procedures, and a library, and simulators. It turns out that if a person wants to attend procedures, then he gets to the sea in the afternoon, when the sun has already set behind the mountain and it is cold on the yarn. Vacationers have a choice: either the sea or treatment. And you can't combine both. My husband has never been able to play table tennis, because. one table is in the exercise therapy room, which is open until 15-00, and the other on the beach at the medical center, which is open until 19-00 (locked). And how nice it is to play tennis when the heat subsided, somewhere at 20-00! So at 20-00 tennis is already closed.

Movies are shown in two or three days, in the cinema hall, which is located in the canteen building. The cost is 10 hryvnia, but the session starts at 19-30. Those. ends at 22-00, maximum at 22-30. And all the films are not interesting. More often than movies, circuses and concerts for children come. Almost a day later. Parents groan, children ask for performances and the repertoire is not very diverse. In addition, the repertoire of films is not interesting. We wanted to go to the Russian comedy "Ferris Wheel". It's good that they put up a detailed poster. And it says: director Vera Glagoleva. What a blessing we didn't go to see this movie. I can't stand this fool, I'm sorry, there are no other words. She, as an actress, is nothing, a frostbitten sprat, in all films with one mug and a dying voice, I can imagine what kind of director she is. And surprisingly, it is removed often. You know, I'm one of those people who are not at all interested in the personal life of stars, but here I'm just wondering: who is pushing it like that? Sorry for such a sharp attack - it hurt.
They wanted to go to the only normal film "Die Hard - 4" - it did not work out. According to the law of meanness, it was on this evening that we agreed to meet with our friends who were vacationing in Alupka. And there was no way to postpone it: they had just arrived, and we were leaving the next day, and we agreed on a meeting back in Moscow.
In the evening, there is absolutely nothing to do. You can, of course, go to a cafe. There are two of them on the embankment: the bar "Marine" and "Dolphin". But, firstly, in both live music, which we can not stand, and for which you also have to pay 3 hryvnia per person. And meanwhile, I really want to listen to the sound of the waves and the cries of seagulls! The voiceless singer who sings "Vladimirsky Central" for Vasya from Ust-Khrenyuisk is not at all interesting for me to listen to! And secondly, I didn’t feel like going to a cafe in order to eat at all, because. we had enough food. It is absolutely impossible to communicate there because of the cries of these singers. In addition, if you order two glasses of wine, the waiters look at you as an enemy. After all, they are waiting for you to place an order for at least 300 hryvnias and even leave a tip, and here are some two glasses that will carry for 20 minutes (tested on yourself). In general, this is not for us. It’s easier for us to take a bottle of wine, sit on the seashore or on the balcony in the room and drink wine at our pleasure without any centrals there.
We got the impression that in the sanatorium everything is calculated so that at 23-00 people will not just return to their rooms, but will already sleep in a deep sleep. Music in the cafe stops playing exactly at 23-00. At 11:10 p. m. , there is complete silence. But of course it's a plus.

Well, about the treatment. If you are going there specifically for the purpose of being treated, then do not count on taking advantage of all the free procedures. Not only will you literally beg to appoint them, you will also have to pay extra for a convenient time (not in all offices) and for a good attitude. In addition, most of the procedures are paid. Those. prepare at least 500 hryvnia for treatment. Although in fairness it must be said that there are personnel who perform their duties perfectly, but there are few of them.
A bus to Simferopol departs daily from the sanatorium. Mobile railway ticket offices also come.
You can see the full story about your stay in Miskhor, as well as photos of the room and the sanatorium here: http://www. crimeaguide. com. ua/forum/viewtopic. php? p=8078#8078
In general, I liked the rest, but now to return to the sanatorium "Ai-Petri