Снова впуть On the road again

Summer is coming, and many are already making their choice, and someone else is looking for their summer bay. And we all have questions that need answers. I'm going to send mine too. family to rest, and without changing the traditions, our path lies in our favorite Orange. For those who are still hesitating with a decision, or in search, I dedicate this review. It is difficult for me to describe to you the conditions of the rest, it all depends on you, what do you personally expect from the rest and what goals do you pursue in this matter? You will not see an expensive resort there. Nikolaevka is located in the steppe region of Crimea, this is a rather unique place in terms of its healing properties, there is no humid mountain air, which is harmful to asthmatics, but is very useful for allergy sufferers and people with weak bronchi. The weather is always sunny, again there are no clouds that come from the mountain ranges. The beach is small pebbles, not Sochi cobblestones, but not fine Anapa sand, and not Azov shell rock. The cleanliness of the beach is determined by the month of rest, at the beginning of summer it is a clean, normal beach, moderately clean. It is being removed, but there are enough polluting people, as elsewhere. The beach does not belong to the SKIF base (on the territory where the hotel itself is located), but is under the authority of the authorities (the authorities do not want to give it to the base). There are not many sellers of beer-raki in June, but later it is dark and dark. Places on the beach are occupied in the morning, many come, put blankets and go to sleep on or go about their business. In general, life in Nikolaevka begins early, there are almost no trees, only those that are planted artificially, so there is a lot of sun and after 11.00 a fiesta begins for residents. If you want to buy good homemade fruits and cheaply, then you should get up early, before 9.00, or even earlier, the locals finish selling cherries and strawberries near their homes. Further, all gastronomic delights are bought in the market and in local stores. The assortment is quite meager when compared with Moscow, all products are locally produced. The taste of local sausages is specific, but the milk is excellent, but be careful - you understand the heat. The hotel is trying to form an assortment for the capital's residents, but the prices are much higher than the market ones. . If you want to buy products from Danone, Wimm Bill Dann, etc. , then you will have to run around the local stores, one has this, the other has that.... There is a small market near the hotel, and there is a further, 10-12 minutes walk to it, but the distant or central market is very large. There is a pharmacy (excellent, we don’t even take medicines with us, it has EVERYTHING! ), And many shops - EVERYTHING for swimming, and a tent (100r. ), And mats for the beach (200r. ) (not on pebbles with a naked body lie down), everything - everything, we buy it all there and don’t drag it with us. But entertainment in the village is bad, especially at the beginning of summer. Everything is very low level. Hotels help out. Restaurants are one of the best, and this is so, only in Orange, then my rating continues the restaurant at the Helios hotel (located on the road to the central market), they sell not bad buns around it (do not get carried away with meat buns), the next restaurant is located closer to the central market , guys, it's just beautiful and quite expensive, the price and quality do not match. Visitors from remote villages go to it like a museum, but they are right, they cook poorly there, and the dishes are very simple. . Last year, I didn’t eat at the restaurant in Apelsin, my mother and daughter were without me, but the year before, I rested alone and went to eat at Orange every day - in a restaurant, not a shared kitchen. They do an excellent cut. Caesar salad is similar to Caesar salad. Closer to the sea, under the white ratonda there is a pizzeria, I can’t say anything about it, I only bought barjomi and tea bags there. There are many hotels 30-40 at the Skif base itself, many do not work, are sold, completed, but many have canteens, very decent and not expensive. The base stands next to the Energetik sanatorium, further along the coast line are Radiant and Solnechny, I rested in this as a 4-year-old girl and we always went for a walk to Energetik. The tradition has been preserved, many years ago the park in Energetika was just planted, and now it is paradise there. A riot of smells, Aramats will simply captivate, almost all the guests of the SKIF base hotels go for a walk there in the evening. Ksati, the house of culture with a summer veranda is still alive in the sanatorium, many concerts are held there, films and performances are shown, and tickets are distributed right on the beach. The entire coastline of these three sanatoriums is very well landscaped. For children there are slot machines, cars, for adults there are small cafes, here you can feel the spirit of civilization in comparison with the village. In general, you will have to maneuver between a civilized modern recreation on the one hand, and an undeveloped, but emerging life, on the other. You can always leave this steppe corner, escaping into the vast sights of Crimea. Moreover, the distances are very small, 50 km. to Yalta, Simferopol, etc. A huge number of excursions can be purchased both at the hotel itself and in the village. If you wish, you can drive to the salt lake Saki with its therapeutic mud. Now let's talk about Orange. The hotel is not big, but you can see the whole situation in the photos of the site, everything is exactly as it is presented. Now its distance from the sea: imagine a rectangle one side (short) of which is adjacent to the sea coast, and the other to the road, this is the part that is to the road, this is the location of the hotel from the sea, in 100-150 meters. We rested in Sochi at the Zhemchuzhny Hotel (it is where the Kinotavr film festival takes place) and we got exactly the same amount to the sea. The territory of Orange is large, when compared with other operating hotels, there is really a lot more, but they do not work (not completed, and not being built). There is almost no territory behind the hotel, the next building immediately follows, but all the hotels are located close to each other. The pool is the largest on the basis of SKIF, most of the hotel guests do not go to the sea, but spend time by the pool. Someone wrote in the reviews that the pool is dirty, adults are lying, the pool is cleaned regularly. A specially planted person watches him there, and he is also responsible for the children who bathe. Once, our daughter accidentally touched the burnt shoulder of a little girl, and she burst into tears from pain, and so this "guard" arranged an analysis and complained about the behavior of our child. Children generally spend all the time by the pool from morning to night. In Orange, a lot is subordinated to children, the daughter of the owners spends the whole summer with her parents, so you understand how much they do for children. They are allowed to dance in the restaurant, while other guests should spend time there only if they have an order. Nutrition is built in this way. Breakfast at 9.00-10.00, lunch 13.00-14.00, but dinner is very early 17.00-18.00. There is a hall indoors, and there is a hall on the street. In the basement of the hotel there is a cinema, a restaurant bar and a restaurant room, which is used as a dining room during the day, and after 6 o'clock the restaurant opens. Since it is sizzling heat outside, it is very pleasant to have a meal in a cool, beautiful dining room. In the cinema, in the afternoon, films and cartoons are shown to children, it turns into a children's headquarters, and in the evening everyone rises to the surface, some to the pool, some for a walk in Energetik, some with their parents to a restaurant, there are many options. We always paid for a package with dinner so as not to run, but there is one point, if you do not want to go to dinner, notify the kitchen in advance and you will be credited when ordering dishes in a restaurant when you have dinner there with your family. We often did this. For 30 days of stay, the food was so annoying that our grandmother once made a scandal, she was tired of stewed potatoes with meat. My husband and I are engaged in civilized autotourism, in which hotels we just haven’t been from Park hotels to a barn in Bryansk, so I know what I’m talking about. Cleaning is normal, MONEY - THEY DO NOT STEAL, and if something happens, go and tell the administration. Yes, the attendants are not blue-eyed Scandinavians, members of the correspondent of the Academy of Sciences, but normal residents of these latitudes. I rested in another hotel "Skif 46", so a girl from Bryansk cleaned the rooms there, she came to her grandmother for the holidays. . . If something breaks be sure to notify the administration. Television broadcasting is expanding the list of TV channels every time. In Orange they love, honor and respect their customers. Three times we were met and taken from the station to the hotel and back, you will not be tormented with the design, but will immediately be placed in a room. Last year, they didn’t calculate the amount correctly (without food), and since we pay on the spot, they gave my grandmother ten thousand less money, no one evicted ours, but patiently waited for payment and fed for free, and we paid the debt almost at the end of them stay. Well, how can you not love this hotel! ? I completely forgot to describe the sea. In 2008. the entire coast of Crimea was covered by cold currents, and they started swimming late only by June 10, but in 2009. By this time the water was already very warm. But it's not scary, because the hotel has a swimming pool. In the first half of the day, the sea is calm, and in the second it is always stormy, a couple of years ago there were such waves that you could ride a surfboard. The sea is clean, transparent, especially in the morning, the bottom is visible even 10 meters from the shore, you can see flocks of crabs and fish, but at this distance you can already see the sand, there are no stones. Therefore, when it storms, the sand rises from the bottom and the water becomes more turbid, which is observed in the afternoon. There are no breakwaters and buoys, a variety of water activities are offered. That's all. Ask questions, I will always answer.