Not bad for our south

Written: 10 august 2010
Travel time: 26 july — 5 august 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 9.0
We were at the hotel from July 26 to August 5.2010, rented 2 rooms (there were four of us) on the 3rd floor, where there are separate balconies.
Impressions about the hotel are mixed, there are both pluses and minuses. When compared with Soviet boarding houses and small rooms in the private sector, it’s super, if with more or less decent hotels abroad, then so-so, mediocre. A hotel with claims, but there are a lot of different imperfections and omissions that are not so difficult to fix.
Pros:
1. The hotel is new, built in 2010, everything is clean (although there was a little mold in the shower).
2. They feed "for slaughter". The portions are large for the average person, they cook, in general, it is tasty, but it is difficult to eat everything. Breakfast had to be eaten whole. If you took lunch or dinner - then one for two, then it's fine. Then they noticed that many also began to do it. Apparently this prompted the owners to reduce portions. Lunch costs 50 UAH, dinner 40.

3. Air conditioning in the room - very helpful in the heat.
4. Hot and cold water - there is always (when there is light, but more on that in the minuses).
5. Refrigerator, TV, safe. The safe is small, there is an instruction - if it is closed at the beginning, then open it with a key (issued along with the keys to the room), picking out the plastic mask on the front panel - there is a keyhole under it.
6. Balcony overlooking the sea.
Minuses:
1. Not 5 minutes from the sea, as stated in the description, but 15 minutes, and back up the hill, but this is rather not a minus, but a clarification.
2. Transparent front door. Rather, it seems to be mirrored, but even during the day, if you look closely while standing nearby, you can see what is happening, and in the evening, when it gets dark, visibility is 100%. And right at the entrance, the door to the bathroom, where and from where, of course, you defile in the costume of Adam (Eve) - it doesn’t matter to someone, someone is annoying.
3. Immediately behind the front door there is a solid wooden door to the room (they would be swapped, although in this case the second one would no longer be needed), which is why there is very little space in the hallway (tambour), shoes are constantly pressed into the wall by the door , there are no hooks for clothes (maybe no one goes there in autumn and spring? ).

4. Unobtrusive service bordering on its absence. Upon arrival, we were told - if you want that the room was cleaned, leave the key downstairs, in the dining room by the TV, when you leave, and the room will be cleaned. On the first or second day, we were offered to clean up, it looked like this: we lie on the bed, rest after breakfast, what mother gave birth to, there is a knock on the door, I slowly get up, put on my shorts, go to the door, I hear how the key is inserted, but from the inside locked, respectively, the attempt to penetrate did not take place, I go up, I see Vladimir (a man in charge of the household), I open it, he told me - oh! you are at home? and we thought to get away from you. I - thank you, not yet. Then I went to the store, and he made a second attempt to penetrate, citing the possibility of a leak in the tank - he went in, looked, retreated, probably, he was curious about how we settled down and how we live. They did clean up that day when we went to the beach, although they didn't leave the key. Three days later, we left the key in the morning, but no one left until the evening.
Bed linen, towels were not changed even once in 10 days. Toilet paper (the cheapest, either made from recycled cellulose or sandpaper) was begged from the hostess themselves. They did not wait for the third roll, although the bedside table in the bathroom is quite roomy, it would fit more than one roll.
5. Internet (Wi-Fi). He's like a gopher in reverse - you kind of see him, but he's not there. We didn’t manage to connect, the first time, however, they themselves were fooled - they didn’t turn on the Wi-Fi receiver on the laptop. And then all attempts were unsuccessful. The owners, citing a lack of understanding of the topic, gave the provider's technician's phone, but 5-minute negotiations (from our own bodies) did not lead to anything. What prevents you from making connection instructions and putting them in each room?
6. Lack of parking. All places in the district and under the windows are occupied either by the owners of the houses or their tenants. Upon arrival, they immediately tried to kick us out (we pulled things out of the cars), saying that the places were all occupied, and that even the mayor of the New World came and complained about the mess with the places (apparently, specifically in this yard - maybe he rents out housing, and the guests nowhere to put cars? ). We were sent to a nearby parking lot, it turned out that it was a daily one for 5 UAH per hour. After asking the parking attendants, we found out that you can park cars overnight in the garage of the champagne factory for 30 UAH/day. We found the garage - you need to go past the house with turrets (there is also an exchange office, a store, a post office), then to the left (in front of the wall with mosaics) and down to the stop (bypassing the barrier, where you need to say that you are going to the factory parking lot), then down to the right and further to the barrier with a security booth in front of the iron hangar. We agreed that when we pick up the car during the day, we pay not 30 but 15 UAH / day.

7. Ants. After 3-4 days, small ants were found on the balcony, cheerfully scurrying between the wicker furniture on the balcony. We decided that the watermelon we ate the day before had an effect. But our friends said that they have the same thing on the balcony, although they always ate with us. Then goosebumps began to make their way into the room, into the bathroom. Apparently, before the arrival, the balcony is treated with something, and there are no ants, then the smell disappears and they come.
8. Travel. Let's start with the fact that we were not met, as promised at the TNK gas station. You will not believe, but there are all TNK gas stations. If you drive a car through Grushevka, then after 22 km of a winding mountain road (this is not the worst) you enter Sudak, at the first ring (T-junction with a lawn in the middle), turn right, then follow the sign "New World" , after the bus stop, turn left, drive all the time along the main road, at the T-junction to the right, then again along the main road, past the stalls, the road turns 90 degrees to the right (after that, keep to the right side so as not to go to the parking lot, where we turned behind a hummer once), further on the left side there will be a fortress, a little uphill, the road under 90 to the left, after which we carefully look for the sign “ Novyi svet 7 km” and turn left, take in a full chest of air, slow down - ahead 7 km of serpentine, the 1st time was dumb. We shake out the diapers after the sign "New World", we go straight, we see a fluffy fir (pine) immediately after it we turn right and then on the first T-shaped left, after 50 meters we see a wooden structure - we have arrived.
9. Lack of a website and direct contacts on the Internet. The question is - why pay an agency that does not fulfill its obligations, if you can advertise yourself?
10. Stuffing number. I will collect in one heap everything that is missing in the rooms - there are no dishes (plates, glasses), but you can take it in the kitchen from Lyuba (cook, cleaning lady); there are few hangers, hooks for clothes, as well as furniture on which it could be laid out - we dragged a wicker chair from the corridor, as on a balcony, and a stool where we put our clothes; there are no shelves in the shower, it is very inconvenient, by the way, the shower is leaking, you can put a regular towel on the floor so that the rubber mat does not champ; sconces above the bed - it is convenient, for example, to read before going to bed, but if you are not two meters tall, then to turn them off, you still have to get up; dryer for clothes / towels - two ropes along the wall of the balcony with clothespins - it would be much more convenient to make a telescopic dryer from the wall to the railing; balcony light switch - on the balcony, behind the opening door - I would place it inside the room when you exit to the balcony; a small shower stall - it could be done from wall to wall, but now there is a place for a multi-purpose basin - we have not used it once, but the neighbor hovered his legs in it (+35 in the shade).

11. Hot and cold water. Yes, when there is electricity. Returning in the evening on the last day, we found that there was no light in the hotel. It turns out that 20 meters of the cable burned out and there is no electricity in half of the village, we, accordingly, did not have water, since there is no running water in the house (there is a reservoir that is filled every day from an imported barrel), and water is supplied by an electric pump. We were given a 5 liter bottle of water for two (toilet, wash, drink), in the morning they gave us another bucket of water downstairs. There was no water until lunch the next day, or rather, it was given for an hour in some magical way, and although it was cool, we managed to wash before the road and collect it with us. In the evening they said that there would be no breakfast, but it was still cooked.
Now a little about the infrastructure:
1. Exchangers - at the bus stop, opposite the fir-pine, the exchange rate to the ruble is 0.250; in front of the beach - also 0.250; in the house with turrets - Oschadny Bank of Ukraine, the most favorable rate is 0.257, but in the morning there is sometimes little cash, delivery at about 11-00.
2. Shops - in a house with turrets, near the market.
3. Market - to the left in front of the mosaic maiden. If you have a car, then it is better to take it in Sudak - the market is cheaper there. And if fruits and vegetables, then in general, along the way, stop at the market along the road and on melons - watermelon 0.5 UAH, melon 1.5 UAH (August 2010).
4. Food - in the New World they ate once - it seems to be edible - a cafe on the waterfront on the left side. People had fun and provocatively rested, I drank beer.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original