Противоречиво Controversial

After reading the previous enthusiastic comment of the girl, I would like to express my opinion. I really already wrote my review in another forum, but I want to repeat myself. We also just returned from Chernomorets. I was there with my wife and 4.5 year old child. For a long time I was looking for a sanatorium based on reviews, but stopped there - everything was very positively described. I’ll make a reservation right away that we are an unpretentious people, from the provinces, we are not looking for special chic. We lived in good sanatoriums and recreation centers with outdoor facilities, so it's hard to surprise us. The criteria for the room were: the presence of a refrigerator, shower, carpet (for playing) and a balcony for drying things. Air conditioning was not even required, but all the rooms are air-conditioned, so for us it was a bonus. I was also looking for a place with good animation for a child. A very nice girl quickly arranged everything for me (I ordered in the winter), told me how to pay correctly, i. e. There were no problems with the order. We were advised a superior family room, as having a balcony, which I later regretted, since it was also in the standard, and I could save money. They took it for 21 days, gave a little more than 130 thousand rubles. Further, I will periodically compare Chernomorets with one of the highest category sanatoriums in Russia, located about a hundred kilometers from our city in a picturesque place on the river and the source of mineral waters (by the way, both Leshchenko and Gazmanov stayed there). The cost of staying in such a sanatorium WITH TREATMENT for 21 days in a junior suite cost us 85 thousand rubles. The difference between the rooms: the room is less than one and a half times and there is no air conditioning. The rest is the same. The territories in both cases are quite well-groomed, although in the Russian one there are more grass and flowers: probably, the climate is still a little less hot. The first difference that catches your eye: Chernomorets is not a sanatorium, but a boarding house with honey. center. We understood this even at the stage of buying vouchers, because it was impossible to purchase vouchers with treatment included, so this did not surprise us. Those. even if you come with a sankurkarta, you will pay for everything. In addition, there are no diet tables that are prescribed by the doctor individually, but everyone eats according to the "buffet" system (which is customary, for example, in Turkey, and which we were also ready for). We were surprised by the prices for treatment (although Muscovites say that it is cheap). For example, in our sanatorium massage - 120 rubles, and there - 110 UAH (multiply ~ by 4 - 440 rubles), a hot tub 140 rubles against 120 UAH. In total, a course of treatment from 10 fairly simple procedures of 3-4 names for 2 people results in 30-40 thousand rubles! In our sanatorium, the number of types of procedures is limited by your desire (if you talk with the attending physician), and this adds 8 thousand per person for 21 days to the cost of the voucher (that is, this is all that you have to pay for treatment). But the nurses and doctors are adequate, although sometimes they get lost with new equipment, but in general they do everything perfectly. The procedures helped, and I am quite pleased with the result (but not the price! ).
Now the second point is food. What did the departure from diet tables give (and were they)? The variety of dishes is great, but there is a problem with the quality. The wife on the second day smelled an unpleasant smell from rice. Thought they were glitches. The next day, they noticed that yesterday's products appear in today's dishes: either egg whites are crumbled into soup, or lasagna includes some leftovers. They began to sniff. So they took away the products until the end of the rest - either there was a smell, then yesterday's salad was filled with oil, they were heavily peppered to remove the smell. There was a puncture on the children's line once. There are edible products, but the need for constant search is annoying. I couldn’t believe it for a long time, I thought, maybe the sauces are specific, we, the provincials, don’t understand, but many neighbors openly spoke about this and complained, but the administration, as I understand it, reacted little. Then someone told me about the poisoning on the previous stream. Someone was sent to the infectious disease clinic. They blamed everything on fruit. Everything can be. I didn’t complain, they took away the food themselves and, most importantly, they didn’t get sick - and that’s good.
Now the sea. The sea is good there, the beach is VERY large, guarded, there are few people, there are enough sunbeds for everyone, there are no problems moving to the sea and back (and the sea is 700m away): every 15 minutes. there is a train, there are always places. In general, everything is fine with the sea. The pools are also great, warm, when the sea is cold you can splash around. I didn't really like the slight smell of chlorine and the artificial covering like carpet around them (what if a fungus? ). But that's probably the case everywhere, I don't know. There is a pond with swans and a pelican - it is interesting for children. There is a large enclosure with deer, pigs and a goat - it is also interesting to feed them.

Now about entertainment (which I focused on). Here, unfortunately, things are not so hot. 4 animators worked, but somehow rather mediocre. The whole day was scheduled for both adults and children. And water aerobics, and handball, and football, and games with children on the beach, and children's discos. A lot of things, but somehow everything is not right : ) In the morning on the beach, the animator had to be looked for - she came very imperceptibly. Classes were not very interesting, as it seemed to me. But children know better - they like it, it means they like it. I did not see the Neptune Festival and, in general, any theatrical performances of these animators (and for such a price it would be necessary to have a ticket! ). Then, before lunch, classes moved to the children's pool. Well, tell me: before dinner, who will voluntarily gather from the sea and go by steam locomotive 700m to a sanatorium to work out with an animator? And the pool and playground are not covered with anything from above, and the heat is 30 degrees. After lunch, there were two types of animation, when it was even hotter. And in normal sanatoriums, a quiet hour is usually announced at this time. At the evening children's disco, when most of the children gather, each time they played the same tunes and showed the same dance moves. On day 4, my baby just got bored. Pleased, however, periodic barkers for performances from a neighboring boarding house, which we constantly attended (although expensive, but at least some variety, besides, these barkers drove us there). When I wondered why I should visit the neighboring boarding house or the embankment (located a kilometer from us) for entertainment in the evenings with my child, it turned out that not a single theater group could pull out the rent in this sanatorium. In Chernomorets, for all the time they showed a couple of films and a trio of cartoons (also, by the way, during quiet hours). This is about entertainment for children. A playground, a shooting range and a trampoline (the last two are paid) are near each boarding house, or on the embankment (for the same price).
Regarding the Russian sanatorium (which, by the way, is not declared a sanatorium for parents with children). Children's discos every evening with new competitive programs. Concert programs with various artists in a special closed hall. Children's room. The pool is only for children over 6 years old and only after consulting a doctor and obtaining a pass. For violation of discipline in a quiet hour - instant eviction. For violation of discipline from 11 pm to 7 am - instant eviction (I myself saw how a drunken neighbor who shouted something on the street at half past twelve at night was taken away by two policemen from the territory).
Regarding cleaning in Chernomorets - it seems to be not bad, towels were changed often. The bed was changed only once, but, apparently, that's how it is with them.
Well, all sorts of little things are amazing: a transfer is an ordinary taxi to the city for 300 UAH (I was warned about this when buying a ticket). Safe deposit boxes are located in the lobby of the building, in which there is not only security, but even a simple reception (in a Russian sanatorium in each building there is a room with a nurse on duty around the clock and a hostess). I did not see anyone on the beach except for the guards (and in the sanatorium a lifeguard and a doctor should be constantly present on the beach in a boat! ). In the dining room, except for one administrator and waitresses, there is no one (and several dietitians are on duty in the Russian sanatorium). It is impossible to get hot water on the floor, just boil it on the sly (even on the train they give it for free! ). The iron on the floor broke in the middle of the stream, so it was never fixed. The sewerage in the shower cabin was clogged - I asked to fix it once - they did not fix it. I did not ask for more - I cleaned it myself. So everything seems to be small things, but in general - not very pleasant. In general, summing up: this boarding house gives the impression of multifunctional Chinese technology: it shoots video, photos, Internet, GPS, Blue-ray player, and cellular, etc. and everything that is declared is present and seems to be functioning somehow. But it's embarrassing that "SOMETHING". And sorry for the money. It was not for nothing that I always cited another sanatorium as an example. And it doesn’t matter that he is Russian, I just haven’t been to Ukrainian ones. It is important that I saw HOW a real sanitarium should function. And at the same time, tickets do not cost like a plane. I am aware that I was not on the river, but on the sea. But the price was one and a half times higher, and I expected at least the same pleasant impressions from the rest.

P. S. One of my compatriots, resting in parallel, said that I was just unlucky that this was such a year, and it was better in the past. To look for the positive in this. I tried to object that in a neighboring boarding house it’s cheaper by a factor of two, even if you live in a suite, and the food is much better (I interviewed a couple of dozen people from it), but she replied that there was a “room fund” right there... It’s hard to argue , but it's hard to sit in the "room fund" with the money spent and guess: lucky, not lucky next year.