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Before, we went several times to an elite sanatorium in Belarus. The complex of treatment there included thalassotherapy, mud was brought from Saki. This year we decided to go to the homeland of mud and did not regret it.
Sanatorium Poltava-Krym is located on a narrow isthmus between the sea and the salt lake. It consists of a large medical building, adjoining large dormitory buildings (standard and comfort rooms) and separate small dormitory buildings and outbuildings (luxury and junior suite rooms), as well as a dining room with a club and administrative building.
Having bought a voucher with treatment, you need to choose one of the proposed treatment programs (musculoskeletal system, gynecology, urology, etc. ). The number of procedures included in the program depends on the duration of the stay. We had vouchers for 14 days, they were supposed to have 6 procedures of 7 types (mud, bath, shower, massage, mechanotherapy, physiotherapy and inhalation). In addition, you can, for additional money, take additional procedures. You can increase the number of already prescribed procedures or expand their range (there is a salt room, underwater massage shower, Charcot shower, cosmetic procedures, sauna ("thermotherapy"), etc. ).
The main reason people go to Saki is, of course, mud! They are mined from a lake 150 meters from the sanatorium and are not spared. If in Belarus the mud was smeared on the back with a thin layer, and, say, you had to pay for the feet separately, then here the mud is poured onto a special table from a thick pipe with a layer of at least 5 cm, you lie down in this mud, you are just smeared with mud, wrapped in several layers (tracing paper, sheet, blanket) and so you lie. Not only pleasant, but also very effective.
Also, an undoubted advantage of the sanatorium is that mechanotherapy classes in the gym are conducted by experienced instructors-rehabilitologists who are able to choose the right set of exercises and the right load for everyone.
Unfortunately, the swimming pool is very small and there is nowhere to swim in it. And there are no hot tubs. You just have to stand and sour. But, on the other hand, the water is mineral. In general, throughout the sanatorium, hot water is mineral, from its own well, it is not recommended to drink it. And cold - ordinary, from the city water supply, of good quality, you can drink without boiling. In baths and showers, to obtain a comfortable temperature, these waters are mixed, and the pool is filled with 100% mineral water, just allowed to cool.
We lived in a "comfort" room SV with an area of .17 sq. m, I would rate it at 3 *. Furniture, plumbing and equipment (refrigerator, TV, mini-safe) are new, in good condition, mattresses with connected springs, carpet on the floor. The disadvantage of the rooms facing the sea (SV) is a very narrow balcony, you can only stand on it. The rooms on the opposite side (GV) have wider balconies, but the balcony furniture was also not visible on them.
We did not enter the rooms of other categories. Judging by the information on the website of the sanatorium, the “standard” rooms differ only in older furniture, etc. (I’m not sure if there is a safe there), while the deluxe rooms are richer and more diverse. Booking. com rates the Poltava-Krym sanatorium at 4.5 *, apparently, this is taking into account the luxury rooms.
Meals are 3 times a day, organized as a buffet. In terms of the variety of dishes, I would rate it at basic 4 *, and in terms of quality it is clearly not Turkey, the legacy of Soviet hospital food is still felt, although there were no clearly inedible dishes with us. There were always 3-6 types of vegetable cuts (cabbage, carrots, potatoes, beets, apples, pumpkin, turnips, seaweed, raw and boiled, in various combinations), 3 types of hot (dumplings or boiled sausage, meat, fish, chicken, both in pieces and in the form of cutlets, which is strange, when the tray ended, another was brought in its place, but not always with the same dish), bread (white, black, gray) and some buns. For breakfast, sliced sausage and cheese, scrambled eggs, milk porridges and pancakes / pancakes were added to this, for lunch - 3-4 types of soup, some pies or donuts with lard and fruits (tangerines or apples), and for dinner - cottage cheese casserole (sometimes just cottage cheese, sometimes with pasta or rice) or dumplings with cottage cheese and curdled milk, fermented baked milk or yogurt. There was always tea in bags (green and black), coffee machines worked for breakfast and dinner (8 types of coffee + hot chocolate), for lunch they gave compote, apple juice and hibiscus, for dinner - jelly. The inhabitants of the luxury rooms were fed in another dining room, I don’t know how and with what.
For 2 weeks, the club held 3 concerts (we liked all the performers except for one violinist - too obvious plywood), several films (the names did not inspire us) and several karaoke evenings (not our genre), all for free. They say that there were supposed to be 4 concerts (2 per week), but the holidays overlapped. In addition, some cultural events were held in a cafe on the territory of the sanatorium, we did not go there and, perhaps, in vain, the reviews for some of them were good. A meeting of the New Year was organized in the dining room with refreshments and a cultural program (4500 per person), neither we nor our friends went there, we preferred to celebrate in a close circle.
When going to this sanatorium, it is worth considering that at street temperatures below +5 degrees C, it becomes cool in the corridors of the medical building and in the dining room, you don’t look like a T-shirt.
Since Soviet times, it has become customary that in the sanatoriums of the Crimea, at least in the warm season, people go to sunbathe. But, when going to a mud resort, we must remember that after the mud during the day you can not take any water procedures, including swimming in the sea!
The territory of the sanatorium is beautifully landscaped, there are mini-ponds with goldfish, a garden labyrinth. A sort of combination of a Botanical Garden in miniature, an English mini-park and a Japanese garden. Between the trees there are several gazebos, probably in the summer you can sit well in them.
LIMITATIONS
A significant disadvantage of the Poltava-Krym sanatorium, compared to Belarus, is that no procedures are allowed here on Sundays, and on Saturdays only mud and baths are released. And the attending physicians do not work on weekends, so if you arrive on Friday evening, then no treatment (except for 1 pearl bath, which is not serious) will be prescribed until Monday. In Belarus, doctors worked in shifts and, if they arrived on a weekend, the person who worked that day was appointed as the attending physician. And the procedures were released 7 days a week, the only exception was January 1. In addition, the control hour system adopted in this sanatorium (8:00-8:00, the first meal is breakfast, the last is dinner) is very inconvenient. In Belarus, check-in was at 13:00 (you get to lunch, see a doctor and schedule procedures), and check-out at 10:00 (you have time to have breakfast), this order corresponds to the generally accepted in the global hotel business and is much more convenient.
As I already wrote, the main advantage of this sanatorium is dirt. Unfortunately, there is no mirror in the shower cabin, where you wash off this dirt from yourself, you have to go into the cabin to undress, look where you haven’t washed it off, and then go to the shower again. They explain that salts settle on the mirrors, but it seems to me that the fact is that ordinary mirrors quickly deteriorate from moisture. Apparently, in the Crimea they still do not know that there are more expensive moisture-resistant mirrors.
The sanatorium Poltava-Krym has its own beach, equipped with awnings and deck chairs. But people treated in it 2 times a year said that they had to sunbathe while lying on some bedding in the sun. The fact is that this beach is popular not only among the inhabitants of neighboring boarding houses and hotels, but also among the residents of the city of Saki. They occupy all the places in the morning and people who come to the beach between procedures or after them have nowhere to stumble. It is clear that according to Russian laws, the administration of the sanatorium does not have the right not to let everyone on the coastline. But she has the right not to allow strangers to use the property of the sanatorium (trestle beds, awnings, umbrellas). Why they don't do this is completely incomprehensible. Maybe save on security guards? Or they don’t know that such schemes work great in many 5-star hotels in Europe (there are all municipal beaches and no one has the right to close access to them, but if the hotel puts up its sunbeds, then outsiders are either not allowed on them at all, or for money)?
Sanatorium Poltava-Krym is located on a narrow isthmus between the sea and the salt lake. It consists of a large medical building, adjoining large dormitory buildings (standard and comfort rooms) and separate small dormitory buildings and outbuildings (luxury and junior suite rooms), as well as a dining room with a club and administrative building.
Having bought a voucher with treatment, you need to choose one of the proposed treatment programs (musculoskeletal system, gynecology, urology, etc. ). The number of procedures included in the program depends on the duration of the stay. We had vouchers for 14 days, they were supposed to have 6 procedures of 7 types (mud, bath, shower, massage, mechanotherapy, physiotherapy and inhalation). In addition, you can, for additional money, take additional procedures. You can increase the number of already prescribed procedures or expand their range (there is a salt room, underwater massage shower, Charcot shower, cosmetic procedures, sauna ("thermotherapy"), etc. ).
The main reason people go to Saki is, of course, mud! They are mined from a lake 150 meters from the sanatorium and are not spared. If in Belarus the mud was smeared on the back with a thin layer, and, say, you had to pay for the feet separately, then here the mud is poured onto a special table from a thick pipe with a layer of at least 5 cm, you lie down in this mud, you are just smeared with mud, wrapped in several layers (tracing paper, sheet, blanket) and so you lie. Not only pleasant, but also very effective.
Also, an undoubted advantage of the sanatorium is that mechanotherapy classes in the gym are conducted by experienced instructors-rehabilitologists who are able to choose the right set of exercises and the right load for everyone.
Unfortunately, the swimming pool is very small and there is nowhere to swim in it. And there are no hot tubs. You just have to stand and sour. But, on the other hand, the water is mineral. In general, throughout the sanatorium, hot water is mineral, from its own well, it is not recommended to drink it. And cold - ordinary, from the city water supply, of good quality, you can drink without boiling. In baths and showers, to obtain a comfortable temperature, these waters are mixed, and the pool is filled with 100% mineral water, just allowed to cool.
We lived in a "comfort" room SV with an area of .17 sq. m, I would rate it at 3 *. Furniture, plumbing and equipment (refrigerator, TV, mini-safe) are new, in good condition, mattresses with connected springs, carpet on the floor. The disadvantage of the rooms facing the sea (SV) is a very narrow balcony, you can only stand on it. The rooms on the opposite side (GV) have wider balconies, but the balcony furniture was also not visible on them.
We did not enter the rooms of other categories. Judging by the information on the website of the sanatorium, the “standard” rooms differ only in older furniture, etc. (I’m not sure if there is a safe there), while the deluxe rooms are richer and more diverse. Booking. com rates the Poltava-Krym sanatorium at 4.5 *, apparently, this is taking into account the luxury rooms.
Meals are 3 times a day, organized as a buffet. In terms of the variety of dishes, I would rate it at basic 4 *, and in terms of quality it is clearly not Turkey, the legacy of Soviet hospital food is still felt, although there were no clearly inedible dishes with us. There were always 3-6 types of vegetable cuts (cabbage, carrots, potatoes, beets, apples, pumpkin, turnips, seaweed, raw and boiled, in various combinations), 3 types of hot (dumplings or boiled sausage, meat, fish, chicken, both in pieces and in the form of cutlets, which is strange, when the tray ended, another was brought in its place, but not always with the same dish), bread (white, black, gray) and some buns. For breakfast, sliced sausage and cheese, scrambled eggs, milk porridges and pancakes / pancakes were added to this, for lunch - 3-4 types of soup, some pies or donuts with lard and fruits (tangerines or apples), and for dinner - cottage cheese casserole (sometimes just cottage cheese, sometimes with pasta or rice) or dumplings with cottage cheese and curdled milk, fermented baked milk or yogurt. There was always tea in bags (green and black), coffee machines worked for breakfast and dinner (8 types of coffee + hot chocolate), for lunch they gave compote, apple juice and hibiscus, for dinner - jelly. The inhabitants of the luxury rooms were fed in another dining room, I don’t know how and with what.
For 2 weeks, the club held 3 concerts (we liked all the performers except for one violinist - too obvious plywood), several films (the names did not inspire us) and several karaoke evenings (not our genre), all for free. They say that there were supposed to be 4 concerts (2 per week), but the holidays overlapped. In addition, some cultural events were held in a cafe on the territory of the sanatorium, we did not go there and, perhaps, in vain, the reviews for some of them were good. A meeting of the New Year was organized in the dining room with refreshments and a cultural program (4500 per person), neither we nor our friends went there, we preferred to celebrate in a close circle.
When going to this sanatorium, it is worth considering that at street temperatures below +5 degrees C, it becomes cool in the corridors of the medical building and in the dining room, you don’t look like a T-shirt.
Since Soviet times, it has become customary that in the sanatoriums of the Crimea, at least in the warm season, people go to sunbathe. But, when going to a mud resort, we must remember that after the mud during the day you can not take any water procedures, including swimming in the sea!
The territory of the sanatorium is beautifully landscaped, there are mini-ponds with goldfish, a garden labyrinth. A sort of combination of a Botanical Garden in miniature, an English mini-park and a Japanese garden. Between the trees there are several gazebos, probably in the summer you can sit well in them.
LIMITATIONS
A significant disadvantage of the Poltava-Krym sanatorium, compared to Belarus, is that no procedures are allowed here on Sundays, and on Saturdays only mud and baths are released. And the attending physicians do not work on weekends, so if you arrive on Friday evening, then no treatment (except for 1 pearl bath, which is not serious) will be prescribed until Monday. In Belarus, doctors worked in shifts and, if they arrived on a weekend, the person who worked that day was appointed as the attending physician. And the procedures were released 7 days a week, the only exception was January 1. In addition, the control hour system adopted in this sanatorium (8:00-8:00, the first meal is breakfast, the last is dinner) is very inconvenient. In Belarus, check-in was at 13:00 (you get to lunch, see a doctor and schedule procedures), and check-out at 10:00 (you have time to have breakfast), this order corresponds to the generally accepted in the global hotel business and is much more convenient.
As I already wrote, the main advantage of this sanatorium is dirt. Unfortunately, there is no mirror in the shower cabin, where you wash off this dirt from yourself, you have to go into the cabin to undress, look where you haven’t washed it off, and then go to the shower again. They explain that salts settle on the mirrors, but it seems to me that the fact is that ordinary mirrors quickly deteriorate from moisture. Apparently, in the Crimea they still do not know that there are more expensive moisture-resistant mirrors.
The sanatorium Poltava-Krym has its own beach, equipped with awnings and deck chairs. But people treated in it 2 times a year said that they had to sunbathe while lying on some bedding in the sun. The fact is that this beach is popular not only among the inhabitants of neighboring boarding houses and hotels, but also among the residents of the city of Saki. They occupy all the places in the morning and people who come to the beach between procedures or after them have nowhere to stumble. It is clear that according to Russian laws, the administration of the sanatorium does not have the right not to let everyone on the coastline. But she has the right not to allow strangers to use the property of the sanatorium (trestle beds, awnings, umbrellas). Why they don't do this is completely incomprehensible. Maybe save on security guards? Or they don’t know that such schemes work great in many 5-star hotels in Europe (there are all municipal beaches and no one has the right to close access to them, but if the hotel puts up its sunbeds, then outsiders are either not allowed on them at all, or for money)?
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