The whole truth about the boarding house Azovsky

Written: 18 july 2014
Travel time: 9 — 23 july 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
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Pluses: good children's animation, friendly people
Disadvantages: more than 200 km from Semfiropol airport, terrible road, unheated children's pool (aqua park), icy water, indoor pool is not heated in summer, decent distance from the sea, lack of a pharmacy, a lot of mosquitoes day and night, remoteness from civilization
Good afternoon, we "rested" in Azov since July 9.2014, I (mother) and two children 2.5 and 9 years old. I won't tell you how we got here. Seeing on the day of arrival where we ended up, I decided that I would try to have a positive rest. I’ll warn you right away, if you have ever rested in normal hotels in Turkey, Bulgaria and Egypt aimed at children (a vacation affordable for the average person), don’t even think about going here.

Rest for 14 days in the Azov boarding house (village Peschanoe) in a regular room with air conditioning for 3 cost 56 thousand rubles + flight Moscow Semfiropol 16 thousand one way, + 17 thousand rubles. back. + transfer from the airport 200 km from Simferopol (3-3.5 hours) 3 thousand rubles one way exhausting trip-road horror. I didn’t manage to buy “Dobrolet”, I deliberately don’t buy a round-trip flight with a small child in my arms, I may have to fly home ahead of schedule, from my bitter experience, I also don’t buy tickets far in advance. You can easily estimate that a normal hotel in Turkey or Bulgaria (not 200 km from the airport) - it will cost the same, maybe a little more than 92 thousand rubles! And the service in hotels makes no sense to compare.
In essence: - mosquitoes in Azov are not enough to say that there are a lot of them! They bite day and night, all means do not save. Children and adults go very bitten. By the way, from Feodosia, the Azovsky boarding house is located at a distance of 86 km. , Taxi drivers take 1.500 rubles from the Azovsky boarding house to Feodosia.
TERRITORY: The territory of the boarding house is a former pioneer camp, there are very old and new buildings. Flower beds, flowers, roses, a lot, but everything looks so depressing. We were "lucky", we lived in the old building, the room makes a depressing impression, but it is conveniently located on the territory of the boarding house, but the smell in the toilet is terrible (the toilet looks clean). I asked the cleaning lady why it smells like that? She explained this by a feature of the ventilation device. And the truth is somehow strange, then the smell was, then disappeared, and reappeared a day later.
SEA and BEACH: The most important thing is the sea, it’s absolutely not suitable for relaxing with small children, the beach is a small shell rock, but it was very uncomfortable for me to walk barefoot, and even more so for small children, shells are pricked hard and painful, my little daughter could not walk , although it was torn all the time. Closed caralka slippers are needed, flip flops and Crocs do not fit, shells immediately fall and hurt. The sea is stormy all the time, the waves are very strong, it looks beautiful, constant wind, the stroller turned over on the beach without a child. . But I want to swim, the sea is immediately deep less than 1 meter from the shore and the water is much above my knee, the depth is rapidly increasing. So it’s a problem for kids to swim. It’s a long way for a child to walk to the sea, the stroller saves, even though it doesn’t drive well on a dirt road. The sunbeds are wooden, knocked together from poorly processed wood. , and it’s impossible for kids at all. There is a bar on the beach, everything is fine there, with an assortment and service staff.

FOOD: in the canteen, the staff tries to be friendly, they work very quickly - they feed like in a good factory canteen, no one will die of hunger or get poisoned. Both children and adults will be fed. There is always something to feed a small child. What surprised: - what we all go south for and bring our children is the SEA and FRUITS. So fruits were on the menu only for dinner, per person piece. And at the height of the season, every other day there were oranges (of which we already ate in winter) or apples or ugly nectarines / peaches - that's all. On the tenth day of rest, we were pampered with a sprig of grapes. I perfectly understand cooks that it is troublesome and inconvenient to mess around with fruit. But we feed our children with pasta and rice all winter, and on vacation we go for vitamins, and it’s better for breakfast or lunch instead of another casserole (yogurt in a box), as an addition to the main course, they would give better fruit. Outside the gates of the boarding house on the way to the beach in the market, the inhabitants of Shchelkovo brought everything and successfully sold it at Moscow prices. Sweet cherries 250 rubles/kg, beautiful and tasty peaches, nictarines, apricots 100-130 rubles/kg. depending on the variety. Watermelons 30 rubles/kg. Raspberry 80 rub. plastic glass 350 gr. Strawberries, figs, delicious melons, grapes, mulberries. All fruits are very tasty - we haven't eaten them for a long time.
Money: since food and accommodation were paid for, I naively thought that the extra. the expenses will not be very large, I was mistaken, you need to bring money with you - cash, there is no ATM and exchanger on the territory of the boarding house. To the city of Shchelkovo there is a minibus from the boarding house 100 rubles (round trip). They bring it to the market, wait 1.5 hours and back. I don’t know if there is an ATM there. A considerable amount of money is spent on fruits and children's entertainment. 50 and 100 rubles. "like a bargaining chip".
Conveniences: you must take a knife with you to the boarding house - cut fruit. All means that can be used against mosquitoes on the street and in the room. Hair dryer. A mug for tea / coffee, otherwise you will drink from plastic cups (outside the dining room). Shampoos, etc. Beach towel and foot towel. Full first aid kit (there is no pharmacy on site). Flashlight! After 12.00, the lights are turned off everywhere, and the street is so dark that you can't see your feet. Or more money and buy it all here.
Animation Entertainment: - the animators are trying very hard to entertain both adults and children, if there is a desire, it will not be boring.
On the territory of the boarding house there is a mini shop with a minimum range of needs and products.
The main vacationers are grandmothers with grandchildren and mothers with children, there are whole families. The boarding house is of course for children, there are a lot of children.

I don’t recommend for holidays with small children: it’s very far from the airport, the sea is suitable for grown-up children, the pools are not heated, the water is icy, children get sick. Heated jacuzzis stand next to the children's water park, it was thought that the children, frozen, can bask in warm water. On the 1st jacuzzi it is written in capital letters: - "for children under 10 years old", the second was supposed to be for older ones - correctly. But our Russian people, how so, children can, but I can’t. ? Grandmas, men and aunts climb into the jacuzzi, then after a bunch of adults will you put your baby in the bath to warm up? Or all the kids to huddle in the nearby jacuzzi, very small and already big children. The indoor pool in the building has been stopped heating since June. The doctor in the boarding house (for show) is either afraid of the responsibility of making a diagnosis or simply an unqualified specialist. There is no pharmacy on the territory.
I found out the reason for the trip to Azov, someone accidentally got there, someone intentionally. Everyone who got there by chance answered with one voice that they would never come back here again. Those who went intentionally, none of the vacationers were even in Turkey, it’s a pity for people that after spending a lot of money, they get a very low level of rest simply because of their inexperience, since there is nothing to compare. Believe me, dear vacationers, grandmothers and mothers for your considerable money paid, You can rest much better. And there is nothing wrong with a trip abroad. And you don’t need to shake for 3.5 hours in a dead brand without air conditioning on potholes to enjoy the sea and the sun.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original