Sea of ​​Azov, Shchelkino, boarding house Moskovskie dachas

Written: 26 july 2007
Travel time: 25 july — 1 august 2007
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For business travel
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Rooms: 2.0
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About the rest in the boarding house "Moskovskie Dachi" on the Sea of ​ ​ Azov
Ukraine, Crimea, Shchelkino, 1 r
We ordered tours in Moscow, in one of the small agencies. As you can imagine, ninety percent of those percent of agencies are a small room, with several office desks with computers and the Internet, and, of course, with several telephone lines. Two or three people work in such agencies, the director himself sells tours. After several years of work, a small circle of regular customers is recruited, sufficient for a quiet existence. The work is based on the following principle: a client came (called) and expressed a desire to go to such and such a country. Next, the agency contacts several tour operators for the desired country and finds out all the information about a possible trip.

There are not so many tour operators on the market, so planning a trip by calling all tour operators takes no more than an hour. Special databases also provide great assistance in selecting a tour. The business is simple as a hammer: I found a client - I picked up a tour - I handed over my passports to a tour operator - I received passports with visas and tickets - I gave them to the client. That's all! But for us, clients - consumers of services, the visible side is the process of communication with the employees of the travel agency at the time of selecting a trip. In one agency they can tell in detail and competently about the country, hotels, existing and potential difficulties, advantages and disadvantages of the desired vacation, and in another they will profess the principle: the main thing is to sell the tour!
Thus, the conclusion is: the quality of your vacation, first of all, depends on the person who selects the trip for you. Competent, visited the country you are interested in, rested in a hotel himself, who advises whether he has sufficient horizons and life experience to provide balanced recommendations and advice based on your requests, service requirements and the level of your extraordinary personality. Experienced travelers, as a rule, understand that not a single employee, not a single agency will be able to understand all countries and all existing hotels. Therefore, specialization plays an important role. There was an agent in Turkey 40 times - well, it means that he is familiar with 40 hotels and can advise something competently balanced! And if he has never been to Mauritius? Is it then possible to rely on him when choosing a trip to this island? Conclusion: there are no universal agencies! Contact the experts or get ready to play the lucky - no luck lottery.
It was a brief lyrical digression-preface. Now I will try to return to the description of the rest on the coast of the Sea of ​ ​ u200bu200bAzov in the boarding house "Moscow Dachi". The task of the trip was not very simple, but not very difficult either: two children (3 and 5 years old) and a nanny are on vacation all the time, all the time (23 days), and three adults come in turn to them for a week. Those. one adult leaves, and the other arrives the same day. At first they wanted to go to Croatia, but already three weeks before the trip it turned out that there was not a single decent hotel left in the region of interest to us - everything was on the stop lists. On average, the price was for a two-room apartment (for 23 days) with full meals, all flights and transfers - about 4500 euros. Well, we started looking at proposals for Bulgaria - there are a million options! However, due to the lack of passports for children and the difficult movements of their parents (one brings the children to rest and leaves, and the other then arrives and takes them back), it was decided to refuse the Bulgarian visa. On average, offers for very decent hotels in Bulgaria: 2600-3000 euros for two-room apartments with flights and transfers. In Turkey, beloved by all, unfortunately, it was too hot during this period....Price for apartments in an all-inclusive 5 * hotel: 3200-4000 euros.
And then my energetic wife turned her gaze to the proud, autocratic, independent Ukraine. The warm and shallow Sea of ​ ​ Azov, the temperate climate and the yellow sand surfaced at the wrong time from the bowels of her childhood memories. No sooner said than done. One of the agencies similar to those described at the beginning of my story, for 93.536 rubles. (2672 euros) gladly sold her (us) a trip to the wonderful, according to them, boarding house "Moscow Dachi". Ukraine, Crimea, Leninsky district, Shchelkino, d. 1 p.

What the agency promised us (for which we paid money): a spacious deluxe room in one of the buildings of the Moskovskiye Dachi boarding house, located 150 meters from the sea, transfers and train tickets, the price also included breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner. Moreover, they promised to prepare diet food separately for children.
The wife, nanny and two kids were supposed to be met at the Azovskaya station. But no one met! The train disembarked passengers and left, and two children and two adults in a state of shock remained standing on a deserted platform... I think everyone understands that a very significant amount of things is taken on a vacation lasting 23 days with two children. So, surrounded by a whole pile of suitcases and bags, four female Muscovites remained standing on the platform... But my energetic wife did not lose her head and started calling the Moscow agency, the one consisting of two tables and four chairs, which sold us this trip. Her call was treated with understanding, they tried to help, but to solve the problem by doing something quickly was beyond their strength. I had to take a taxi and get to the boarding house on my own.
However, those who got to the boarding house "Moskovskie Dachi" were further surprised by another surprise - the boarding house itself! Actually, only the inflamed brain of its leadership, who apparently wants to receive money at the Moscow level, can call it a boarding house. I think they were guided by such logic when they came up with the name! On a small plot, approximately 40-50 acres, 8 houses were built.
The site turned out to be located not at all by the sea, but on a hill, across the road from the sea. The way to the sea in the future took us not so much - 5-6 minutes, which is not so scary. But it's still not what they promised! It's not by the sea! The area itself is quite well-groomed and green. But there is absolutely no space for children to play and no playgrounds (swings and a sandbox made from an old tire from a truck do not count), no pool, courts, etc. In short, there is nothing but a sauna and a table tennis table.

We were placed in a yellow building, in a one-room suite without a balcony, with an area of ​ ​.11 sq. meters, a little more than a window wide. Photo number. The room had a bathroom, a shower, a bedside table, a closet, two beds, and an old smelly sofa bed (according to the management, designed for two vacationers), apparently found in a garbage dump. There was no TV or air conditioning. . .
The director of the boarding house, Timchenko Alexander Fedorovich, thought that this was a deluxe room! The rest of the rooms, he said, were occupied. My wife had to make a scandal, call the Moscow agency, threaten that we would complain, seek the revocation of the license, etc.
The next day they were transferred to another building, white (the official name is light green). The new room was a little more spacious - about 15 square meters. meters and also "lux". Since this "suite" was larger than the previous "suite", apparently, they could well call it "super suite". We were even able to accommodate four beds in it, however, there was no free space left in it. The room had a bathroom and shower. There was no TV or air conditioning either. If the best deluxe rooms do not have TVs and air conditioners, then we can conclude that they are not there anywhere! There was also a small wardrobe, a table and two bedside tables in the room. There was a catastrophic lack of storage space, so it was decided not to unpack the suitcases.
The next shock: in the suites, and in everyone else in this boarding house, there are no towels! No one even thought about the fact that one person should have a set consisting of a hand towel, a foot towel and a bath towel! The bathroom itself looks at least scary: rusty, barely alive plumbing, a curtain hanging on snot, poor plastic hooks and accessories. When trying to hang a fourth towel on one of these hooks, it simply broke. There was toilet paper. . . we thought they didn't make that kind anymore. . .
Room cleaning was amazing too! A smelly floorcloth was crawled across the floor, after which a characteristic musty smell remained in the room for several hours. They ventilated, and no longer let the cleaning lady in, then they cleaned the room and washed the floor on their own.

About nutrition. On the first floor of this very turquoise building there is a dining room, consisting of a small hall and an open veranda adjoining it. In the dining room there are cheap plastic chairs and tables covered with multi-colored oilcloth, and a huge distribution window through which a wonderful view of the kitchen opens. The first thing we noticed was a nauseating smell. They didn’t even hear about what a mechanical supply and exhaust ventilation system is and why it is needed. …
Especially for Alexander Fedorovich. I roughly estimated the number and power of heat sources in the kitchen, took into account its area, the number of employees, room heat loss, insolation, etc. It turns out that you need to make an exhaust system for at least 1500 cubic meters / hour, and ensure the distribution of supply air in an amount of about 1200 cubic meters / hour. And do not forget to organize supply and exhaust ventilation with air conditioning in the dining room.
But we saw real miracles during breakfast. Self-service through this distribution window!! ! Vacationers lined up with trays in their hands! Can you imagine? ! Meals are organized in three shifts, thirty minutes each. And when you eat, do not forget to take the dirty dishes to the same distribution window! Each vacationer is assigned a place at one of the tables in the hall or on the veranda, and on many tables there will be neighbors with you. If you want to eat, come at the time allotted for your shift, stand in line at the distribution window, set your own table, eat without delaying the others, and then clean up the dishes after yourself. What a complete lack of service!
The food itself is also very savory. Breakfast: salad, hot, tea or instant coffee; lunch: salad, soup, second course, compote or tea; dinner - see breakfast. There is also an afternoon snack - biscuits and tea. It is possible the day before, the day before, to make an order for tomorrow, choosing: meat / chicken, pasta / rice, etc. Diverse dishes with flowers are in perfect harmony with gaudy oilcloths, the stink from the kitchen and shaky plastic furniture. But, trying to be objective, I cannot but note that the chefs are trying very hard. It's not easy to work in a stuffy tiny kitchenette on four ! household! stoves, and feed 120-130 people three times a day.

As soon as I arrived in this blessed place, I immediately talked with the director of the boarding house, Timchenko Alexander Fedorovich. In his opinion, the boarding house pursues a reasonable pricing policy and provides an acceptable level of service. Moreover, Alexander Fedorovich said that he was good at pricing. According to him, no one deceived us, we paid much less than the cost of the same vacation in the same Turkey. What do we want then? And the room in which we were placed is really their real suite! Well, if Alexander Fedorovich considers such a room a luxury and compares his miserable boarding house with hotels in Turkey, then only one conclusion is possible: there is nothing to talk about with such a limited person.
By the way, according to my observations, the public resting in this boarding house is divided into three categories. The first category is those who were swindled. They understood this, put up with it, and “rest” further, not trying to return the money back. Others, from the same category, tried to do something, but nothing came of it, and they continue to “rest” in the same way. So, for example, one young woman with a child asked Alexander Fedorovich to return the money in order to move from his pigsty to neighboring boarding houses or private cottages. But the doka in pricing said he would only refund them 3 euros a day for meals. The second category is those for whom such a vacation is the ultimate dream. Since there are cheaper rooms on the territory of the boarding house, without bathrooms and water, everything is very good for poor workers and collective farmers. Cheap wretched vacation in Soviet style!
Another observation is the attitude of the proletariat towards its children. For a long time I have not seen women beat their children and yell at them with a three-story obscenity for the slightest infractions. True, it is difficult to call them women, by the age of thirty they look like natural sows. So, in our enlightened time, a layer of lumpen continues to form - an uneducated proletariat educates its own kind - the conveyor works non-stop. Sad. But most importantly, feel sorry for the children! The third category of "vacationers" professes a very correct principle - we don't give a damn!
Especially for Alexander Fedorovich, I will give a brief overview of prices in neighboring boarding houses and the private sector. About the prices for apartments in Croatia, Bulgaria, Turkey - I have already written above. So located near the "Moscow cottages" cottages are rented by floors for 30-35 dollars (for two or three rooms). So, we were offered to place a company of seven people in three rooms for $ 35 per day. And in the boarding house "Riga", located directly on the seashore, there were two-room and three-room rooms with a bathroom and shower, TV, refrigerator, air conditioning. Price - $ 35 per person, 50% discount for children.

Thus, summing up, we can say the following. Moscow Dachas is not a boarding house or a hotel, but a Ukrainian (Crimean) parody of mass recreation in the private sector in the most terrible soviet style.
And now let me give you an exact calculation of the cost of our vacation (again, especially for the docks in pricing - A. F. ):
Term - 23 days; two adults, two children. Price: 93536 rubles.
Daily lunch for two adults and two children averaged 350 rubles.
Total: 101586 rubles. Or 2900 euros. This is the cost of "rest" without indirect costs. Slightly cheaper than a five-star hotel apartment in Turkey! Exactly the same price for four-star hotels in Bulgaria! Yes... Alexander Fedorovich really knows the prices!
Ticket prices were:
2150 rub. x 8 + 1080 rub. x 4 u003.21520 rubles. Commission for 250 rubles. from a ticket that Alexander Fedorovich decided to appropriate for himself: 12 x 250 rubles. = 3000 rubles. Total: 21520 rubles. + 3000 rub. = 24520 rubles.
Now we can calculate the real cost of living, for comparison with nearby boarding houses: a deluxe room in Moscow Dachas cost 77.066 rubles, or 3.350 rubles per day (95 euros per day).
Thus, we can conclude that the greed of Alexander Fedorovich knows no bounds. Accommodation in a spacious two-room suite with air conditioning, a TV and a refrigerator, with three meals a day, in the boarding house "Riga", located directly on the seashore, would cost us 62100 rubles, or 105 USD / day (2700 rubles / day). Those. for 15.000 rubles. cheaper.
Well, the prices in the district of Shchelkino for rooms in the private sector of a similar area with three meals a day for two adults and two children are from 30 to 40 USD / day. We would pay for 23 days about 800 USD, or 21.000 rubles.
Thus, the false boarding house "Moskovskie Dachi" deceived us by at least 56.000 rubles.
For reference: the cost of living in a suite declared by Alexander Fedorovich: one adult - 23 euros / day, a child under 3 years old (-50%) - 11.5 euros / day, a child 5 years old (-30%) - 16.1 euros/day. Which is 73.6 euros / day. Total for 23 days: 1692.8 euros / day, or 59500 rubles.

Now let's try to calculate how the originally paid amount of 93536 rubles turned out: 93536 rubles. - 24520 rubles. - 59500 rubles. = 9516 rubles. Something doesn't add up, what's the difference? I never received an answer from the director of Moskovskie Dachas.
instead of a conclusion.
Since I am engaged in entrepreneurial activities, I own several restaurants, clubs and trading companies in Moscow, I cannot but treat people who are engaged in the same difficult business with understanding. Today's reality is that doing business is becoming more and more difficult every year - the rules of the game are becoming more and more stringent.
Honestly, I really wanted to help Alexander Fedorovich with something, point out the shortcomings of his boarding house, suggest something important... I really did not want to waste my time writing this libel on a fellow entrepreneur. The day before my departure, I handed this note to the director of the boarding house with a request to read it and comment on it, and asked me to find time to meet with me the next day. But A. F. decided to avoid the meeting after that (I assume he thought I wanted to demand a refund of the overpaid money).
Conclusion: this person belongs to the category of so-called scammers - the main thing is to snatch money at any cost! Well, my conscience is clear, I guarantee that everything stated here is 100% true. I hope that after reading this note, you will make the right choice about resting in the Moskovskiye Dachi boarding house on the Sea of ​ ​ Azov, and do not repeat my mistake.
Sincerely, Petr Anatolievich.
P. S. If you have any questions or comments for me: peter-4@yandex. ru
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