Мучения в адском Совдепе Torment in the hellish Soviet

In June 2017, my parents and niece and I decided to relax in the Crimea. The rest was divided into two parts for a week in different cities. We started from the city of Sudak and the Diva hotel for those who are interested and for comparison - a week of excellent rest. The second week we rested in Yalta in Ripario (I chose the hotel in Sudak myself, but this one was imposed on me by an agent from BiblioGlobus) in building No. 1, numbers 216 and 217 on the right side of the corridor from the stairs at the main entrance.
1. Numbers. On the site you can see them as Econom Twin and if you look closely there are 2 sets of photos. Two completely different rooms in size. The first two pictures just show our rooms with a view from the window to the stone wall and the road to the Modern building. With a closet without doors right on the bed, a bedside table, a meter of space between the door and the room and 2 shower-toilet with a sink, a hole in the floor and plastic panels on the walls, and all this with an area of ​ ​ no more than 1.5 m2. In general, even those 2 first photos on the site in the description of the room are much better than the original. But on the opposite side of the room, which are larger in space and in the residential area, I can’t say anything about the bathroom, I didn’t look. And the view there is already on the side of the sea, well, that is, on the trees, because under the windows there is a path to the building. And by the presence of air conditioners on the facade, we can assume that they are in the rooms. Ours didn't have that luxury. We had one socket and it was located in the so-called vestibule. The furniture is all very old and not made of particularly good materials. The bedding is short (the sheet is not the size of the mattress) and multi-colored, well, so that the washed-out stains, which I already found, were not visible. Towels are multi-colored and smell like bleach roofing felts or something else. And everything has holes and stains.
2. As for cleaning. The maids to call those women who were cleaned, the language will not turn, they are just aunts with vacuum cleaners and various means. They didn’t change the towels, we used our own (from childhood I used to take my towel to the camp and was glad that I didn’t think that I was going to the hotel and everything was there), only once when my mother washed her niece, she threw a towel on the floor and so she left him and in the evening, finding him there, she went and asked why they didn’t change the towels (in Sudak at the Diva hotel, towels were changed every day, bed sheets every 3 days), to which she was told that they change them every 3 days and even some kind of schedule showed cleaning in the rooms. But a good aunt with a vacuum cleaner came across well, and she brought new towels.

3. Food. We were deceived by the agent from BiblioGlobus by the fact that she told us that there were no dinners at the hotel and we only paid for breakfast in advance at 200 rubles. per person (at lunchtime we were on excursions or on the beach, so I immediately ruled it out so as not to overpay). Upon arrival, we learned that everything is there, but it costs 600 rubles. per person. It was cheaper for us to take a taxi to the Yalta embankment for 240 rubles. one way and eat in the dining room for 1000 rubles. for four. But the fact that we have at least breakfast did not please us too much. The buffet, although it seems varied, is in fact too simple. One porridge, chopped vegetables, cabbage in oil, grated beets and no dressing. The hot food was constantly cold, because it was in simple metal containers without constant heating. I speak with confidence, because we went to breakfast at different times (from 7 to 9:30) and the situation did not change. Everything is semi warm and fresh. I (allergic) even one day had a slight poisoning from sausages, which I ate 3 days in a row, well, there was simply nothing else (the meat did not inspire confidence), and apparently my body simply could not take this food 4 times. In general, the buffet, it's only in appearance, and so bad canteen food. There is also a small restaurant with outdoor tables on the territory, but there is a menu without a description, and I can’t do half of it. Waiters can't wait. Yes, you have to pay with a hotel card.
4. Entertainment for children. Animators worked on the territory. My niece is 7 and she seems to like it. But as a choreographer and teacher working with children, I will say that they did not have any program, a monotonous set of 3-4 competitions were repeated every day. Children learned 3 hotel dances in 2 days. When the lights on the embankment turned on, all the children were taken to the karaoke room and there they played Mafia with them. It's not too child's play in my opinion. And then I watched as every day more and more children just go to kick the ball when they come to have fun with the animators, even girls a little older than my niece went to play ball. And once the animators just left the children, and they began to run all over the territory like mad. I don't see anything good in this.
5. Entertainment for adults. Yes, they are not there. There are pool tables and a couple of hand hockey tables (I don't know what it's called). Well, maybe the gym will suit someone as entertainment. I won’t say anything about the pool, because in the summer I consider it wild to go there by the sea, and I haven’t been there. Yes, there is a disco, this is when the children went to the mafia to play, but what they put simply into no gate.
6. Territory. The buildings themselves are in greenery and it is beautiful and pleasant. But the embankment with only three benches is strange, in the evening, when the children are with animators, all the parents stand like “fools” along the fence. As I already mentioned, there are a couple of tables with billiards and a couple of board games in hockey on the territory, there was also a shooting range, but it all seems to be paid. I can not say with certainty just did not use it as unnecessary. Well, a small restaurant with outdoor tables.

7. About the map of the hotel. When we moved in no one offered it to us. And when in the evening the child began to play games with the animators, I sat down at a table on the embankment and decided to drink a glass of Crimean wine. Having chosen one of the 2 available, the waiter asked for my card. I took out a bank card and held it out. Oh no, not this hotel room. ?? ? in my eyes. And he began to explain to me. You go to the reception or to a booth in the middle of the embankment, draw up a hotel card, leave 300 rubles as a deposit, and put money on it and then pay at the restaurant for your glass. I lost my desire to drink that day. I nevertheless made a card the next day, but I think that this is not a very convenient system, and a deposit of 300 rubles. just nonsense. And the prices in the restaurant, if you can call it that, are too sky-high. You draw up a card out of hopelessness at 21:00, you can’t go anywhere to eat or drink wine (in a restaurant 100 grams 200 rubles). And the most important thing that I noticed in the first check is a 7% tip. That's why you won't call the waiter.
So for a budget traveler this hotel is not suitable. The economy rooms are so economical that it's just terrible, and the prices for services are too high.