So bad we haven't stopped yet...

Written: 12 july 2013
Travel time: 20 — 22 june 2013
Your rating of this hotel:
2.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 2.0
Service: 2.0
Cleanliness: 2.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 6.0
We strongly advise you not to book this hotel. Facilities, service, view of the rooms and the building itself are radically different from the photos displayed.
1) The "hotel" is not located in Yalta, a taxi to the center of Yalta or the bus station costs 80 UAH.
2) this is actually not a hotel, but a coastal resort. If you pay attention to the documents under glass at the reception, "Coastal" is indicated everywhere.
3) The sanatorium has several shabby buildings, apparently they make up the "hotel-group".
4) After a chic checkpoint (reception) with Greek and Spanish painted tiles on the floor, air conditioners, cute girls in white shirts and upholstered furniture, the fairy tale ends. The harsh Soviet life begins. We were assigned to building 2, where the concierge and cleaning lady grunted looking at us, discussed us right in our presence and measured us with their eyes from top to bottom.

5) The room is dirty. But besides this, the old, shabby, 15 years ago, they apparently did cosmetic repairs here to ennoble the rooms of the second building of this old Soviet sanatorium, but it would be better if they left everything as it was. Cheap hardboard furniture, and box-spring beds made my back hurt worse than a night on the bus.
6) Bedding is a separate issue. Lead-heavy pillows and such dusty blankets that just when you spread the bed, a dusty curtain hung in the room, as after a volcano whose ash covered the sun.
7) The door to the bathroom is broken and cobwebs fell on us when we went in. There is no shower stall, but there is a hole in the floor right in the middle of the toilet, standing next to which you can wash yourself in the company of spiders and centipedes or wood lice. There is also a sink and a mirror in a plastic frame. The plumbing is old, creepy and scary. There was no hot water all evening and all night.
8) Lack of Internet, instead of the promised Wi-Fi in the rooms, the promised Internet "only near the administrative building. " We did not dare to go there with a laptop and sit on the hot asphalt in search of the Internet.
9) Socket - hung at the entrance on a cord, which we were afraid to touch, as it sparked.
Already at the exit from the building we were enveloped in a not very pleasant smell of fried fish from the canteen. But as it turned out, at 9 am on the territory of "ripario" you can not have breakfast. Since the dining room cooks only by prior order, and both restaurants on the seashore open at 10. Since ripario is located in a picturesque place beyond Yalta, the only way out is to go uphill for 15 minutes along the territory of the sanatorium and another 30 minutes along the highway to the nearest stop, where if you are lucky, you can catch a minibus to the city.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original