Nightmare

Written: 31 august 2011
Travel time: 24 july — 14 august 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 2.0
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 1.0
I am writing about the anti-tuberculosis sanatorium of Chekhov. Rested in August 2011.
Rooms: 2-bed rooms, with an additional charge of 50 UAH / day per person - in the shade, with a fungus and Koch's stick. And with a surcharge of 10 UAH / day per person - 3-seater, where I lived. At lunchtime it was 40 degrees in the room, at night - 30 degrees. We were all wet. Of the amenities - the room had a washbasin, as well as a small refrigerator (almost did not freeze) and a TV. Opposite the building-shops, everyone smoked on them, I am a non-smoker, I didn’t really like the lack of space on the benches for non-smokers. The room was also mixed with smokers and non-smokers. Further along the territory there, near the sanatorium, there is heavy traffic on the highway, it smells of gasoline. And he rode, in fact, in order to breathe in the sea air. The food is terrible, only breakfast is normal, semolina + second, but no one ate breakfast, as everyone ran to the beach in the morning to take a place at least 4-5 rows from the sea.
Lunch, dinner constantly cold mashed potatoes from powder, + smelly fish cutlet, everything from yesterday or the day before yesterday, besides, the waitress constantly made herself wait with food for 30-40 minutes. It turns out that they have such a norm, and there is an announcement at the entrance that you need to wait at a table in a stuffy dining room for so long for their pathetic food, and then gave 3 cold portions for 4 people. And she still didn’t let me pour herself a second tea, for which we actually came. Although, except for our waitress, the staff of the sanatorium, in principle, is good. Well, the canteen is not very sanitary. Spoons and forks were placed directly on not very clean tables. The tea mugs were filled with water. We saved ourselves with canned food from the markets or had lunch in canteens, the prices in Yalta are inexpensive - for 30-35 UAH you could have a normal lunch. There are simply no discos, volleyball, a bus to the beach. Procedures did not interest me.

In the morning there was a charge, but 3 days after the arrival, the instructor slipped somewhere along the path near the sanatorium, fell, miraculously survived, but seriously injured her leg (pierced through with reinforcement in the thigh area), and the charge was canceled. By the way, there are paths from the sanatorium up to Grocery, where the products are relatively cheap, terrible, with garbage and dry, we then carefully walked. It's a long walk to the beach, along a smoky, hot highway and stale, spitting, and foul-smelling steps. The nearest beach is somewhere in 30-40 minutes, small and dirty, a lot of people, a lot of smokers, walk on your rug, because there are no paths, showers are paid, and 90% of the beaches are privately owned and ordinary vacationers are not allowed. To the nearest paid beach - Varadera - the entrance was 70 UAH.
It was also possible to go halfway to the beach by minibus, but I once went, waited 20 minutes, then this bus arrived, took 2 people from the queue of 15 people, said that there were no places for other people, because the check on road, and I didn't go to the bus after that. Therefore, almost all the time (and health) was killed on these transitions to Yalta, in a terrible heat. In the evening it was more pleasant to walk along the embankment, discos began, but we could not go to them, because the entrance to the sanatorium closed at 11-00, and it still took a while to get to the sanatorium. For pensioners who are the same as what to breathe and what to eat, and who do not need discos or the beach, and their main task is to save their pension, this is an option, and I don’t go to this “sanatorium” anymore. The contingent of vacationers in general is quite interesting, it came in large numbers, not only pensioners.
Almost every day someone was kicked out for drinking on the territory, there were also wording in the ads - "disgraceful behavior. " That is, some areas send here people of risky categories, perhaps even with skin or other diseases. But there were also people without vouchers, and even with children who settled for 250 UAH / day per person, they then terribly regretted it, it was much cheaper to live, eat, relax, enjoy - and not far from the beach.
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