Great getaway from the hustle and bustle of the city

Written: 5 october 2008
Travel time: 5 — 12 september 2008
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
Location.
From Ivano-Frankivsk on minibuses and buses that depart towards Yaremche, you can leave every 15 minutes. The minibus runs 1.5 hours. The bus station is located next to the railway station. I don’t advise you to go straight to Yaremcha, it’s better to go to a pizzeria across the road from the station and have a hearty breakfast (by the way, the food is tasty and cheap compared to Kiev). By the way, you can also take a train straight to Yaremche from the railway station (2.5 hours). From there to the hotel by taxi for 10 UAH.
The hotel is located not in Yaremche itself, but near the waterfall (1km from the city).
Staff.
The staff is very friendly and accommodating. All requests were met instantly. Cleaned every day + if you ask. The bartender (waiter) is just a smart girl, his milkshakes are simply divine (they cost 10 UAH), not the same dregs that they do in Kyiv for 6 UAH.
Food.

Food at the hotel for 4, very fat, but as I later realized the specifics of the region. If you ask not to put butter, then they don’t put it, and it turns out very tasty. For two, a full dinner to eat 70-100 UAH. For breakfast, usually scrambled eggs or cheesecakes with sandwiches, in principle, suitable for breakfast. Not far from the Hotel there are 2 Cafes where you can eat for 50 UAH (for two). I highly recommend Borsch and Banosh with cheese.
Rooms.
We stayed in a standard room with a balcony. It was cold, so they didn’t sit on the balcony, but if you come in the summer, you wouldn’t climb out of the balcony. The room is a little cramped, 2 beds - orthopedic, bedside table, table, stool, TV, wardrobe, minibar, bathroom. The bathroom is clean with a shower. Everything is done simply and on a level, but without frills (as in all other hotels in that region). The view from the window is not a fountain, but this is not surprising, since the hotel is located right at the foot of the mountain : (
Entertainment.
There is a sauna, not bad. Once I ordered a massage, a health worker from a neighboring village comes and gives a very decent massage. The procedure is a little over an hour, it costs 100 UAH. Was very pleased. You can also book tours with the receptionist. They promised to build a playground for children by 2009. Also on the ground floor there is an excellent living room with leather sofas and a plasma TV (which are also available in the bar and restaurant). It is also nice to sit down in the bar under the seagulls to throw bones (backgammon).
The territory of the hotel.
Everything is very clean, culturally, which cannot be said about when you leave the hotel (we were a little bit cool after the rains, and there was mud all around : (). around are built and roughly speaking climb each other. There is a parking lot for 4 or 5 cars, a security guard. On the territory there is a stream and a gazebo, there is also a small terrace where (probably) they eat in the summer. There is a brazier.
Bazaar + Waterfall.

100 meters from the hotel there is a market with all sorts of sheepskin and wood products. If you decide to buy something, it is better to come before 10 o'clock, because the sellers are much inferior to the first buyer. Always bargain! Percentages of 10% -20% are immediately inferior, sometimes up to 40%; in the morning I almost bought a woolen blanket for 200 UAH (in Kyiv 500-600), I was too lazy to drag it, I would have come by car and bought it.
Near the bazaar is a waterfall, which is specially visited on excursions. Again, when we were there, the weather was not good (end of September), so there weren’t very many people, you could sit on a stone by the waterfall, think about what was sore, in the summer there were darkness for people.
Outcome.
Clean mountain air, friendly people, homely atmosphere - the rest was a success.
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