Great place for a relaxing holiday

Written: 20 may 2016
Travel time: 12 — 18 may 2016
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 10.0
I chose this hotel based solely on reviews. We went in the off-season, got another 20% discount on accommodation and services. The place is really isolated and secluded, on top of a mountain. The territory of the complex is not fenced, there is a forest around, you can walk for a very long time and in different directions, the only thing to keep in mind is that this is a mountain and all the time with any walk you go either up or down. Even on the very territory of the complex there is practically no even place (except perhaps a small area near the administrative house). We traveled with a 2-year-old child, I took a stroller exclusively to sleep during the day on the veranda of the house, there is simply nowhere else to roll it. I must say right away that they warned me about this right away, even when I called for the first time to find out the details.
The road is really very difficult (difficulties begin immediately after the turn to the village of N. Stenava), the cars are mostly left down in the village and order a transfer. We went up on our SUV, but we were already going down, so that we didn’t want to go somewhere.
We arrived on a week of rains, we didn’t manage to walk in the forest, it often rained, we didn’t take suitable shoes, there was a lot of dirt (where there are forest paths and roads), although it was possible to walk around the territory even in the rain, mostly grass grows densely there. In between the rain we rode horses. Special thanks to the groom / instructor Ruslan, a very attentive, polite, sociable person. We enjoyed the horse rides a lot. Well, thanks to the horses, of course, too. No other services were available.

Meals were taken mostly complex (breakfast 65 UAH, lunch 80 UAH, dinner 75 UAH), it is cheaper than ordering each dish separately. The food is tasty, the portions are regular (not huge).
Accommodation. We lived in house number 1, the house was clean, cleaned, garbage was taken away once a day, towels, however, were not changed even once in a week. Separately, I will say about the heating of the house. Since it rained every day, the temperature outside dropped to 5-7 degrees (once it even snowed), so they asked to turn on the heating. Firewood could not be taken to kindle a fireplace in the house, the boiler was turned on centrally. They turned it on twice a day, but the batteries heated up very badly, they didn’t heat up at all on the second floor. We went to the admin. , They said, they immediately came, added heat to the regulators, but nothing helped (maybe there is something else). In general, while the boiler was working (about 2 hours in the afternoon and from 11 pm to 5 probably in the morning), the temperature in the house was 22 degrees, when it turned off it became 18 degrees. But it was impossible to dry clothes or shoes overnight on these batteries (they were semi-cold).
This is probably the only thing that created inconvenience.
For children there is a playground, on it: a sandbox, a slide, a carousel, two large wooden swings, a horizontal bar. I will tell those who are traveling with the same kid as we are, that the site is almost all sloping. I kept holding my hand all the time so that I wouldn’t roll down. The cafe has a room with children's toys. There is a lake on the territory, the boat is tied there, you can take it for a ride. We rode with a child. And we also went to feed rabbits and horses.
In general, I will say a cool place for those who want to be in solitude, the air is magnificent.
Thanks to the staff and owners. We left very satisfied and rested, with good memories.
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