Зимний отдых с детьми Winter holidays with children

We rested with 3-year-old children in January 2008. The hotel is modern, cozy and clean. The junior suite of 2 rooms suited us perfectly, cleaning and changing towels took place regularly. At first glance, the service is three stars, you can't fault it. By the way, I usually try not to notice any negative aspects, trifles, imperfections in the service.
BUT! The restaurant for breakfast (which was included in the price of the tour) always served sliced ​ ​ ​ ​ cuts in the evening. Sausage and cheese were rolled into tubes, and bread always looked more like croutons. If groups of tourists appeared at the hotel or a banquet was ordered, then we were told that we would have to wait a very long time, or the restaurant was closed for a certain time. On the last day, when we were leaving and were going to feed the children well before the path, we were generally told that we would come in an hour and a half, while the complex breakfast was being served. And our claims are not because we were so attached to this restaurant, but because there was no other either in the hotel or in the district 10 km (to Slavsky) (except for the dining room for skiers on the cable car).
Rest in the mountains is wonderful, the nature is gorgeous... BUT: you need to stand for 1.5-2 hours for tickets for the cable car, and with small children it was problematic. And the biggest drawback of the hotel, where a room costs the same as in other European countries with their developed infrastructure and perfect service: in the hotel, except for the restaurant, there is nowhere else to go, nothing to have fun (except for the sauna). We with children from 16 o'clock, when it was getting dark, sat in the room until the night! And so all 7 days! Can you imagine what it is like to sit with small children for half a day in a small room? Outside the hotel - dark and quiet, around the mountains and the absence of any infrastructure for vacationers. We were in a car, we could go somewhere, but there was nowhere to go, we did not dare to go to Slavskoe in the evening along the dead roads...

By the way, fans of car trips - take pity on your cars (if you don’t have an SUV), you can’t drive on the roads at all, and finding a hotel is also not easy. There is no map on the hotel website. We called the reception five times to get directions. We did not meet any signs or names of settlements anywhere (except for one, at the exit from Slavsky). “Zakhar Berkut” is a very popular name in those places, so the locals sent us to the mountain where the monument stands, and to the House of Culture, and to the cable car. It's good that the hotel is close to the cable car…
This is how we relaxed. . .