Хороший отдых Good vacation

So let's start with the resort itself. Medulin is a small town like our Anapa even smaller. Quiet supermarkets and even just household stores are not there, there are also no banks (although there seem to be ATMs. There are exchangers where you can change the currency (they don’t change rubles yet) When I arrived for 1 euro they gave 7 kunas, when I left 7 kunas after 2 weeks Linden is an analogue of kopecks, although they cost much more than Russian ones, but coins of less than 10 lipas are not valued at all, I encountered this everywhere. 1 and 2 fake coins, and when I began to calculate, I explained that I could take everything, I became richer by 3 limes (compare with our mail where, due to strict reporting, they shake over every penny).
There is also no police in the city, which indicates a low level of crime, 8 km away is the city of Pula of regional significance, there is a large GOVD and from there, if necessary, the police come. In the pool, I was shocked when I saw the instructors without body armor, it even seemed to me that their car was not armored. There is not even a square in Medulin itself, there is only the city center where the city hall is located (I assume that the city hall, according to the meaning and the official sign above the entrance decorated with state flags, is a grocery store and a post office.
I don’t remember exactly the mail schedule, it’s about the same from 10 am to 12 pm and from 6 pm to 8 pm, that is, 4 hours a day, so if you don’t want to buy food, beach accessories and souvenirs, then go to Pula, although this is not the capital of the region, but the city is much more economically important than the official capital of this Croatian province, pay attention to the numbers of cars and boats (if you are on the appropriate excursion) where PU is assigned, it means that the car, boat or yacht is registered in Pula. By the way, the smallest airport in Europe is located in this city, of course, this is not our rural barn in Siberia where only maize growers can land, but compared to Domodedovo or Sheremetyevo 2, the contrast is sharp. You can get to Pula from Medulin by a regular bus, their schedule is in the lobby of any hotel and it stops not far from them, the cost of a 1-way ticket is 15 kunas.

There is only 1 highway in Medulin and almost everything is located along it, so if you don’t get too far from the resort area, it’s hard to get lost. You can communicate with the locals in Russian, just don't speak long phrases. Croatian and Russian have Slavic roots, but we do not border, therefore, in their language there are much fewer borrowed and understandable words than in Ukrainian or Belarusian, and yet, even without knowing Russian, you can communicate with natives, at least catch the general meaning. There are many old houses in the city, not built according to the standard, 2-storey with small windows and a tiled roof, often decorated with flowers. After the standard Russian 9 floors and Khrushchev houses, the eye just rests. I deliberately spent the whole day wandering around the city and photographing the houses I liked the most. I have never seen such beautiful and original houses not in the pool, nor in Paris, nor in Nice, nor in Cannes, you will hardly find street advertising.
Traffic rules seem to be strictly observed, but keep in mind that cities in Croatia are old, in some places there are no sidewalks or there are only on 1 side of the street. Near medulin opposite the holiday hotel there is a nightclub Imperial (when I was there it did not work, but I think that it will come into operation in the spring) and a 10-15 minute walk from the hotel a night disco called KLUB SUN I don’t remember the name. There is a bar, a disco in the basement with color music, a toilet, billiards on the 2nd floor. Girls if you are looking for a guy come to medulin, guys go only with their girlfriend. I have been to this disco several times for 1 girl 5 guys. There are no brothels, massage parlors in medulin, I won’t say about Pula, I don’t know, but I think that in Croatia they haven’t matured yet. Now, according to the contingent, there are few Russian blacks even less. Mostly Germans and Italians, vacationers of all ages are represented.
I did not find a nudist beach, but apparently other vacationers just slipped through and saw it. Although on the beaches and by the pools, topless girls and women come across, albeit not often, of all ages from the age of 13. On the beaches in relatively inconspicuous corners, there are also completely naked vacationers. There is no public transport in Medulin, and it is not needed. There are buses in Pula.
Hotel directly. Exactly 3 stars, cleaning in the rooms somewhere from 10 to 11, there are signs do not disturb. The room has only an internal telephone, air conditioning and TV. There is no kettle or microwave, on TV from Russian channels only RTRplanet. The restaurant is good and big, the buffet food is quickly changed, and the tables are promptly cleared and served. The buffet does not include alcohol, you can buy it right there at the bar. There are always sliced ​ ​ watermelons and melons in the assortment.

The food is good and not too monotonous trying to constantly change the assortment, but some dishes are constant. Mussels were offered several times for dinner. Attention there is one meanness associated with food. They don’t let you drink at dinner, they forbid you to bring it with you, you have to buy from them, it seems you can explain that they would give a carafe of free water, I couldn’t explain to me they gave me water in a bottle and a bill of 18 kunas, you can only buy drinks at dinner. I brought mine several times, sometimes they made comments to me, sometimes not, but they didn’t try to take it away. There is another way, one of the regular dishes is canned fruit, you can scoop out the syrup with a ladle and drink it, you can also drink it with chicken broth, it is sometimes served with soup. For breakfast, liquids are not limited, they offer juices (best of all, orange and from a green apple), coffee, milk, chocolate from free vending machines, there is tea in bags (good and not nasty like princess nouri).
Sometimes at the entrance to the restaurant, as live music, there are 2 hotel employees with folk instruments, of course, for taste and color, but I don’t like their folk music if they work, I just sit down away from the doors, since the restaurant is large. Also at the entrance to the restaurant there is a paid bar with comfortable sofas and a large TV tuned to a sports channel on the wall. An excellent pool with sea water that continuously flows from the fountain in the form of a fungus, although the water there, as well as in the sea, is slightly cold. There is a separate pool for children. In an adult there is no springboard and diving is prohibited, but whoever wants to dives anyway. Animation shows are organized by the pool several times a day, in which the animators conduct aqua aerobics and organize a water polo game.
At the pool there is a fresh shower and a cafe right from the pool, there is a path to the sea, it is very close, but I rarely go, because I don’t like pebble beaches, and even more so the bottom. In order to enter or exit, you have to be an acrobat, as small pebbles move apart, and large ones are polished with water and therefore slippery, and even the waves beat on the ankles. By the way, at the expense of the waves, they are very small there, the coastline is curved everywhere - bays, capes, islands are shallow, for 2 weeks I have not seen anything like a storm, if you have a yacht, sail to rest on it. There are a lot of yachts and boats floating there, BUT OF COURSE NOT IN THE BEACH AREA. The water is clear, without algae, the stones are sometimes covered with a harmless sponge near the beach, I saw small fish that swam almost to the people themselves, I did not notice the jellyfish.
In general, when I was walking along the embankment away from the city, I first stumbled upon a town of houses for 1 family, and then completely at a parking lot of mobile houses, that is, there are many "savages" resting there, they go from all over Europe. The hotel has a gym, but I did not see that it would work, apparently I had to ask at the reception desk what they would open. There is also a table tennis that works all the time. There is a playground, a golf course and several other sports facilities including a court, and a football field next to the hotel. The hotel has an internet room. Traffic is not taken into account, time is paid, here it is expensive 30 minutes -20 kunas, 60 minutes - 40 kunas and 120 minutes - 50 kunas. You just give money at the reception desk and say how much time you need to tear off a ticket with a password from a special book, enter it and work for the right time, you can press the button on the panel where the time is counted to exit and then enter to sit out the remaining time.

Warning when you see that time is running out, close all windows otherwise they will remain open for the next one to work on the computer where you were sitting. Each computer has headphones with a microphone and a webcam, the speed is excellent, obviously dedicated. There are 3 major hotels in the city: Belvedere, Holiday, and Medulin. They are all located, as it were, outside the city, the Belvedere is the farthest, but it’s not scary, the country is small, everything is nearby and the territory of the closest hotel smoothly flows into the city along with the suburbs, I didn’t write in vain that they are located AS LIKE outside the cities. The climate is mild, the average temperature in August is 24-26 degrees. You can burn only if you sunbathe for a long time without a cream, although it is more difficult to get a tan because of this. There are sunscreens in grocery stores, but they are expensive around 100 kunas, now convert to euros and bring your own. Cloudy weather and rain are rare.
Leaving the pool on the territory of the belvedere, you immediately find yourself on the embankment. Along the entire coast there is a road on which traffic is limited. Walk along it directly towards the city, on the left there will be solid beaches with capes protruding into the sea. By the way, the water in the sea is salty enough that you could lie in it, if you do it in the pool, you can even sleep in the water. On the right there will be the territories of 2 other large hotels, as well as snack bars, kiosks with water and ice cream, including a restaurant with a Russian menu.
Passing by a small pink hotel with a pizzeria located on the ground floor (for this you need to move away from the shore), you find yourself directly on the city's embankment. It's hard not to notice the KAMP MEDULIN parking lot, which is immediately open in the evenings. ), behind the amusement park there is a night disco that starts from midnight, the entrance is 30 kunas, a little expensive, but somewhere from 02.00 the security leaves the checkpoint, the ticket office closes and you can go for free. Here, along the embankment (not the one along which you walked from the hotel), there are a lot of tourist cafes, pizzerias, restaurants and shops with souvenirs, magnets, light clothing (t-shirts, cups, slippers). In some shops, a decal of your choice can be applied to a T-shirt, the cost of such a T-shirt is 100 kunas.
Even returning at 4 a. m. you will meet late tourists or locals drinking wine on the seashore, but the probability of meeting gopniks in medulin tends to zero. However, try not to take room keys and valuables to the beach, although the danger of meeting with a pickpocket is not great, it is still higher than the likelihood of meeting with gopota. Take only a small amount in case you want to buy something in one of the catering facilities that are full along the waterfront both in Medulin and in its suburbs with large hotels. At the expense of excursions, buses or boats may be late, but they are insignificant. By the way, in almost any catering facility they sell ice cream in more than a dozen flavors, a small ball in a waffle cone costs 5 kut, and in Moscow in the Okhotny Ryad shopping center (which is underground next to the Kremlin) the same treat costs only 60 rubles.

Take 500-1000 euros with you for one adult or capricious child, if you come just to relax, and not buy enough for your eyes and maybe even stay, and if you limit yourself to food on a voucher and don’t buy any of the things, then 300 for your eyes will be enough . In the hotel, do not change the exchange rate there, look for bad exchangers in Medulin, and best of all, a bank in Pula. By the way, there a currency clerk approached me, somehow recognized a Russian, offered to exchange rubles for kunas, but did not risk it. Be sure to take a couple of excursions, do not take the Roman Canal and the fish picnic at the same time, both include boat rides and seafood tasting. True, in the first case, these are oysters and clams, and in the second, fish, by the way, in both cases, you can take bread on an excursion if you like to feed seagulls from a moving ship. At a fish picnic, they are handed the remains of a tourist meal and they snatch the fish right out of their hands on the fly.
In general, a good place to relax, especially if you are from a large or industrial city. But remember, everything comes with it. If at first you want to move to Croatia, then in a month you will climb the wall out of boredom; if you come from a city where the population is more than half a million people, then in a month you will visit everything and you will have nothing special to do. But weeks and even 10 days to fully relax here is not enough. I recommend to go for a period of 2 to a maximum of 5 weeks.