Насыщенный отдых Saturated rest

There were four of us - two adults and two children of 12 years old. First time in Italy. Before that, in July, we rested in Spain in Salou (Port Aventura Park), so Mirabilandia and the water park in Rimini were not very interesting.
The hotel is 4 * pulls. The rooms are very compact - the room is about 12 sqm, there is a bunk bed for children, the bathroom is cramped for two. The rooms were cleaned daily. We never found a Russian channel on TV. Breakfasts are monotonous, dinner is on the menu, and only 1 hour 20 minutes is allotted for dinner. There are very few fruits, mostly fruits were bought in the Bille supermarket. On the last evening, even ridiculously, we came to dinner at the opening, they laid out plums, peaches and apples, my husband scored a whole plate of fruit, the waiters, seeing this, quickly removed all the fruits and did not endure until the end of dinner.
The sea is across the road from the hotel, the water is muddy, algae are floating. Children sometimes went to swim in the pool, but it was closed for a break from 12-30 to 15-30 (in a nearby hotel the pool worked without interruption)

In general, these are all trifles in comparison with how we spent this vacation. On the very first evening of our stay in Rimini in a supermarket, we met Ludmila (she has been in Italy for 10 years). She offered to take us to different places, and so until the end of the holiday we spent almost every day with her. We visited San Marino, Rome (in the Vatican), Florence, Pisa, Catholica, traveled along a mountain serpentine, swam on a wild beach in a protected area, she also took us to factory warehouses and outlets (how could it be without shopping during the discount season) . In general, we got to know Italy from different angles. In terms of prices - a trip to Rome cost us 100 euros plus the cost of gasoline and the motorway. From the tour operator (Danko) a trip to Rome for one costs 105 euros (105x4 turns out 420 euros). Here is the difference. The only thing we did not have time to go to Venice.