INSANE!! ! I read all the negative reviews but didn't believe it. I recalled my trip to the base "Mermaid" 10 years ago in September. I had few complaints due to my age, and the sea left a very good impression. But how wrong I was and ruined such a long-awaited vacation for myself and my family. We went in August.
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INSANE!! ! I read all the negative reviews but didn't believe it. I recalled my trip to the base "Mermaid" 10 years ago in September. I had few complaints due to my age, and the sea left a very good impression. But how wrong I was and ruined such a long-awaited vacation for myself and my family. We went in August. The weather was hot, the air conditioner was not coping, it was terribly hot to sleep, I began to have nightmares. I was terrified and in a sweat I woke up every night. Soon our morning walks on the sea were gone, because there was simply no strength after sleepless stuffy nights. Barely forced to get up for breakfast. The feeder is terrible, the savings are simply visible to the naked eye. Poor cooks, I don’t know how they get out of the situation, they have already overstrained themselves, trying to at least somehow tolerably feed the vacationers. You will not be given supplements. We paid for the child's food as a full adult and the distributors each time clarified, tried to give us a children's portion (funny: a small cutlet, half a portion of soup). We simply did not touch some dishes, it was impossible to eat. About the menu: for all the time they didn’t give something fishy, it’s not known what the cutlet was made of meat, they mostly gave chicken, 2 times the liver (by the way, it was very tasty), all soups without a hint of meat, can be cooked on meat, I don’t know, but there is no meat in soups, only sausage in hodgepodge. We were in different places, but only here we were served the next day the same soup as yesterday (there were fresh ones with them, which we took, but yesterday's ones also stood). There was never any fruit, the vegetables were lethargic, unwashed. She wrote a lot about food, although she does not even deserve to be written about. All in all, a very second-rate diner. Yes, and the stuffiness in the dining room goes off scale, apparently, it is provided specifically so that you don’t feel like eating at all in such heat and stuffiness. Tried to buy watermelons nearby - unripe, sluggish, like grass. We went to the settlements to Blagoveshchenskaya (about 13 km) on the field we bought both melons and watermelons, we bought inexpensive grapes by the road - everything was delicious, everything was fresh! Who doesn't have a car? We were very unhappy with our "comfortable" room until we visited friends in a room without amenities. This is called dying and not living - you don’t want any rest and the sea. All day in the heat, like dead fish on the shore, lying around the rooms, barely breathing, WITH CHILDREN !! ! How did they even guess to come there with their offspring! There is no shade on the territory, a playground under the pouring sun (PLAY, KIDS !!! ), nowhere to sit in the shade (I found a broken chair and a broken height meter, where the lid rises, brought it to the gazebo with a crooked tennis table - there I sat down with my son), good smokers - they have a gazebo for smoking with a table and a wooden bench, nowhere to go outside the territory, the sea is hot during the day with a child. By the way, the territory is full of wasps, my child was bitten by a wasp, then we found a hornet's nest under the ceiling of the same pavilion with a tennis table, I think it's not one. So, the sea itself, which seemed beautiful to me, is now overgrown with green, nasty mud. Where did she come from? To swim in clean water, you need to swim 10 meters through the depth, where an adult is up to his shoulders. "Great" "children's beach"!! ! Adults, who for some reason could not sail away, were forced to watch their children flounder in green algae, then wash themselves off from her. There are many vacationers, many of them are the most natural pigs: in the sea, on the beach, cigarette butts, bags, tampons, etc. Nobody cleans the beach. By the way, there is nothing for a disabled person or just an elderly person to do there. You need to get to the beach through the sand dunes. Can't you make a track? It is not surprising that in such unfavorable conditions, people there get sick, almost everyone coughs and sneezes. As a result, we also got sick with some kind of rotovirus infection. That's where they felt all the "comfort". They couldn’t boil tea for a sick child - they turn off the light, for the truth, they turn on the generator, which roared like a beast, right under our window, but this was not for long, we didn’t have time to boil tea. There is light in neighboring bases. Here we are sitting in the dark, the child has a temperature, there is no light, there is no hot water (when there is light, there is hot water, but at rush hour it is not easier - there is no pressure), even cry, and I cried. For each person, including. for a child, we paid 1350 rubles per day (this is 4000 rubles for a room, with "food") Isn't it too expensive for a trailer upholstered with plastic panels from the inside, with a gap under the door, with a non-flushing toilet, with an old weak air conditioner, without cleaning the room, without changing linen, etc. We rested for 2 weeks. They will be remembered for a long time. You can not treat people as consumables and only as a means of profit!! ! Probably there are pluses, only for so many minuses to talk about pluses is FUNNY!! ! ("WHAT A FOOT WASH!!! ") Ordinary sink, which should be everywhere when leaving the beach. Or else: "RELAX FROM THE BUSY! ". What is there, full of people, the influx is such that it is impossible to pass in the literal sense. There are no footpaths outside the territory of the base - everything is lined with cars coming from other bases, probably (our car was on the territory), people, risking, go straight along the roadway. Something needs to be done for a comfortable stay for visitors: with the territory, and with trailers, from which the prison rooms of vacationers are made, and with a completely undeveloped beach !! ! I WANT TO RELAX AND LIVE IN MY COUNTRY AND I WANT TO BE TREATED IN MY HOMELAND AS A HUMAN!! !
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My husband and I rested in the summer of 2012 in the "Mermaid", and before that for several years - a savage in the private sector of the village of Blagoveshchenskaya. Savage - the impressions are twofold, but we really liked the "Mermaid", we are going to come there every year. When we chose second-hand, the reviews on the Internet helped us a lot (and not only positive ones - it was important to know what kind of shortcomings there are in order to assess how critical they are, because there are downsides everywhere, and the only difference is which ones are important to you, and which are not).
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My husband and I rested in the summer of 2012 in the "Mermaid", and before that for several years - a savage in the private sector of the village of Blagoveshchenskaya. Savage - the impressions are twofold, but we really liked the "Mermaid", we are going to come there every year. When we chose second-hand, the reviews on the Internet helped us a lot (and not only positive ones - it was important to know what kind of shortcomings there are in order to assess how critical they are, because there are downsides everywhere, and the only difference is which ones are important to you, and which are not). Therefore, now I want to "pass the baton" and share my impressions with the "beginners".
Features of the village of Blagoveshchenskaya:
1. Very clean sea. There are places where it is very shallow, 50 meters and waist-deep (good for children), and there are places where it is almost immediately deep (good for those who like to swim, not flounder).
2. Quite clean and rather uncrowded beach - coarse sand (shell rock, quite sharp in places). True, the beach is poorly equipped. Further along the coast behind the village beach there is a nudist beach, it is completely deserted. But this is for a big, so to speak, amateur: there are really naked uncles and aunts : ) It can shock an unprepared tourist : ))
3. Enough infrastructure for recreation (there are "collapses" with all the necessary equipment such as umbrellas, swimming trunks, mattresses, towels, balls, etc. ). But there is almost no "party" infrastructure. There are several discos, but they are mostly for children.
4. There are canteens and cafes. But they are mostly so-so, but there are good grocery stores, and the villagers sell high-quality and very tasty products from their gardens. So if you are traveling as a savage and it doesn’t bother you to cook your own food in the south, then here there are all the conditions for this. By the way, the villagers sell excellent homemade wine. And in Blagoveshchenskaya it is better to take it "from hand" than in stores.
5. Very bad with transport. The village is long, and it takes an hour and a half to walk from one end to the other. And there is almost nothing to get there, i. e. buses and minibuses nominally exist, but in reality they do not run at all according to the schedule indicated at the stops, and in general they run very rarely. And private traders either simply don’t react to a raised hand (well, local residents don’t like to give vacationers a ride! ), Or wring up such a price for which you can get from one end of the city to the other in Moscow.
6. The private sector is quite far from the sea, you have to go through the dam, the whole journey takes 1-1.5 km. If the proximity of the sea is important to you - settle in recreation centers, they are located on the coast itself. If you are not embarrassed by a 30-50-minute walk, you can also in the private sector. But I don’t advise you to settle right next to the dam: some crazy children’s camp yells loudly, from 6 am to 11 pm the continuous hysterical cry of a crazy counselor into the loudspeaker.
7. Russian village. There are very few chocks, much less than in Moscow. And lately, there are almost none of them in the village.
8. In the village sometimes there are blackouts of electricity and water. True, rarely and for a very short time.
9. There is a church in the village. But she is very small and terribly stuffy. There are some very long services there: 3.5 hours of Vespers and 3.5 hours of Liturgy. Children are especially difficult to deal with.
Features of the b / o "Mermaid":
1. This is a recreation center, not a boarding house, i. e. minimum services, maximum independence. For example, daily cleaning of your rooms is not provided. But in each room there is a broom, a dustpan and a bucket, and on the territory there are garbage containers. My husband and I were more than satisfied with this, because. we hate it when someone comes into our home and even more disturbs in the morning. But if you’re not good at sweeping the room yourself, it can be a nuisance for you.
2. Good food. Quality (even my not the most healthy stomach never got sick). Quite varied (every day something new, and there is always a choice of 2-3 dishes - unless you come just before the end of lunch). The portions are large (my husband and I even had a bit too much, but we generally try not to overeat, so our perception may not be indicative for others). True, many would call the dishes themselves "soviet" - they are really very similar to what we were fed in pioneer childhood. And again - my husband and I are thrilled, we have plenty of nostalgia. But for those who hated the pioneer camps and everything Soviet in general, the food in the Little Mermaid may not be to your liking. There is no additional cafe where one could have a snack after dinner at the base (at least I did not find it).
3. Around the clock - hot water and shower. In the event of a power outage in the village, the base has its own water pump and its own substation. True, in the event of stanitsa shutdowns, “own” water in the “Mermaid” is only enough for a “summer” shower, and “own” light is only enough for a dining room, but this is not enough.
4. We took a suite in a separate cottage. Its difference from the "non-suites" is in the presence of air conditioning, but otherwise, as far as I understand, there is little difference. We really liked it, comfortable, functional. There is a refrigerator, a TV (however, we did not turn on the TV, because we never watch it). The furniture is not the newest, but for us personally it did not matter. Yes, there can be ants in the house! But only if you don't take out the trash. Then they will come running to visit your bucket : ) But if you keep it clean and regularly take out all the "leftovers", then no insects threaten you. By the way, it’s very cozy and cool to arrange a second dinner on the porch late in the evening from stanitsa vegetables, excellent store-bought sausage and excellent stanitsa homemade wine.
5. The territory is well-groomed, clean, beautiful (fountain, flower beds), conveniently organized. I wildly liked the “foot-washer” at the exit from the beach - so as not to spread the sand : )
6. Amazing director. Strict and serious, smart and talented. Such a strong business executive of the classic Soviet type. A very colorful personality, you will never forget him.
Who makes sense to relax in the "Mermaid":
1. For those for whom the most important thing is a calm atmosphere, peace and quiet. Who goes to rest, and not "break away. "
2. Those who are nostalgic for their pioneer childhood.
3. Families with small children or pensioners.
4. Newlyweds who want to hide from the outside world and be ONLY together.
To whom rest in the "Mermaid" is contraindicated:
1. "Party people" of all kinds and types, including noisy alcohol-disco youth campaigns (they will just be bored).
2. Those who are sick of everything, even remotely resembling "soviet".
3. Those for whom the external manifestations of “high service” are significant (what I would call “gloss”), as well as who like “obtrusive service”.
Features of the village of Blagoveshchenskaya:
1. Very clean sea. There are places where it is very shallow, 50 meters and waist-deep (good for children), and there are places where it is almost immediately deep (good for those who like to swim, not flounder).
2. Quite clean and rather uncrowded beach - coarse sand (shell rock, quite sharp in places). True, the beach is poorly equipped. Further along the coast behind the village beach there is a nudist beach, it is completely deserted. But this is for a big, so to speak, amateur: there are really naked uncles and aunts : ) It can shock an unprepared tourist : ))
3. Enough infrastructure for recreation (there are "collapses" with all the necessary equipment such as umbrellas, swimming trunks, mattresses, towels, balls, etc. ). But there is almost no "party" infrastructure. There are several discos, but they are mostly for children.
4. There are canteens and cafes. But they are mostly so-so, but there are good grocery stores, and the villagers sell high-quality and very tasty products from their gardens. So if you are traveling as a savage and it doesn’t bother you to cook your own food in the south, then here there are all the conditions for this. By the way, the villagers sell excellent homemade wine. And in Blagoveshchenskaya it is better to take it "from hand" than in stores.
5. Very bad with transport. The village is long, and it takes an hour and a half to walk from one end to the other. And there is almost nothing to get there, i. e. buses and minibuses nominally exist, but in reality they do not run at all according to the schedule indicated at the stops, and in general they run very rarely. And private traders either simply don’t react to a raised hand (well, local residents don’t like to give vacationers a ride! ), Or wring up such a price for which you can get from one end of the city to the other in Moscow.
6. The private sector is quite far from the sea, you have to go through the dam, the whole journey takes 1-1.5 km. If the proximity of the sea is important to you - settle in recreation centers, they are located on the coast itself. If you are not embarrassed by a 30-50-minute walk, you can also in the private sector. But I don’t advise you to settle right next to the dam: some crazy children’s camp yells loudly, from 6 am to 11 pm the continuous hysterical cry of a crazy counselor into the loudspeaker.
7. Russian village. There are very few chocks, much less than in Moscow. And lately, there are almost none of them in the village.
8. In the village sometimes there are blackouts of electricity and water. True, rarely and for a very short time.
9. There is a church in the village. But she is very small and terribly stuffy. There are some very long services there: 3.5 hours of Vespers and 3.5 hours of Liturgy. Children are especially difficult to deal with.
Features of the b / o "Mermaid":
1. This is a recreation center, not a boarding house, i. e. minimum services, maximum independence. For example, daily cleaning of your rooms is not provided. But in each room there is a broom, a dustpan and a bucket, and on the territory there are garbage containers. My husband and I were more than satisfied with this, because. we hate it when someone comes into our home and even more disturbs in the morning. But if you’re not good at sweeping the room yourself, it can be a nuisance for you.
2. Good food. Quality (even my not the most healthy stomach never got sick). Quite varied (every day something new, and there is always a choice of 2-3 dishes - unless you come just before the end of lunch). The portions are large (my husband and I even had a bit too much, but we generally try not to overeat, so our perception may not be indicative for others). True, many would call the dishes themselves "soviet" - they are really very similar to what we were fed in pioneer childhood. And again - my husband and I are thrilled, we have plenty of nostalgia. But for those who hated the pioneer camps and everything Soviet in general, the food in the Little Mermaid may not be to your liking. There is no additional cafe where one could have a snack after dinner at the base (at least I did not find it).
3. Around the clock - hot water and shower. In the event of a power outage in the village, the base has its own water pump and its own substation. True, in the event of stanitsa shutdowns, “own” water in the “Mermaid” is only enough for a “summer” shower, and “own” light is only enough for a dining room, but this is not enough.
4. We took a suite in a separate cottage. Its difference from the "non-suites" is in the presence of air conditioning, but otherwise, as far as I understand, there is little difference. We really liked it, comfortable, functional. There is a refrigerator, a TV (however, we did not turn on the TV, because we never watch it). The furniture is not the newest, but for us personally it did not matter. Yes, there can be ants in the house! But only if you don't take out the trash. Then they will come running to visit your bucket : ) But if you keep it clean and regularly take out all the "leftovers", then no insects threaten you. By the way, it’s very cozy and cool to arrange a second dinner on the porch late in the evening from stanitsa vegetables, excellent store-bought sausage and excellent stanitsa homemade wine.
5. The territory is well-groomed, clean, beautiful (fountain, flower beds), conveniently organized. I wildly liked the “foot-washer” at the exit from the beach - so as not to spread the sand : )
6. Amazing director. Strict and serious, smart and talented. Such a strong business executive of the classic Soviet type. A very colorful personality, you will never forget him.
Who makes sense to relax in the "Mermaid":
1. For those for whom the most important thing is a calm atmosphere, peace and quiet. Who goes to rest, and not "break away. "
2. Those who are nostalgic for their pioneer childhood.
3. Families with small children or pensioners.
4. Newlyweds who want to hide from the outside world and be ONLY together.
To whom rest in the "Mermaid" is contraindicated:
1. "Party people" of all kinds and types, including noisy alcohol-disco youth campaigns (they will just be bored).
2. Those who are sick of everything, even remotely resembling "soviet".
3. Those for whom the external manifestations of “high service” are significant (what I would call “gloss”), as well as who like “obtrusive service”.
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The day before yesterday we returned from Blagoveshchensk. We rested in the "Mermaid". Booked, however, the room is still at home. But they got a worse class - with amenities on site. At first they got upset. But then we visited the beach (not 30 meters from the base, but not 300), quite comfortable. The food is decent, not a restaurant, of course, but you can eat.
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The day before yesterday we returned from Blagoveshchensk. We rested in the "Mermaid". Booked, however, the room is still at home. But they got a worse class - with amenities on site. At first they got upset. But then we visited the beach (not 30 meters from the base, but not 300), quite comfortable. The food is decent, not a restaurant, of course, but you can eat. Each room has a refrigerator, which is very pleasing. On the territory of the base there is an inexpensive bar where you can have a bite to eat and drink at prices that are half as much as outside the territory. In the evening - a bunch of bars and discos nearby, with striptease, dancing, competitions, etc.
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The two of us went on our honeymoon. Places were booked through a tour company. The inconvenience began immediately. Not only did the train arrive at 4 o'clock in the morning, but also to the recreation center you have to take minibuses yourself. We liked our first impressions: 6 one-story buildings, a separate canteen building, a market nearby with fresh fruits and other useful things, 2 cafes nearby, a souvenir market.
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The two of us went on our honeymoon. Places were booked through a tour company. The inconvenience began immediately. Not only did the train arrive at 4 o'clock in the morning, but also to the recreation center you have to take minibuses yourself. We liked our first impressions: 6 one-story buildings, a separate canteen building, a market nearby with fresh fruits and other useful things, 2 cafes nearby, a souvenir market.
When they invited me to the junior suite, all the mood was gone. A small room with 2 children's beds, from which springs stick out, a refrigerator smelling and buzzing like a jet plane, the cabinet doors did not close in principle. There was only one joy - a shower room for men and women with a water heater right in the building, and the water was hot around the clock, although it ran periodically.
We were fed on coupons, each time we had to stand in line for 20-30 minutes, and not only trays were often missing, but also places to sit. The canteen building was incredibly hot and stuffy, and there was an air conditioner, but the management never turned it on to save money. Anyone could eat leftover food at inflated prices.
The travel agency promised that the beach is 50 meters from the base, but in the end it turned out that you need to walk along the sand dunes all 300 meters. Sun loungers for a fee. The beach is sandy mixed with pebbles and very dirty. There were no places to change clothes. To normally lie down, I had to walk along the beach to the territory of neighboring bases.
The black-and-white TV was the only one behind the lock, showing mostly no sound. But right on the territory of the base it was possible to order trips. We were satisfied with visiting the dolphinarium, the Sea of Azov with the purchase of wines. I did not like the trip to the water park in Novorossiysk: it was very stuffy in the double-decker bus, many felt sick. I did not like visiting the "African Village" at all. It was a scream, the program announced a striptease, which was arranged by 2 men from our bus. Here is such a swindle from Moscow students from the Department of Foreign Languages.
We decided that we would not go to such a shameful recreation center anymore. It's better to pay 2000-3000 more, but live in a room with an air conditioner and eat from the buffet.
When they invited me to the junior suite, all the mood was gone. A small room with 2 children's beds, from which springs stick out, a refrigerator smelling and buzzing like a jet plane, the cabinet doors did not close in principle. There was only one joy - a shower room for men and women with a water heater right in the building, and the water was hot around the clock, although it ran periodically.
We were fed on coupons, each time we had to stand in line for 20-30 minutes, and not only trays were often missing, but also places to sit. The canteen building was incredibly hot and stuffy, and there was an air conditioner, but the management never turned it on to save money. Anyone could eat leftover food at inflated prices.
The travel agency promised that the beach is 50 meters from the base, but in the end it turned out that you need to walk along the sand dunes all 300 meters. Sun loungers for a fee. The beach is sandy mixed with pebbles and very dirty. There were no places to change clothes. To normally lie down, I had to walk along the beach to the territory of neighboring bases.
The black-and-white TV was the only one behind the lock, showing mostly no sound. But right on the territory of the base it was possible to order trips. We were satisfied with visiting the dolphinarium, the Sea of Azov with the purchase of wines. I did not like the trip to the water park in Novorossiysk: it was very stuffy in the double-decker bus, many felt sick. I did not like visiting the "African Village" at all. It was a scream, the program announced a striptease, which was arranged by 2 men from our bus. Here is such a swindle from Moscow students from the Department of Foreign Languages.
We decided that we would not go to such a shameful recreation center anymore. It's better to pay 2000-3000 more, but live in a room with an air conditioner and eat from the buffet.
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