The resort is located in the city center, in more than 10 buildings, both old and new, scattered around the city within a 10-minute walk. The city is green, very calm - however, a transit Eurovisa is needed! : )
Commercial tours are sold in an 8-storey building on floors 5-6; almost all rooms are 2-bed, but there are 6 double two-room suites on the 6th floor. There are 2 old elevators in the building, during our vacation at the height of the season, one of the elevators was redesigned to a new style (after the rework, it worked exactly 1 day). The third elevator, the freight elevator, is either turned off, or the maids arrange work meetings and distribute linen in it. Considering that the servants have a habit of traveling between the 3rd and 8th floors, both up and down, after lunch, a line of 10-12 people line up for the elevator, and getting into the elevator on the 8th floor is unrealistic. The staircase from the 1st to the 8th floor on each floor has a poster calling not to let children go alone on it: you can easily fall into the span.
When handing over a voucher in the admission department, get ready to sign a long contract, a number of paragraphs of which begin with the words “The patient has no right... ”.
Double rooms have a room area of about 12 sq. m. , a balcony, a table, 2 chairs, 2 bedside tables, a 1 liter electric kettle, a 19” TV screen is built into the wall opposite the beds (the monitor of my PC, on which I am writing this now, and that one more). In my room on the 5th floor, out of the declared 9 programs, only two normally showed, TNT and RBC, so do as I do - take a laptop with you. And do not forget to buy a tee, or even a couple, there are no extra sockets. I'd better keep silent about the "amenities", although they are in the rooms.
Part of the commercial tours are sold in a 5-storey building, where the balcony is no more than 30 cm deep (see the attached photo), so you can only formally go out to smoke, but you won’t be able to sit down or close the door behind you.
When ordering vouchers, you should specify which side you need a room for, “to the station” (the back of the building, a construction site is 25 meters from it, the sun is in the evening) or “to the entrance” (music from street cafes is heard until 24 o’clock, the sun is on the balcony from 6 to 11).
The dining room is located in a separate new building, across the street from the residential building, to enter any dining room you need to climb to a very high 2nd floor (actually between 3rd and 4th regular floors) without an elevator. Meals are 3 times a day, and the customized menu has a series of typographical errors. The main vegetable is cabbage, side dishes are the same cabbage in different forms, peas, potatoes and rice. Every second non-dairy dish comes with either 1/8 of a tomato or 1/16 of a cucumber. Of the three possible types of non-dairy main courses (meat - chicken - fish), fish is the best prepared. Of the first courses, the Lithuanian okroshka made with kvass and sour cream is especially good.
Missed meals are not made up. For scheduled excursions (for example, to Poland for 2 days), dry rations are not issued and are not compensated. Those who are flattered to leave early the next morning (before 9 a. m. ), keep in mind that the first of the outlets (Coffee Croissant at the railway station) opens at 9, all the rest at 12. And you need to take the train at 8:40 in order to catch the Yantar return train to Kaliningrad. Therefore, calmly leave hungry, you can have a good meal right in the building of the South Station of Kaliningrad, in a cafe to the left of the entrance.
About procedures. . .
Baths, hydromassage, etc. : located in a separate, old building; there is almost no queue for them in the high season.
Massage: located in a separate, old building, 3rd floor on a narrow high staircase without an elevator. Since this is the most demanded procedure among vacationers, the planned massage time is 8 minutes, only one zone is assigned (for example, “spine”), no more than 8 massages per person. However, the masseurs are qualified.
Swimming pool: in a separate new building. Visiting time is assigned strictly according to the hours and days of the week. The far wall (opposite the entrance to the pool) is not equipped with holders or steps; in this place the depth is 3.8m, so the pool is not recommended for children at all. The supervising nurse has neither a pressure measuring device nor a stopwatch, so problem patients are not allowed in the pool. Street shoes before entering the washing room are supposed to be handed over on a hanger, and the staff does not give numbers, offering to remember the number. In the women's locker room there is only 1 hairdryer for everyone, in the men's - 2, so if you have long hair, you should carefully monitor the time and leave the water 5-10 minutes before the call. Sea water, heated. Along one side of the pool there is a special rim for spitting, spitting into the water is strictly prohibited.
There is a gym on the 2nd floor in the pool building. I didn’t manage to look there: since there is no supervising nurse, it is constantly closed. However, while swimming, one or two girls (probably thieves) can be seen there from time to time.
Beach: despite proud statements, the resort does not have its own beach. You can use either shared or paid (1 day = 200 rubles per person with the issuance of a trestle bed and a bath towel, there is no declared shower). Rise from the sea either through a funicular (25 rubles, near the railway station), or through a distant special elevator (according to the sanatorium book for free).
Well, and - about the staff of the sanatorium. The tone is set by a marble (! ) memorial plaque on one of the mansions (just next to the massage), which says that it was in it that colonel such and such, the head of the sanatorium, lived from such and such to such and such a year. Accordingly, the staff "works in contrast. " The doctors are invariably kind, all the others, starting with the senior nurse -... A friend has been sitting in line for blood donation since 8 in the morning for more than an hour, one of the two nurses is digging, the second is bored, because she takes blood only from a vein. An elder passing by reproachfully remarks to patients: “Why are you all sitting here? It's time for breakfast! " The waitress, bringing pea soup, although the menu was clearly attributed by the doctor “no peas”, grumbles “There is Rear Admiral behind you, and nothing, he eats and is silent! ”... What he eats with my money, and I - with mine She is not trained to understand. Scoop so far.
Tours. Lots of variety to choose from. However - all buses (the sea is shallow, there are no boats). There are 5 places for selling excursions on the 1st floor of the dining room, and the same one in different places (two meters from one another) can cost 50 rubles cheaper due to the fact that the seats on the bus are unnumbered, but let in by a written queue. For an excursion to the Curonian Spit, deaf shoes, buttoned up clothes, headgear (snakes, ticks, etc. ) are required.
Taxi. It is not worth thinking about a civilized taxi order. It is necessary to approach the railway station in advance on a weekday (“well, who works on weekends! ”) And agree with the driver to warn the shifter. Leave your mobile number to the driver.
Amber. The choice is wide, there are more than 50 points of sale in the city. In my opinion, the best assortment, service and prices are at Dina (trades on the Promenade, down by the sea, right opposite the massive tower of the sanatorium elevator, . , and also to buy chains profitably, you should go to the House of Life to the workshop of Vadim (to the right of the sanatorium down Lenina St. ) You should not buy very large things in Svetlogorsk, it is better to do it in Kaliningrad.
I won't talk about the weather, it's just luck. There was a case when, after sunbathing on the balcony and putting on all the lightest things, I went down the stairs and, leaving the building for lunch, got caught in the pouring rain... Fortunately, it happened the other way around.
Have a good holiday, ladies and gentlemen!
Commercial tours are sold in an 8-storey building on floors 5-6; almost all rooms are 2-bed, but there are 6 double two-room suites on the 6th floor. There are 2 old elevators in the building, during our vacation at the height of the season, one of the elevators was redesigned to a new style (after the rework, it worked exactly 1 day). The third elevator, the freight elevator, is either turned off, or the maids arrange work meetings and distribute linen in it. Considering that the servants have a habit of traveling between the 3rd and 8th floors, both up and down, after lunch, a line of 10-12 people line up for the elevator, and getting into the elevator on the 8th floor is unrealistic. The staircase from the 1st to the 8th floor on each floor has a poster calling not to let children go alone on it: you can easily fall into the span.
When handing over a voucher in the admission department, get ready to sign a long contract, a number of paragraphs of which begin with the words “The patient has no right... ”.
Double rooms have a room area of about 12 sq. m. , a balcony, a table, 2 chairs, 2 bedside tables, a 1 liter electric kettle, a 19” TV screen is built into the wall opposite the beds (the monitor of my PC, on which I am writing this now, and that one more). In my room on the 5th floor, out of the declared 9 programs, only two normally showed, TNT and RBC, so do as I do - take a laptop with you. And do not forget to buy a tee, or even a couple, there are no extra sockets. I'd better keep silent about the "amenities", although they are in the rooms.
Part of the commercial tours are sold in a 5-storey building, where the balcony is no more than 30 cm deep (see the attached photo), so you can only formally go out to smoke, but you won’t be able to sit down or close the door behind you.
When ordering vouchers, you should specify which side you need a room for, “to the station” (the back of the building, a construction site is 25 meters from it, the sun is in the evening) or “to the entrance” (music from street cafes is heard until 24 o’clock, the sun is on the balcony from 6 to 11).
The dining room is located in a separate new building, across the street from the residential building, to enter any dining room you need to climb to a very high 2nd floor (actually between 3rd and 4th regular floors) without an elevator. Meals are 3 times a day, and the customized menu has a series of typographical errors. The main vegetable is cabbage, side dishes are the same cabbage in different forms, peas, potatoes and rice. Every second non-dairy dish comes with either 1/8 of a tomato or 1/16 of a cucumber. Of the three possible types of non-dairy main courses (meat - chicken - fish), fish is the best prepared. Of the first courses, the Lithuanian okroshka made with kvass and sour cream is especially good.
Missed meals are not made up. For scheduled excursions (for example, to Poland for 2 days), dry rations are not issued and are not compensated. Those who are flattered to leave early the next morning (before 9 a. m. ), keep in mind that the first of the outlets (Coffee Croissant at the railway station) opens at 9, all the rest at 12. And you need to take the train at 8:40 in order to catch the Yantar return train to Kaliningrad. Therefore, calmly leave hungry, you can have a good meal right in the building of the South Station of Kaliningrad, in a cafe to the left of the entrance.
About procedures. . .
Baths, hydromassage, etc. : located in a separate, old building; there is almost no queue for them in the high season.
Massage: located in a separate, old building, 3rd floor on a narrow high staircase without an elevator. Since this is the most demanded procedure among vacationers, the planned massage time is 8 minutes, only one zone is assigned (for example, “spine”), no more than 8 massages per person. However, the masseurs are qualified.
Swimming pool: in a separate new building. Visiting time is assigned strictly according to the hours and days of the week. The far wall (opposite the entrance to the pool) is not equipped with holders or steps; in this place the depth is 3.8m, so the pool is not recommended for children at all. The supervising nurse has neither a pressure measuring device nor a stopwatch, so problem patients are not allowed in the pool. Street shoes before entering the washing room are supposed to be handed over on a hanger, and the staff does not give numbers, offering to remember the number. In the women's locker room there is only 1 hairdryer for everyone, in the men's - 2, so if you have long hair, you should carefully monitor the time and leave the water 5-10 minutes before the call. Sea water, heated. Along one side of the pool there is a special rim for spitting, spitting into the water is strictly prohibited.
There is a gym on the 2nd floor in the pool building. I didn’t manage to look there: since there is no supervising nurse, it is constantly closed. However, while swimming, one or two girls (probably thieves) can be seen there from time to time.
Beach: despite proud statements, the resort does not have its own beach. You can use either shared or paid (1 day = 200 rubles per person with the issuance of a trestle bed and a bath towel, there is no declared shower). Rise from the sea either through a funicular (25 rubles, near the railway station), or through a distant special elevator (according to the sanatorium book for free).
Well, and - about the staff of the sanatorium. The tone is set by a marble (! ) memorial plaque on one of the mansions (just next to the massage), which says that it was in it that colonel such and such, the head of the sanatorium, lived from such and such to such and such a year. Accordingly, the staff "works in contrast. " The doctors are invariably kind, all the others, starting with the senior nurse -... A friend has been sitting in line for blood donation since 8 in the morning for more than an hour, one of the two nurses is digging, the second is bored, because she takes blood only from a vein. An elder passing by reproachfully remarks to patients: “Why are you all sitting here? It's time for breakfast! " The waitress, bringing pea soup, although the menu was clearly attributed by the doctor “no peas”, grumbles “There is Rear Admiral behind you, and nothing, he eats and is silent! ”... What he eats with my money, and I - with mine She is not trained to understand. Scoop so far.
Tours. Lots of variety to choose from. However - all buses (the sea is shallow, there are no boats). There are 5 places for selling excursions on the 1st floor of the dining room, and the same one in different places (two meters from one another) can cost 50 rubles cheaper due to the fact that the seats on the bus are unnumbered, but let in by a written queue. For an excursion to the Curonian Spit, deaf shoes, buttoned up clothes, headgear (snakes, ticks, etc. ) are required.
Taxi. It is not worth thinking about a civilized taxi order. It is necessary to approach the railway station in advance on a weekday (“well, who works on weekends! ”) And agree with the driver to warn the shifter. Leave your mobile number to the driver.
Amber. The choice is wide, there are more than 50 points of sale in the city. In my opinion, the best assortment, service and prices are at Dina (trades on the Promenade, down by the sea, right opposite the massive tower of the sanatorium elevator, . , and also to buy chains profitably, you should go to the House of Life to the workshop of Vadim (to the right of the sanatorium down Lenina St. ) You should not buy very large things in Svetlogorsk, it is better to do it in Kaliningrad.
I won't talk about the weather, it's just luck. There was a case when, after sunbathing on the balcony and putting on all the lightest things, I went down the stairs and, leaving the building for lunch, got caught in the pouring rain... Fortunately, it happened the other way around.
Have a good holiday, ladies and gentlemen!
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