Хороший отель, но эконом-номер не рекоменндую Good hotel, but I don't recommend economy room

Just arrived from Berdyansk, rested at the hotel "Ukraine".
First about the pros:
The hotel is located on the middle spit, a 10-minute walk from the market and shops on the spit. The mill, which is the gatehouse of the guard, looks beautiful and bright, so you definitely won’t get lost.

Beautiful hotel territory, excellent swimming pool, for modern children this is super-swimming (especially in bad weather), you don’t even need the sea, although the pool is not a wonder for us, we ourselves live next to an open 50m pool, swim as much as you want. There is a guarded parking lot on the territory, there is a restaurant of Uzbek cuisine, an excellent private beach with canopies overlooking the open sea. The beach is clean, you can use the sunbeds from the hotel. There is a small playground, a couple of swings, nice landscaping. Flowers, lush spruces, spruce smell and the smell of the sea - just class! In the evening, you can put the children to bed and just walk along the shore together, I haven’t walked like that for a hundred years. Most of the rooms are deluxe, deluxe and standard. I saw a standard or junior suite in the main building - spacious rooms with solid furniture, a double bed, a sofa, TV and air conditioning, a bathroom in them in each room. Hot water - really hot and around the clock. The maids clean the rooms, change the bed, you just need to ask. Beautiful wooden beams in the building, pleasant interior of a country house. Round-the-clock reception, pleasant administrators, polite maids, Gosha the parrot is a child's joy : )
Now for the cons:
We stayed in an economy room. In July (high season) it costs 450 UAH/day. I can’t call this amount economical for my budget, but of course, compared to the prices for other rooms for 600-800-900-1000 UAH / day, we really rested economically. The room has everything: 3 beds, refrigerator, table, wardrobe, air conditioning, TV. The room is clean, carpet, well-zoned light above each bed, in addition to the main light, lovely curtains. Air conditioning and fridge worked well. There is a clean toilet and shower next to the room, there is an ironing board.
Now about saving. The owners of the hotel in this room saved on everything they could. Firstly, the area of ​ ​ the room is extremely small (about 12 sq. m) and very narrow (somewhere 2.2x5.5), if the room were, for example, 3x4, then it would be possible to live well and not rub against each other. Due to the fact that the room is narrow and long, it is poorly ventilated, the passage between the beds is 40 cm, changing clothes and drinking tea near the table is a war of nerves, so as not to push anyone and just miss each other. Either it was stupidly designed this way, despite the fact that the rooms nearby have a large area, even the neighboring bathroom has enough space, it would be possible to allocate 40 centimeters for this number due to it. Or it was some kind of utility room, which was converted into a number. Terrible marts on the beds, old wadded ones (they have been lying around here since Soviet times), very hard, a bed with a wooden bottom, so for 6 days it felt like we were sleeping on the floor, although they say sleeping on hard is good : ) I advise the hotel director to sleep on them at least for a couple of hours at lunchtime, make sure you can't sleep on them. Refrigerator wobbles every time you open it. The closet is generally a useless thing, it only takes up space, with each opening it collapses on you, staggers. And it has no shelves! Why is he needed? There are only hangers and the top shelf, which I can only reach on tiptoe and then from the edge, the child definitely does not reach, so apart from a couple of T-shirts, trousers and a dress that we hung there, all other things were in our suitcases, all children's things and most of ours are in a complete mess in a suitcase and always crumpled. There were also 2 warm blankets in the closet, which, in order to save space, we threw on top of the closet. Tell me, why are warm blankets in the closet in Ukraine from June to mid-August? They need to be removed in the back room and issued on demand with the advent of cold weather. In general, in foreign hotels there is a suitcase stand. Remove this closet altogether, put a stand for a suitcase, hang hooks at the entrance on the wall for hats, windbreakers, towels, you can put a special hanger for wrinkled things, it takes up little space. Consider rearranging the beds to create more space. Support the refrigerator so that it does not stagger, repair the TV or cable connector - it sows very much and half of the buttons on the remote control do not work. But the main thing, of course, is the change of mattresses and pillows. Given the above, I can say that such rooms should not even be close to a LUXURY hotel. Let it be small but comfortable, let the furniture be cheap but practical. Invest 1000 UAH in this room (this is 2 days of guests staying in this room), and let it leave only the desire to return to the Ukraine Hotel even for economy class guests.

Now the kitchen. The very name of the restaurant "Uzbek Cuisine" on the territory of the hotel "Ukraine" is a strange combination. We need to be consistent and keep a restaurant of Ukrainian cuisine, let the Russians eat delicious borscht with donuts and our dumplings. You can make a feature of this particular hotel from Ukrainian cuisine! Apparently, the owner is Uzbek : ) The food is delicious, but restaurant prices are high, and another 5% is charged for service, what it is - it’s not clear, we didn’t dance and didn’t sing karaoke, we just ate. Tips? But in our country, tipping is optional. In general, I think that for the money that the room costs, they MUST include at least breakfast, as in all European countries, I am silent about Turkey and Egypt. Is it really a pity to allocate 30 UAH out of 800-1000 for the preparation of an omelette, cold cuts, a light salad and tea? I hope that someday foreign service will reach our resorts.
Wi-Fi in the hotel is free, but the speed is low and it doesn’t take everywhere, we didn’t have it in the room, the channel was clogged with something. I had to go down to reception.
In general, to be honest, it is very expensive for us to rest now. In May, my husband and I were in Europe in Estonia, we paid 55 euros for a beautiful double room overlooking the Gulf of Riga, without additional payment for a child under 12 years old, an excellent buffet breakfast, several swimming pools, a sauna, a jacuzzi, daily cleaning and change of bedding, bathrobes, slippers and bath accessories. Also now there are Turkey, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates. There are good discounts for their citizens. High level of service for a reasonable price. I would like our laws, tax authorities and hoteliers to join forces in this direction.
Do I recommend this hotel - probably yes, if there is an N-th amount of free money. However, my husband and I do not have friends who, even with a decent salary, are ready to pay 800-1000 UAH / day just for accommodation, there are also expenses for a cultural program and food. And specifically the economy class room of this hotel I DO NOT RECOMMEND. Even in the high season, the red price is 300 UAH. Let them improve the conditions in it so that there is a desire to return to the hotel even for ordinary citizens, and so that you can safely say to your friends: "Good hotel, decent room, value for money. "
Have a nice vacation!