How to spend a new year on a business trip to another city, or a little epic about HoReCa

08 January 2015 Travel time: with 31 December 2014 on 04 January 2015
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By the will of fate this year I had to celebrate the new year not at the family table but in a working order (I hope that the popular belief will not come true like you will meet the new year and spend it, you will not have to have hotels all year round).

But everything is in order, like everyone before the new year rush at work. And on December 31 it is necessary to solve working moments in Kharkiv, Sumy and Lviv and as everyone understands it is practically possible, but it is worth trying and here is a night departure on the route Kyiv-Kharkiv by car on December 30, or rather on December 31, realizing that you have to meet new Year. in a foreign city we book hotels in Sumy, in Zdybank everything is busy in Pani too, we book Jubilejna, according to reviews for a business trip what is needed (unfortunately it's not quite so, or we're greedy, but everything is in order) As usual road workers did not cope with The task is not very good and the city is not very good to drive.


Arriving at the right point, we decide that the three of us have nothing to do and let the driver go home, well, the issue is resolved in Kharkov and at 16.30 on December 31. And so we try to get to Sumy we get to the northern terminal of the Kharkiv railway station from where there are minibuses to Sumy, Poltava, Kyiv, but at 17.00 there are no seats on the reservation only at 18.00 given the road and other nuances prepared to celebrate the New Year on the road or somewhere on .

But fate has been merciful to us and we leave by minibus at 17.00, as if the authorities were not shouting about changes in road transport of passengers but still carried there (this is to the fact that the routes are still converted cargo vans, so you can only dream of comfort), well, okay the most important thing is that we will be at least in the hotel. Calls to partners that say we do not have time and postpone to January 1 or 2 at will, everything is decided and we think how to celebrate.

And here again luck calls a friend from Sumy and congratulates on the holiday and says come and we say that we will come and so we are packed to meet NG.

Well, here in the hotel room number on the reception swearing staff to whom and when to leave after NG in exchange for customers zero attention, having finished their fight settled us. The room is normal (no photo because nothing planned was planned), except for the hotel's rules that towels are changed every 3 days or when wet, slippers in the junior suite (this is our category) are not included. Only one set of towels was given to 2 people, and the second set of towels was given twice after disassembly. The cost of a junior suite including breakfast (if you can call it that) per day for 2 people is 650 UAH. In fact, not expensive, but the service wants to be better by my standards, I would put a solid two on a five-point scale.


Unfortunately, Sumy residents do not like it, but the service in your city is lame and very strong, but everything is in order, I will draw parallels with Lviv (you can of course reproach me that these are different cities, so I agree, but who hinders development by leaving in the city about 5 thousand hryvnias and remained dissatisfied, while in Lviv, leaving about the same amount, we visited a bunch of places and had a lot of fun). But let's continue about the number in the room there was no kettle asking the administrator said no. And just hanging a sign asking to get out, no one is visible and did not go upstairs as the sign hung so continued to hang, in general for 2 days no one cleaned the room.

After tidying up, we went to the store, skimped and went to celebrate NG, but the taxi was a little pleased because.

Breakfast on the second day, everyone also turned on the coffee machine and we made a portion of double espresso for 46 UAH per cup for only 92 UAH.

Having said that, after breakfast we went to a place of public catering to eat, unfortunately in Sumy on January 1, almost nothing works drinking coffee in a gold ducat and did not find anything in the center had to go to the supermarket and there is rummaging. But still I want something hot and in the evening we found a working restaurant "Brudenschaft" beer is good and the food so-so from the first dishes was just a broth so I had to settle for small.

Well, on the second day, having solved all the issues and bought tickets to Lviv for 92 trains to the JI, the ticket price was UAH 642, because only those left to go to drink coffee went to the Sumy branch of Lviv Chocolate and Lviv prices and products.

Then a bus trip to Kyiv is still the same sprinter. ticket price UAH 150

Well, Kyiv greets us with rain, we run to the market to buy food and a train. The current JV differs from the old JV 5 years ago by the presence of 2 pillows, soap in a set of wet wipes, and a made bed, sitting down to dinner and went to bed at 6.30 am on January 3 Lviv. Realizing that there are no tickets for Kyiv on January 4, we book a ride in the so-called minibus, although it is a bus with 30 seats for 9 hours and we are in Kiev


The hotel was booked Lion's Castle room standard price 1150 UAH per day but unlike Sumy striking during the settlement the administrator asked how many coffee mines open to drink coffee for what we were offered to have breakfast at the hotel for free we refused because there was not much time and enough work . In the slipper room there are two sets of towels, a kettle, 2 cups, 4 bags of instant coffee and sugar, as well as 2 bottles of water, which was not in Sumy and the heater was even in a Lviv hotel. The same check for cleaning but worked quickly, and when returning the maid smiled sweetly. Breakfast at the castle of Leo included what we chose compote, (in Sumy a glass of juice or mineral water was not included) pancakes with cheese slicing meat vegetables fresh cheese and oil and 2 slices of black and white bread coffee to choose from Americano, espresso or cappuccino.

As cafes and restaurants in general do not want to compare the service is not in favor of the first city

This is a significant difference between the west and the northeast of the country.

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