Rest on the Arabat Spit is the best cure for depression

03 July 2012 Travel time: with 16 June 2012 on 01 July 2012
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Rest on the Arabat Spit is the best cure for depression

This high year for me began with an exacerbation of all chronic diseases. I spent January and April in a hospital bed under IV drips. From his blue dream - an excursion tour to Europe, with a visit to the most beautiful islands of France and Italy, had to be abandoned under the suppression of circumstances.


In order not to fall into depression at all, we decided in June, instead of Europe, to go to the Arabat Spit, which has been inhabited for years, and has become almost dear to us. We take our two granddaughters aged 10 and 6 with us. We did not choose for a long time: again we book the boarding house "Robinson", in the village of Gengorka. We have been staying at this resort for the fifth year. I can’t say that it is super-duper, but it suits us in terms of price-quality ratio. The boarding house is located on the first line by the sea, 30 meters from a wide clean beach, the territory is small, closed and guarded. There is a private guarded car park. On the territory for children there is a good playground, with slides and swings. And I also liked the fact that it has the opportunity to cook our own food. With my current strict diet, and the presence of two young granddaughters, this was an important plus for us.

The room was booked in a wooden log house on the first floor. Single room, 4 beds, satellite TV, air conditioning, bathroom with bathtub and hot water, and on the spacious terrace: a new two-chamber refrigerator, a wall cabinet and a table-cabinet for dishes, as well as a new beautiful dining table with chairs made of good tree.

There are only four such wooden log cabins built on the territory of the boarding house. They are two stories high. On the second floor of the log house there is also a room for 4 people, with the same arrangement as ours. Rise there on an external wooden ladder. If the family is large, then you can immediately book the entire log house of two rooms. We were going to rest here for 15 days as a foursome, my husband and I and our granddaughters, so the first floor was enough for us. My daughter and son-in-law came to us on a day off by landing for one night, and that night they had to sleep on an inflatable mattress.

From household accessories in the room there are bedding for 4 people, one small towel each, in the table on the terrace there is a minimum set of dishes for 4 people: deep and medium plates, cups, forks and spoons, a knife, a cutting board, a kettle, pot, frying pan, bucket, basin. Since cleaning in the room is only for an additional fee, a broom and a dustpan for self-cleaning are provided. All the necessary shampoo gels for bathing must be taken with you, as there is not even soap.

In addition to these log cabins, the boarding house has 15 more economy houses left over from Soviet times. In them, except for 2 double beds, there is only a refrigerator, a two-camphor gas stove and a set of plastic furniture for 4 people. Water, shower and toilet in the yard. There is no TV, let alone air conditioning in the "economy" rooms.


There is also a new one-story building with 9 rooms: two three-room suites and seven premium one-room suites. Last year we lived in such a "premium". It differs from a room in a log house by its smaller size and the absence of a terrace. But all the internal filling is similar to the numbers in the log house.

Room rates vary depending on comfort. The most expensive are suites and first floors in log cabins. I don’t know about the price of a suite, but our room in a log house in June cost 550 UAH. per day for accommodation without meals. The second floor of the log house and the "premium" rooms for 500 UAH, and the "economy" houses for 250 UAH. Meals can be ordered additionally in the cafe of the boarding house, or you can cook yourself. For rooms in log cabins and "premiums" there is a separate kitchen with gas stoves. I successfully used this kitchen all 15 days. I also want to note the excellent quality of drinking water in our boarding house, as it has its own well with a water tower.

We arrived at the boarding house on June 16 and stayed there until July 1. Just in Ukraine, a strong heat began, but it was the best time to relax on the sea. The water in the sea in the afternoon warmed up to 26-27 degrees, and the children swam in the sea for hours.

I, in addition to relaxing on the seashore, had planned a visit to the Hot Dzherelo balneological clinic with therapeutic thermal iodine-bromine highly mineralized water. This balneary is located 15 minutes at a leisurely walk from the boarding house, so my day began at 6 o'clock in the morning with access to the sea for air and sunbathing, and at 9 o'clock in the morning I went to the balneary, and there I took an underwater vertical exhaust pool. This procedure is the best remedy for the treatment of all pathologies of the spine.


The water temperature in the pool is 36-38 degrees. With diseases of the joints and spine, this water is just a godsend. This hospital works only in the warm season on an outpatient basis, and I tried to use my stay here for medicinal purposes. I took 12 procedures in the pool in 15 days. After taking the procedures, I didn’t go straight to the beach, but rested in my room, and after dinner, after 4 pm, I already went ashore, and were already there with my granddaughters until the evening. Vacation was a success! And not for too much money.

In addition to the pool, therapeutic baths are also available here. The cost of one procedure: bath -40 UAH. Pool - 60 UAH. The doctor prescribes the procedures, right here in the hospital, for a doctor's appointment, the fee is 25 UAH. They work seven days a week, from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. So if you want, you can get well.

I'll tell you a little about the history of this balneary.

It was discovered in 1980 by an enthusiastic doctor D. A. Krivonos after deep wells were drilled in the Arabat Spit in the 70s of the last century in search of gas, and instead of gas they found an underground thermal lake at a depth of about 1600-1700 meters. 8 such wells were drilled here, but today only two have remained open: the first: on which the Hot Dzherelo hospital was built, and the second near the village of Schastlivtsevo, where hot water with a temperature of about 60 degrees. pours out of the well directly into the hole dug around and spreads along the shore. In this pit, people have been self-medicating for free for many years in a row. And also happy with this ball.

In the cafe of our boarding house you can order complex meals, and in the evenings football fans also gathered there and watched all the matches of the European Championship on the big screen. It turned out to be such a local fan zone. So we didn't get bored there. I didn’t want to go home, the only consolation is that we can go to Arabatka on weekends, because the distance of 140 km from home to the boarding house is quite a bit. So we said, "Goodbye, " Robinson "! We will definitely come again. ”

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Вид нашего сруба
Вид на нашу террасу
Терраса нашего номера
Комната в номере
Кафе пансионата
Детская площадка возле кухни
Эконом-домики
Буфет от кафе пансионата
Удобства в номере
Вход в кухню
Это кухня для желающих самим готовить
Скважина и водонапорная башня питьевой воды
В этой беседке мы часто устраивали семейные ужины
Беседки на территории
В такой беседке можно было устраивать семейные трапезы
Игровые домики
Качели с горками на площадке
Детская площадка
Вид пансионата с берега
Здесь я каждое утро совершала променад
Утреннее море
Солнечная дорожка по морю
Одинокий купальщик рано утром
Территория пансионата
Кухня в цветах
Вот так выглядит памятник и церковь со смотровой площадки
Памятная доска о подвиге моряков
Церковь на горке
Якорь настоящий
Рекламный щит возле вьезда
Памятная доска на стене водолечебницы
Описание лечебной водички висит при входе
Дворик водолечебницы
Здесь мы ожидали приглашения на процедуру
Общий вид бассейна
Бассейн постепенно заполняется
Эти ванны из нержавейки.
Эти манжеты одевают на ноги. Каждый грузик весит 1кг. Можно одевать по 1 грузику, а можно и больше
В бассейне все висят на кольцах