Разочарованы Disappointed

At about 12 o'clock we arrived in Melitopol. We went to the platform - we stand and do not know what's next? Should have met - but how? Where to go? To the station and stand here to wait, we decided to stand. A few minutes later, a girl came up, leading a couple of mothers with children, asked our last name and we followed them. We loaded into cars - they were into a jeep - our horde into a mini bus. Without air conditioning. While driving past the sunflower fields, the son passed out. Hot. We drove for about an hour. We arrived, we were immediately given the keys to our double suite, we left the suitcase, went to the dining room. The mother-in-law lived with Katya in a 1-room suite in a neighboring building overlooking the street. We met in the dining room. The dining room is quite large, with air conditioning - our table was just under one of them. About food - they fed decently - but! Except for the soup, all the food was cold. Not because we came late, we came right on time. Then of course we went to get used to the rooms. The next but ! that killed me was our bathroom - apparently there used to be a pantry there - a narrow room - an entrance through the bedroom - a toilet bowl on the left, a sink on the right and a shower head hanging on the wall to the left of the sink. And this is the most expensive room in the boarding house!!! ! There is a wooden grate on the floor and a water drain in the floor. And obviously not cleaned for a long time. Well, the first washed of course at home. Without losing the topic, I’ll say that the mother-in-law’s bathroom in the room was much more civilized - a normal shower corner - a tiled podium, a normal watering can, a curtain, a sink nearby and a bathroom away. Then we washed mainly with the mother-in-law.
Having recovered a little, we went to explore the territory - the territory is small, but all green - trees, shrubs, flowers. On the territory there is a playground, a covered veranda painted with children's cartoon characters, on the veranda there is a plastic children's house (the children loved to play in it), a table tennis table (it was played a couple of times all the time, and then the guys from the boarding house - from the workers ), tables and sofas - an animator worked with the children on them - drawings, crafts, etc. - this usually happened after dinner. Then there was billiards - but it was always closed. There is a cafe nearby - it worked during the day and in the evening - but I didn’t see people in it, although sometimes they fried barbecue. There are quite a lot of garden sculptures on the territory - there is even a large carriage with a table and benches inside, figures of a woodcutter and a Scarecrow. The biggest attraction is the pool of course! Large - comfortable, clean, around sun loungers, umbrellas. There is a large built-in pool for children, Katya was up to her chest there - it was comfortable. The water is heated. The large pool is divided into two zones - smaller and 180 cm deep. At the bottom of the pool there are two applications in the form of dolphins. There is a fence around the pool. Foot shower at the entrance. Washed the pool every morning.
There was a toilet nearby - apparently for the staff - or if you suddenly felt impatient and too lazy to go to the room - an ordinary pit toilet... washstands.

In fact, the entire territory of the boarding house. There are two residential buildings - a three-story one, we lived in it - in the depths of the territory - and a two-story one - at the main entrance. In the center of the boarding house there is an administration hut - a wooden house. You could always find a director there. In the same place, she exchanged rubles for hryvnias.
It was quite quiet in the evenings, the boarding house is far from the market, amusement park and disco clubs. But here is the building at the entrance - the noise of the street and walking people passing by was heard. It’s also good audibility in the rooms, especially in the bathrooms - like water is being drained down the riser. By the way, we lived on the second floor. Hot water is always available - each suite has a water heater. We had a small entrance hall, a living room with a TV and a refrigerator, there is also an air conditioner, and a bedroom - a double bed, two bedside tables, a wardrobe. In the living room there is a sofa and two armchairs, a coffee table. There was also one chair) There was an electric kettle. And some utensils.
We bought bottled water - I couldn’t even drink tea and compote in the dining room - the taste of salt spoiled everything. At first they bought plain drinking water, but despite the purification, there was a taste of salt in it, they began to buy children's water - no aftertastes. Specially went to the pharmacy to the market. They also bought fruits there - mostly grapes, sometimes peaches. On the first day, my husband fell ill with his stomach, on the third my mother-in-law, on the fourth day my daughter had a terrible throat - although she did not complain about anything, on the fifth day the son woke up with snot. Only I lasted the whole vacation - and the first week for me was rich in running around pharmacies for medicines, water and crackers. Then, slowly, everyone calmed down. Although the mother-in-law is not completely used to the local water, they cook it anyway. We transferred it to the children's table in the end.
We got out to sea only after a week in the south. The sea is shallow, the beach is sand + shell, in front of the entrance there is a spit of shells - my husband did not like it, my daughter and son also prick their legs. The bottom is sandy, kamshuki come across. The first time they just wet their feet. In addition, the children were still sick... Then they got out - not every day - but as often as they could, and after sleeping they hung out by the pool. Daughter bought a vest and she flopped around in it. Sometimes the sea was stormy and we returned to the boarding house to the pool. On the whole, life went on calmly. There were a lot of children - it seemed to me that even too many. Of course, many were sick, as a result, new arrivals fell ill too. Somehow, at the same time, in two days, everyone dispersed - apparently to get ready for school and there were very few people left, in the dining room we were all shifted closer to the entrance. The most unpleasant thing was not this - they calculated the doctor and the animator. The cafe is also closed. But it became quiet and calm)

From entertainment - we went to the amusement park - my son liked the train on wheels, helicopters. We went to the center - there they rolled our son on small cars - on the control panel - he liked it. The next evening, we traveled around the village by train, which carries people to the water park during the day. The next evening we just went for a walk and bought souvenirs. And then they also rolled the children on typewriters - the daughter drove herself, the son was again on the control panel.
We didn’t go to the water park - I think it’s still too early for us - children were very rarely left with their grandmother - and she didn’t feel very well.
I think that we still paid a little expensive - considering what it turned out to be in the end.
P. S. The weather was good, a couple of days in the mornings it was cool and windy - but mostly it was hot.
P. P. S. - it was 15 minutes walk to the sea - with a child longer - but a bus drove us twice a day and then took us from the sea. Drive 3 minutes.