Measure seven times...

Written: 30 october 2008
Travel time: 5 — 22 october 2008
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
Good day to all who wish to relax and improve their health!
Well, if you are going to go specifically to Medobory, then it would be good to imagine exactly where you will be taken so that disappointment is minimal, since the official website is painted in all its glory with all the colors of the rainbow. . .
The first thing you should clearly understand for yourself is that 80% of vacationers are between 65 and 95 years old.
Next on the list.
Our room was booked and paid for in advance, but on arrival we were forced to spend the night in a small, uncleaned and cold room. By the way, the heating was turned on only on October 20, despite the rather cold nights.
The deluxe room was amazing. To the question - where is the promised euro repair? (when ordering a voucher, all the delights of a holiday were vividly described) - the administrator looked up, full of surprise and replied that everything was as promised... Everyone has their own Europe...

At the appointment with the attending physician, I had to beg for the desired procedures. We can talk about the examination purely conditionally, since a urinalysis is performed, only a general blood test (there is no one to do a detailed one - the doctor quit), no one hinted at the cardiogram, and I had to pay for the ultrasound separately, although this examination is included in the list of paid procedures. This is despite the fact that gratitude for the treatment was given to the doctor in advance - alas, it is not justified.
In the pump room, a small queue to the tap with the required salt concentration (out of 3 possible options) made me smile - because the water is the same everywhere, with the only difference that there is warm and cold...
HEALING PROCEDURES.
To say that there are not enough devices for procedures is to say nothing. The old mechanisms, patched and patched, clearly cannot cope with the flow of people who want to improve their health. You can easily wait at the offices for 40 minutes (taking into account the preliminary appointment). You can’t look at the disinfection of masks for inhalation without tears - rinsing in a basin of water is unlikely to have an effect...
The greatest luxury is manual massage - but it can be prescribed even after 5-7 days of stay in a sanatorium, since massage therapists are living people and are simply not able to work around the clock...
Speleotherapy, as well as aromatherapy, caused a bitter smile... In the room where 15 people were sitting, they lit home aroma lamps with a candle inside... Nice, but during the procedure, microbes and odors in a small closed room increased inexpressibly, but the aroma "sniffed" with difficulties.
Most of the specialists promised in the advertisement of the sanatorium were simply not there for 3 weeks.
The suite has been equipped with a TV with cable TV - 9 channels at your complete disposal. However, the last 2 days we were deprived of this because of a breakdown.
Cleaning. After the first one, it was easier for me personally to ask the vacuum cleaner to leave for half an hour than to silently contemplate the islands of dusty rugs. They treat the vacuum cleaner with reverence - it is the only one on the body...
The bedding is clearly not the size of the bed and blankets, so there was a constant desire to nail them or at least grab them with tape.

Scheduled hot water is of course not a problem, but a cold heated towel rail and batteries are unlikely to add optimism, subject to constant water procedures and the far from hot month of October outside the window.
There is no point in discussing nutrition - everyone has their own claims on this matter.
BUT ! Chipped dishes and fork-spoons of all stripes and times left an unpleasant aftertaste, however, as well as poorly wiped tables that had never seen tablecloths. Dishes with food are brought in at the same time and it is possible to eat the second dish hot only if the first one is not available... In addition, the dishes are removed only after the "clients" leave, so the mountain of plates on the edge of the table just strives to simply fall off.
In the same part of the dining room (a smaller hall for the tenants of the deluxe rooms), dances are held on weekends. Everything would be fine, but after the entertainment events it would not hurt to simply wash the floors. Unfortunately, 3 weeks before that, it never happened - everything was limited to SWEEPING! Thanks, at least we didn't smoke in the hall. . .
At the end of the stay, when asked to make a copy of the results of a few tests, I came across a puzzled look. After a more urgent request, the attending physician simply rewrote the list of procedures performed... This is despite the fact that the book remains in the hands of the patient... Everything turned out to be very prosaic - he simply did not have the results of ALL 2 tests !! ! Of course, by joint efforts we found them.
The stated hypotherapy is not carried out in wet weather and is generally contraindicated in most patients with spinal problems. So few of the vacationers enjoy it.
Apitherapy has remained a mystery to us as before - since bees have the peculiarity of sleeping with the onset of autumn (although no one warns about the abolition of apitherapy in the cold season, and we amateurs are unaware).
Beer therapy. . . If you have the opportunity to walk 10 minutes to the only store in the area, or even better drive 5 minutes to the brewery, then beer will cost half as much.

But if you want to combine business with pleasure, then don’t expect it - there will be no miracle. There are no special sights around, just as you can’t find impressive landscapes for spiritual relaxation - plowed collective farm fields and small islands of pine trees - that’s the whole region.
Perhaps my story about a spoiled vacation will cause confusion for someone - but take my word for it - a spa vacation is not a luxury, and I compare it with similarly priced resorts not abroad, but in Ukraine, and far from the most fashionable places. It's just a pity that it was not possible to find more complete and truthful information about the place of the upcoming vacation in time.
Of course, nearby is the Pochaev Lavra, the source of St. Anna, the hermitage of Seraphim of Sarov. But this is a completely different - charming story...
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