Wellness, water and "back in the USSR"

Written: 13 january 2009
Travel time: 27 december 2008 — 8 january 2009
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: 9.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
We were on New Year's holidays in Truskavets in the sanatorium "ALMAZ". Sanatorium is a rare community. Scheduled dining room (buffet), you're half an hour late - nothing to eat, no longer tolerate. Such a "kind of Ukrainian buffet. " Breakfast at 8.00, with water to be drunk an hour before a meal. If you get used to not being late - the food is good, dietary. After all, they don't go to Truskavets for food. The rooms are very sovkovy, no repairs have been seen since construction (1970). The bed is changed once a week, you can't ask for toilet paper, I had to buy it. Elementary management is absent as such. We had a suite - it saved (refrigerator, TV, kettle). Water in the sanatorium according to the schedule, and on December 30 and 31 there was no water at all. A big plus is the presence of a pump room across the road. Not many people managed to do the procedures, a lot of people.
The idiotic system of treatment has flourished since the union (as they say, destruction in the head, not in the toilet). Arrived on Saturday, no doctors, no treatment. On Monday, there was a queue for a nurse, then a queue for a doctor who did not really prescribe anything. That is, gentlemen, saving the drowning is the work of the drowning themselves. Many Russians and Azerbaijanis, the latter brazenly smoke wherever they can, which harm the so-called vacationers. There is a good masseur on the second floor of the "spa". Plus, all hospitals are connected to Diamond by a covered passage. But while you go through this transition !!!! ! ! ! ! ! Lots of all kinds of excursions. You can go to the thermal springs - to swim, but there is a scoop. The city has a good center "MED Palace", various procedures, saunas, swimming pools .... , but already paid. In general, you want to get normal procedures in normal conditions - save money.
Not far from the sanatorium there is a "Furshet", a local market with souvenirs, bowling, cinema, cafes, restaurants. I think that the exclusive location of this sanatorium will not soon turn it into a normal sanatorium, with normal service and treatment, although the money they charge for it is very normal. Decide as always for you.
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