My final review

Written: 25 june 2010
Travel time: 6 — 24 june 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Holidays with a child are always a risky thing, but here we have completely "rested", almost all 18 days, first with one bad thing, then with another...
In general: I really like Alushta for its climate, it’s very pleasant, it’s easy there, the air is straight sweet, saturated with needles... last year we stayed in Utes (nearby), we visited Alushta, I liked it: a noisy embankment with all the entertainment, sanatoriums-boarding houses in some distance, greenery, parks, Mount Demerdzhi...
I just didn’t foresee one thing: the Demerdzhinka river or something like that... it just flows along the Demerdzhi fence along the entire Perekopskaya street, flows into the sea . . the river is such a small stream, with a muddy bottom and dirty banks ( bottles, cans and other rubbish), it seems to flow from the mountains, but through the whole city (its eastern part)... and this river on the days when it rains in Alushta (of which there were a lot in June, just thunderstorms and storms), fills with brown waters (maybe clay from the mountains or some other rocks, maybe something else) and straight into the sea... The sea becomes earthy in color! In general, when I saw it for the first time, my hair stood on end... I don’t know how harmful it is, but the desire to swim definitely does not arise...

The boarding house itself: I initially chose a large room with extra beds, a suite in the first building, 5th floor. I contacted the administration of the boarding house by e-mail and phone, paid 20% in Moscow (transferred to their account), the rest was on the spot.
The 1st building was renovated, all the rooms are clean, fresh, with choir furniture... but we are talking about suites and junior suites, standard and PC without extra beds, the furniture in these rooms is an order of magnitude lower...
They cleaned every day, very good, the bed was changed often, towels were changed every day. . . there are no complaints here
The deluxe rooms in the 2nd building (apparently, there was no renovation there) are much more modest, and the price is even higher. . .
3.4, 5.6, 7 cases are relatively new. . .
The territory is very beautiful, with us everything was buried in blooming roses, cactus flowers, magnolia...
Now everything is green, but, of course, there are fewer colors already...
There is a waterfall and a pond: fish in the pond (trout: rainbow, white), frogs live throughout the cascade of the waterfall, which are sooooo loud, especially at night, but we somehow got used to it)
The animators do not work with small children at all.
From the treatment: there are many procedures, aromatherapy and inhalations are free, but there are a lot of people
In general, there are a lot of people in Crimea this year!
There is a salt cave, which we were tempted to, paid for three for 5 sessions and fell down, all the children were sick, the cat visited this cave (well, with whom we talked or heard something)... the medical staff assures that in the "cave" inf -tion could not be...
Allegedly, the playground was washed with a disinfectant solution... I don’t know, I’ve never seen it myself... there is an eternal dense accumulation of children in a small area...
The pool is good, the sun loungers, but it seems that they don’t clean it at all, at least I received a very evasive answer to a direct question about this, and you can swim around the clock....although it says on the stand that sanitation is being carried out
The beach is a 5-minute walk through the park, it’s not at all tiring, but it borders on the city, there are a lot of people...

It is arranged normally... but there is some kind of imperfection: well, they could arrange the sun loungers themselves in some regular order... it turns out that everyone grabs, all this is randomly placed in a limited area and you have to jump over their heads... on a secret, I learned from the director that there is another beach of the boarding house behind the concrete groin, it is not very convenient to get to it, it is almost undeveloped, but almost free...
Well, the most interesting thing is the dining room... I'm not a nitpick, I'm not a bore, I'm a normal person, the cat is used to eating from clean dishes... I'm silent about brown plaque and greasy stains - this is the norm, but it came to real food residues on all appliances , the feeling that the plates in the basin are rinsing, this is honest, without exaggeration...
In the dining room, no one is responsible for anything, that is, there is no one to complain and complain to... no matter how I was outraged there, everything is purple for them, for $ 200 a day I stood and washed our appliances...
I spoke with the director, he listened to me, nodded, they say, we will do it, we will improve it, we will take everything into account... and I believe him, he is really trying to push his boarding house to the proper level, but the feeling that he is doing it alone, without a team... well, put you in charge of the dining room, ask him... and he himself walks and looks... for a couple of days the dishes became cleaner, and then again...
The food is normal, a couple of salads and vegetables, 4-5 side dishes and 4-5 hot dishes, 2 types of first course, drinks only at lunchtime, morning and evening tea. There are no children's soups, there are meatballs, steam cutlets, mashed potatoes. There is no blender. In the morning they say porridge.
There are fruits, 1 time they gave cherries, a couple of times peaches (in the hall of suites-junior suites)
The only thing is that you need to come to the very beginning, since at the end there is a maximum of 20-30% of the original assortment
I will definitely not go there again, despite the fact that I liked the room, the territory and the climate. I did not like the sea - one, dirty dishes - two.

In June, there was just some kind of epidemic....and not something, but a sore throat... probably viral... the child’s temperature is 40, the pain is terrible in the throat... I’m silent about the rotovirus, but here the kids are woke up for a couple of days. . .
I can’t say that it’s really bad in Demerdzhi... if you don’t get sick with anything, then, I think, on the whole you will be satisfied...
Translated automatically from Russian. View original