Да нормальный отдых! Yes, normal rest!

Rested in "Friendship" with his wife and child at the end of July 2014. What can I say. . . Everyone looks from their own bell tower. My wife and daughter loved it, and so did I. I must say right away: the rest is not at all for party-goers. In other words, there is absolutely nothing to do in the boarding house in the evening. The declared cafe on the territory does not work, there is table tennis in the lobby - I have seen players playing once in almost two weeks. Tennis court on the territory is not used by anyone. Everything. There is absolutely nothing else to do on the territory of the boarding house. But I will try everything in order. So the receptionist. Very polite girls at the reception, registration and settlement - about fifteen minutes. Number. We booked it at the beginning of June, double with extra bed. place for a child. The room is small, for the last twenty years it has been purely cosmetic repairs, the area is about 12-14 square meters, they have 2 single beds, two bedside tables, a table, a folding chair (as an extra bed for a child), a TV table , two chairs, a refrigerator (this is from furniture). It’s problematic to separate together, and my wife and I walked past the beds in general in turn, because we don’t differ in miniature complexion : ) A wardrobe built into the hallway wall (actually, not a wardrobe, but a niche with two chipboard shelves and a door). All the furniture, although strong, is VERY old, terry-Soviet. The beds are single (90 cm) and creak like hell. The bathroom is not new, but clean, serviceable, the shower is full, with a tray and doors, and not a hole in the floor and a curtain. There is a problem with hot water: it is there, but before the water from the hot tap becomes at least a little warm, it must be drained for at least thirty minutes, while it flows in a rather weak stream (it flows normally from the shower, from the washbasin). Perhaps this is because our room was on the fifth floor. The room had air conditioning (worked well) and a TV - 10 channels (First, Russia, NTV, STS, Karusel, Rossiya24, RBC and something else, I don’t remember). They cleaned the room every day when we went to the beach, but the cleaning was purely symbolic - take out the trash and run a wet rag on the floor a couple of times. Well, we didn't litter much. The main advantage of the room is the balcony. Even so: BALCONY. He's gorgeous! The size of the squares is seven, no less, there are tiles on the floor, a visor above the balcony, so that part of the balcony is always in the shade. There are a couple of chairs and a table on the balcony (wobbly, bastard). We had a room with a sea view, and so, personally, I almost never left the balcony - before that, a breathtaking view opened from it! The sea, mountains, below you can see the water park and part of the embankment.... Absolutely fabulous view! Next. There is only one elevator, for a maximum of 300 kg of cargo (a maximum of three people fit in) - of course, it is almost always busy. After breakfast and lunch you have to wait a long time. The hall is clean, there is Wi-Fi at a speed of 512 Kb / s, a couple of ficuses, a sofa and a dozen armchairs in the hall. At the reception you can buy Coca-Cola products and coffee. The dining room is also clean, the waitresses are in nice clean uniforms, food is served quickly (we came - and there was already something on the tables, after a minute or two they brought the rest). One thing can be said about food: there is a lot of it, it is satisfying, but do not expect pickles. All the food is simple, reminiscent of such a terrible Soviet canteen (who knows, he understood), but it was well cooked, there were no poisonings and unpleasant gastrointestinal disorders too. There are always two or three bowls with different salads on the table at the entrance to the dining room, you can take as much as you want (like a buffet, yeah). Fruits were every day - apples, pears, peaches. In the morning, a couple of dishes and a salad were given for breakfast (for example, an omelette and a cutlet with buckwheat plus a salad - a very hearty breakfast, yes! ), In the evening, delicious pastries were always given for dinner. In a word, the food was slightly monotonous, but plentiful, satisfying and tasty. So my daughter is a seven-year-old fussy, but she ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner with appetite. In general, we have no complaints about nutrition and never arose. Sea. The road to it is one more extreme. Suffice it to say that on the way to the beach, my wife and I yelled to our daughters every minute in chorus: "Beware! ! Watch your step!! " This is the same trail. . . I personally counted the steps three times - they are not 390, as they wrote here, there are 273 of them. The total length is 350 meters, not all of these meters are equipped with banal railings. Where they are, they are rusty and wobbly. You can go down, if you are careful, without problems (personally, my knees were trembling in the first couple of days after the descent), but to go up, especially during the day, in 33-degree heat.... the wife did this trick once and said that her health would not be enough for the second time. In general, it is clear that the damn staircase gave me 80% of all the negative. Beach. The beach itself is not wide, there are wooden sun loungers and trestle beds (for guests - free of charge), sun loungers (for everyone, without exception, 100 rubles / day), awnings (not wide, exactly one row of trestle beds fits under them). Absolutely everyone is allowed there, only the guests of the "Friendship" are free of charge, and the rest - for money. The beach is rocky and pebbly, and the pebbles are NOT small, you can still get into the water somehow, but getting out is a problem for everyone whose weight is more than the weight of a ten-year-old child. I personally saw how people literally crawled out of the water. The sea is very warm and clean, if there is no excitement. There are a lot of sunbeds on the beach, and free wooden trestle beds - about thirty or thirty-five, no more, they stand under awnings and everyone is busy. We were lucky enough to grab a couple, so when we left the beach, we even left a blanket on them for the night, otherwise the next day we will have to lie under the scorching sun (the steward to the watchmen - and they will look after your trestle bed). Very close to the beach, on the promenade, there are literally dozens of cafes where you can eat and drink something cold. What I liked was that baklava and fish peddlers were not allowed on the beach, so their mournful cries came from far away and did not interfere at all. The beach was guarded by a couple of guys, they also played the role of rescuers and collectors of dough for sun loungers. The beach is fenced off from neighboring beaches by breakwaters (in general, the entire coast is cut into such pieces by these breakwaters, each piece is a separate someone's beach, who was in Alushta knows). Every day, twice in the afternoon before lunch and twice in the evening before dinner, a bus came for the guests of the "Friendship" and took them to the boarding house. I never saw any crowds on the bus, no one stood in the aisle. In general, you can leave the beach by minibus or trolleybus, but it’s a bit far to go to the stop. In general, the beach is not ale so much that we spent two days in a wonderful water park (it is located nearby, two hundred meters below the boarding house), despite the price of 800 rubles. per person per day. Entertainment. As I said, they are not in the boarding house. . In general, the place where it was built is located on such a rather big hill, far from places of fun and parties. The saddest thing is not that it is far from the embankment. The saddest thing is that the last minibus in the direction of the boarding house from the embankment leaves at 20.30, and the last trolleybus goes in that direction at 22.15. So, if you, being a guest of Druzhba, sat up somewhere in a cafe on the embankment, then you have two ways to return to your room: either robber taxi drivers, who charge 200 rubles for 2 stops, or walk up the same stairs, only upstairs and in complete darkness. Paradox: trolleybus stop next to the boarding house, go to the embankment - 5 minutes, one stop! But it is absolutely impossible to walk this very stop. In addition, the boarding house is located in the Professor's corner, this is a rather remote area of ​ ​ ​ ​ Alushta. The main entertainments have to be in Big Alushta, to which you have to go by the 2nd trolleybus (however, not for long - about ten to twelve minutes). The problems are the same: the last trolleybus in the direction of the boarding house leaves at 22.10, so you won’t relax much, otherwise you will get by taxi. Actually, in the secluded location of the boarding house, its main plus and main minus. Plus - it's very quiet there, no music and drunken screams at night, absolute calm, amazing sea views. No strangers, only guests (most, by the way, with children). Minus - it is difficult to get to it, if, for example, in the evening you want to eat pizza or drink wine, then getting to the embankment and back is a whole operation: get off at the bus stop, get to the embankment, get where you wanted, buy what you wanted, return to the stop, wait for a minibus or trolley bus, drive back.... all about an hour. And all this after a whole day at sea. By the way, next to the boarding house there is a tiny shop where you can buy beer and some food, but there is no choice. In general, I rather liked Friendship than not, but the likelihood that I will return there, frankly, is small. Pros: a chic balcony with a magnificent view of the sea, polite and helpful staff, delicious and satisfying food, cleanliness in the rooms and in general in the boarding house, beautiful, albeit a little neglected area, secluded location. Cons: hellish descent to the sea, large pebbles on the beach, poorly equipped beach (with such stones it is necessary to equip a gangway! ), old furniture in the room, remote location. And they also need to do something with hot water. In spite of everything, I want to say thank you to the staff of the boarding house for our vacation.