Family vacation in Belbek (Lyubimovka)

Written: 5 july 2013
Travel time: 3 — 16 august 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 5.0
We rested for 13 days with three children (1.5, 4 and 10 years old) in the 11th junior suite, having arrived by car from Kostroma for 1800 km. We liked the territory of the hotel, in reality it is smaller than it seems from the photographs, but it is quiet, calm, closed, everything is close - the children will not go anywhere))
There is one "but" - an unenclosed pool, as a result, it was not possible to completely "relax" because. We were constantly worried that children might slip into it. I understand that it is not entirely realistic to enclose it, but maybe they will come up with something) There are sun loungers and tables near the pool. Even our youngest fell into roses - those that grow around the playground) And at the exit from the courtyard with the playground there are two dangerous sharp corners from the roofs of buildings at the level of a meter from the ground (between which you go there - I wanted to photograph them, yes so and failed). They would also need to be somehow secured - this is too traumatic, especially since 99% of vacationers are families with children.
Each room or 2 rooms has a bench with a table - very comfortable to sit in the evening.

A closed gazebo with TV and toys, where there is a teacher, at your request he can look after the children, but you need to focus his attention on the fact that you leave the child under his care, otherwise some children left the gazebo for free "swimming")) ) There are toys, drawing supplies, a large gazebo, it even has a playpen for kids.
There is also a dining room nearby - a small, rather cozy one, 6-7 tables, like 4 people each, there is a TV, a cage with parrots - so if the child does not eat well, then either cartoons or parrots can be distracted and fed))))))
One more of the minuses, unfortunately - right under the windows of the rooms there is a sewerage system and the smell cannot be avoided - perhaps it is better to seal the hatches under the windows.
Parking on the territory - 30 UAH / day, cars for 7 like, maybe more...
There is a place for washing feet, but it feels like no one uses it, I myself noticed the sign not on the first day) And this is important, because. otherwise, you will bring a bunch of sand to the room on your feet (((I repeat once again, the territory is completely closed, each tenant has an "intercom" key.
So the territories are a solid 4! )
The staff is very hardworking and responsive.
The waitress girls - Inna and Katya are great fellows - they listened to all our whims, constantly with a smile, everything was polite, they fulfilled all requests. The maids are like bees - they clean the rooms every day, they tried to do the cleaning in our absence, change of towels daily, change of bed linen every 5 days.
I would also like the area near our building to be swept more often, in 13 days this was done once, because the leaves fall off, the children carry pebbles, sand, etc.
Staff - 5! )
The room has everything you need - an electric kettle, several plates, cups, forks / spoons. Umbrellas and beach mats are included, but we didn't use them. Our room was large so there was enough space for everyone. They also provide a clothes dryer, but there is also an electric heated towel rail.
We put the dryers to the pool during the day - I suppose that someone did not like it, but we had no other choice - in our "alley" the laundry did not dry at all (((

Specifically, in our 11th room, it would be necessary to replace the roller blind, because it is broken and is constantly in the closed state. Of course, we got used to it later, but still... I washed it in a basin (I bought it at a nearby household store, but I wanted to be able to ask for a basin in the room).
Well, for the ideal - an air freshener.
Once used the laundry service - 50 UAH. So the maid, in our absence, even hung out the laundry and by the time we returned it was already half dry - thanks to her for caring, unfortunately, the staff does not have badges, so I can’t say who it was.
Speaking of badges, I saw only Inna, the waitress, and Olga, the administrator. And sometimes you want to turn to a person, but you don’t know how. Arrangement of the room - 5-!
Separately about food. If you're chopping off your shoulder, I'd fire the chefs, but I understand that it's not easy to find replacements, so. . .

The hotel is positioned for families with children - and it turns out - I already wrote that a child rested in each room, or even more than one. So teach your cooks how to cook porridge - they categorically do not know how to do it. I didn’t really want to eat buckwheat milk and rice soup - it was cereal with milk. And how do you have to manage to spoil a simple semolina porridge like that. Buckwheat porridge for all the time only once was cooked to readiness, on other days it was dry and tough - no, steamed buckwheat is undoubtedly useful, but not for children))))))) But! Despite this, pancakes, pancakes with cottage cheese and fruit, liver pancakes, potato zrazy, omelettes, steamed zucchini and eggplant, dumplings and dumplings are sooo tasty. If soups are cooked, then why pepper them like that ? ! Children don’t eat them (((Everyone, if they wish, can add pepper to their dish. And in the rest it would be necessary to reduce the amount of pepper, but it’s better to remove it altogether. You are offered a choice of dishes, but it turned out that you would be late and you would not get the popular and tasty - zucchini and eggplant remain, adults will eat it, and children would have something simpler - pasta, potatoes, vermicelli. So it might be better to cook 1 "neutral" dish, but in sufficient quantities? ! So that it doesn’t turn out that you came for breakfast not to 8, and by 9, and there are no pancakes and there won’t be (However, when we voiced this, the solution was found: we cooked pasta, sausages, etc. Not everything is so bad))) A trifle, but nice, but even at the request , but sour cream, mayonnaise, ketchup - it will be. Tea leaves were not always enough, but bags immediately appeared. It's good that there was always milk and coffee.
And you really need a cooler with water in the dining room - because. tea for children is always diluted. Of course they brought bottled water with them.
By the way, I also remembered that as soon as we settled in, I immediately read “from cover to cover” daddy with information for guests. I learned that if we order lunch or dinner for a fee, then as a gift a glass of wine. When we had dinner on the first day, we asked Inna about it, she, surprisingly, was in the dark, but she checked with the administrator and they served us wine for dinner) a trifle, but nice))
Despite the fact that we were not hungry, I put 3 for food (((((
And a few words about Lyubimovka itself. . . Of the shops around Belbek, the cheapest is the one next to the hotel and Vkusnyashka. Let there be a little less assortment, but the prices are lower.
If the beach is the beach of Lyubomorye, at least there are toilets and changing rooms. On the beach on the right there are no toilets, no changing rooms and shameless people.
If fruit, then only at the grandmothers behind the pharmacy building and near the hardware store to the right after the cheburek stall, everything else is an import, passed off as local fruit. Even if we were dissatisfied with something, the negative was hidden by good weather and our mobility - we were by car and could go on any excursion ourselves - this is an order of magnitude cheaper than ordering them from travel agencies.
Thanks to the staff of Belbek for the rest!
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