not worth that kind of money

Written: 13 november 2011
Travel time: 11 — 18 september 2011
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 3.0
We rested in Yalta in mid-September 2011 in TMM-Yalta (somehow the language does not dare to call the former Sovdepovsky sanatorium a hotel, especially since, as it seemed to us, little has changed since then). We love Yalta almost from childhood, it is a very beautiful, friendly city. But with the beaches - a big tension: if you are in the center and went down to the sea, then you simply will not find them there !! ! But people go to the sea not only to look at it! Walk aside - there are citywide free beaches, where in the full sense there is nowhere for an apple to fall. And it's the middle of September! Paid ones cost 200 rubles. per person, there are no places for dinner by the sea, even for this money. And the rest - everything is wonderful! There are places to go and things to do for every taste! Lots of excursions! There are expensive cafes and there are budget ones.
A separate conversation about the so-called "hotel" TMM-Yalta: it is old, although it is located not far from the center, but to go into it through some kind of blind gates, it is especially annoying at night; all the time uphill (one of the vacationers counted 200 steps), and without good sports training it will be difficult, especially when the whole day and evening were active; Moreover, you will still be barked at by dogs of large breeds, of which there are many, on every corner, while you feel not like on vacation, but like in a zone, especially when you open the balcony in the morning and all the dogs bark in unison! The situation everywhere is more than modest, if not miserable. In the room there is an old battered small TV (so small that it is difficult to understand what it shows from a distant shooting) and an air conditioner that did not cool at all (fortunately, it was September, and there was no great need for this), an old mini-fridge. The bathroom is kind of gloomy, everything seems to be in order, but there is poor ventilation (somehow unpleasant smells came from the dining room). The promised view of the sea is: a close-up view of the rusty roofs of some old outbuildings and a tiny piece of the sea near the horizon. The dining room is a separate song! They feed, as in a Soviet school, only a lot and somehow insipid or something! We did not go to dinner, so as not to go back and forth, but to spend more time at sea. For such a rest and stay in TMM-Yalta, we paid pretty decent money and really expected more! Previously, we were in many places, before that there were no special complaints anywhere, we understood that we were going to "our" resort, but we did not think that everything would be like this! This is my first negative review. Despite everything, I really want to return to Yalta, but only to another hotel!
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