Санаторий «Карпаты» зимой Sanatorium "Karpaty" in winter

We rested in a sanatorium together with a friend in early January. I'll start with a description. The sanatorium consists of two standard residential buildings (No. 1 is the largest - 7 floors, No. 4 is quite small), one "luxury" building (No. 3) and a castle. The castle is a landmark and at the same time another residential building, there are rooms of a very budget level; there, they say, children's groups are accommodated, and there is also an accounting department, a department for selling vouchers and a cash desk. Separate buildings are occupied by a dining room (it is also a club and a pump room with mineral water) and a medical building. All this is surrounded by a wonderful park with a lake (not a bathing lake) in the middle. There is a shop on the territory where food and various small items such as slippers, cups, etc. are sold. and a good little restaurant "Jockey", where you can go and break your diet with pleasure; There is also a beauty salon, a post office, a kiosk with drinks and a small market where you can buy small souvenirs, sheepskin, leather and wool products, homemade jam, mushrooms, honey... The infrastructure is complemented by parking, a mobile account replenishment machine, a pharmacy kiosk in the medical building .
From Kyiv you can take a train to the Karpaty station (the train stops there for 1 minute), from which it is about 500 m to the sanatorium. diseases it is better not to save money, but to take a taxi.
Amazing, enchanting nature, crystal clear air and spring water are the best cures for fatigue. During the ten days of our stay, my friend and I found different weather - from a snowy winter fairy tale to November rain and spring sunshine when the snow melted. There was a mini-zoo on the territory: an aviary with roe deer, rabbits and other animals, dark brown squirrels ran along the paths, which could be fed with nuts from the hands, forest birds sang in the branches of trees. It was so nice to walk every day along the paths of the park around the lake, admiring the trees of rare species around and the snow-capped mountains on the horizon, listening to the silence and resting your soul.

We went through a lot of wonderful therapeutic and preventive procedures, the benefits of which are felt immediately: manual massage, underwater massage (an intensive procedure that improves blood circulation and helps to lose weight), soothing baths, aromatherapy, physiotherapy exercises, anti-cold inhalations, swimming in an excellent large pool with mineral water, jacuzzi, herbal tea… Some of the procedures are included in the cost of the tour, and some are provided for an additional, not very large, payment through the cashier. We visited the original mini-sauna "Carpathian phytobarrel": a wet sauna, body wrap, face mask, massage - all with extracts of Carpathian herbs, very pleasant and certainly useful. Also in the sanatorium there is an opportunity to undergo a medical examination, saving time: tests, electrocardiogram, etc. Some of this is paid, but the prices, when compared with the capital, are miserable. The staff is wonderful - everyone is friendly, but unobtrusive. Doctors (at least those with whom I had a chance to communicate) are competent.
As for leisure: excursions are organized along the traditional routes of Transcarpathia - Mukachevo, Beregovo, Verkhovyna, Uzhgorod, monasteries. It was interesting to visit a trout farm located among the mountains, where it was possible to independently pull a fish out of a pool of water with a fishing rod and then eat it already cooked in a restaurant - and all this, again, against the backdrop of a stunningly beautiful landscape and with a “seasoning” of heady clean air. You can go to Mukachevo on your own by taxi (50 UAH). In the sanatorium itself, “dance evenings”, concerts, chess tournaments, film screenings are organized (we didn’t attend any of this, though, because we had a laptop with us and we preferred to watch movies right in your room). For Christmas, the "Jockey" organized a festive evening with live music, traditional dishes and a "nativity scene" (well, it's hard for everyone).
Living conditions: we lived in a standard double room in building No. 1. Of course, not 5 *, but no one expected this. The room is small, the furniture is modern, refrigerator, TV, balcony, bathroom with shower (without a cabin, just a tray and a curtain), cold and hot water around the clock. Everything is very simple, without aesthetic frills. For those who attach importance to the interior, it is better to choose the “luxury” building – we specifically went there to look at the surroundings. There is a European-quality repair, everything is beautiful, but the cost is significantly different.
Meals: well, what can I say - the dining room is the dining room. This is not a restaurant and no one expected that they would serve delicacies there. The food is dietary, no seasonings, nothing fatty, smoked, fried, but at the same time all the products are fresh, so there are no complaints, we just ate selectively;
For children there is only a small playground.

I highly recommend staying in this sanatorium to people who would like to improve their health - the body's strength is really noticeably restored. Now, I think this is true at any age. Who loves a calm, peaceful rest for body and soul - "Karpaty" is for you. But you need to remember that a sanatorium is not an entertainment establishment and you won’t be able to “light it up” there.