Скучаем по "Кременю" и Драгобрату. За три дня - масса приятных впечатлений We miss Kremen and Dragobrat. In three days - a lot of pleasant impressions

The view from the window of the room to the mountains, where even Hoverla can be seen - this is something. For a resident of Kiev - just heaven on earth.
The hotel has an indoor pool of normal size (by the way, in the book of records of Ukraine, as the highest mountain pool in the country) - this is a HUGE plus, given the Carpathian weather, when literally in half an hour there is no trace of the bright sun and abruptly covers the rain. We were this August for 3 days and do not regret that we went to the Carpathians, and not to the sea. Instead of a dirty sea teeming with jellyfish, algae and vacationers, we went to the highest indoor swimming pool in Ukraine and swam until we dropped. Regardless of the weather. Moreover, I was struck by the fact that there were few people, they swam 80 percent of the time only with their family (they also joked that the price of the room includes a private pool : ) - you see, most vacationers still go here not to swim, but to go to the mountains and breathe this extraordinary air.
The mountains around are something amazing, what kind of landscapes are there. Full of springs with mountain water, near a mountain lake. For every taste - both wooded peaks and bare ones. Very pleased with the mountain variety.

We ate wild raspberries, blueberries, even strawberries. They collected raspberry leaves to make tea later.
Well, in a separate line - an unforgettable extreme, as we drove to Dragobrat)) Only gazelles and SUVs, all-wheel drive, drive here from Ashes (from the railway station), otherwise you won’t drive along this bumpy rocky road. Of course, this pleasure was not cheap - we paid 600 hryvnias for two adults and three children for the rise (there are 15 kilometers from the railway station, it takes 40 minutes to drive), but the impressions are still the same. Cooler than a roller coaster, when you throw up on a broken road, you ride over cliffs, pray for the driver and firmly believe in his super professional skills))
But this is the only extreme, if someone is not a fan of this... We liked it for a change)
Everything else is quiet, calm, sweet and peaceful.
The only ski lift operating in August was right next to our Kremen hotel.
The food is not bad, sometimes even too large portions, we didn’t eat up... And the building of the cafe-restaurant itself was especially impressive. This is really some kind of medieval castle.
Also impressed by the hospitality of the hostess. When in the resorts of the Odessa region they hang themselves for every penny, then here, on the contrary, they were greeted as dear guests.
The check-in is officially at 12, and we arrived by an early train and were already at 7. So we were allowed to stay for a couple of hours in one of the rooms to leave our things, relax from the road - and as a result, we were settled 3 hours earlier. It was also during the check-out, when they were allowed to stay right up to 5 pm (although the check-out was at 10 am), since the train was at 6 pm.
Well, such a trifle that they forgave the broken keychain on the key and no one took a penny for it - and did not surprise me after all.

The hostess, Pani Maria, always greeted with a smile, told the secret of delicious tea, which is served for breakfast and dinner - where to pick raspberries and how to dry them to make such an amazing drink. Gave the book. It can be seen that he is trying to put his soul into his hotel.
Also liked the games room. A huge salvation for children, because they didn’t really want to drag themselves to the mountains, but had fun swimming in the pool and in the games room, where there is billiards, table tennis, table football.
Right next to the hotel and ATV rentals. True, we did not ride them, so we cannot evaluate them.
There is also a shop nearby if you want to buy something - but it was often closed when the lights were turned off.
For three days, once for an hour somewhere, they were left without electricity, until, as I understand it, the generators were turned on. The weather there is as wonderful as it is harsh. There may be strong winds or thunderstorms - that's why sometimes power lines are damaged somewhere.
In general, an indescribable feeling when you live on top of Ukraine, somewhere in a lost world, far from civilization, but at the same time having all the benefits of civilization under your nose.

It's been three days since we returned from "Kremen" and Dragobrat - we incredibly miss these bright, clean, hospitable places.
Of the small cons:
the floorboards creak in some places and the doors close tightly - I think that these are the costs of wooden log houses, but a bit noisy because of this.
And, of course, there was not enough of a market where to buy fresh vegetables and fruits. But here, on Dragobrat, in principle, there is none. Until they make a normal road, this place will remain a little untouched by an abandoned world.