Holidays in the European style in the Carpathians.

Written: 20 august 2010
Travel time: 8 — 14 august 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 8.0
Initially, we considered three places of rest in the Carpathians - the Carpathian highlands in the Skole Beskids, the Ark in the Bukovynian Carpathians and the Lavender Country Club in Tatar. But here a familiar director of a travel agency came up with the idea of ​ ​ the Sokilske Estate. Communication with the girl on the phone immediately set on positive. What else suited us - no need to prepay. Our expectations were completely met. We were met at the train station in Chernivtsi and taken by taxi to the Estate. Taxi driver Nikolai turned out to be a very nice man. He took us back and even took our things to the train car. Climbing the mountain where the Estate is located, and seeing the panorama that opened from there, we were indescribably delighted. At the bottom of the valley among the mountains flows the river Black Cheremosh. Above the estate stretches the Sokil ridge, which gave it its name. According to the tradition established here, Henry met us. And we partook of Communion and Crane.
We stayed in a hotel in a standard room for 468 UAH. with breakfast. From the window facing east, a super-panorama. How wonderful it was to watch the sunrise over the mountains. Towels were cleaned and changed daily. For the sake of complete objectivity, I will say that they brought us a hair dryer and a second chair after our reminder. And the TV showed only a few channels, of which only one was of normal quality. Spring water flows from the tap in the room. And who wants not from a pipe, but living water, there are two wells nearby. The cuisine in Sokilsky is excellent. Products from your farm. Everything is fresh and very tasty. But the prices are European. Not all of us could afford it. But usually breakfast and lunch were very filling and we had enough. Many vacationers, according to stories, pack food on the road or go to a hut nearby, where you can eat to the dump twice cheaper. We usually had lunch in one of the beautiful wooden gazebos.
You sit, blown by a light cool breeze far from suffocating Kyiv, admiring the beautiful picture around, and you think that it is not so expensive.

The territory of the town of Maetka looks very nice. The designers tried. Everything is pleasing to the eye. The situation is very calm. It is very good to have a rest here with children. There is an original playground, where everything is made of wood, inflatable pool, trampoline, bicycles. There are two small lakes with the same spring water where you can fish. But you can not swim. The Black Cheremosh River was dirty due to frequent rains. So there was nowhere to freshen up. In winter there is also something to do. We saw a very nice ski slope with a ski lift. There are guns and night lighting. A new hotel has been built near the road, which is not yet open. There are plans to build another chairlift and make some serious descents.
At 5 am we went by car to the Bukovinian Carpathians near the Romanian border.
Only "real mushroom pickers" know these places. We walked through a small area of ​ ​ forest so as not to get lost. Our catch was small - two floors of a basket of white mushrooms, kilogram 4. But we have never collected so much white in our native forests. And is it a matter of quantity. We enjoyed the incredible. The smell of spruce forest with the aroma of white mushrooms is an incredible feeling. We dried mushrooms on the windowsill in the room and for a few days just fooled by this smell. We also climbed up from the estate on the Sokil ridge, which offers an even more breathtaking panorama. We did not manage to implement all the excursion plans. There are many more interesting and beautiful things to see in the Carpathians. But next time. The photo report on rest can be seen here http:// www. photoshare. ru / user / juliaua /
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