"Oscars" in the studio !! Very heartfelt and correct hotel in the world!

Written: 7 may 2012
Travel time: 19 — 23 april 2012
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
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Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
To be honest? After the trip to the UAE, I was once afraid: will the native and familiar Carpathians fade away after the magnificent Emirates? As you remember, a 5-day vacation at the Carpathian Polonini Hotel with full board and a decent amount for local entertainment, I received as a prize for first place in the "creative" competition at the "Tourist Board" in the winter. And the best time to travel to the hotel was in April, about three weeks after the Dubai trip. What can I say, comrades! All my fears were in vain, in vain and again in vain. Stand, emotions, it's time for fact.

HOW IT ALL BEGUN

And it all started with ...adventures. I, all so organized ...blew the train. I confused the time of departure from Kyiv with the departure on the way from Stryi. I calmly called a taxi, I have been arriving at the station for two hours now, like a tu-tu))) However, I ran to the ticket office ...And immediately to the phone and to the hotel.

The manager of the hotel, Mr. Vasyl, is a kind angel who asked to call at least at night and give information from the fronts, as with a ticket. It was not necessary at night - I took the ticket and an hour later went in the direction of Stryi. I was a little disappointed-- that's why my adventures cost 55 hryvnia and ended)))

HOTEL ACCOMMODATION

It is located 5 kilometers from the village of Oriv, Skoliv district, Lviv region. I arrived by train from Kyiv to Stryi, then a hotel transfer to the Carpathian Polonians, which took about an hour and a half. (Although you can take a minibus to Oriva, and then book a transfer). A representative of the hotel was already waiting for me on the platform, immediately took my suitcase from the young lady (and did not allow me to step with heavy luggage! ), Put me in a Mercedes (yes, yes! ) And drove me to Oriv. Mr. Mykhailo turned out to be the most wonderful person and not only a professional driver, but also an excellent interlocutor and guide.
Along the way, we talked about the beauty of the Carpathians, "weak Ukrainian rulers" and Stepan Bandera.

And in Orova we were already waiting for ...a tank. So I tentatively called the spotted UAZ, which picked up the "baton" (me) and drove to the hotel on the most beautiful (I was not mistaken in the epithet! ) Off-road - there is only the "toothy" equipment will pass, so the tanks are very useful in the economy : )))

I was put in the front seat - DRAW! Around all sorts of unknown handles, levers, strict lines of military equipment. I screamed in my heart with pleasure - this, comrades, is better than any fancy new-fangled attractions: "tank", grumbling, overcomes potholes, puddles and dirt, threateningly rolling from side to side. A stomach full of adrenaline! : ))) We go to places where the old man says "good night". No less good-hearted driver Igor just smiles when I grab the next "impassable" hole for the handle-holder. ...Base! !!
Mountains - here they are, you can touch, sniff, kiss, wink and talk to them about anything - always listen and always agree!

HOTEL AREA AND INFRASTRUCTURE


This is freedom! ! ! ! ! My eyesight is inexperienced, I can't measure in acres - but the fact that even though there is a whole herd of tourists on the territory where there is a place to run, swing on the grass, walk, run (think of your own actions) is a fact.

The territory is occupied by the slope of Tsyukhiv mountain, above - the main house (the so-called guest house) and 8 cottages with verandas, cafes, outbuildings, horse parking, bicycle parking, smithy, pottery, building for billiards, shooting range, below - its own lake (here you can fish and swim trout), around it - beautiful benches and a gazebo. Bugel-winter is great to ride off the hill on skis and sledges (there is a farm, I'll deal with them in season)))). I arrived in April-- snowdrops were blooming all over the territory!
You go and just step over - all yours))) If you climb above the base - you get on the road that leads further into the mountains and forest. From the very top, the hemisphere is perfectly visible - at least Truskavets, Boryslav, Stebnyk - as in the palm of your hand, and in particularly clear weather, they say, even Lviv.

There is a separate attractive town-stable on the territory (so called barn in Western Ukraine). Yes, the hotel has its own farm - I immediately ran to meet chickens, goats, horses (Buyan and Murka rode me). There used to be rabbits - now they are not at the base, I hope they will have fluffy ones again before the next visit. There are three dogs living on the territory (among them a wolf-like but kind Mukhtar) and a cat Murchik.

ROOM, ACCOMMODATION

She lived on the second floor of the "main" house alone in a cozy double in the middle of the floor (on the sides, still in the room with a balcony). The room has a wonderful smell of wood, as the house is wooden.

Very neat (On the occasion: Natasha, thank you and your partner for the cleanliness and order in my room). And silence! ...The bed is clean and soft. On the bedside tables-- lamps, very comfortable to bury in bed and, turning off the main light, flip "under them" to sleep the future of a travel magazine (I always carry with me). Instead of a locker - clothes racks (pictured). Table, two chairs, hanger. Under the color TV (satellite TV, a bunch of channels) - a spacious cabinet with 4 drawers. OVEN! Central heating (even in April included - the nights in the Carpathians are cooler than in Kiev), but in winter the stove is also heated (with firewood)))). The table in the room is covered with a tablecloth in the national style, there is an electric kettle, kettle, cups with saucers and spoons. The cafe has very hearty breakfasts, lunches, dinners, but suddenly you want tea after a nice run in the mountains?
In the corridor - motion sensors, the light automatically turns on at the slightest movement.
So do not be afraid, the Carpathian Babay will not take you in the dark))) There is a refrigerator on the floor. Also on the floor are two bathrooms (three rooms). It's clean and light! And the ventilation is turned on when the light is on. Shower and everything else - as it should be. Papers "on request"))) replenish in a timely manner. There is even a bowl if you want to stretch something (although the hotel has a laundry service for a modest fee). Each guest - a piece of scented soap and two bags of shampoo. Hair dryer! ! ! Dryer. Hot water and water in general WITHOUT INTERRUPTION, the pressure is great - Egypt and Turkey-Murcia, silently envy.

Yes, in each room - a beautiful carved balcony, where even a metal folding dryer for laundry is. But the most important thing is the view from here on the territory of the "base", the lake, cottages, the Carpathians, Truskavets, Stebnyk and Borislav.
That's what for such romantics (albeit restless)))), like me))). In the morning you wake up - and immediately in the eyes, and in consciousness, and in the heart - MOUNTAINS!

"POPULATION" OF THE HOTEL
International, because the charms of the "Carpathian Mountains" have already been sniffed up the hill. Although Ukrainians predominate. A Belarusian family was resting for me. Many Russians come, some live here for a month. They talked about a Dutch grandfather who found this hotel on the Internet and wanted to come and breathe this extremely breathtaking air. There are also enough other "far-foreign" foreigners in the season. I was very lucky - I got to the hotel in the off-season, right after Easter, for the first time I was alone in the hotel. The funniest feelings - because only I and the staff))), drove around the territory - the whole hotel and my Carpathians)), after the noisy Kiev it is.

It felt like a forest moth))) Then came some guests (sold out begins in May), they were almost neither seen nor heard, except in the cafe, so the silence and a sense of solitude, straight as the language of warm chocolate.

ENTERTAINMENT

One hundred out of a hundred.
Even if you come just to get some sleep and sleep, don't hesitate to choose one of the local "activities". Driver Igor (and at the same time - a rifle instructor) asked me: "Sad, probably? - I think, compared with the capital. How boring, if immediately after breakfast for a 6-hour ride on horseback, then forge in the smithy, in the afternoon - shooting from a pneumatic gun, and here's a pot I made already dried and burned - it's time to paint. In addition to modeling, forging and pneumatics - archery, tennis, billiards, mountain biking, in season - hiking for mushrooms and berries (you will even be given shoes and a jacket at the base! ), Fisherman. In winter - skiing and sledding.
There is a set of movies - you can watch on the big screen in the evening.

I sculpted for the first time in my life, Lord, well, hands-hooks! Although it seems that to cope with the potter's wheel - just spit. Potter Mykola is a bit restrained (not everyone, like me, is a hooligan, after all!
))))), just under his gaze the hare begins to sculpt faster and more agile))) The second potter Ivan taught me how to paint the finished product, and even burn wood and shoot a bow. You communicate with Ivan - as if you are sitting next to the icon of the Blessed Virgin, this man is so soft and radiates such good! Ivan, a young labor teacher at the Orov school, I think his students were just LUCKY with such a teacher. Vanya made me the most pleasant surprise - packing my products on the way, quietly packing a clay vase, she found a gift in Kiev. THANK YOU! ! ! Yura taught me to forge.
He simply and sincerely communicated with me, as with an old friend - and the horseshoe somehow forged itself with my hands))), even the calluses almost did not jump out! There was another unusual master class with the "tractor professor" - but about him for a snack)))

KITCHEN!

Be prepared to lick your fingers at the hotel. Don't be shy - they do everything here!

Carpathian cuisine is unique in itself, but local chefs Lis and Halyna are aces in general. Well, I'm writing, and already saliva! Broth from local domestic chicken, banosh with mushrooms, tender rabbit, trout on the grill to the accompaniment of vegetables, delicacies, cooked and served just in pots and all sorts of ornaments like "Hutsul pocket" ...Yes, enough of this self-torture))) In addition to ordered dishes, you will be served homemade lard with garlic, slices of "Dutch" cheese (cooked here, "at home") and meat, sour cream, salad, big apple or orange. In the morning, in addition to the ordered dish, plus porridge.
I asked for only Carpathian tea, from local herbs, brewed in a huge clay teapot (I'll finish the report and go brew myself, so I wanted to)))). Honey on the table every day! ! ! Cakes! ! ! It was after the Resurrection of Christ - what a Easter cake was waiting for me there, guys! ! ! I even took one home.
And, well, the fact that I took a few extra pounds on myself - it's even without a doubt))) You can order milk here - because the farm has its own goats and cows. The locals were amazed at my enthusiasm for goat's milk and my excessive appetite for half a liter every morning and evening. So! Not only did they indulge THERE, but also hotels are waiting - a parcel with some delicacies is to arrive from the hotel soon; ) By the way, on the track you can buy jams, cheese, mushrooms, honey and tea. And by the way - the cafe also serves as an art gallery - all paintings can be bought, as well as many Carpathian souvenirs (actually, made of wood and clay).


PERSONNEL
Well, this is the most important wealth and the most powerful strategic reserve of the Carpathian Mountains. Everyone does it clearly, everything is on time.
I'm sorry, I had fun, and how it went for you))) Xu, you're leaving-- and all the staff on duty come to the reception and wait to say goodbye. The kindest people, the most sensitive and sincere, ready to help with trifles, ready to teach you all the wisdom that is unusual for you, from forging in a smithy to driving a caterpillar tractor, if you, curious Barbara, are tempted to drive it. Those who perceive you not as a client, but OTHER, and at the end of the holiday - as a relative. They love you there, care about the rest of the holiday, whether everything is good and tasty, fade away with you and your desires and sincerely miss you when you go. And under the curtain of your vacation they ask not “Are you coming yet? ", And" When will you arrive? ", Because it can't be otherwise! ! ! ! ! I love you, my good ones. How can you not love them? !!

I found them on social networks and keep in touch on the Internet - I just can not refuse the pleasure of communicating with them.
Probably, in the villages such people remained, and give a huge advantage to the city, so it will not be offended. Nothing will spoil them, will not break their humanity, wise endurance.

WHERE WERE THE DISADVANTAGES?

How how? What are you talking about))))) If someone talks about the apparent shortcomings of the hotel-- ready to fight for the "Carpathian Polonians" with all hands and feet)))

THE BRIGHTEST IMPRESSIONS

It was in the Carpathian Plains that I gave a cow and a goat for the first time in my life! ! ! ! ! ITSELF! ! ! ! ! "From" and almost "to"! Why, as Lesya, who works on the pack, later told me, a cow will not "give" milk to every stranger. And yet! ...I DRIVED A TRACK TRAIN FOR THE FIRST LIFE IN MY LIFE! ! ! ! ! Can you brag about that? My most unusual and brightest impressions! ! ! And such joy is not included in the list of hotel animation - but I wanted, and I was given such an opportunity.
There is no steering wheel - only the levers and pedals, which must be alternately pulled and pressed to turn in one direction or another, and the gas also handles up and down.
The world's best "tractor teacher" Vasya first sat next to me while leaving the base on a forest road, and then, seeing that the student was tired, took the camera and, running around the moving tractor, and deftly climbing not on the go, as a real videographer filmed this historical phenomenon))) Well, I kneaded the Carpathian swamp, forced the bayuri! The base itself also drove to the base by a narrow road, without falling into a ditch and without moving any living creatures)))

And for the first time in my life I rode horses for so long - 4-6 hours. If you do not count the Bulgarian pokatushok for 15 minutes, when the horse is led under the reins and do not let go of my first horse pokotushko.

The fifth point after 6 hours in the saddle was indignant the next day terribly, did not allow to lie down or sit down, but then resigned))) We drove 25-30-35 kilometers a day, went to Oriv and the old fortress Tustan, in his kind of the only one in the world (see photos).
(By the way, on the way to Tustan saw real oil production). I learned to trot, force small rivers and almost jump off a horse on my own! : ))) Igor planned to teach me to gallop, but next time.

Another vivid impression is the village disco in Orov, do not miss when relaxing. I don't know if vacationers leave the base, but we really wanted to and left. We, two tourists, were brought there in style by a "nurse" (another UAZ was nicknamed at the "base"), we met "our" Kolya and Lesya from the "base" there, we opened the bones in the upper club. "Taxi" has been waiting for us all this time (in service! Eh? ))) Thanks to another driver Ivan!
), and then lucky in the upper club, in the center, where more people. Locals are very friendly, a little embarrassed, but came to meet))) By the way, light music (especially "laser" "troubles") - at the height, I have not even seen in the city. So! ! ! !!
Old Oksana remembered how to light a finger! ААААА! ! ! I haven't danced it for a hundred years! And according to village custom - a girl with a girl! Lesya didn't shake my soul a little in a crazy rhythm all over the club. By the way, it was Saturday that I decided to check the Kyiv office pen, as I laugh at myself - 6 hours on horseback, then hammering. in a hot smithy, in the evening - a disco. She survived! Oryv also gives strength to such not squirrels))))) So I just have to come here again : )

...AND DISTRIBUTION OF MEDALS AND KISSES

"Turpravda", thanks for SUCH a gift - for "Carpathian Polonians"!
A few words - on occasion, ready to kiss the team of the portal and personally the administrator in all cheeks. And the warmest words - to the most humane manager in the world Nastya. Nastya, you are plugging the belts of all the capital's tour managers, even my loved ones. Warm, very warm to communicate with you. Keep it up, Nastya.

I do not understand the tourism business, but if the work goes on like this - "Carpathian Polonians" will break far ahead, will put on the shoulders of all its competitors. And all my friends from the hotel - I hug you with all my heart, love and miss ...THANK YOU! ! ! For the fact that all of you are already in me.

P. S. I almost forgot!
When you arrive at the hotel, turn it off, forget it, lose your mobile phone for the whole period of rest - everything, the last touch, to make you feel that in paradise, the bustle of the city no longer reaches you. Only you - and the mountains, and wonderful people around.

P. S. S. Don't forget to watch the video of my goat milking and especially driving a crawler tractor! )))

P. S. S. S. Under the curtain still dared to share! : ) A part of my heart remained in the Carpathian Mountains. And who managed to win it - I will not tell you! : )))))))
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