Sanatorium advertising is not the whole truth

Written: 25 august 2010
Travel time: 1 — 10 august 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 2.0
Kvasy is a wonderful, unique place. Lots of mineral water springs. Friendly, helpful locals. You walk down the street and hear: "Good afternoon! ". One source is located on the territory of a private house and a path has been trodden to it and everyone goes to the private territory for water and no one said: it’s impossible! On the contrary, smile, talk, treat with apples from the garden. I remember one boy: we were drawing water from a source, he suspended his bike ride, came up to us and said that it’s better to get water not here, it tastes better there!
Now about the resort. They "pecked" on a powerful advertisement about wonderful water, that supposedly everyone leaves the crutches and leaves the sanatorium completely healthy. Everything is not so clear. Yes, there are people who go to sanatoriums for 20 years, maintain their health, but in order to be cured with unique water, we have not met such people.
A very big drawback of the sanatorium: the sanatorium building is poorly located: on the one hand, a noisy road, on the other, smoke from the boiler room, so instead of clean mountain air you get the same mixture as in large cities. Meals: canteen of the 80s with vermicelli, buckwheat with a cutlet of bread, portions are small. Everything is built on paid services: you have to pay for everything. Although the cost of the tour is not small, you have to pay extra for a lot. A 15-minute massage for 60 hryvnia is generally an invention of the sanatorium. Yes, everyone is friendly, polite, but the doctor does not care about your problems at all, what is included in the cost of the tour, then she will write to you, pay extra for the rest. As for leisure: everyone entertains themselves: walks, TV, a bar. There is really nowhere to walk: the mountains are steep, cars are flying along the street at a speed of 100 km, the street stretches for 7 km with turns. You can go to the ruins of the sanatorium, near the source. You can get by diesel to Rakhiv, Yasin, Yaremche. This is all in good weather, and if it rains! There is nowhere to even buy newspapers, a library with books from the 60-80s of the last century. At such prices for vouchers, they could at least make a subscription to newspapers and magazines, buy new books. There are excursions: to the source of mineral water, Mukachevo, Manyavsky Skete, Rakhiv, the geographical center of Europe, Yaremche.
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