Hotels in Crimea. Yesterday Today Tomorrow.
Crimea has always been considered a place of delightsummer vacation. The visitor there understands that approximately this is what paradise looks like: inimitable beauty of nature, living mountains, warm sea, pine forests, cypress alleys. Catherine the Great called him "the most precious pearl in the crown of the Russian Empire."
Here the summer residences of Russian tsars were erectedand the most famous nobles. The palaces and mansions built in those days, as well as the parks, which are broken on the slopes, are still the pride of the peninsula.
In the Soviet years, Crimea was called "all-Unionhealth resort "and turned into a place where the inhabitants of the country revered for happiness to rest. Numerous departmental sanatoriums, boarding houses and rest houses hospitably accepted holidaymakers.
But times have changed. Free permits have sunk to oblivion, and those who come to Crimea now have to pay their living expenses. Former health centers urgently mastered new principles of work. The simplest was to transform into hotels, taking sanatorium services to the list of extra paid options.
Today's hotels in Crimea
Past a decade and a half Crimea, as a resortcenter, almost did not develop. The infrastructure of Soviet health facilities has not been updated and, moreover, has not been brought into line with world standards.
The buildings were dilapidated, the equipment became obsolete. The beaches and piers fell into disrepair, the parks were overgrown. Cultural values of the peninsula were destroyed. There was no funding, and accordingly, proper content.
This did not apply to prices forServices. They successfully grew and corresponded to world indicators. As a result, there was a developed network of unjustifiably expensive hotels providing a level of service, offensive, but accurately called "soviet".
According to data provided by Georgi Psarev,minister of resorts and tourism of Crimea, on the peninsula operates more than two thousand hotels and mini-boarding houses and 74 spa complexes. Three hundred of them carried out repair work in their rooms, and only 160 went for a complete reconstruction.
However, these efforts did not yield significantresults. In 2010, the evaluation of hotels on the conformity of the service to star categories began. Only three hotels "pulled" the four-star level, and only twelve hotels correspond to the three stars.
Among the favorites:
Hotel Oreanda, deservedlyrespectable and fashionable in the Crimea, providing the services of a spa club, a seaside resort, an entertainment center and a comfortable hotel that provides hospitality to all the public stars who come to the peninsula.
Elite Spa Hotel Palmira Palace, locatedin a small village of Kurpaty, specializing in the provision of medical, wellness and spa tours of the premium class. There are also various options for VIP rest.
Hotel «Radisson SAS Alushta» is located inan elegant and elegant mansion in the historical center of Alushta. Well maintained park, developed entertainment infrastructure, proximity to the sea, high-class service - all these factors provide a comfortable and respectable stay for hotel guests.
Guest comments about hotels in Crimea
If you read the hotel reviews on the InternetCrimea, it is easy to make sure that the Black Sea neighbors of Turkey or Bulgaria provide a better holiday. At the same time, such advantages as cleanliness of the territory and the sea, the quality and variety of food, the level of service, the goodwill of the staff, the presence of recreational or recreational opportunities are noted. All this with equal financial costs.
As the pluses of the Crimea, note a more beautiful nature and a closer location, which is convenient if it is a one-two-day holiday.
Rest in Crimea with children is characterized ascompletely unorganized, because hotels in Crimea do not provide for the corresponding options. The maximum that can be counted on is the presence of a children's town on the territory.
Hotels in Crimea, prospects of development
Today, the tourism and resort industrybring only 6% of the revenue side of the budget of the autonomous republic. The authorities of Crimea plan to change the situation and within five years to bring this figure to 30 percent.
As Georgy Psarev has informed, hotels of Crimeainterested in large hotel operators. Famous Hyatt agreed on the construction of a high-altitude hotel in Partenit (between Alushta and Yalta) on the basis of the sanatorium "Aivazovsky". Also, the entry into the hotel chain of Crimea is negotiating with Mariott.
It is planned to develop a network of hotels focused on recreation in the Crimea with children, family and youth recreation. Particular attention will be paid to health programs and entertainment services.
