Hotels in Crimea. Yesterday Today Tomorrow.

Crimea has always been considered a place for a delightful summer holiday. The visitor there understands that something like this looks like paradise: 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 and the most famous nobles were erected. Built in those days, palaces and mansions, as well as the parks, which are broken on the slopes of the mountains, are still the pride of the peninsula.

In the Soviet years, Crimea was called the "all-Union health resort" and turned into a place where the people 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 for their accommodation. Former health centers urgently mastered new principles of work. The simplest was to transform into hotels, placing sanatorium services in the list of extra paid options.

Today's hotels in Crimea

The past one and a half decade Crimea, as a resort center, practically 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 descended, the parks were overgrown. Cultural values of the peninsula were destroyed. There was no funding, and accordingly, proper content.

This did not apply to the prices of the services provided. They successfully grew and met the world indicators. As a result, there was a developed network of unjustifiably expensive hotels providing a level of service, insulting, but accurately called "soviet".

According to data provided by Georgy Psarev, the minister of resorts and tourism of the Crimea, more than two thousand hotels and mini-boarding houses and 74 spa complexes operate on the peninsula. Three hundred of them carried out repair work in their rooms, and only 160 went for a complete reconstruction.

However, these efforts have not yielded significant results. In 2010, the evaluation of hotels on the conformity of the service to star categories began. Only three hotels "pulled" a four-star level, and only twelve hotels correspond to three stars.

Among the favorites:

The Oreanda Hotel, deservedly considered the most respectable and fashionable in the Crimea, provides the services of a spa club, a seaside resort, an entertainment center and a comfortable hotel that provides hospitality to all public stars coming to the peninsula.

Elite spa hotel "Palmira Palace", located in 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 in an old and elegant mansion in the historical center of Alushta. Well-kept 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 on the Internet reviews of hotels in Crimea, 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 as completely unorganized, since hotels in Crimea do not provide for the corresponding options. The maximum that can be counted on is the availability of a children's campus on the territory.

Hotels in Crimea, prospects of development

Today, the tourism and resort industries bring 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 Crimea have interested large hotel operators. The famous Hyatt agreed to build 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.