Road
in Crimea , we flew an airplane Moscow - Simferopol plane in my opinion the most effective way to move, especially since I was flying on holiday with my daughter and my parents. Sophia aircraft while not much interested in - sat near a girl, aged 6 years, so it all the way to Sofia and amused, so the flight was tiptop - peach. Back we came by train - train deluxe 2 orders of magnitude higher than the old cars sovdepovskie - cleaner, better, new cars, I can not explain why, but ehalos much easier. Tickets ordered in both directions for 45 days before the trip.
Gurzuf
Gurzuf - this is a wonderful place on the southern coast of Crimea, in spite of the Artek resort, which occupies almost the whole of the embankment there is a full-fledged urban promenade, is a lots of cafe-restaurants in the very different purse, museums Chekhov Pushkin, a multitude of parks and the like. On the one hand wrapped Gurzuf Ayu-Dag (Bear Mountain), on the other Cape Martian - a place with numerous juniper stands. Gurzuf is located at the highest of the Crimean Mountains. Roman Kosh - the highest mountain ridges of the Crimean, the property is located in an area Gurzuf.
Gurzuf - it's incredible beauty. The area, which is characterized by a wide variety of green pine and not only stands, mountain peaks which are often in the clouds, a place with very nice beaches, clear water and tons of scenery - screen savers
accommodation
We lived in a mini hotel with 12 rooms. Construction of the hotel - 4 floors, each floor with 3 rooms with private facilities / air conditioning, one for the kitchen 3 rooms, each floor has a shared balcony, from which the entrance to the room and the kitchen, next to each number of bench-table + sill. We lived on the 4th floor, just type bombezny into one side of the mountain to the other - the sea. The cost of living in our holiday period (24.06 - 07.08.2011) 400 USD / room / night. This is the average price at rest in the private sector in Gurzuf at a time. It is possible to find accommodation of 80 USD / person / day and up to 1,000 USD / room / night. For every taste and budget is all-different-colored, almost like we a day in Yekaterinburg with the Internet and without, with balconies, kitchenettes and separate garage at all - you can find anything.
Our mini-hotel had no parking lot, I personally do not interfere, because we are not in the car, but campers with cars put their car parked near the resort Gurzufsky (3 min run). In a small area of our complex was also barbecue and garden furniture to relax.
Features settlement
If you want to go to a pre-known place of residence, Gurzuf has a very wide range of accommodation of the private sector, several health centers, in particular, "Gurzufsky" (Health Ministry of Defence with a gorgeous park of unearthly beauty), the sanatorium "Pushkin", "Pearl of the Crimea "and so on. "Pearl of the Crimea" during the month of August (high season) has the following accommodation prices: from 220 to 880 USD / person / day. Price includes accommodation and meals. Meals are adequate (in the words of tourists), living conditions depend on the body that is (330 USD / person / day for food - that's rooms kontakion, etc.), the area has a large park. All the resorts have their own beaches. In the price almost always includes use of all inventory beaches - beach chairs, umbrellas and the like.
Power
We ate 70% of the home, the rest - in cafes, restaurants, etc.
Prices on products = Yekaterinburg + 10% fruit: cherries - 25-35 UAH., fig peaches, nectarines 30-40 UAH., cucumbers - 3-7 UAH., tomatoes - 13-30 UAH. In Gurzuf is a big store on the second floor of the restaurant horizon, with everything needed for the steak and the like. The meat is neck - 50 UAH / kg, thigh 50-60 UAH / kg.
prices in canteens "handout type," but with a very inexpensive and delicious meal: from 10-15 USD., pilaf - 15 UAH., chop - 15-20 UAH., juice, compote - 7 grn/200ml, pancakes with cheese and sour cream - 15 UAH. Pizza in a bistro or cafe-pizzeria Sommelier from 30 to 80 UAH., Rice in the Tatar restaurant 55 UAH., In the Tatar Cafe 20 - 25 USD, a salad of mussels in a restaurant 55 UAH. Corn cooked on the beach - 10 USD / pcs., Raw - 4-5 UAH. / Pc. sushi - prices Yekaterinburg YaponiHaty.
Beaches
Beaches - mainly shingle. The beaches are clean. For smoking on the beaches of fine 300 UAH. I did not see cigarette butts, and smoking a time - with them stripped loot. I think it is correct. Beaches are different. The city pretty clogged. Price wooden lounger 15 UAH / day, deck chair 40 USD / day, the umbrella 40 USD / day. We went to the beach Artek "Gurovsky stones." Access to the beach complex of 9 USD / person / day. Although before we go public beach was 10-12 min run, but we went to the Artek as 20-25 min walk among these magical pine and other greenery - not just the incredible beauty, but also of great benefit to health, and go to the shade - it is a pleasure. In addition, the center has a museum Gurzuf - Reserve - giving Chekhov. The entrance 20 UAH, the entrance to the bay give 10 USD / person / day. In the country can hang out all day and swim, respectively. It's just a magical bay, sorry that discovered it, we in the last 2 days.
Tours
We went to Nikita Botanical Garden, in Partenit in the area (Theatre of sea animals at Yalta), for a walk "Yalta evening" in Vorontsov's Palace in Alupka. Went on an excursion from travel agencies to "Yalta evening" (Gurzuf-Yalta-Gurzuf - boat and 2 hours of free time of the evening Yalta), and the theater, "The waters", the rest themselves. Nikita before we were 15 minutes by shuttle bus (cost 7 USD one way), sailed back liner - 35 UAH per person. In Alupka (Vorontsov Palace) also drove themselves, shuttle bus to Yalta and Yalta shuttle from there - Vorontsov Palace. Back, too, floated liner (2 hours along the coast of South Coast - by Simeiz Mishor, swallow's nest, Yalta, Nikita to Gurzuf). In Partenit went just a walk in the dolphin did not have time, so we decided to go on another day to Yalta in the waters and have not regretted.
Actually, in my opinion, the tour is taken in a cave, a large canyon of Crimea, that is, where no heavy road and there you can see yourself.
Tickets: entry to the garden Nikita boat 20 UAH., in the waters 80 UAH., in the Vorontsov Palace 40 USD (voluntary and forced to tour - that is, self-examination of the palace is now a large influx of tourists there.) The cost of the excursion trips "Yalta evening" - 100 USD / person.
In general I can say that after the Crimea, especially after Gurzuf, I do not know what would make me consider the rest of Turkey. Only Croatia, Europe, but Turkey, Egypt.
In Greece, and Montenegro was not, was my husband - says Greece - you can go, but in the Crimea, more opportunities at times.
rudeness I have not met, vacationers - Ukrainian, Russian, Poles, Germans were not seen, quite a lot of foreigners in general.
relished Massandrovskiy province - 40 UAH / liter / Cabernet, 80 UAH / liter / Red Stone White Muscat (sweet).