- Children's resorts of Crimea
- Lovers of history
- Youth resorts of Crimea
- Treatment in Crimea
- Note to hermits
- TOP-3 best Crimean resorts
It was not for nothing that the Crimean peninsula was called an all-Union health resort for many decades, because tens of thousands of adults and children rested at its resorts every year. Many sanatoriums and children's health camps have been opened in Crimea. Both family tourists and youth companies love the best resorts of Crimea and prefer to relax on the shores of the Black and Azov seas familiar from childhood. In Crimea, it is pleasant to spend time with friends or enjoy a well-deserved rest during student holidays.
Children's resorts of Crimea
Among the variety of Crimean resorts, those that are suitable for families with children are especially popular with family tourists. The infrastructure of such places allows you not to think about what to do with the younger generation of vacationers: the menu of cafes and restaurants has a variety of dishes for kids, playgrounds are equipped on the beaches, and the entrance to the sea is usually gentle and safe even for the youngest bathers.
Evpatoria invariably has the greatest weight in the rating of the best Crimean resorts for families with children. It is often called the capital of children's beach recreation on the Crimean peninsula. The reasons why one should prefer Evpatoria to other health resorts are obvious:
- The resort and its environs have the largest number of children's sanatoriums, using not only the sea and the sun as therapeutic factors, but also the healing mud and brine of the Saki and Moinak lakes. The sanatoriums use the Krymskaya water, the mineral composition of which is not inferior to the water from Essentuki. Professionals work in the children's health resorts of Evpatoria: doctors and nurses, psychologists and physiotherapists.
- The resort infrastructure allows you to come on vacation with children of all ages. Entertainment complexes, children's playgrounds and sports grounds, the Banana Republic water park, a dinopark and a dolphinarium await young guests and their parents. Every tourist can find a suitable accommodation option at the resort. Many boarding houses and small family hotels are open in Evpatoria, local residents willingly rent out their apartments and summer cottages, and many hotels offer additional services for guests with kids.
- And, finally, the beaches and climate of Evpatoria are most suitable for children. Even in the height of summer, the local weather is very similar to the Mediterranean one: the air humidity is low, and light sea breezes bring pleasant coolness. The beaches in Yevpatoria itself are sandy, outside the city there is also a pebble cover. All recreation areas are equipped with changing cabins, fresh showers, toilets and sun loungers.
Popular with family tourists and the resort of Saki, located near Evpatoria. Saki are famous for their wide sandy and pebble beaches with a gentle entrance to the sea. The water near the local shores warms up quickly, and swimming in the sea is a pleasure even for the youngest guests of the resort. Several sanatoriums have been opened in Saki, which receive family tourists with children. They have developed special treatment programs for young spa guests. You can entertain the younger generation during an excursion to Evpatoria, which is only half an hour away from the resort by minibus.
On the southern coast of Crimea, Alushta is the most suitable resort for a family vacation. Firstly, Alushta is located in a valley, and after a beach day with the kids, you don't have to climb the mountain to return to the hotel. Secondly, the beaches in the Professor's Corner of Alushta are covered with soft shale sand, and it is especially comfortable to relax on them with children. And, finally, there are sanatoriums at the resort, the treatment programs of which are based on the use of local natural factors. Such improvement will be useful for both adults and children. A significant plus of the old part of Alushta is that it is a fairly quiet resort, but for entertainment you can always go to Yalta or Alupka.
Lovers of history
In ancient times, the Crimean peninsula was inhabited by the Taurian tribes, from whose name appeared Tavria, and then Tavrida. This was the name of the Crimea in the XV-XVIII centuries. The past of the peninsula is full of many historical events. Crimea was inhabited by Greeks and Scythians, Romans and Goths, and the remaining ancient monuments can be seen here today. If you prefer to combine a beach vacation with an educational one, choose the resorts of Crimea, where the largest number of architectural landmarks of bygone eras are presented:
- Three kilometers from the center of Sevastopol are the ruins of Chersonesos, founded by the Greeks two and a half millennia ago. The city was an outpost under the Byzantines, but could not resist the army of the Russian prince Vladimir Svyatoslavovich, who came to the Crimea at the end of the 10th century. Princess Anna became his wife, and Christianity began to spread in Russia from that moment. The panorama "Defense of Sevastopol" and the exposition of the Military-Historical Museum of the Black Sea Fleet are no less interesting. As a beach resort, the hero city offers its guests almost 50 km of beaches, dozens of hotels, recreation centers and family resorts.
- The Livadia resort is famous for its palace, which served as a summer residence for the royal family and was built in the 60s of the 19th century. The palace and park ensemble in Livadia is one of the most beautiful in our country, and the Tsar's path, along which Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna loved to walk, is now popular with tourists in Livadia. The resort is also famous for its sanatoriums, where diseases of the respiratory organs and the cardiovascular system are treated.
- The Genoese fortress in Balaklava has guarded the entrance to the local bay for more than five hundred years. It was erected on the site of an old Byzantine fortification. The Cembalo Fortress once occupied most of the mountain, but today visitors can only see the ruins of the former fortification. And in general, fans of military history in Balaklava will not be bored. They are waiting for excursions to the Naval Museum Complex, located in the bowels of Mount Tavros. Pilgrims will find several churches in Balaklava that keep special Orthodox shrines. In the Church of the Twelve Apostles, built in the 14th century, there are particles of the relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh, and the St. George Monastery was founded in the 9th century by Greek sailors.
If you are interested in the natural attractions of Crimea, stop in Alushta and go on an excursion to the Valley of Ghosts, which consists of dozens of stone giants created by nature itself. It is not far from Alushta to the deepest Crimean waterfall Dzhur-Dzhur, the streams of which rush down from a fifteen-meter height.
Youth resorts of Crimea
Koktebel
The Crimean peninsula is ideal for summer youth recreation. The region attracts tourists with a variety of active entertainment, the opportunity to find inexpensive accommodation options, a wealth of natural landscapes and an ideal climate. During the holiday season, Crimea hosts many events and festivals, which are attended by young people from different countries.
Over the past decades, representatives of creative youth have been resting at the most popular Crimean youth resort of Koktebel: artists, poets, writers, and now bloggers. The beaches in the resort itself are pebbly, but in the vicinity you can also find sandy ones, and the most famous among them is the Quiet Bay. Lovers of complete merging with nature gather in Koktebel: the resort is known for its nudist beach at the foot of the Junge hill.
Young people who have no problems with a bank account and cash most often rest in Yalta: the resort is considered quite expensive, but in terms of the amount of entertainment infrastructure for youth recreation it has no equal on the peninsula. In the evenings, nightclubs and discos open on the embankment of Old Yalta, and in the afternoon on the Yalta beaches you can go windsurfing and ride a jet ski, rent a yacht and go fishing. And also diving is practiced in Yalta, and young people who are familiar with scuba diving enjoy exploring local dive sites.
Active rest is very popular among young guests of the Shelkino resort, located on the shore of the Kerch Peninsula. Its distinctive feature is the uncrowded sandy expanses and spits, where there are rental centers for equipment for kitesurfers and windsurfers and dive centers and clubs of various motor vehicles for on-water entertainment are open.
Treatment in Crimea
The term "spa" comes from the German words "treatment" and "locality" and means a natural area used for treatment and medical rehabilitation. In this sense, the best resorts in Crimea are those that offer health treatments and spa services. We said above about children, and Feodosia is ideal for adult tourists.
The sanatoriums and boarding houses of Feodosia, located on the southeastern coast of the peninsula, treat gastrointestinal pathologies, diseases of the endocrine glands and musculoskeletal system. Treatment programs here are aimed at the rehabilitation of patients with respiratory pathologies and gynecological diseases. One of the important healing factors is the climate of Feodosia. It is never humid here, and the sea breezes leave a pleasant coolness and create a comfortable microclimate even at the height of summer. The entrance to the sea on the beaches of Feodosia is very shallow, and therefore it is comfortable to swim in the resort for both kids and the elderly.
Note to hermits
If you do not like too noisy society and prefer solitude to any company, Crimea is ready to offer you an excellent option for spending your summer vacation:
- The village that attracts lovers of silence is called Kurortnoye. On the map of Crimea, it can be found in the east of the peninsula at the foot of the Kara-Dag mountain range. The beaches of the resort are covered with a mixture of sand and small pebbles, the entrance to the water is quite gentle, there are several secluded coves on the coast. The largest of them is called Fox, and along its coast there are especially picturesque and wild beaches.
- Solitude can also be found in the village of Primorskoye on the outskirts of Feodosia. The steppe paths leading from the village to the sea end at the Sandy Balka beach. The beach is closed by hills from the hot steppe winds, and the purity of the water in the sea near the Sandy Beam allows you to dive even in the middle of summer.
- A real wild vacation with tents can be organized on the beaches of the Arshintsevskaya Spit, which is formed at the confluence of the Black and Azov Seas. If camping is not in your plans, getting to Arshintsevskaya Spit is the closest thing to Kerch, where you can find a hotel of any price category or rent an inexpensive room.
- Another useful address for fans of secluded recreation who have come to Kerch is General's beaches. In the old days, only the military with large stars on their shoulder straps had access to them. Today everyone can come to the picturesque bays. In Kerch, you need to take a regular bus to the village of Kurortny.
When heading to the wild, secluded beaches in Crimea, stock up on water, sun protection, and a first aid kit. Usually in such places there is no infrastructure, as well as rescuers, and therefore you will have to rely only on your own ingenuity and ingenuity.
TOP-3 best Crimean resorts
Zander
Tour operators and the media regularly conduct surveys, according to the results of which ratings of the best resorts on the Crimean peninsula are compiled:
- For many decades Yalta has been and remains the most popular destination for tourists of all ages. The largest number of hotels and restaurants, family guest houses and boarding houses is concentrated in Yalta and its environs. The resort is called the pearl of the South Coast, because the Yalta tourist infrastructure is able to satisfy the desires of even the most demanding guests.
- You can and should go to Evpatoria with children. The capital of children's beach tourism of Crimea every year becomes more and more attractive for families. At the resort you will find hotels with special conditions for young guests, sanatoriums with treatment programs for the younger generation, restaurants and cafes with children's dishes on the menu, and a huge number of entertainment complexes, centers and venues.
- The climate of Sudak is legendary. They say that here is the most comfortable weather for summer holidays on the entire peninsula. The swimming season at the resort lasts almost six months, and the picturesque nature of Sudak and the surrounding area attracts creative people to the Black Sea coast like a magnet. Pike perch is also very attractive for lovers of sparkling wine, which is produced at the Novy Svet champagne factory, founded by Prince L. S. Golitsyn in 1878.
And the ratings of popular Crimean resorts invariably include Simeiz with its Mount Cat, and Partenit, descending to the sea along the slopes of Bear Mountain. People fly to find their carnelian on the Fiolent beach near Balaklava, and then look at the sea from the terrace of the Vorontsov Palace in Alupka.
Crimea was and remains a wonderful place where every day is able to fill a person with joy and health for many months, and its beaches are always waiting for dreamers and romantics.
