- Accommodation
- Nutrition
- Excursions and entertainment
- Transport
Anapa is located on the Black Sea, between the Taman Peninsula and Novorossiysk. This is a blessed corner, as if created by nature itself for a carefree, relaxing holiday. For several years in a row, Anapa has been at the top of the ratings of the best family resorts in Russia. The city and its surroundings are famous for their long beaches and well-warmed sea along the coastline.
Tourists go to Anapa not only to soak up the beaches and get an even beautiful tan. The resort is famous for its health resorts and spa centers, which have developed therapeutic procedures using healing mineral water and mud. The main question that worries vacationers is how much money to take to Anapa so that the trip is bright and memorable.
Anapa is considered an inexpensive resort where you can have a great rest for little money. A trip to Crimea or Sochi will cost 10-15 thousand rubles more.
If you wish, you can save on your vacation in Anapa. To do this, you should settle not in the city itself, but in the neighboring villages - Vityazevo, Sukko, Utrish. They are connected to Anapa by bus service. Travel from the village to the city and back will cost mere pennies.
Another expense item that can be reduced is excursions. Particularly interesting author's private excursion tours, which are highly rated, have not been found in Anapa. Standard excursions are offered at every corner, at special kiosks. Walk around a few kiosks before buying your favorite tour. It is quite possible that at some point the price for the selected excursion will be cheaper.
To limit your own spending, take with you some of the funds in rubles, and some in dollars. The latter can always be changed on the spot if necessary.
Accommodation
Anapa is a popular resort where everything is focused on vacationers and created for their convenience. The task of the newcomers is to choose the right area to live in, that is, to correctly combine reality with expectations.
Conventionally, the entire territory of Anapa and its environs can be divided into:
- the central area where nightlife lovers and those who prefer to have all the entertainment of the resort close by, prefer to stay. In the center of Anapa there is a park of the 30th anniversary of Victory, a water park, numerous attractions, bars, discos, shops. It is always noisy and crowded here. However, in the middle of this mess there are also islands of peace and quiet. These are the sanatoriums "Nadezhda", "Anapa", "Motylek" and some others, open all year round, and the hotel "Park-hotel", marked with 4 stars;
- Pionersky Prospect, stretching along the sea from the Anapka River to the village of Vityazevo. Tourists dreaming of a beach holiday stay in local sanatoriums and recreation centers. There is a rather expensive hotel "Riviera Club & Spa", which is known for an excellent entertainment program for its guests, and many budget boarding houses ("Captain", "Ryabinushka", etc.). There are also sanatoriums, for example, "Rodnik" with its own source of mineral water, "Dream", where each guest is greeted as the most long-awaited relative;
- the village of Vityazevo. Recently, a real construction boom could be observed here. Most of the local hotels are new, modern and meet the needs of the most discerning clientele. There are a lot of hotels here. Pay attention to Marina, Meridian and others;
- the village of Blagoveshchenskaya. People come here for a quiet, relaxing holiday, which can be provided, for example, in the Kassandra boarding house, and wonderful diving;
- Utrish and Sukko. Utrish is a nature reserve with wild pebble beaches, Sukko is a village with several small hotels and guest houses.
Prices for accommodation in Anapa start at 800 rubles per room in a two-star hotel and end at 8,000-10,000 thousand per person per day in five-star hotels with pools and spas.
Nutrition
Going on vacation, in the relaxing atmosphere of the sultry south, the last thing you want to save on food is cooking yourself in the kitchen of a rented apartment. Much more tempting is a trip to a cafe with an open terrace, from where you can watch the sun sinking into the waters of the Black Sea, sipping tart wine.
There are dozens of cafes and restaurants, pavilions with street food and canteens in Anapa. Naturally, the level of prices in them is significantly different. Tasty and satisfying in Anapa will feed:
- in expensive restaurants. In accordance with the marketing strategy, in the most pretentious restaurants in cities, you can find both very expensive dishes and dishes of average value on the menu. The expensive price tag is usually set for author's culinary masterpieces. The rest of the dishes will be quite affordable for any visitor: the cost of a dinner for two in such restaurants will be 3000-4000 rubles. Lovers of Italian cuisine should pay attention to the restaurants "Del Mar" and "La Veranda". In the "Ark", which stands on Revolutsii Avenue, they will serve traditional European and Caucasian dishes;
- in ordinary cafes. There are a lot of such establishments in the resort. Pizzerias, pubs, coffee houses, Asian restaurants, sushi bars, Georgian taverns - what not! The average bill in such cafes will be from 600 to 2000 rubles. An additional bonus is that you can come to a cafe with a large company and get enough of everything for little money. For example, Oliva serves pizzas of such a size that one is enough for four people. The Golden Dragon is famous for its huge portions;
- in cheap canteens. Many tourists love them for their tradition and low prices. There are no oysters and woks, but there are always several soups, cutlets, casseroles, mashed potatoes, compote on the menu - something that should not be particularly imagined. Lunch in the Anapa canteens costs 300-500 rubles;
- at street kiosks. Fried fish, kebabs, burgers, shawarma - all this is sold everywhere and costs 150-300 rubles per serving.
Excursions and entertainment
A sightseeing tour of Anapa with a qualified guide will cost 5400 rubles for 4 people. For this amount you will be shown the main attractions of the city, taken by car to the Utrish reserve and the village of Sukko, where the beautiful Cypress Lake is located.
A little more than 5,000 rubles will cost an excursion to Lake Abrau and the Abrau-Dyurso plant, where the famous champagne is produced. A tasting of this drink is included in the tour price.
For one day, tourists are taken to Yalta from Anapa for 2800 rubles. A trip to the Lotus Valley will cost 1200 rubles.
Anapa itself also has enough entertainment for every taste. In nightclubs, cocktails cost from 250 to 450 rubles. The entrance ticket to the crocodile farm will cost 200 rubles.
In the water park "Golden Beach" you can have fun all day for 1500 rubles (a child's ticket costs 900 rubles). This is a huge entertainment center with swimming pools and numerous water attractions, where no one will be bored.
There are also dolphinariums in Anapa. One - "Nemo" - is located on Pioneer Avenue. It is combined with an oceanarium, where various representatives of the underwater fauna are collected, including ferocious piranhas, bright Red Sea fish, and even sharks. A ticket to the dolphin show costs 800 rubles, a visit to the aquarium will cost another 400 rubles. The second dolphinarium is located right in the sea - off the coast in Bolshoy Utrish. The marine lagoon has a fenced-in area where dolphins, fur seals and lions are kept. You can visit this dolphinarium for 1000 rubles.
Transport
The main mode of transport in Anapa is buses and minibuses. It is they who carry passengers around the city and deliver outside of it to the nearest popular resort villages.
The buses that run in the city have a license plate of up to 100. Bus number 100 connects the railway station of the resort with the city center. This knowledge should not be neglected, since the train station is located quite far from the popular city blocks. A ticket for public transport that moves around the city costs 21 rubles during the day and 24 rubles at night.
There are also suburban buses that go to the most popular places in the vicinity of Anapa, where every tourist will definitely want to visit. Minibus No. 109 goes to Sukko and Utrish, minibuses No. 114 and 128 go to Vityazevo, minibuses No. 114 and 134 are delivered to Dzhemete, to Blagoveshchenskaya you need to go by minibus No. 106. The fare depends on the mileage, but does not exceed 70-80 rubles.
You can get to any point in the city by taxi. For a trip to the most remote areas from the center, you will have to pay about 600-700 rubles. Many taxis do not have meters, so negotiate the fare in advance.
In Anapa, as in other beach resorts in the country, the rule applies: the more money you take with you, the better. But it is quite possible to estimate an approximate budget for one person.
The lion's share of the funds set aside for rest will have to be spent on housing. Each traveler determines the level of comfort for himself. Someone will be happy with a bed in a hostel, someone will want rooms with soft bedding and air conditioning. Let's take an ordinary three-star hotel located near the sea. Accommodation in it will cost, say, 4000 rubles per day. This is 28,000 rubles a week. Add to this the travel costs for buses and taxis. They will amount to about 1000 rubles. 2-3 excursions per week will be enough. It is worth allocating 5,000 rubles for them. Set aside at least 7,000 rubles for meals. Souvenirs and beachwear and accessories will not cost very much - about 3000 rubles.
A simple calculation shows that 44 thousand rubles for a week's rest in Anapa will be enough.
