New Year in Crimea: expensive, even when it’s “cheap”

The most budget and most premium options for a New Year’s holiday on the peninsula, as well as tips for tourists, are in the material RIA Novosti Crimea.

New Year on the Southern Coast of Crimea

According to popular booking services, in the resort capital of Crimea — Yalta — the cheapest double room in a mini-hotel from December 31 for seven nights without meals will cost 14,500 rubles. For this money you will be offered comfortable rooms of varying degrees of equipment with all amenities, the opportunity to leave your car in a guarded parking lot, you can cook in a shared kitchen or visit the hotel restaurant.

The most expensive option for double accommodation in a “Lux” room for the same period and on the same dates in one of the famous large premium hotels in Yalta will cost 348 thousand rubles per week. For this amount, guests will receive stunning views of the sea and mountains, a king size bed, two bathrooms, breakfast, a minibar in the room, the opportunity to use a heated seawater pool, a bath complex and a salt room. Wellness programs are paid separately.

In general, on the southern coast of Crimea — from Alupka to Foros — they offer a large number of options for double seven-day accommodation with average prices of 50-70 thousand rubles. But you can also choose super-premium options — personal villas with a private pool surrounded by stunning nature on the territory of one of the most modern resort complexes, with exclusive offers on food and leisure and a price tag of more than 2 million rubles for 7 nights

Celebrate holidays in eastern Crimea

New Year’s Eve with a view of the ancient Genoese fortress in Sudak can cost from 10,500 rubles — this is the price for accommodation at a recreation center with simple wooden houses, a shared kitchen, barbecue area and parking. The most expensive room in one of the boutique hotels on the embankment is 210,000 rubles; you will have to pay extra for food.

In Feodosia, seven days of the New Year holidays — from January 31 to 7 — in the most modest segment will cost 11,060 rubles. In this case, we are talking about a private guest house near a park area, with small cozy rooms and the possibility of self-cooking, but without parking. A presidential suite in one of the leading Feodosia hotels will cost 168 thousand rubles for two for seven nights. Breakfast is included, as well as access to the spa area with a swimming pool and saunas. Wellness programs can be purchased in addition.

In general, the average price for 7 days of accommodation in eastern Crimea is about 40 thousand rubles without meals.

Vacations in the west of Crimea and Sevastopol

In Evpatoria the minimum cost of seven-day accommodation from December 31 to January 7 will be 10,920 rubles — this is what they will ask for a room with a change of linen and a shared kitchen in a private guest house near the sea. A double suite under the ultra-all-inclusive program in one of the large Evpatoria hotels on the specified dates will cost 200,706 rubles.

In Saki, prices range on average from 10,000 rubles for a modest room in a private mini-hotel to 70 thousand in a club hotel with a swimming pool, children’s animation and three buffet meals a day. Prices for accommodation in Sak sanatoriums from December 31 to January 7 range from 19,950 rubles per guest with sharing; treatment programs are paid separately depending on the set of procedures. For a New Year’s banquet with a festive program, on average you will have to pay an additional 5 to 10 thousand rubles.

In Sevastopol, a seven-day New Year’s holiday in a hotel will cost on average about 50 thousand rubles — we are talking about accommodation with breakfast. The most budget room will cost 11,900 — for this price tag guests receive not only a standard double room with a sea view, but also parking, a shared kitchen, and the opportunity to cook barbecue on the grill.

A seven-day stay in a double suite in one of the best resort complexes in the hero city will cost 138 thousand rubles — SPA, heated pool and sauna, breakfast included. For additional money you can purchase wellness treatments.

Travel tips

This year, compared to last year, New Year’s Crimea is booked with a plus — about 15%, and up to 30% with individual operators. The sanatorium-resort complex is already most booked — up to 80%. Therefore, yes, you should have rushed to book yesterday, but even today you can still find good options. In particular, there is a very wide potential, including for small accommodation facilitiessays Yuri Barzykin, Chairman of the Committee on Entrepreneurship in the Sphere of Tourism of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

According to him, the most expensive destination is the South Coast, the most expensive dates are from December 31 to January 3. This is explained by the fact that most hoteliers include the New Year’s celebration program in the price.

On average, a minimum of seven nights from the 3rd starts for two from 35-50 thousand rubles. From the 31st it will be more expensive — from 50 to 70 thousand, but these are the cheapest options. So if you come after the New Year, it will be cheaper. Or until the new year, in the first ten dayscontinues the expert.

Most accommodation facilities in Crimea today offer good recreation and children’s animation. In general, according to Barzykin, in Crimea a tourist will find offers for any budget, and if you study the offers carefully, you can find profitable special offers — they are most often offered by four- and five-star hotels.

In addition, it is useful to study the event calendar, since New Year’s events are planned in public areas. This means Yalta, Feodosia, Evpatoria, and other resorts. Crimea, in principle, offers a diversified product at prices lower than the Krasnodar Territory and this attracts tourists“, states the head of the relevant committee.

source: RIA Novosti Crimea