Yalta Travel Guide, travelling to the Black Sea beaches in Yalta

Yalta Travel Guide

Located on the crimean peninsula, on the Black Sea, Yalta is famous as a holiday destination and this Yalta Travel Guide was developed to make Yalta Travel more enjoyable. The Promenade is the centerpiece of Yalta which is pulsating with activity all night long. This is a long pedestrian walk-way lined with restaurants, shops and amusement arcades. You will find street musicians, entertainers and people offering to photograph you with monkeys, peacocks, lizards. One night we even encountered an out-door strip show at one of the open-air restaurants. For the sake of orientation: on one end of the promenade is the hotel Oreanda on the other end are the Hotels Bristol, Venezia, and Crimea. At the beginning of the Promenade stands a large statue of Lenin. Lenin seems to be looking directly at the McDonalds Restaurant. One can only imagine what he is thinking.

Beaches

You don’t come to Yalta for the beaches. There are no sandy beaches here; instead the beaches are covered with small stones. In addition, when we were there, the water was full of small jellyfish. The jellyfish did not sting, but didn’t make for welcome company. The best places to sun bathe are the so-called “solariums” on Massandra beach (near the Bristol Hotel. Go to the end of the street and veer left). The solariums are the piers built up above the sea. For a few dollars you can rent a beach chair and an umbrella. They are much less crowded than the free beaches below and infinitely more comfortable than lying on the rocks. At the other end of the promenade (near hotel Oreanda) there is another beach, a bit less popular with no solariums (only wooden benches with shade created by plastic ceilings) but still quite nice. There are many small cafes and restaurants on both beaches where you can have something to eat or cool yourself down with a cold beer. In addition, the beaches offer a great variety of inexpensive, fast, take away foods such as traditional Ukrainian Hachapury (layer cheese pie), Chaburek (deep fried meat/cheese pie), Buritos, Shwarma, sweet Baklavas, freshly made Donuts, and various seafood such as prawns, smoked/fried mussels etc.

We visited several hotels in Yalta before selecting the Hotel Bristol. However, due to its popularity, it was fully booked for two days of our stay and we had to leave during this period. We stayed at the Crimean Hotel during this time. Then at the end of June, the rates jumped for peak season when we moved to the Palace. Therefore, during our stay we had the opportunity to visit several of the hotels in the resort town. Below is a brief review and our perceptions of the various hotels we saw.

Yalta Travel Guide

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Yalta Travel Guide

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