Hotels in Ukraine are either incredibly cheap but bad (soviet style) or incredibly expensive (but not always good). This hotel is a 20 min walk from the city centre, but it affordable (88 USD per night in a room with a/c) and clean. They don't have any service (you have to make your own bed!), but for those who want to be close to the sea and don't want to pay >200$ this is an OK hotel. Take a room with air conditioning: it's worth the 10$ per night extra because the summers are HOT there. One downside: no isolation whatsoever (you can hear the people in the adjoncting room). But positive: just next to the hotel is the Intourist Yalta hotel, which has 9 bars and 5 restaurants; there are also 2 other restaurants located in the neighbourhood of the hotel which are both very tasty (yet not fancy) and cheap. It'd recomment this hotel, not for the service or the location, but for being average at a not-so-high price.
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