Yalta Intourist Hotel

I guess at least I have everything I could possibly need in this concete monstrosity of a hotel (a former Intourist Hotel), it has 2000 rooms, nine bars, a private beach, nightclubs, a pharmacy (probably most useful to me today), beauty salon, hairdresser, massage therapist, post office, shopping arcade and a dolphin show. As an aside, at the pharmacy it costs 1.80 Hryvnia… An unfortunate extended acquaintance with the inside of the Yalta Hotel

Our tour guide, Gnady, and our driver picked us up at Intourist Hotel Yalta in the morning for a day of intensive sight-seeing and historical study. Our first stop was the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky. The church was built by Tsar Alexander III in memory of his father Tsar  Alexander II, who had been… We toured the Crimea from Yalta to Sevastopol