Complete disappointment!
I’ve been going with my family to my favorite campsite for 20 years, but now it has sunk to the bottom, and the bottom has also been revealed!
For June 2024 the cost is 250 rubles. per person for 12 hours. A very normal price.
BUT!
The beach is dirty, trash is everywhere! Only the seabed is clean.
The shower is now only in ONE place, near the entrance and it is PAID - 50 rubles / person. A very businesslike businesswoman sits at the entrance and collects tribute for an old shower with a wide variety of smells.
I didn’t ask for a fee for bathing a 3-year-old child - thank you, kind, generous woman!
There, on the street, there are sinks in which people are forced to wash themselves entirely, while standing in a huge puddle.
Sockets? Please 😊 over there, over the puddle ☺️ or in the store, for 100 rubles 😊
Toilets? This is a separate topic. People are pigs! They don't know how to clean up after themselves. The campground staff, as I understand it, clean it once a day in the morning, but this is very little - at the end of the day it is simply impossible to go there and your eyes water.
Finding a parking spot is also a quest.
People (not all) would like to find a spacious place for themselves, but are forced to stand on each other’s heads in the depths of the campsite on a slope - tents / cars / barbecues / clotheslines / hammocks - everything is arranged as luck would have it and people squeeze through their neighbors’ “site” to go to the sea/trash/toilet. There are, of course, individuals who do not know about personal boundaries and can easily spread themselves at the entrance to your tent or place a barbecue near the gas tank of your car.
Of course, we shouldn’t forget about the individuals who come there to tell their camping neighbors that there is “music” in the world, a la “I took your boo, I got it...well, you get the idea.” For some reason, they just arrived, and they are already sure that the neighbors are a little deaf, so they need to turn up the volume to full. Well, so that you can see the epicenter of the party, you can turn on the headlights of your car 👐 because it’s probably dark for people in the tents opposite to sleep ☺️
This, of course, is not a complaint about camping - it’s just that not everyone is raised well in childhood, such people need to be pitied and protected from excessive mental stress.
But the campsite could also keep order, at least after 23:00.
Well, of course, I understand my requests.
Of course, you can stop in a large clearing - you will have no competitors there. But for such a parking lot you need huge awnings (including to protect the car), nets, heat resistance and strong nerves - during the day the temperature in the sun can easily reach 40 degrees, or even more.
We miraculously found a place in the shade, but had the management never thought of planting a huge clearing with trees? Birches, willows, lilacs in the end? even one tree in a large vacant lot will already change the picture! At least there will be a place for a break, because the road to the sea is simply torture! The sun burns you alive, despite the fact that you have to walk on hot sand mixed with garbage. With a child, this path is a special thrill.
Pros:
+ in June the sea is the cleanest and the water at the entrance is almost ankle-deep for an adult - you can safely let a child in.
+delicious food in the cafe, prices are the same as everywhere else on the coast
+beautiful sunsets (doubtful)
+ Fireflies fly at night if they are not scared away by vacationers.
For many years, there were cattle at the entrance, who even at the entrance discouraged the desire to enter the territory. Nowadays, more well-mannered students are working - they are already better.
In general, a very sad sight, the campsite is abandoned by the management, there is no concern for people, only a thirst for profit.
We will look for another place, fortunately there are plenty of them along the entire coast.