Independently to Crimea
A favorite vacation spot for Russian travelers since Soviet times, the Crimean Peninsula is still popular with guests of all professions and ages. Every year, thousands of fans of the sea and the sun, grapes and barbecue, exciting excursions and high-quality beach holidays rush to Crimea on their own.
Entry formalities
Since 2015, residents of Russia can get to Crimea in five ways:
- Buy a combined ticket that includes the Moscow-Krasnodar or Moscow-Anapa railway segment, the bus section of the route to the ferry crossing, the ferry itself through the Kerch Strait and again the bus to the resting place in Crimea. This option involves several transfers, but it is convenient in that a tourist who went to Crimea on his own turns out to be delivered to the final point of the trip..
- Take a direct train crossing the strait with a ferry crossing. The final destination is Simferopol, from where you will have to get to the place of rest additionally.
- By car through the ferry Kerch crossing. To avoid queues, experienced car tourists are advised to buy an electronic ticket on the website in advance. Even if they are late for their ferry, holders of such a pass automatically receive the right to sail on the next.
- By bus from Moscow to Semfiropol or Kerch and then by ferry.
- By plane to Simferopol.
Bread and lodging
At all times it was customary to come to Crimea independently as a "savage". And today in the region you can rent housing for every taste and budget, bypassing the large buildings of sanatoriums and rest homes.
Prices for housing, food and Crimean entertainment depend on the specific resort:
- The most expensive city on the peninsula is Yalta. Accommodation for a person per day here will cost at least 1,500 rubles, and lunch in a cafe will cost you 200-500, depending on your preferences..
- Pike perch is considered a budget option and it is quite possible to find a room here for 800 rubles per person, and in Feodosia it will be possible to rent an apartment for 700 rubles per night..
- Food prices in Crimea are highly dependent on the city, the level of the cafe and the degree of interest of its owners in receiving income. A budget complex lunch in tourist canteens can be bought for 150 rubles, and for a dinner in a Sevastopol restaurant for two, it is easy to get an invoice for 3000.
- Famous Crimean wines from the New World cost from 600-700 rubles for a bottle of regular brut to 3500 for Chardonnay Paradisio.
