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So, I've now definitely decided to ditch the Hotel in favour of renting an apartment.
Can someone please explain to me how it's possible that the same apartments are being offerred by several different agencies, please?
What are the chances of getting ripped off (completely or the price going up) or being forced to take an apartment on arrival different to the one booked?
Any help would be much appreciated!
An agency doesn't have exclusivity for a particular apartment. Whichever agency books first gets the apartment for a particular day.
I had good experience with http://www.stay.in.ua/ .
there are plenty of places to rent from the old bait and switch is because the apartment owner may have the place rented. if you rent for 5 days or more you have a better chance of getting the place you rented when you arrive. you can try easyukraine.com the links page has some reputable places to rent from.
Thanks for all your replies!
I've just booked. I went with the safest option, which seems to be OdessaApts.com. They convinced me to locate to the centre and grab a taxi every night to go to Itaka/Ibiza.
I was in Odessa in Oct 2009
I lodged on Hotel Arkadia, basic but decent, friendly staff, couple of tramway stops from the beach and in the square near the hotel there are several buses to the city center per 2 hrv ride.
The beach that seemed the best was Dolphin beach, though Lanzeron was the busiest.
the Hotel phone number: +38048 7380928
yes, they have the "cheapest" prices, because they show you the photos of apartments which cost 80 US per day, and say that they cost 40. The day before your arrival, the pipes will break at the neighbours apartments, and you will be moved into the same price apartment, they tell you. So, you arrive and lodge at the apartment which really costs 40 US per day, so not as pretty as they showed you on the photos. That is why the prices are "different" - because some real estate people put real prices under their photos, and others put pretty photos with low prices to decoy people. In reality, they all have the exact same prices, down to the last cent.
Just out of curiosity - why did you decide that they were the "safest"?
The Black Sea which is obviously the only one available in Odessa istn't black after all :). All my hopes went down!
Well... but it still is warm, quite clean/clear and the waves in the municipal beaches aren't too big to cause problems and not too cmall to make it "lake alike".
If you are afraid of jellyfish watch out as you may be surrounded sometimes. Fortunatelly these aren't dangerous :)
Stroll along the Deribasivska street and walk up and down the most famous staircase in the history of the cinema, the Potemkin-staircase from the harbour up into the city. The only one adequate way to arrive in Odesa would be by boat, of course, although I came twice by train (to the other end of the city. To stroll around, sit in the nice open air cafes along the Deribasivska, watch the people and their life.
It is the resort and sanatorium near Odesa.
Known by its curative mud whih is considered as one of the best in the world.
A lot of people ome there to recover.. come ill and leave Kuyalnik "en pleine forme".
In the war of 1787-91, Don Josef de Ribas, a soldier of fortune born in Naples of Spanish and Irish stock and one of many adventures in Catherine's service, stormed the fortress of Yeny-Dunai at Khadzhibei. Catherine the Great apparently considered making the port of Ochakov, near the mouth of the Boh river, the effective capital of Novorossiya. But Ochakov lacked a good natural harbour. On the other hand, de Ribas and a close collaborator, a Dutch engineer named Franz de Volan, recommended Khadzhibei as the site of the region's principal port. Its harbour was deep and nearly ice-free. Breakwaters, on the model of those found at Naples, Livorno and Ancona, could be cheaply constructed and would render the harbour safe even for large fleets.
The Passage, Deribasovskaya street, is part of the particular curiosities of Odessa. The totality of the interior court is decorated until in the heights with marvelous sculptures.
The Passage been built in 1898-1899
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