Worth Knowing, Yalta
Author: Anothertravelguide.com
- A high season in Yalta is from June to late August, reflecting at hotel price raise for about 40 percents. Therefore, an ideal alternative for traveling there would be early summer or September and even October. The latter ones are being dubbed a velvet season, for tenderness of the Crimean autumn with mild weather, ripe fruit, warm sea and almost no tourists.
- Thanks to the mountains, sheltering the southern coast of the Crimea from cold and sharp winds, its climate (as for temperature and a number of sunny days) is often compared with the Mediterranean one. Summer days are very long - it's light already between 4 to 6 a.m., depending on a month, and gets dark only after 8 o'clock in the evening.
- The distance between Simferopol and Yalta is just 86 km. Yet, going by a car would take at least 1.5 h, due to often traffic jams, occasional road repair or its narrowness at some sections.
- A taxi from Simferopol airport to Yalta costs an average of 400 grivnas (about 57 euros) - depending on how you manage to agree with a driver.
- Here and there, along the route Simferopol-Yalta, old Zhiguli pull at the roadside and their owners, the same way as during the Soviet time, offer variety of lodgings. An average accommodation with spruced up Soviet-style décor costs from 350 grivnas (about 50 euro). What you get, however, is at your own risk.
- Some knowledge of Russian, travelling through the Crimea, proves useful - almost none of coastal fishermen or people at mountain villages speak any English, and all the road signs are only in Russian.
- People in the Crimea are friendly and sincere, and try to help as much as they can.
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