Inexpensive holiday with children

Relaxing with a child and not overpaying is more than real. The main thing is to correctly estimate the costs that you can go in search of a pleasant and memorable vacation and plan a route. About where you can go with the children so that it is cheap and good, we'll talk in this article.

If you want to go to the sea, but there is no money for a trip to Turkey or Egypt, you can go to native Russian resorts. Sochi, we will not discuss, because the rest here on average costs like Turkey, and even more expensive. But on the Black Sea coast, besides this city, which has become the heart of the 2014 Olympics, there are a lot of decent places that offer quite decent beach holidays at prices several times lower than in Sochi.

First of all it Anapa, Tuapse, Loo. To keep costs to a minimum, you need to think in advance how to get to the resort and where to live.

You can save on accommodation by finding a mini-hotel or a guest house in advance. For early booking, many offer discounts. If such costs are significant for the family budget, it is worth considering the possibility of rest in the private sector.

If the Black Sea is not affordable at all, you can save on expenses by going to the Sea of ​​Azov or the Caspian Sea. There the cost of rooms in boarding houses and mini-hotels is several times lower than the Sochi rates. In addition, it is possible to find a place to put up tents, or to rent cheap housing in the private sector. For example, in Kaspiysk, the cost of renting not the most economical one-room apartment per day is about 1,000 rubles. AT Sochi the same housing at the same distance from the sea will cost 4000-7000 rubles per day.

Holidays spent in middle latitudes Of Russia, too, can be memorable and vivid. However, it is much cheaper than the sea. You can consider several of the many options for camp sites on the Volga. They are scattered throughout the length of the great Russian river, the most popular for family holidays - located in the Saratov, Samara, Volgograd regions. There is a rather limited list of entertainment at the camp sites - swimming, catamaran rides, fishing. But natural beauty, if you are lucky with the weather, more than compensate for the lack of water parks and dolphinariums.

Volga's camp sites do not have uniform tariffs and standards. You can find a great place for living conditions, but rather expensive for its class, and you can find more modest living conditions, but at reasonable prices. In most bases, children up to 7 years old are taken for free; they ask for a small surcharge for children from 7 to 14 years old. For example. The base "Samarkand" in the Saratov region offers rooms for families at 2500 rubles, for an adolescent you need to pay another 500 rubles per day.

According to reviews of travelers who spent holidays with children at camp sites and in holiday homes near the Volga, the most inexpensive and acceptable places for family holidays are Avangard (a recreation center in the Saratov region), Scarlet Sails (a recreation center in Togliatti ), "Breeze" (recreation center in the Samara region).

With sanatoriums in Russia, everything is even more interesting. There are many of them, they are different, you can find very inexpensive and acceptable options. If you buy a ticket to the selected resort in advance (about half a year, that is, in winter), then the savings will be from 20 to 40%. When choosing, carefully review the list of medical procedures that each sanatorium offers, and select the desired areas of rest with benefit, that is, with recovery.

Here are a few options that can be considered, since the reviews about them are quite positive: the sanatorium "Assy" (Bashkortostan) - the cost of living from 2,000 rubles per day (including meals, procedures and everything else), the sanatorium "Ust-Iletsk" (Orenburg area) - the cost of living with meals and treatment per person per day - from 1200 rubles. The sanatorium “White keys” in Karelia, in the city of Petrozavodsk, where the cost of accommodation with meals and treatment starts from 2,200 rubles per day deserves attention.

Recently (maybe because of the crisis, maybe because the people are pretty romantic here), camping sites are beginning to enjoy popularity. There is even a map of campgrounds on the Internet; on this resource, you can choose the option that is closest to your intended travel destination - at sea, on a lake or in the mountains.

Accommodation there will cost 200-1000 rubles per person. Usually they offer free Wi-Fi, shower, toilet, guarding your car in the parking lot. On the territory of campgrounds there are canteens and small cafes where you can eat cheaply. Some campgrounds do not charge for children under 7 years old. Some have the opportunity to rent a tent.

For those who do not want to plan a trip on their own or simply do not have such experience and free time, there is an excellent solution to the problem - budget family tours offered by many travel agencies. For example, hold on Black Sea 7 days and 8 nights for two adults and one child are available for 9500 rubles. In another boarding house in Anapa, you may be asked 12,000 rubles for a similar tour. The difference is that the distance to the sea from the place of residence in the first case is about a kilometer, and in the second - 500 meters.

Tours, which only includes breakfast on the Black Sea coast, have already doubled in price and in 2017 start at 22,000 rubles. Tours, where "all inclusive" (except for the flight, of course), cost at least 39,000 rubles for 7 days.

A family tour for a week on the Black Sea, where "all inclusive" and paid for the flight from Moscow, for two adults and a child costs from 109,000 rubles.

• If you need to save on vacation, do not overpay for what you can do (cook, visit, see, read) on your own.
• When renting housing in the private sector in the resort town, avoid renting accommodation from people offering rental services right at the station. Take care of the roof over your head in advance, and find an apartment or house over the Internet.
• Before you make the final choice, do not be lazy and carefully read all the reviews on the Internet about the chosen recreation center, sanatorium or camping. In addition, try to contact the negative feedback authors to ask clarifying questions.This will avoid unpleasant surprises during the holidays.
• In an effort to make the rest as economical as possible, do not forget about comfort, because you are going with children who need it. Find out in advance whether there is a number of developed infrastructure - shops, pharmacies, hospital.

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