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Travel to Alushta, visa requirements / Get around / Alushta attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Alushta souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Alushta nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get outAlushta is a small city in the Crimea, in the Ukraine.
Travel to Alushta - Visa Requirements
You can take the 'famous' Crimean over mountain trolley bus but you may be disappointed. Its about as interesting as riding around the LA municipal transit.(Alushta is twinned with Santa Cruz in California USA). The trolley system is extremely slow and basically just a really old bus that is electrically powered. The kicker is that it goes over a windy road. The trolley bus can't go around turns quickly or else it'll fall off of its cables so at every turn its goes REALLY slow. Take a mini bus instead, cheap and regular but very hot in mid summer.
Tours and Getting around Alushta
Alushta tourist attractions and sightseeing
Alushta has some fairly nice former boat docks that have been converted into beaches. The town is mostly a big carnival though.
Visit the Genonese fortress and Byzantine defensive tower.
Alushta city tours
Alushta souvenirs and shopping
Alushta Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive
Alushta nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs
Alushta cheap and luxurious hotels, youth hostels and lodging
Private accommodation is plentiful and cheap (about 7 USD per night). Just look for the signs people have posted outside their homes (in Cyrillic letters, жильё) and knock.
Get out
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