By the beginning of the last century, Yaroslavl was already considered one of the largest cities in Central Russia. Industry is well developed here, in particular chemical and textile. However, this did not prevent him from becoming one of the most beautiful cities on the Volga.
Yaroslavl city
In literature, the city was once called "Russian Florence", "Russian Switzerland." Many Muscovites willingly bought summer cottages and summer estates here, located on the picturesque banks of the river. However, today not only residents of the capital come to Yaroslavl, the city has become one of the main pearls of the Russian Golden Ring, so many tourists come here every year.
Yaroslavl is also called by many “an open-air museum”. Indeed, a huge number of unique historical monuments of the past are concentrated here. Tourists in Yaroslavl every year more and more. Among them, mostly Russians, but for some time now foreigners began to come. Therefore, against the backdrop of growing interest in this beautiful Volga city, there is a need for the construction of new and comfortable hotels. Moreover, for some time now, the choice of a place where guests can stay for a few days was not too great.
Yaroslavl Hotels
But today, everything has changed. Many new hotels in Yaroslavl offer a fairly good level of service: comfortable furniture, the latest electronics, delicious food. Some hotels have saunas, gyms, pools. But their most important plus is that most of them are quite affordable prices. So, in the hotels "Volga", "Cosmos", "Tourist", "Sail" you can rent a room from nine hundred to one and a half thousand rubles.
In more expensive and prestigious hotels, the cost of living for one night reaches two and a half thousand rubles or more. These are the hotels “Kotorosl”, “Yubileinaya”, “Bear Corner”, “Alyosha Popovich Dvor”. Yaroslavl as a city within the Golden Ring today already has nearly three and a half dozen hotels. Among them are three- and four-star. These are such hotels as Park Inn By Radisson, St. George, Ring Premier Hotel.
They have international-class rooms and many additional services in their housing stock, for example, a safe and a minibar, cable TV, a direct dial telephone, etc. The infrastructure of most large four-star hotels necessarily includes a gym, a bar, a sauna or a Russian bathhouse, swimming pool, courts, parking - everything you need for the special comfort of tourists.
In 2005, the three-star Yarburg Hotel opened in the city. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it is the only hotel on the water in the region. There are single and double deluxe rooms and a penthouse. Hotels of similar scale were built, for example, in Sweden. Such three-star hotels in Yaroslavl as the Bear Corner, Yaroslavl Compound, Alyosha Popovich Dvor, reviews of which also indicate a high level of service, offer accommodation at fairly affordable prices. The cost of rooms in them ranges from a thousand to 1,500 rubles, depending on the category.
Hotel "Alyosha Popovich"
Yaroslavl is a city where today it is not difficult to find a good hotel. The choice of a good hotel depends on many factors, including the area or the proposed infrastructure. "Alyosha Popovich Dvor" was built in the historical center of the city. It is considered one of the best options for living in terms of price / quality ratio.
This tourist complex is a project that has been implemented as part of a tourism development program. The idea of its discovery arose in 2012, when the 1150th anniversary of the city of Rostov the Great in the Yaroslavl Region, the birthplace of Alesha Popovich, was celebrated. The essence of the concept is that guests staying in the complex can not only have a good rest, but also visit the world of Russian epics and fairy tales, ancient legends. There is even a version that the epic hero, in whose honor the hotel is named, carried his military service exactly at the place where the hotel is now located.
"Alyosha Popovich Dvor" was built in close proximity to the Yaroslavl Kremlin. This stylized hotel, which is especially often chosen by foreigners, allows guests to plunge into the world of Russian fairy tales and epics for several days.
Its three-story building looks like princely mansions. Apparently, therefore, those foreigners who come to the city and want to get to know Russian culture better choose this mini-hotel. Every tourist will be able to feel himself a hero of a fairy tale, the choice of which will be the hotel "Alyosha Popovich".
Yaroslavl, being the capital of the Golden Ring tour, annually receives several tens of thousands of tourists, including foreigners, who are primarily attracted by the originality and convenient location of this hotel. The folk-style hotel is a five-minute walk from the Kremlin. Five hundred meters there is a bus stop. The railway station is three kilometers away.
Address, how to get
From the bus station, the hotel can be reached by shuttle bus to the Transfiguration Monastery stop. Hotel address: Yaroslavl, st. Pervomaiskaya, 55. You can get from the train station to the Alyosha Popovich Dvor hotel by trolleybus number 5 and 9 or bus number 33, which goes to Epiphany Square. From the last to the three-story hotel building, only five meters.
Near the hotel there are many attractions, including the Transfiguration Monastery (250 m), the Church of the Epiphany, the Assumption Cathedral, the Church of Elijah the Prophet, the Yaroslavl Museum-Reserve. The city center is only five minutes walk. The airport is eighteen kilometers away.
Infrastructure
This hotel, the level of which is equivalent to a three-star, has a beauty salon, left-luggage office, laundry, conference room. The infrastructure also includes a souvenir kiosk and a 24-hour ironing room, a museum-theater with free one-time access for hotel guests and a health center. Reception works without interruption. Check-in is possible at any time of the day. Here you can pay for a transfer or order a taxi.
Late check-out, shops, bridal suites, designated smoking areas, heating, newspapers on request, water coolers on each floor and shoe shine are also provided at the hotel.
Business Services
A special place in the infrastructure is occupied by the conference hall, which the Alyosha Popovich hotel offers. Yaroslavl is a city that is not only a famous tourist destination, but also a business center. It often hosts various forums and congresses, symposia and other events. For such business events, the hotel provides a modern conference room with a maximum capacity of up to one hundred participants. It is located on the attic third floor of the hotel. Like the hotel itself, the conference room also features original design. Its walls with imitation of brickwork depict many city attractions.
The cost of renting a room includes air conditioning, the use of a flipchart and a screen, and the provision of office supplies. For a fee, you can rent audio equipment, including microphones or a mixing console, multimedia projector and widescreen TV.
The conference room provides various furniture arrangements based on the format of a particular event. It has a street entrance.
Housing stock
The Alesha Popovich Hotel (Yaroslavl) offers one hundred and four rooms for accommodation in eleven price categories. For your information, the hotel does not have an elevator, so you need to climb stairs to the second and third floors. The housing stock has cozy attic rooms, affordable standard rooms, "heroic" and "princely" apartments and many other accommodation options.
Standard Double and Twin
Rooms of this category have an area of eighteen to twenty-five square meters. They have one double (“double”) or two single (“twin”) beds, there is a large wardrobe with hangers. There is a separate work area, a small refrigerator, a TV, a small electronic safe, bedside tables, a desk with chairs, a telephone. Guests enjoy free Wi-Fi access. These rooms are equipped with split systems. Bathrooms have bathtubs, towels, hair dryers and complimentary toiletries.
The cost of living starts from three thousand rubles. This amount also includes breakfast buffet. Hotel "Alesha Popovich" (Yaroslavl) offers accommodation and rooms located on the attic floor. Their cost starts with two thousand eight hundred rubles.
Princely Suite
The hotel, decorated in the style of Russian fairy tales, has the same theme and room names. For example, the apartments “Princely Mansions”, consisting of two rooms, have a fairly large territory. They are located in a separate "princely" wing. The walls are lined with eco-friendly wood. The design of the room resembles the decoration of Russian princely choirs. On the walls are paintings depicting Russian heroes, a large bear skin in the living room, massive doors made of pure oak are installed between the rooms. It provides a standard set of furniture, as well as a sofa with two armchairs, a coffee table, a TV, a safe and a minibar. There are two bathrooms in the room: combined with a jacuzzi and a guest toilet. The minibar is free of charge on the day of arrival. The room has a furnished balcony with a beautiful view.
The most expensive apartment in the hotel is considered this suite. Alyosha Popovich, the prices at which are considered quite affordable for a hotel of this level, offers only one room of this category. Guests will need to pay eight and a half thousand rubles per person for accommodation in the “Princely Mansions”.
Each of the hotel rooms is decorated in its own individual style. For example, bridal suites are dominated by soft blue tones that contrast well with high-quality wooden furniture, curtains and bedspreads. In total, the tourist complex "Alyosha Popovich Dvor" offers its guests one hundred and four "registered" chambers. Some of them are named after thirty-three Pushkin heroes. There are also rooms of the Rostov Squad, luxury apartments Alyosha Popovich and Yaroslav the Wise, Ilya Muromets and Alexander Nevsky.
Nutrition
Mainly in the restaurant, which is also decorated based on folk tales, breakfast is served according to the concept of a buffet. The assortment is traditionally Russian treats: cereals, a lot of pancakes with different fillings, pastries, cheesecakes, vegetable or meat slices, sandwiches and drinks (fruit drinks, tea, juices, coffee). The rest of the time you can eat on the preliminary menu.
Judging by the reviews, this restaurant, called "Uncle Chernomor", serves delicious dishes from Russian cuisine. Those who have already been here recommend paying special attention to dumplings and dumplings, although equally tasty and signature snacks, and fish. In addition to Russian, Uncle Chernomore also serves Japanese cuisine.
There are two other restaurants at the hotel. The first serves draft beer from a barrel. The restaurant is called the "Brewer". It consists of a bar and billiard zones, as well as several rooms. This place will especially appeal to those who like beer: here you can taste both unfiltered and imported bottle and local hop drinks, and as an appetizer croutons, shank or sausages.
Another restaurant called Alyoshiny Tortillas is great for celebrations, especially for children. The menu has a lot of sweets, varieties of pizza. Children will love the animation and culinary masterpieces from the chef - pastries in the form of famous fairy tale characters.
In addition to restaurants, the hotel "Alyosha Popovich" also has a lobby bar. It is also designed in accordance with the general concept of the hotel. The Bogatyrsky bar is open around the clock.
Additional Information
The hotel "Alyosha Popovich" has an excellent health center. Its basis is composed of several saunas and baths, which, like hotel rooms, are also given thematic names. Guests can visit the Nikitich sauna, the Popovich bath, the Muromets bath or the Paired Brewer. Upon request, visitors can enjoy a variety of wellness and bath services. A visit to the bathhouse or sauna is included in the price of the hotel, but you must pay extra for entering the SPA-salon. A flexible discount system is available for hotel guests.
On the territory of the recreation complex there is also a swimming pool with a geyser, an ice font and a cryochamber “Rejuvenating apples”. The lounges have LCD TVs and karaoke facilities. The hotel also offers bike rental.
The highlight of the hotel is a museum-theater called "Alyoshino Compound". Here, residents can not only get to know Alyosha Popovich himself and his girlfriend - the Russian beauty Lyubava, played by professional actors, but also learn how to create real amulets and try magic treats from the Russian hero. Participation in a performance lasting about thirty minutes is free for hotel guests.
For children
On the territory of the Alesha Popovich Hotel there are many amenities for young guests: a children's playroom, a mini club, highchairs in restaurants. Children under the age of five are allowed to stay at the hotel with their parents free of charge, subject to the use of beds in the room. Children under the age of twelve are provided with an extra bed for 600 rubles per night. Older children can get a berth in the form of a folding chair for 1000 rubles.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time at the Alesha Popovich Dvor Hotel is 14:00, and the check-out time is set at noon. If you leave the room beyond the checkout time, an additional fee will be charged from the client. From twelve days to six in the evening - hourly, from eighteen hours to midnight - half the fee per day, and beyond this time - for the whole day. For stays of no more than twenty-four hours, the full price of the room is taken from the client, regardless of the time of arrival.
Reviews
Most of the Russians who happened to stay at the Alesha Popovich Hotel were pleased with their stay. The hotel has one important advantage: it is located in the very center of Yaroslavl, so any local attraction is within walking distance from it. It is very convenient for those who come here to combine work with visiting historical monuments.
A single original style, beautiful design of a hotel room, regardless of category, quality services, helpful staff, satisfactory cleanliness, delicious breakfast - this is how most guests recall their stay in this hotel. A lot of good words were said to the staff.
Judging by the reviews, the wonderful work of the maids, the responsive receptionists who quickly solve all the problems that arise are another reason why I would like to return here more than once. The rooms are all amazingly beautiful and original. Plumbing works fine, the bed and towels are snow-white.
Immediately from the threshold one feels the spirit of ancient Russian epics, and in expensive suites, a person feels like a representative of some princely family. “The Russian spirit is here ...” the poet wrote, and this, judging by the reviews, is felt by foreigners.
The hotel complex "Alyosha Popovich" includes several restaurants at once. As the guests say, everyone cooks very tasty.
Those who came to the hotel for any official event separately noted its excellent location. After the conference, you can safely walk around the historical center of Yaroslavl, since all the attractions are within walking distance.
As for the flaws that are repeated in the reviews. Firstly, many note the lack of an elevator. "Alyosha Popovich" is a three-story building, and it has only one staircase, so sometimes it causes some inconvenience. The breakfasts are pretty decent, although there are virtually no dairy products in the buffet. And another drawback that tourists mention quite often is the poor soundproofing of the rooms.
In general, the hotel is fully consistent with the stated pricing policy. The hotel is especially suitable for families with children, who will definitely like the museum-theater.