Travel tips on Poltava hotels

Those people who have visited Poltava even once in their life will definitely remember this beautiful place to the end of their lives. According to the official statistics Poltava is the top cleanest city in Ukraine with a lot of greenery, transparent lakes and beautiful hospitable people.

Also what I like about Poltava the most, as a young man, is Poltava ladies who are, possibly, the prettiest ladies in the world with long blond hair, sunny smiles and hot shapes. However, for me as for a foreigner, it was a real challenge to book a hotel room as I have found a very little information about Poltava hotels in the internet and the majority of them did not speak English. I also found several travel agencies which offered hotel reservation services but I was pretty confused about their 100% prepayment for hotel reservation as Ukraine was a strange country for me and I was afraid to lose my money due to a lot of fraud cases that happened time to time in the internet with all those fake companies.

However, finally I have reserved a nice hotel and spend a beautiful time in Poltava! Now I will try to tell you about all pros and contras of hotel reservation!

Firstly, I would like to start with discussion about what option is better to choose to reserve a hotel room in Poltava: directly or through travel agent? It is a very contradictory question as in case with agents you should provide a full deposit for reservation. Usually you can pay via Visa, MasterCard online or through Paypal which very convenient.

And in case if you reserve hotel directly from the hotel you can pay either upon your check in or just with a money transfer to their bank account. Paypal as well as Visa/Mastercard are not acceptable, only bank transfer which is very time consuming and inconvenient as you have to covert dollars/euros to hryvyas as hotel accept only hryvnyas (national currency of Ukraine). Also you should pay attention that all hotels in Poltava guarantee 100% reservation of hotel room only in case of 100% prepayment which means if they have a client which complies with their prepayment conditions they will give their preferences to him and when you finally come to Poltava you can find that you have no room available at this moment or available but of superior category which is much more expensive. When I examined this issue I found some posts of a guy who reserved a hotel room directly from the hotel as he spoke bad Russian which was enough for reservation but when he came to Poltava he found no reservation for him and had to live in deluxe suite which was only available at that time for 3 days until a standard room was available again, which was twice expensive for him! Therefore, in this case I will personally recommend you to use travel agent and make sure that this agent is a local one as I had a lot of problems with agents which were located in other cities than a hotel.

Another issue is which hotel to choose while traveling to Poltava. To start with, there are two main hotels in Poltava which are both very nice and both have 4 stars. Their names are Palazzo hotel and Gallery hotel. They are both centrally located, both have very comfortable and modern rooms. The initial price for their rooms starts from $70, therefore, if you budget is enough for these hotels I would recommend you to book one of them as they are really the best in Poltava! Another category of hotels consists of small private hotels which are very nice in general and are worthy of every penny! These are the following hotels: hotel ‘Gold’, hotel ‘Tourist’, hotel ‘Yavir’. I have personally stayed in Gold hotel and I should say that I really enjoyed staying there: a large room, luxury leather furniture, a/c, king-size bed, cozy location (park zone) and all this for U.S.$ 50 per a night! A big advantage of this hotel is that you pay for a room but not for a number of persons, therefore, you can live their 2 or 3 people and price will be the same!

If you are a budget traveler, I would recommend you to take Yavir hotel as you can rent a nice room per 1 person just for $27 per a night! It is, probably, the best price/quality ratio hotel in Poltava!

And the final question is how to reserve any hotel in Poltava. I have examined more than 10 travel agents which offered hotel reservation and finally gave my preference to Travel agency ‘Welcome to Poltava’. Firstly, it is a local agency which means that you will have no problem in case of any force majeure; secondly, their rates are the best comparing to other travel agents; thirdly, I have found them very helpful as they showed me top interesting place in Poltava, gave a lot of valuable tips and even introduced to some local girls with whom (Lena) I still have a romance!

Also these guys picked me up at Kiev Borispol Airport and transferred me with all my baggage to Poltava!

So if you decide to travel to Poltava my recommendation is Travel Agency 'Welcome to Poltava'

Have a good time and Bon Voyage!