Section: Rest

Page: Travel to Crimea

Suggestions
- Read this site completly, it is short and easy.
- Best time for holidays on Crimea is between May and September.
Requests
- Clean.
- Tell friends about Crimea when you come back.
- Forgive the authors their English ...

By plane
- Fly to Simferopol the capital of Crimea, there is an international airport.
- You may fly via Lvov, Kiev or Moscow.
- Check the timetable at Portal to Ukraine (go to Travel -> Airlines)
By car
- Gas prices in Crimea: E-98 4.50 UAH, E-95 4.00 UAH, oil 3.60 UAH (prices from 28th April 2006)
- Current gas prices in Kyiv: diesel (short Дизтопливо) and gas 95, 92 i 76 (source: Украинский Финансовий Сервер)
- If you aren't owner of a car you must translate your car document into Ukrainian.
By bus
- Bus timetable .
- Check in your country if there are routes to Crimea. We know, there are connexions from Lviv or Kyiv in Ukraine.
By train
- European travellers see Travel Planner at Deutsche Bahn and put the Simferopol as target station.
- Central railway station is in Simferopol, smaller station: Yevpatoria, Sevastopol, Kerch.
By bike
- If you like of course, from Warsaw in Poland there is about 1 600 km.
- See our bike journey around the Crimea .

Main:
- Information on the procedure entry to (exit from) Ukraine - please read this carefully
- Citizens of European Union and Switzerland (from September 1, 2005), United States (from July 1, 2005), Japan and Commonwealth of Independent States (without Turkmenistan) may travel to Ukraine without visa. Citizens of this countries may stay up to 90 days in Ukraine. Others should read site of Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and about Ukrainian visas (2005-11-20).

Currency
- The currency of Ukraine is hryvnia (ukr. гривня), sign 1 UAH, 1/100 hryvnia = 1 kopiyka (ukr. копійка).
- Tickers with current exchange rates: Polish zloty (PLN), US dollar (USD), euro (EUR) and Russian rubel (RUB) (official values from National Bank of Ukraine НБУ)
- You may read a interesting history of hryvnia on site of National Bank of Ukraine.
- Look at the graph - rate of exchange EUR, last 90 days
- For additional information you may visit finance.com.ua web site
Prices
- Room costs 3-8 USD per day in village, in bigger cities hotels costs 20-80 USD and 100-150 USD if you want.
Insurance
- Insurance procedure for foreigners, entering the territory of Ukraine.
- You should contact state-owned joint-stock insurance company "Ukrinmedstrakh" - working round-the-clock; telephones in Kiev: 0038 44 2293927 (or 2294028)

Language
- Official language of Autonomous Republic of the Crimea is Russian, but people also speak Ukrainian and Tatar, sometimes Polish. Official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian.
- Information about Ukrainian language (ukr. українська мова) at tha Omniglot site and elaboration at the Wikipeda .
Post
- Normal like elsewhere.
Telephony
- Take 8 then 10 then your country number, city or region number and home number like 8-10-48-61-1234567.
- For mobile phones take 8-10-country number-mobile number.
Cellular telephony
- There are 3 main operators in Ukraine: Kyivstar GSM, Golden Telecom LLC, Ukrainian Mobile Comms (UMC).
- In Sudak and Vesyoloye works good Kyivstar GSM.
- You may find maps of coveriage in section Links - Telephony, post
- For prices and regulations please contact your local operator.
- Turn roaming on.
Internet
- Available in Sudak, near Vesyoloye, at the post, works 24h. Prices from 0.024 UAH per 1 minute.

Internet sites:
- Turisticheskiy Server Kryma (Crimean Touristic Server) www.tour.crimea.com
- Other internet sites, see in section Links .
Authors's own informations:
- One of the authors was born in Vesyoloye and live there and second author was 12 times in Ukraine (Lviv, Kyiv) including 4 times on Crimea.
- Informations from friends.

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