Odessa has plenty to offer visitors to its city: incomparable shopping, the opera, its historical buildings, beautiful girls, a plethora of restaurants – one thing it doesn’t have so much of, however, is really good hotels. Despite there being hotels available, their numbers are limited; the service offered could be better and visitors have found that staying in one of the few Odessa hotels available tends to work out rather expensive – especially when it comes to paying for food, drinks and incidentals such as bottled water and service charges. Estimates taken from statistics appear to suggest that, of all the people who visit Odessa and choose to stay for any length of time, as few as 30% choose to stay in a hotel. According to statistics, reasons such as these are just some of the explanations visitors give for preferring to find Odessa apartments for rent.
Tariffs per night for staying at one of Odessa’s hotels can range from around $40 per night to as much as $300 or so for a hotel of five-star standard. A hotel stay in Odessa can become quite an eye-opening experience as the standard generally considered as three-star in the USA or UK would, in the Ukraine, be more equivalent to one or two stars – not generally what a holidaymaker would accept as an agreeable standard! The point I’m making here is that, to get an adequate standard comparable to a three-star in Western Europe or the US you would have to pay the five-star tariff – which can work out rather expensive, especially if you intend to stay for any length of time.
Compare this with the prices charged for renting one of the Odessa apartments. Generally, when renting Odessa apartments, the price starts at around $35 per night up to a maximum of $250, the latter providing one of the most sumptuous standards you could possibly imagine. Usually the price for renting Odessa apartments reflects whether the apartment consists of one, two or three bedrooms – as well as taking into account the standard of decor of each apartment. Odessa apartments in Ukraine tend to be categorized according to economy, standard or luxury. Economy Odessa apartments usually include a telephone from which you can only make local calls, a bathroom which has a shower in it and very little else. Nevertheless, these economy Odessa apartments are good value if you are simply looking for a no-frills place to sleep.
Standard Odessa apartments for rent generally include a weekly cleaning service where your bedding and towels get changed on a 7-day basis, internet access and other little touches such as a hair dryer, refrigerator and cable television. These Odessa apartments usually offer a separate bedroom and new furniture throughout. Odessa apartments for rent at the top end of the market – those that evince opulent luxury – offer extras such as Jacuzzi tubs, international lines to the telephone and space for more people to stay. Quite often there are other little extras slipped in to these luxury apartments as well.
