24 hours in search of a corner.
24 hours in search of a corner.
In Moscow there are no earthquakes. But there are other spontaneous
Disasters. For example, persecution of cockroaches
Or painting of walls and windows. Where then to spend the night?
Such minutes you understand, that the room question spoils not only
Sincere health. Some prefer to wind breath bodies
Rag and to sleep with the opened window leaf, a head outside, others
Are materialised on thresholds of relatives - a kind restrained, kotomka for
Shoulders. And anybody, notice, at all does not try to glance in the nearest
Hotel. Though in Moscow, for example, one hundred hotels. In what the reason the such
Dislike? Also what is created now in capital "hoteljah"? I took in quality
Covers the companion, the familiar journalist, and we have represented a young couple in
Searches of a warm corner. I will tell at once: a corner have found. But have learnt weight
Interesting as about itself (from workers of hotels), and about hotels.
Hotels can be classified on stars. But for Russia the such
The gradation is not necessary. In other five-stars hotel in the centre of Moscow
Really luxury and carpets, but bugs run. Therefore I have thought up the
Gradation. Hotels happen for:
- Foreigners,
- Sent,
- Market dealers.
We with the girlfriend have visited all three types of hotels.
Most close to us there was hotel "Youth", that on Dmitrovsky
Highway. Its imposing 20-storeyed building is visible for many kilometres. It
- Typical hotel complex of middle class ("for sent",
On our classification), but is here and foreigners, mainly from
The third countries. Couple of years back here has stopped there was my acquaintance from
Los Angeles, but has run away: it did not like sad wall-paper, insects and
Unfriendly parlourmaids. How now affairs there are?
On an input us tormoznuli two hefty security guards.
- Room it is necessary to us, - I have told.
- I see, that is necessary, - has uttered the security guard, having looked up and down my companion.
That has distorted. The good beginning.
- We can pass there? - I have stuck with a finger in a direction to a window
The manager.
- pokazh the document, - has demanded guards.
At first it has sniffed at the passport itself, has then passed it to examination,
As I have understood, to the chief. At last under steadfast looks to us have allowed to make
Twenty steps to depth of hotel.
The manager painted nails and talked to the girlfriend. Uvidja
Us, she has not shown any signs of activity. Some times I tried
To draw its attention, tapping on glass and trying to catch its eye. For 10 minutes
(!) We have learnt many details from its home life. But here reluctantly
It has come off conversation and was engaged in us.
The double room for days costs 230 thousand. To remove on an hour or two
It is impossible. To remove single together it is impossible. Muscovites? Any problems.
The inquiry on a matrimony as in days of old, too have not demanded. One "but"
- Places, apparently, are not present. The manager has gone to learn, whether there are places. Waited
It even 10 minutes, and we already would not like to remain here. However,
Free numbers really it has not appeared.
Hotel "Sayan mountains" on the Yaroslavl highway, too middle class,
It has appeared it is overflowed by any delegation. Delegates have lodged in the cheap
(But, as I was convinced, having examined one such number, quite good) numbers, where in
Presence two beds, the TV, a refrigerator and radio have been noticed, and also
Bathroom - one on two rooms. "Cheap" are 200 thousand a day. To us
Have offered expensive, for 400 thousand, where to the blessings set forth above
Civilisations increased rugs, little tables and the other lyrics. The message, that
We Muscovites, enthusiasm has not called, and to us have given questionnaires, where in eyes
The column "the visit Purpose" rushed.
- What it is necessary to write here? - I have asked.
- The truth, - the elderly woman-manager has severely responded.
- And if we poison cockroaches?
- And write - "potrava cockroaches".
Motel "Warsaw" costs detached on the Warsaw highway. Have arrived
There towards evening and... For the night to remain would not risk. Multiton
Trailers, drivers-truckers, persons of southern nationalities and their girlfriend -
All it creates disturbing atmosphere of the Mexican brothel, as in the known
Film "From a decline till a dawn". Anybody here is not interested, who you and
Whence. Have asked passports, but it seems to me, if at us they were not,
Would lodge and so. The main thing - pay pledge of 200 thousand. The double
The room costs 84 thousand. Pledge is in case you will clear up and
You will set fire, you will fill in number, you will break furniture. The wild shouts which have been pulled out
From for an instant of the opened window, have shown, that pledge administration
Raises knowingly. As we know, here like to carry prostitutes
biznesmenchiki an average hand, type of owners of tents or market
Pavilions.
Other hotel on suburb "Zagore", on the contrary, has made quite good
Impression. Rather quite good.
It is near to my house, and one year ago here is constant
The police squad was on duty. A contingent of inhabitants - Vietnameses and gastarbajtery from
Southern republics. All is told by it. Earlier I here and to glance not
Has risked. Now to lodge here still strashnovato, but at least
It is possible to come into foyer bravely, that from a window will throw out a bucket with dust and
Head will break. The administration was going to with forces and has arranged it is some
Decent numbers with the TV and a refrigerator at the price of 120 thousand roubles in
Days. These rooms do not use demand, because "pure" public in
"Zagore" to go is afraid, and and gastarbajteram the comfort is not necessary to dealers.
The administration prefers not to press in biographic data
Lodgers:
- Though you from Vladivostok, though therefrom (a nod towards windows
On the contrary) live how much you want, - the uncle-manager tenderly looked
On us, probably, recollecting a youth.
So, we have visited the most typical hotels of average and low
Class. "Metropol" (2,8 million roubles a day) in our plans did not enter.
General impression: though for last five years of hotel have made
Known step towards to the client, but positive changes - in comparison
With Soviet times - are settled by only two points:
- Now here start up not only nonresident and married, but all
Citizens of Russia without dependence from a residence and a marital status;
- The tablet "is not present Places", years not descending from tables of managers,
At last has found the place in a closet.
But we will peer, whether so these achievements in comparison with the missed are great
Possibilities? The first of them - purely political. The second is called simply
Unreasonable rise in price of hotel services. Really, a family from three
The person, taken in head for a week to arrive to Moscow, to admire got prettier
Capital, will spend in middle class hotel about two million
Roubles. It only on habitation! Now it is clear, why has silently died
Internal tourism.
We and did not have small private boards. It is most
The big minus of present hotel system. A minus especially appreciable on
Background of a network of private small restaurants and cafe. In what here business?
It is some reasons, in my opinion. That fact, that in Novgorod, for example,
Such hotels are, prompts the first: unreasonable dearness of rent,
The real estate in Moscow. Other reason - in high criminalisation of this
Business areas. Small hotels instantly become object steadfast
Attention from criminal structures.
All it has led to that the hotel did not become if so it is possible
To be expressed, a part of the Russian way of life. In the West the branched out network
Cheap and pure hotels and motels as though symbolises freedom
Movement and finally personal freedom, are shown by possibility
Choice: with whom to live how to live and where. In Russia thousand actually already
The broken up families are compelled to divide the general roof, millions young men -
To press close on gates, ten thousand students in hostels - to stand in
Turns to a desk that half an hour to work. And even having money,
To rent a room in hotel, you are not guaranteed against humiliations from the party
Protection or the parlourmaid which live on your bill, or that you
It is involved in "dismantling" between the Vietnamese and Uzbek dealers.
Konstantin of SPARROWS.
//* an information Source: the Russian newspaper, 30.10.97
//* Reg. Nom. - 6071000216.45-------------------------------------------
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