In 2020, many Russians plan to spend the New Year in Sochi. During the winter holidays, the city is transformed, illuminated by bright festive lights and pleases guests with many interesting cultural events and entertainment. On request, you can book a room in a luxury hotel with a swimming pool or go skiing.
Holiday city
The famous Caucasian resort with a warm climate annually attracts hundreds of tourists who want to cheaply celebrate New Year 2020 by the sea and snow-capped peaks, especially in Sochi for this period prices are quite affordable for everyone. Skating rinks, ice slides, rides for children and adults work in the park zones of the city all winter. The facades of houses and streets are decorated with festive garlands, and in the central square a smart Christmas tree is set up, fairs and fun festivities are held.
In December and January, there are no snow hurricanes and severe frosts in Sochi itself, so you can safely go on a sightseeing tour of local attractions or look into the largest shopping and entertainment centers:
- Arboretum. This is a picturesque corner of wildlife with centuries-old plane trees and centennial oaks, tulip trees and Himalayan cedars, eucalyptus groves, artificial ponds and ponds.
- Sochi Discovery World. Sochi Aquarium will certainly appeal to all vacationers with children. The pedestrian tunnel made of thick glass allows you to plunge into the depths of the sea and admire the sunken ships, coral reefs, and observe the habits of marine inhabitants - sharks, rays, catfishes, sea horses, and fish cows.
- Riviera and water area. Two major Sochi dolphinariums await guests all the New Year holidays. Visitors can enjoy the show with walruses, seals, white whales, dolphins, sea lions. For a fee, visit the penguinarium and take a photo next to your favorite pet.
- AJ Hackett Sochi. This is an extreme park for adrenaline lovers. They like to ride on the 439 meter suspension bridge located above the Akhshtyrsky gorge. From a height of 207 meters, picturesque views of the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus Mountains open. Guests of the park are also invited to visit the high-rise attraction MegaTroll, the rope park, ride a helicopter or the highest swing.
- Galaxy. Wonderful place for a winter holiday in Sochi. This social and cultural center hosts all kinds of informative exhibitions, a children's club, a planetarium, an ice arena, a cinema, a bowling alley, a water park with waterfalls, pools, air geysers and various slides, even for the smallest ones, work.
For nature lovers who choose a holiday in Sochi in 2020, they plan excursions to beautiful lakes, waterfalls, rocks, gorges, canyons. You can even drive to the picturesque water cascades Zmeykovsky, Agursky, Ivanovsky, Orekhovsky, Dragon's Mouth on your own. For family trips, the National Park and the Yew-boxwood Grove Nature Reserve are excellent.
The best ski resorts
Convenient cable lifts, routes of varying difficulty, inexpensive catering points, equipment rental points, luxury hotels and budget hotels - all this service is offered by large Russian ski resorts located near Sochi:
- Gazprom Laura.An ideal place for the New Year 2020 in Sochi, biathlon and all winter sports. There is a snow support system on all the tracks, so even the sharpest warming will not spoil the mood. Accommodation is offered by 3 large hotel centers, and vacationers go to the Galaxy Shopping Center to relax in the warmth, swim in the water park or go to an interesting movie to the cinema. For an additional fee, guests of the resort book horseback riding, quad biking, and children have fun in the Morozko club.
- Hills City. A large ski center with five-star hotels and less expensive hotels for vacationers. An entertainment club is open for children; more than 10 cable cars are open. All ski slopes are lit in the evening and at night. Gorky Gorod Mall complex has been built on the territory of the resort, bowling, billiards, a water park, spa and fitness center are open.
- Rosa Khutor. One of the most popular destinations for the New Year 2020 in Sochi, it is better to book ski tours here in advance to save as much as possible. There are 23 lifts on the mountain slopes. Here lovers of skiing and freestyle spend their time comfortably. Vacationers pre-book rooms in fashionable hotels, secluded houses in the mountains or in budget hotels for large companies. The famous resort of Krasnaya Polyana pleases visitors not only with its snowy mountain slopes, ideally equipped for snowboarding and skiing, but also with other types of outdoor activities. For example, horse riding, winter fishing, climbing, snowmobiling.
Three major ski resorts in Sochi are waiting for Russians and foreigners to spend all the New Year holidays in an interesting and fun way. They are in no way inferior to their alpine brethren and offer their guests a service based on the principle of "whatever the soul desires."
Rest in the best hotels and pensions
Entertainment banquets and programs for celebrating New Year's Eve and Christmas are offered by the best hotels in Sochi:
- Mercure Sochi Center is a well-known spa complex in the very center of the city with a gym, pool, hammam and sauna. Many rooms offer views of the Black Sea coast. A variety of drinks and cocktails are served in the lobby bar, while the Lace restaurant serves European and traditional Russian cuisine.
- Bogatyr is a chic hotel built in a palace style. On New Year's Eve guests are offered an excellent entertainment program. It includes the performance of pop stars, show ballet, carnival, fireworks. The hotel's spa includes a Russian bath, a Finnish sauna, a snowfall, a pool with hydromassage. Restaurant “Sadko” is imbued with the spirit of knightly antiquity, where guests are invited to taste the dishes of the author’s cuisine and have a great time under the arches of stone arches.
- Sochi Breeze is an inexpensive spa hotel where you can spend a winter mini-vacation and get healthier. For guests there is a gym, a beauty parlor offering all kinds of facial and body treatments, as well as an indoor pool with contrasting fonts and hydromassage. The hotel's bath complex includes a Finnish sauna, a Russian steam bath and a bath, and a Roman bath.
- Green Grove is a well-known Sochi resort of a wide profile. People from all over Russia and the world flock here to not only celebrate the New Year and relax, but also to improve their health. The resort specializes in the treatment and prevention of diseases of the heart and blood vessels, nervous system, musculoskeletal system. The daily menu includes the beneficial medicinal-table mineral waters "Lazarevskaya" and Sochinskaya ", as well as a massage and all kinds of physiotherapy.
This is only a small part of the places where you can stay in Sochi for a perfect holiday and New Year's celebrations.Most of the city's boarding houses offer treatment and prevention programs for the recovery of the musculoskeletal system, nervous and cardiovascular systems. In any Sochi health resort you can take a course of halotherapy, mud therapy, magnetotherapy, hirudotherapy, relax in a mineral, hydrogen sulfide or radon bath. To calm nerves, get rid of chronic fatigue and prepare for a new long working year.
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