Holidays in Goryachy Klyuch - how to get there, what to see, where to stay

General information, recreation, beaches

Goryachy Klyuch - a city and resort in the center of Krasnodar Krai, 65 kilometers from Krasnodar and about 60 kilometers from the nearest Black Sea coast (Goryachy Klyuch on the map). This is a relatively small settlement, its population, together with all its villages, is about 70 thousand people. It is conveniently located on the Federal Highway "M4-Don", which leads from Krasnodar to the coast, thanks to which it is popular with road travelers as a place for a short stop on the way to the beach resorts of the region. But it is also an independent health resort, famous for its mineral waters and clean air. Goryachy Klyuch is surrounded by forests and low mountains of the Goryachy-Klyuchevsky state reserve, there are no large cities and industrial facilities nearby.

Rest in Goryachy Klyuch

As we have already mentioned, most often Goryachy Klyuch is visited by road travelers in the form of a short walk through the tourist part of the resort on the way to the beach resorts of the Black Sea. To do this, you do not need to go to the city itself, and you can leave the car in one of the large free parking lots right on the M4 near the famous landmark - cafe and Hotel "Old Castle". Then go on foot over the pedestrian bridge to the tourist zone of Goryachy Klyuch, and there walk through the mountain and medical parks. In a couple of hours you can visit Drinking gallery with mineral water, climb the "ladder of life" to Petushok rock, walk to Dantovo Gorge, thereby seeing all the significant interesting places of the resort.

You can go to Goryachy Klyuch on vacation purposefully for several days or weeks, for which there are all the conditions and a cozy and well-groomed resort area has been created. The atmosphere in the resort is quiet and measured, and much more pleasant than in crowded and hectic beach resorts. Even the resting "public" in Goryachy Klyuch is noticeably different from the beaches for the better: there are no drunken and noisy companies, jostling in shops and cafes.

Since this is a health resort, it is worth going here first of all for healing with mineral waters and fresh healing air, for which vouchers to local sanatoriums and boarding houses are offered. You can buy ready-made tours in the sanatorium, or book separately only accommodation.

If you can not buy a ticket to the sanatorium, you can come and stay on your own in one of the inexpensive hotels or guest houses, and improve your health by walking along the therapeutic terrencures and visiting the drinking gallery for free.

But do not expect that the rest in Goryachy Klyuch will be very interesting and varied, especially if you plan to stay here for more than 2-3 days. Unfortunately, objectively speaking, this place is pleasant, but a long stay here can be boring, especially for young people and children. There are almost no tourist Entertainments and few attractions, the atmosphere is very calm. You can, of course, every day walk through the mountain and medical parks, but this pastime will appeal only to the most phlegmatic tourists or the elderly. The situation is saved, except that the opportunity to swim on the local lake Krugloye or on the Psekups River, although this can not be called a full-fledged beach holiday.

Infrastructure in Goryachy Klyuch

Goryachy Klyuch is a city, and the infrastructure here is appropriate. In the center there are shops and shopping centers, chain supermarkets, Markets, Authorities, pharmacies, banks and ATMs. In the resort area of Goryachy Klyuch, too, there is everything you need for a short rest and a long stay, but if you do not find something, you can get to the center by any city bus for 25 rubles or even walk a couple of kilometers.

If you stay on vacation in a sanatorium, then food will most likely already be included in the price. If the issue of food will have to be solved independently, then keep in mind that if you are used to inexpensive cafes and kebabs at beach resorts, you will not find this here. Cafes and restaurants here are more chic and expensive, there are few budget establishments. In our opinion, one of the most inexpensive catering establishments is a chain restaurant "BurgerKing", but it is located far from the tourist area in the center on Lenin Street, 192, so every day you are not in it. Therefore, many vacationers prefer to cook themselves, for which most hotels and guest houses have a common kitchen. Fresh local products can be bought directly in the tourist area at the Old Market on Voroshilov Street, and inexpensive semi-finished products in the usual chain stores "Pyaterochka" and "Magnet".

Theoretically, you can drink water from the tap here, but if in doubt, it is better to buy it in a store or vending machines on the street, as the locals do. In the machines "Live Water" one liter of water costs from 3 rubles, you can fill any container from 1 to 20 liters. Money for water is paid in cash, but the machine does not issue change, so make sure that you have small coins.

Hotels and accommodation in Goryachy Klyuch, where to stay

To choose a place for accommodation in Goryachy Klyuch, you need to understand that the city is conditionally divided into a residential part (Center) and a resort area (tourist area):

• The residential part or center is an area where mainly houses of local residents, shops, government offices, etc. are located.Center on map. Although there are also hotels and guest houses, this area is not very suitable for tourist accommodation, since you simply have nothing to do here.
• The resort area or tourist area occupies the southwestern part of the city (resort area on the map. Here, in addition to residential buildings and shops, there are sanatoriums and hotels, a pedestrian zone for vacationers, tourist infrastructure and attractions are concentrated. It is in this zone that we recommend choosing accommodation, and in no other way.

You can stay for rest in Goryachy Klyuch in one of the mini-hotels, guest houses or medical and preventive sanatoriums. Sanatoriums are available as part of a package tour, and you can also book them as a hotel and come to rest on your own.

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Goryachy Klyuch weather and tourist seasons

Given the therapeutic nature of recreation in Goryachy Klyuch, we can say that this is a year-round resort. However, if you plan to visit the city for a few days not for treatment in one of the local sanatoriums, but for a change of scenery and acquaintance with local attractions, then the best time is late spring, summer and early autumn, or in other words, the period from May to mid – October. It is during these months in Goryachy Klyuch that comfortable warm weather becomes available for visiting all hiking trails and routes to attractions in the vicinity.

The question is often asked, Is it possible to come to Goryachy Klyuch in winter? Definitely possible, just will not be so warm and comfortable. In addition, you will have to walk along snow-covered and icy trails to distant attractions, which is not always convenient and safe.

In any case, no matter what time of year you are going to visit this resort, we advise you to take with you good sports or hiking shoes for walking, a raincoat or membrane jacket, and clothes a little warmer than the season.

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How to get to Goryachy Klyuch

Goryachy Klyuch is located 65 kilometers from Krasnodar and 1400 kilometers from Moscow (Map hotkey). There is a railway station here, where trains and trains to Sochi stop, so it is easy to get here by train from most regions and major cities of the Russian Federation. You can get there by bus or your own transport, because the city is located next to the Federal Highway M4 and from Krasnodar to it leads a chic Highway. If you prefer air transport, you will need to fly to the airport of Krasnodar and there transfer to a taxi, buses or train.

The easiest and most convenient way to get to Goryachy Klyuch is to buy a ready – made package tour from one of the proven Russian tour operators. There are tours with included flights and buses. If the tour is with a flight, then it usually includes a transfer from the airport directly to the hotel, so you do not have to worry about public transport or spend money on a taxi.

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The most convenient way to get to Goryachy Klyuch by plane is through Krasnodar Pashkovsky airport. It operates many flights from Moscow and the cities of the Russian Federation, while the prices for flights without luggage compete with the cost of a train ticket. But to get a good price for a flight, you need to buy tickets long in advance and follow the sales and special offers of airlines. It is most convenient to do this on the site of the Russian search engine Aviasales.

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The airport is located 50 kilometers from the resort (Airport on the map), so it will take at least an hour to get to your destination. You can get directly only by taxi (1 hour, from 1200 USD), and if you need to save money, you will have to go with transfers by bus (3 hours, from 250 USD) or electric trains (3 hours, from 220 USD).

In Goryachy Klyuch there is a large railway junction and station, through which many trains pass from the regions to Tuapse and Sochi, but it is worth noting that not all. There are trains that follow the route through Belorechensk without arriving in Goryachy Klyuch. The railway station in Goryachy Klyuch is located on the outskirts of the city (railway station on the map). Upon arrival at it, you can get to the tourist area by city buses No. 3 or 5, a taxi will cost from 120 rubles.

You can get here by bus at least from Moscow, Rostov-On-Don, Stavropol, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kislovodsk, Makhachkala, Astrakhan, Kislovodsk. Of course, there are flights from the coast from Sochi, Adler, Gelendzhik and from other cities of the Krasnodar Territory. There is no complete bus schedule in the direction of Goryachy Klyuch, but you can find information and buy tickets online on these sites: Tutu.ru, kpas.ru

An excellent highway leads to Krasny Klyuch from Krasnodar, part of the way passes along the highway with a speed limit of 110 km/h. What is still very good, all the famous black sea traffic jams and a complex serpentine road begin further after the resort, so you can get here by private car on vacation comfortably and quickly.

Learn more about all the ways to get to Goryachy Klyuch here.

Transport in Goryachy Klyuch

The tourist area of Goryachy Klyuch, where most of the hotels and guest houses, attractions, Entertainments, the alley of a Thousand Pines and the drinking pump room are concentrated, is quite compact, and you will not need transport to move along it. Moreover, most of this zone is generally pedestrian.

Transport here is needed only in order to get from/to the railway station, bus station or trips to the city center to shopping centers. To do this, you can rent bicycles or scooters, taxis or city buses.

Yandex Taxi aggregator apps work in Goryachy Klyuch.Go et al. The cost of the trip starts from 90 rubles, but in bad weather and with traffic jams that happen, again, in bad weather, the price can easily increase at times. For example, in our experience, the standard cost of a taxi from a tourist area to a railway station rose from 120 rubles to 320 rubles. You can also use the services of private taxi drivers on the street, but they ask for a trip more than aggregators.

The city bus system consists of more than a dozen routes, many of which are very useful for tourists. Routes No. 3 and No. 5 go to the Railway Station, No. 1 to the bus station, and almost on any route you can move between the city center and the tourist area along Lenin Street/Psekupskaya. The fare is fixed-25 rubles. Paid to the driver at the entrance in cash or by bank card.

Attractions and entertainments in Goryachy Klyuch

If we talk objectively, then really worth visiting interesting places in Goryachy Klyuch, consider that there is no. And those that are, attractions can be called a stretch. Actually, all the interesting things that are in the city itself, you can easily see in one day during a leisurely walk through the tourist area of the city, as well as in the mountain and medical parks.

Several interesting natural attractions can be visited in the vicinity of the resort. These are waterfalls, caves, grottoes, rocks, and even just easy hiking routes through the forest and over the hills. Some of them need to be reached by transport, but in most cases you can do just a one-day walk.

You can go to more remote places in the Krasnodar Territory or to the neighboring Republic of Adygea during your vacation in Goryachy Klyuch, for which you can buy inexpensive group tours on the street from distributors or in hotels. Unfortunately, there is no great variety of excursions, as in the beach resorts of the region, but in general the most popular destinations are represented. So, you can go with a group to Guamka and the Guam Gorge (from 2000 rubles/person); visit Gelendzhik and the dolmens in its vicinity (from 1500 rubles/person); go swimming on the sea with dolphins in Blue Bay (from 700 rubles / person).

Learn more about the attractions and entertainments of Goryachy Klyuch and the immediate surroundings that you can visit yourself, indicating their opening hours, costs, and how to get there here.