Where to book hotels in Crimea instead Booking.com

After the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation in 2014, Western countries imposed sanctions on citizens and businesses of the peninsula, including tourism. Crimea was excluded from the search by the world's most popular hotel booking system Booking, short-term accommodation search and booking service AirBnB, hotel search engine Agoda and others. When requesting options for any city and resort, all these search engines simply did not produce results, and AirBnB directly reports that it does not work in this region.

Until 2022, it was possible to partially circumvent this restriction in search Booking.com if you enable the "I travel for work" option/check box in the search form:

Screenshot for booking hotels in Crimea on Booking.com

But now this option has stopped working fully, and allows you to book accommodation for only one person in the room. This means that you can not make a hotel reservation for two adults, an adult with a child or a family with children.

Therefore, we have prepared a selection of domestic search services that, contrary to Western prohibitions, continue to work successfully and allow you to travel around the peninsula. All these search engines are proven and reliable, so you can safely book and recover on vacation and travel to the Crimea:

• 🛌 Sutochno.ru - domestic alternative to AirBnb
• 🛌 MirTurbaz.ru - you can book a place at a campsite or recreation center