Hotel and apartment reservation in Kiev Ukraine

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Trip to Ukraine.

When you are planning to visit Ukraine for the 1st time there can be questions you are asking yourself beginning from weather conditions, visa and payment possibilities and closing up with local cuisine and distractions. We will hope you will discover all the answers in this article.
Ukraine is an open state for EU citizens, so you will not come across any visa difficulties. If you are not from European Union country you will require an invitation letter.
The easiest way to come to Ukraine is by air. Probably your tickets will be to Kiev international airport. There you will find many opportunities to reach any place in Ukraine you need - by bus, railway, plane or car.
Where to live in Kharkiv, Ukraine? To be safe it would be better to care about this problem in advance. You can book a room in a hotel or lease an apartment. Hotels in Ukraine are pretty expensive and it is more reasonable to lease an apartment in Kharkiv for example go to http://www.kharkov-apartment.com or http://www.apartment.kharkov.ua/en/. You can do it from the internet, from the website of an flat let company like http://apartments.kharkov.ua/eng.htm. But be careful to find a serious company, and do not make a prepayment if you aren't confident, Internet is a place where one can be easily cheated.
Ukrainian currency is hrivnya. You can easily exchange euros or dollars in banks in Ukaine and exchange departments. You can also use your credit card to take money from a cash machine. But take into account that there can be limit for a sum of money to be taken for one time and bank commission for the operation. Unfortunately there are not many places where one can pay by card, usually they are supermarkets, some chemist's shops and restaurants. But it is better to find out in advance if the place you are going to accepts cards.
You won't have food difficulties in Ukraine. There are a lot of restaurants ans coffees with any kind of cuisine. We reccommend you to try Ukrainian cuisine. The most popular dishes of which are borsh, vareniki, okroshka, kvas. In case you prefer to cook for yourself you will need to go to a supermarket where you will get everything needed.
Ukraine is not a "criminal" country and it is secure to walk in the streets. Surely there are some places that can be not safe to walk at night, but they are as a rule in the outskirts and you will doubtly go there.
There are many places to go out in the evening in large cities in Ukraine clubs that play all kinds of music, bowling and billiard, casino. You can go to aqua park, sauna or banya (you can try Russian banya which differs from sauna). If you like to rest actively there are many sport activities as horse back riding, skating, carting, golf, tennis, badminton, skiing in winter.
As for local transport there are buses, trolley buses, trams, big Ukrainian cities have an underground. The price isn't high. If you do not like local transport you can hire a car.
Here is one more detail you should remember when visiting Ukraine. People there speak Ukrainian or Russian. The most of people understand English, but don't be surprised if you are not understood. So it is it's desirable to take a interpreter or learn some much used phrases in Russian, for example dobriy den' (good afternoon), privet (hello), do svidaniya (good bye), spasibo (thank you), mne nuzhna pomosch (I need help).
We won't speak here about weather conditions and places of site-seeing. They can be easily found in internet web sites. In the end we would like to notice that all foreigners that have been to Ukraine mark the beauty of Ukrainian nature and hospitability of Ukrainians.
We wish you to spend a nice time in Ukraine.