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Coming to Yaremcha

In Ukraine there is a well know holiday resort called Yaremcha which is located in the Ivano Frankivsk oblast in the very western part of Ukraine.

Yaremcha

You can reach Yaremcha by train:
606 К Lviv – Rahiv (львів – рахів)
Departing at 15.20 from Lviv and arriving in Yaremcha at 21.03 (Rahiv 23.58)

606 Л Rahiv – Lviv (рахів – львів)
Departing at 01.22 from Rahiv, arriving in Yaremcha at 04.15 (Lviv 10.10)

As you can see there are very few trains which operate on the Yarmecha’s route.
In winter is possibe to find more train but i can’t say it for sure.

Anyway if for example you came from Kyiv, or other cities not so close to Lviv, the best way to get there is through Ivano Frankivsk.

You can reach Ivano Frankivsk by train there is a plenty of train which goes there from almost every city.

Ivano Frankivsk railway station(Ivano Frankivsk’s railway station)

Then right out of the railway station, you will find a large number of busses and mashrutkas, you will not have much problems to find the one with the sign YAREMCHA or ЯРЕМЧА. (photo below)

Outside the railway station of Ivano Frankovsk
The bus will bring you to the bus station of Yaremcha. (photo below)

Yaremcha autobus station

From there you can easily reach your final destination by taxi or even by feet.

For to know about Yaremcha Bus timetable:

http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/yarmecha-timetable

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How to: Personal realtionships

In Ukrainian and in Russian there are 2 different ways for to talk with a person.

1 Polite, formal way
2 Friendly, informal way

In the first case you need to use the 2nd PLURAL person. YOU
In the other situation you can use the 2nd SINGULAR person. YOU

In Ukraine and in Russia people don’t use to call unknown people (and people in general) as Mister or Madam.

They just call them by gender and age. Man, (Muzhchina Мужчина), Woman (Zhenschina Женщина), Young man (Molodoy chelovek Молодой человек) and Girl (Devushka Девушка).

They don’t even use to call people by surname. If you need to have a formal conversation you need to call the interlocutor by name + patronymic.

If you are going to talk with a baby or a dear person, you can call her/him just by name or even better using a short – sweet form of his/her name.

Russian and Ukrainian names:

http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/ukrainian-russian-male-names
(male names)

http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/ukrainian-russian-female-names
(female names)

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Call almost for free from abroad to Ukrainian mobile phones

If you are abroad and you need to call Ukraine give a look to this service offered by life:)

Promotion not more available. When we will get some new info, we will update the page.

“Free World“

With it you will be able to make free calls, through a java application, to any Life:) subscriber for a max of 500 minutes in a period of 30 days.

The activation cost is 25 uah.

For to use this promotion you need:
1 an internet access.
2 a Life:) sim card or a virtual phone number.
3 a recharge of at least 25 uah.

For to activate this promotion (and a virtual number if you don’t have a life:) sim card)
visit this site:
http://www.life.com.ua/index.php?area=mylife&lng=en&page=3-500

For to call abroad from Ukraine at only 1,20 uah/min, give a look to this post:
http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/cheap-calls-from-ukraine

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call from Ukraine to abroad at just 1,99 uah/min

Once in Ukraine you will probably have the need to call home time to time.
Calling in roaming (even when there is some promotion) is rather expensive.

Luckily there is an Ukrainian mobile provider, Life:), which offer a very interesting promotion:

“One World”

With it you can call abroad paying just 1,99 Hryvnia (0,99 uah to Russia) for every minute of conversation!

Attention!

Now it is not more 1,20 and 0,60 uah/min but 1,99 and 0,99 uah/min (last update: June 2010)

(1 Hryivnia is about 0,18 US Dollars)

If you don’t have a life:) prepaid sim yet go to a Life:) center and ask:
1 a life:) prepaid sim;
2 25 uah (or more) of prepaid credit.
3 the activation of “One World”.

If you already own a life:) prepaid sim, you can activate “One world” doing one of the following:
-Dial *143# and press the call button and follow the instructions.
-Send a sms with the text Svit ON to the number 143.
-Contact the call center at this number 5433.

The cost of the service is 5 uah/month.
At the end of the month it will be automatically renewed if you have enough credit on your sim.

If you wish to Deactivate the promotion do one of the following the following:
-Send a sms with the text Svit Off to the number 143.

-Dial *143# and press the call button and follow the instructions.

How to dial the number

UPDATE! Once you have activated “One World” you can call abroad doing the following procedure:
Seems to be not more required to dial 811 before the number. Instead you can simply dial the international prefix followed by the number.

ex. for to call London:
no more 8114420xxxxx but +4420xxxxx
where 44 is the country code of the UK, 20 is the local code of London and xxxx is the number of your home or whatever.

Further information:

Life:) One world:

http://www.life.com.ua/index.php?area=mylife&lng=en&page=3-57

Almost free calls from abroad to Ukraine:
http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/free-calls-to-ukraine

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Where to stay in Ukraine: Hotel vs flat

In Ukraine you can find a lot of good hotels where to stay but they may be not the best solution, especially if you don’t travel alone.

I suggest you to consider the idea to rent a flat instead to book an hotel’s room.
There are a plenty of companies which rent flats in many Ukrainian cities.

Everything you need to do is to give a look on the net, several weeks before your trip, and seek for words such as flats, Ukraine and so on…. in this way you will find a lot of sites where it is possible to rent a flat.
Or simply give a look to this post: Rent a flat in Ukraine.

Once you have found the right apartment, contact the company and find out if it is available for your dates.

If everything goes ok, they will may ask you to pay for the first day in advance (in general they ask to pay with credit card or using Western Union).
You will pay the other part once you will arrive in your flat. (a man or a woman will take the money and will give you the key).

About the location, everything depend on your wish, you can find flats in the main street as flats which are located not exactly in the center… Everything depend on the price.

The price of a flat can be between 20 and several hundred of dollars/day.
in average you can have a good flat (in the center) for 50 – 70 dollars (one room flat).

Payments are usually in Dollars or Hriyvna but sometimes they ask for Euro.

Good points

-You don’t pay for the number of people which will leave inside the flat but just for the flat itself.
-Flats are always bigger than any normal hotel’s room.
-You have a kitchen.
-The price can be also rather cheap especially if you travel not alone.

Bad points

-No breakfast and any other extra service which you can get in an hotel.
(some company provide some extra service, but in general you have to pay extra for it)
-Check in time, you can’t came when you want, you have to agree with the company.

Some advices

- When you find your flat, don’t hurry up to booking it immediately, try to look also on other sites, you may find the same identical flat for less.
- Bring with you the copy of you pre-payment.
- Book several weeks in advance, the best flats (the cheapest ones) are often already taken.

For to book a flat, visit:

List of sites where it is possible to rent a flat in Ukraine:
http://en.ukrlandia.com.ua/flats-ukraine

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