Thanks for the great information Soldier. Your Palladium experience sounds similar to mine in a big club in St. Petersburg. It seemed like every pretty girl I met there was a working girl. I will still check out Paladium myself but I will be sure to check out the smaller clubs you mentioned. That is more what I am looking for. It still amazes me how much these clubs charge to get in the door. Any where from $10 to $20. If a girl can afford that cover price then she is either invested by some rich married guy or she is a working girl. By going to the smaller clubs I'm thinking you have a better chance of finding a real girl next door type. Soldier, have you ever heard or visited Kobleva beach. I'm told its about a hour by car away from Odessa. It's supposed to be packed with the babes who can't afford Odessa. Many girls from Nikolaev and Moldava.
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I'm ukrainian and living in Odessa for 20 years. If you have any questions about our city, please ask here.
Best places to visit are: Arcadia beach at night (from 8pm to 2am), Primorskiy blvd, Deribasovskaya street. Restaurants "Kumanets" (very nice ukrainian food), Steak House (american food, meat and wine), Dacha at Frantsuzskij (French) blvd. Nice Disco at Arcadia and Palladium
Hi friends ,
Well deanis , you want to know about odessa , i have to agre with several of the members who gave their opinions , but i also have to say it really does depend on what you are looking for .
women , well i would say it is more like 5-1 in the womens favour , after all what woman would put up with any man who sat in the pub from opening time to when they closed , 7 days a week ,and expected the women to run all over the place cook and clean the house not to mention keep him happy 24/7 , no wonder so many want to leave , but also be warned , as with discos , not all women are what they seem and some have no choice as their owners are pulling the strings and they have to do what their men say or else it is bad for them .
Traffic ,, if you have never been to odessa , be warned , watch crossing the road , and if you drive, watch for madman driving at the same time as you ,,, there are no speed limits , and they overtake from both sides , ,, so keep your head and watch yourself .
Busses, if you expect a bus service like your home town forget it , there are no bus stops like here , they stop and take on passengers all over the place , they are mini busses and are like taxis , put your hand up for the one you want and it will stop , busses are cheaper than taxis , , train services , if you are going from kiev to odessa it will take around 12 hours and this is the express ! carriges vary from cheap to a little more expensive but worth it as you get a cabin with two single beds ,you might end up sharing with someone else .
Internal flights , if you take the one i had from kiev to odessa in the early evening ,,, dont ,,, the pilot was mad and i was never glad to get off a plane and i like flying . in short , this was a scene from battle of britain , he was not flying a passenger aircraft but a fighter in a dogfight .
Resturants , depends on what you like to eat as they cater for everyone , there is even a mexican resturant there and an irish pub and resturant , prices vary depending on what you want to eat and in entertainment , some have live misic , some dont .
police, if you are going for a good time , fine , if you are going for trouble , dont , police are armed 24/7 . secondly when you arrive at the airport you will get a card to fill up , it must be with you at all times and with your passport , police have the right to stop you and ask for the card , you do not have it , you will be arrested .
supermarkets , yes they do have them but again be warned , when you leave you will get the receipt and in my case a card/ticket , guards will ask for this when you leave , you do not have it , you do not leave the building and then police.
odessa , remember when ukraine was under the russian empire , investment was null , any and all went into the steel mills and cities that housed in the west of the country , lugansk and so on , nothing went in to the east and even kiev , times changed and kiev was and still is being brought up to sratch , odessa is having the same done , the first time i was there the opera house looked like an old library that had been closed for years , now after it was restored , it looks great , odessa hotel stands on the shore front and at night it is some view to see when it is lit up . buildings all over the place are being restored and upgraded , banks , streets of them , western union awash with these , and be warned if you use western union to send money or vice versa , you must declare the money you will be sending when you arrive at the airport , and get a certificate from them at the time , you wont be able to send by western union . i know i tried .
valuables , keep them safe at all times .
people , friendly and they do want you there to enjoy yourself , they need your money .
if anybody is going to be there let me know maybe we will have a drink and talk . i certanly will be going back , it is an expierence and one you will keep going back to , i will .