Krasnaya Polyana is a real paradise for ski lovers. But people willingly come here who have never fastened their ski bindings in their lives – they are simply connoisseurs of high-altitude recreation. Almost every local accommodation here offers fantastic views of the Caucasus Range.

After the ski slopes, the most buzz is to get rid of the frozen equipment and clothes soaked with snow and splash in warm water. But not everyone likes bath procedures – what to do? For those who choose this resort, there are the best and most interesting hotels in Krasnaya Polyana with a heated pool.

Rixos Krasnaya Polyana Sochi 5*

Famous place. In 2018, he earned the title of the best spa and ski accommodation in Russia, in 2019 – the most luxurious European one, located in the mountains. This is a truly luxurious property with 114 premium rooms ranging from suites and apartments to standard.

Serious attention is paid to gastronomic pleasures here: the oriental restaurant Layali invites you to dishes from the Turkish menu, Wine House offers Italian cuisine, Rixos Lounge – European (with seasoning in the form of live vocals), Sparx – delicious breakfasts. For lovers of nightlife – Club 9.6.0 nightclub.

The spa here is royal – with two levels. Guests cannot be pulled out of the pool – it offers a breathtaking panorama of the rocks. And you can relax in the thermal zone – there is a jacuzzi, a sauna and a hammam, a fitness center, an individual VIP spa zone.

Family entertainment in the range: trekking, archery shooting, tubing, chatting with huskies, a hot air balloon, visiting Gorky Fly parks with mega swings and the longest zipline in Russia and Wonder Land with quests. You can also visit the Gorky Mall center, visit the water park with a real sandy beach.

Rixy Club operates for young guests – there children can have a varied time with animators offering many activities for every taste and temperament: from needlework to sports.

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Grand Hotel Polyana 5*

The complex-flagship of the Gazprom resort is located near the Sochi National Park with its alpine meadows and waterfalls. The complex invites you to 413 comfortable rooms and 16 wooden villas.

You can eat at 2 restaurants – meat Barbq with a fireplace hall or under a glass dome and “Gostidze” – Georgian cuisine. Have a bite to eat in the Zharim&parim gastrobar (themed parties, sets from DJs, contests are also here) and 4 cafes, drink in the Bubbles champagne bar.

On the territory there are 3 indoor and 3 outdoor pools, a mountain spring, a magnificent spa complex (fitness, gym, climbing wall) and #NotProstoBanei with a panoramic view of the snowy Caucasian ridge, herbs, massage and fonts for children and adults.

There is a sea of entertainment here, and all the most interesting, many are suitable for the whole family: a biathlon club, a cool rodelbahn, tubing, horseback riding, ATVs and buggies, a shooting range, the Legend fight club, a water park, a trampoline center, master classes in painting, deer farm, husky park, sovarium (yes, from the word “owl”).

For children – animation, clubs and playgrounds, an art studio, a children's ski school. The parks “Zelenaya Polyana” and “At Lukomorye” are recommended for visiting.

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Sochi Marriott Krasnaya Polyana 5*

The best mountain accommodation in Europe in 2018, the best ski in Russia in 2019. 428 rooms, including lux and aparments for the whole family, with a kitchen.

There is a choice of restaurants here – L'Olivo presents masterpieces of Italian cuisine and author's creativity prepared by the brand chef, at The River Cafe you can have breakfast at the buffet. The lobby bar invites you to Asian and European cuisine with steam cocktails, the pool bar offers all kinds of grilled dishes.

Drinks and snacks are available to club lounge visitors throughout the day.

Soul SPA is a serious complex consisting of 2 swimming pools – outdoor and indoor with a children's section, a thermal zone, fitness centers, relaxation spaces, a beauty salon, a dozen massage and treatment rooms.

Marriott guests are provided with specifically adult entertainment: the right to a special entrance to the Sochi Casino. This is a whole mini-city of entertainment, where, in addition to the gambling sector, there are cafes and concert venues.

Lots of activities for the whole family – eco-trails, amusement and adventure parks, archery range, rope park, tubing, communication with beautiful dogs in the husky park, bike park, hot air ballooning.

If parents want to take a break from their children, the younger members of the family can be safely entrusted to the animators from the Kolobok children's club.

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Medical Spa Hotel Rosa Springs 4*

This is the first mountain holiday destination in our country, which has chosen balneological as its main direction. But skiers willingly come here – they are attracted by the proximity to the ski lifts.

There are 202 rooms of standard, comfort, junior, deluxe and suite categories.

Restaurant “Edelweiss” invites guests for breakfast, lunch, dinner – all in buffet style. For an appetite, you can admire the ski slopes and the Aibga ridge. Next to the reception there is a phytobar with an original coffee list and healthy cocktails (the phytobar is located near the mineral water pump room).

Guests can visit the Health Center (balneology, physiotherapy, diagnostics) and spa center with an indoor pool and an excellent thermal department (includes Finnish sauna, hammam, herbal bath, laconium, extreme shock bucket with ice water and stone massage path).

The fitness center conducts classes in aqua aerobics, yoga, scratching, Nordic walking – both group and individual classes. The beauty salon offers programs for women, men and children.

Fun and attentive animators work with children here.

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Hills Polyana Hotel 4*

Very good location. There is nothing to go to the tracks and all kinds of pleasures of Gazprom and Rosa Khutor.

37 spacious guest rooms and 3 magnificent chalets await guests – all of them are stylishly decorated in popular interior design styles and equipped with everything necessary for the complete comfort of guests.

They eat here at the Med kitchen & bar tables, where you can taste masterpieces from the current author's menu and the best of traditional local dishes. You can also eat in the nearby restaurant “Dynasty” and cafe-bars: “Hygge” (a Scandinavian pizzeria, oddly enough) and “Mimino” with dishes of Caucasian cuisine.

Swim here in the outdoor heated pool and the opportunity to look at the snowy ridges.

For relaxation, it is proposed to visit the bath complex with wood-burning stoves and three baths: a Japanese furako with a font made of cedar, eucalyptus and oak. There is an outdoor ice pool.

On request, dishes from the restaurant are delivered to the baths, herbal Krasnopolyansk tea is served. You can order a special service – massage right at the place of residence.

For residents – a free shuttle to the resorts and the beach, paid rental of ski equipment.

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Green Flow Rosa Khutor 4*

This place of rest and relaxation at 1,170 m above sea level works according to the concept of healing and is the only one in Russia that is included in the world association of healing hotels. Everything here is focused on healing and finding psychological comfort: healthy food, a variety of activities, special spa rituals, floating, the author's Miolife safe weight loss program, anti-stress, detox, anti-aging programs.

The restaurant serves dishes from the cuisines of different nations of the world, rethought in terms of a balanced diet. The fitness room is well-equipped with strength and cardio equipment for group and individual workouts.

There is an opportunity to practice yoga, Nordic walking, go on excursions in the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve, see canyons, waterfalls, follow an individual eco-route. On the territory there is a magnificent all-season heated infinity pool with lighting.

While the parents are recovering and relaxing, the little guests spend time in the playroom – there is a pool with balls, everything for drawing, board games, a cheerful animator. Master classes are held.

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Slides Panorama 4*

Quiet and picturesque place for a family vacation. The cable car is a 5-minute walk away. There are 302 rooms with stunning landscapes visible from the windows.

Meals – in the Romanov restaurant with buffet breakfasts and dishes of European and Caucasian cuisine in the afternoon. You can listen to the latest sports broadcasts in the lobby bar.

The Spa Panorama complex operates with a thermal zone with saunas and a steam room, a relaxation room, a beauty salon, a fitness center, cosmetologist and masseur services in treatment rooms, an indoor pool with a special section for children.

There are many entertainments suitable for the whole family: eco-trails, Gorky Fly parks, Seasons, Wonder Land, husky park. You can shoot archery and ride in a hot air balloon, learn at a school of skateboarding and rollerblading or freestyle, rent an ATV or an electric bike, climb in a ropes park, visit a skate park and a bike park (snowpark in winter), visit an off-road test track ” Mercedes-Benz” and become a test drive participant.

Children have great fun in the club with animation, learn to ride in the children's ski club.

Polyana 1389 4*

The numbers in the name of this property, the first among the high-mountain ones in Sochi, mean the height above sea level, it is built on the Psekhako plateau. There are 3 accommodation options: 151 rooms (standard, studio and junior suite), 84 apartments (regular and family) and 28 cottages with different numbers of bedrooms. All living spaces are finished in eco-style.

Meals for residents are in the Panorama restaurants (the windows are really panoramic) and Pomegranate (an exclusive dessert is served here – handmade chocolates), the Chestnut Hall with Caucasian and European cuisine. You can sit in an Irish pub or lobby bars (they are in every building).

The Thalgo monobrand spa center offers indoor and outdoor pools, a thermal area with a gallery of steam rooms, an experience shower, a phytobar, a salt room, a beauty salon, treatment rooms, a spa capsule. Seafood is used for procedures.

Connoisseurs of outdoor activities can visit a spacious gym, the largest climbing wall in Krasnaya Polyana, a hall for ballroom dancing. Very close is the Laura ski and biathlon complex, rodelbahn, deer farm, husky park and the Zelenaya Polyana amusement park, which is interesting for all children. Also for children in the hotel complex itself there is a children's club “Morozko”, animation, a game center “Igroteka”.

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Grand Polyana Villas 4*

It is part of the Grand Polyana 5* complex. This is an exclusive option – the villas are decorated in the style of Swiss chalets and with a stylish interior, equipped with a small sauna, a spacious veranda, balconies, a kitchen and 5 bedrooms.

An ideal vacation spot for a large company wishing to live in a certain solitude against the backdrop of mountain nature. Residents of the villas have access to all the services of the magnificent Polyana – restaurants, a gastrobar, a cafe, a non-standard bath complex, a gym and a climbing wall.

Groups of friends will enjoy entertainment: biathlon, rodelbahn, equestrian sports, buggy and quad biking, marksmanship exercises at the shooting range, martial arts at the Legend club, visits to fun places where you can take spectacular photos: a husky park, a deer farm, a sovarium .

If children have a rest together with the company, they will have a great time in the clubs and playgrounds of Polyana, visit an art studio or learn how to ride in a children's ski school. Children will be looked after by professional animators.

Arcadia 4*

The six-story building, located in a quiet and ecologically clean area, has a total of 47 rooms (standard, junior, deluxe and deluxe), decorated in pleasant shades of beige and brown, with comfortable furniture. Nearby – literally 100 m – Rosa Khutor resort, 400 m to the Carousel lift.

In the restaurant you can have breakfast in a buffet format – according to the reviews of the guests, they are delicious and varied, lunch and dinner are paid separately.

The spa complex invites you to a Turkish bath and sauna. There are two swimming pools – indoor and outdoor. In the fitness room, cardio and strength machines are used to train individual muscle groups.

From entertainment, walking tours and cycling are offered (bike rentals are nearby the hotel complex. Also within walking distance are Gorky Mall, Alcotheque, many grocery stores and restaurants.

Despite the lack of special entertainment for children, children are willingly brought here – they really like the pool, trips to the sea and mountain hikes. Many guests note the friendliness and responsiveness of the staff.

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Grace Imperial 4*

The newly opened complex is very well located – all ski resorts (Gazprom, Rosa Khutor, Alpika and Gorki-Gorod) are nearby. The interior is elegant, huge windows show the landscapes in all their glory.

Rooms of different categories of comfort – standard standard and with a balcony, junior suites, senior suites and premium suites. The restaurant menu contains more than 150 best dishes and desserts (the best and most popular dishes in the world are selected). Breakfasts are a buffet format, lunches are a la carte, dinners are ordered and eaten right in the rooms.

The spa center has an indoor pool, sauna, hammam, massage. Children can be left in a special room where an animator will take care of their entertainment.

Adults are also entertained – and in a variety of ways: cable car trips, excursions to the sights of the North Caucasus, transfers to the Black Sea beaches, shopping in Adler and Sochi, visits to entertainment centers and casinos with slot machines and card tables, trekking along unique routes, rental bicycles.

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Mountain Residence 4*

From this place of rest – only 300 m to the Karusel ski lift, in 3 minutes you can get to the banks of the Mzymta River. Here, 60 rooms for every taste await visitors – apartments, standard, two-room, for families and suites.

Meals – restaurant: masterpieces of European cuisine, dishes directly from the grill, desserts, wine list. According to visitors' opinions, everything is very tasty. For health purposes, it is recommended to visit the swimming pool, hammam and sauna.

As entertainment for a fee, excursions to the Rosa Dolina resort, transfers to Skypark (where you can jump from the bungee), Nordic walking classes with a coach, a climbing wall, fishing, yoga classes, interesting quests (locations – Rosa Dolina and Panda Park), participation in the Panda Mountain Club hikes (with tents in the mountains).

Literally a stone's throw from the object is the Gorky Mall shopping and entertainment center with supermarkets, shops, a water park, a cinema, children's entertainment areas and numerous cafes. Nearby is a fair selling local goods.

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Rock Crystal 3*

A cozy (and the highest, 870 m above sea level) vacation spot with only 17 rooms at the foot of Mount Achishkho is an apartment with a fireplace and a view of the rocks and an economy class apartment with a view of the pool. Guests note the novelty, modernity and beauty of the interior decoration – paintings, sculptures, bas-reliefs, the comfort and friendliness of the staff received special praise.

As a plus, they noted the silence and remoteness from the highways, the cleanest air, the possibility of a restful sleep. Ideal for relaxation. More than 400 m from the ski lifts.

A restaurant with Russian cuisine and an open terrace, the food, according to vacationers, is delicious. But it is possible to cook on your own, the rooms have kitchens with all the necessary equipment for cooking. On the territory there is a picnic meadow with a barbecue, a sun deck. Outside there are excellent hiking trails.

Relax in the spa, warm-water pool and sauna. As a “calm” entertainment – play billiards. There is a ski equipment rental.

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Bridge Mountain 3*

Modern and attractive complex is located in the heart of the resort. Rooms – 70 units: suites, family, standard and capsules. From all you can admire the mountains. Certain categories suggest the presence of kitchens in the rooms.

Meals – buffet breakfasts and dinners, on the ground floor – lobby bar with a-la carte menu. In walking distance – cafes, shops.

Fans of spa treatments can expect a spa complex with a massage room, a sauna and a hammam with professional attendants and music, a heated pool. You can sunbathe on a special terrace, sun loungers and umbrellas are provided.

There are transfers to the beach and slopes, it is not close to get there on your own. The guests, in general, positively evaluating the service, often mention too silent staff (it's not easy to find out how and what works here) and the lack of mosquitoes on the windows — uninvited insects drop in on guests.

For children on the ground floor there is a playroom with toys and cartoons.

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Guest House Chalet 3*

He was the first to open the doors to guests in the year of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. A wooden complex stylized as a chalet is located in the village of Esto-Sadok. There are 38 rooms of standard, studio and apartment categories. Panoramic windows allow you to admire the wonderful landscapes.

You can eat in the dining room or restaurant, designed in Alpine style. In the first one – Russian cuisine, in the second – also European, both traditional and gourmet food are offered. On the territory of the dining area there is a picturesque corner of nature: a pond with a waterfall. Trout in the pond. Trout is on the menu.

Spa facilities include a swimming pool, hammam and Finnish steam room. For connoisseurs of billiards – a whole billiard room. Skiers praise the equipment storage room and dryer.

You can come here if you are looking for solitude and peace – you can go skiing in the season, or spend quiet hours of absolutely passive rest, walking on foot through the picturesque surroundings – not far from Rosa Khutor and Gazprom, 7-10 minutes walk to the water park, cinema in TRK “Galaktika”