Are these journalists just being dramatic? Or is shit really that bad?
I hope the poster who is there comes back!-reading fail. tizzy I can't wait for your updates!
I know a few others on this board have been to Russia? There are hotels that are beautiful, but usually in the more cosmopolitan cities. The government just doesn't provide the appropriate infrastructure or regulation.
I was only in Sochi for 2 days in 99', but, well, it was basically the same. We were students, and we sprung for the 2nd most expensive hotel there. It was a mess, a professor found a hole on the side of her mattress where rats had nested. The workers in the lobby shrugged, and eventually switched out the mattress before midnight. There was no way they would give her a different room, not that it would have been much better.