Where to go in Adler with children 2022: where to walk, what to see

The Adler resort is no longer hiding in the shadow of Sochi. Yes, administratively it is part of Greater Sochi - but at the same time it remains an independent resort with many benefits. It is Adler that is located south of all the resorts in the Krasnodar Territory. It was here that all the sports facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics were built. It is in this town that you can feel the bliss of a seaside holiday that does not exist in overpopulated Sochi.

No wonder Adler is popular as a family vacation spot. Here you can get your portion of the southern sun and sea spray without getting tired of the constant crush. Read about the unique climate, healing mineral water, the best beaches and all the pleasures that a holiday with children in Adler promises in the Kidpassage review.

Where to go?

Many people mistakenly think that swimming in the sea or pool is enough for little tourists. But coming to a big city and not visiting the local entertainment venues would be a huge miss.

A large number of large shopping and entertainment centers are concentrated in Adler, offering not only interesting children's goods or a delicious menu in cafes, but also a variety of show programs with the participation of animators, fairy-tale characters, and clowns.

Popular shopping and entertainment complexes in Adler:

"Mandarin" - st. Bestuzheva, 1/1. The shopping center contains restaurants, cafes, boutiques, and shops. The Argonauts program and Nikola Tesla's interactive show are held for children.
“FeRoom” - Lenina, 219a. The complex is located on the territory of the Fregat boarding house. Children have access to a modern bowling alley with a games cafe
“New Century” - Democratic, 52. The first shopping center in Adler. Accommodates catering establishments, shops, photo kiosk. Children can be left under supervision in the playroom
"Plaza City" - Kirova, 58. Offers children's attractions "Hocus Pocus", educational games "Lego Education", a large cinema.

Advice! Shopping and entertainment complexes are open from 10.00 to 22.00.

Terrarium "Jungle World"

This is another place near the resort town of Sochi that attracts children and adults. In the Jungle World terrarium you can not only get acquainted with the life of reptiles and amphibians collected from different parts of the world. On the territory of the complex there is a petting zoo with the opportunity to feed and pet cute rabbits, goats and birds. Bright parrots and agile monkeys live in the enclosures of the terrarium. However, the main things worth seeing are crocodiles, anacondas, boa constrictors and chameleons. In the afternoon, feeding of snakes and lizards begins. But keep in mind that the snakes are fed live birds. Such a sight can shock kids. Photography is allowed in the terrarium. But you can’t turn on the flash - it can disturb the local wildlife.

Entertainment

Adler is a modern, highly developed resort that allows you to organize rich children's leisure time. The youngest tourists will appreciate the entertainment. It is located at: st. Kuibysheva, 36.

There are various attractions here:

ball pool
suspension bridges
inflatable slides, trampolines
labyrinths
playground
fabulous cafeteria

For schoolchildren and teenagers there are slot machines, stimulants, and exercise machines. You can play board games, tennis, bowling.

Adler Park of Culture and Leisure

You can spend time outdoors in the Adler Culture and Leisure Park next to the Yuzhnoe Vzmorye sanatorium. The largest Ferris wheel in the area was installed here. There is also a race track, carousels, and horse riding.

Sea activities are a huge success among preschoolers and teenagers.

Best places for swimming:

water park "Amphibius" - a water town with attractions, fountains, slides, labyrinths
Dolphinarium "Aquatoria" - a complex with daily performances of dolphins, belugas, fur seals
Adler terrarium - contains rich flora and fauna, including crocodiles, turtles, snakes
The oceanarium is an underwater park-tunnel made of glass, through which marine animals, fish, and plants are visible.

Advice! Be sure to visit the monkey nursery, ostrich farm and trout farm.

Olympic Park

In preparation for the Olympics, many sports facilities were erected in the Imereti Lowland. They hosted winter sports competitions and hosted the opening and closing of the Olympic Games. An Olympic village was built next to the complex of sports facilities, which later became a comfortable recreation area.

Entrance to the Sochi Olympic Park is free. You can visit it from 8:00 to midnight (sometimes entry is limited, but information about this is posted in advance on social networks). The park's territory is large - 200 hectares. It’s easy to navigate the area; there are signs everywhere.

The main entrance and ticket center, where you can buy tickets for events, competitions, karting, and an ice skating rink, are located on the side of the Imeretinsky Resort railway station. Here you can rent a bicycle (rental – 200 rubles per hour) or use an electric car without a tour or with a tour.

Official website: olympic-park.rf.

Olympic Flame Bowl

In the very center of the park stands the “Olympic Flame Bowl”. This 50-meter-tall structure, resembling the silhouette of a bird, can be seen from different parts of the park. In the evenings, an impressive performance is staged here - the Singing Fountains show, which illuminates the park with light and fills it with the sounds of popular melodies. 264 cannons fire jets of water 30-70 meters high, illuminated in bright colors.

The main buildings are located around this spectacular site: arenas, sports palaces, centers.

Fisht Stadium

This huge structure of unusual shape resembles a seashell or a snowy mountain peak. It was here that the winter games opened and closed in 2014, and the winners of the competition were awarded.

On the site of the stadium there used to be a village of Old Believers. Its inhabitants were resettled. But the Old Believer cemetery has been preserved in its original location. It is located next to Fisht and is hidden from park visitors by a beautiful fence.

Ice Palace "Bolshoi"

This sports facility resembles a giant frozen drop. During the Olympics it was the main hockey stadium. Now it hosts ice shows, sports competitions, and large-scale concerts. At night, its pearl-white dome with built-in multi-colored luminous modules is incredibly beautiful and visible from afar.

Ice Arena "Shaiba"

The Shaiba ice arena is located next door. The building's shape really resembles a puck and a snow whirlwind. The peculiarity of this building is that the stadium can broadcast images from the outside, working like a television screen. There are also no steps inside the structure.

Ice cube

Next to the “Puck” there is an “Ice Cube”. This is a curling center.

used after the Olympics by the Tennis Academy.

Iceberg Palace

“Iceberg” is a 34-meter ice palace. Lined with stained glass in blue shades. Impressive with capacity and interiors. During the Olympics, figure skaters and speed skaters competed for the title of the best in the palace arena. Today it is used for training and holding hockey tournaments.

In the summer, visitors can go ice skating at the Iceberg training arena by purchasing a ticket and renting skates.

The park also houses a concert venue, the Wall of Glory, and the Olympic rings.

Sochi Autodrom and Formula 1 track

Sochi Autodrom and the Formula 1 track are located near the main entrance to the park. Here, during the tour, you can learn about how the races are organized and conducted.

The Sochi Auto Sport Museum is located on the ground floor of the Main Grandstand. The exhibition features models of classic and racing cars of the last century. There are also quite rare specimens.

Next to the Autodrom there is the Forza Karting Sochi Karting Center with a 500-meter track and high-class cars.

Where to relax?

Adler is an amazing resort. You can walk around the city all day, the local infrastructure is so extensive. Children on vacation require special attention. It is difficult for them to do one thing, so the task of parents is to diversify the vacation program as much as possible.

The resort has many good catering establishments that you can visit with kids. Here they will be offered delicious cocktails, ice cream, and children's dishes made from environmentally friendly products. Infants are provided with high chairs or special dishes.

The best places in Adler for a family lunch:

"Watercolor" - st. Sverdlova, 10
"Nippon House" - Kirova, 26
"Rice" - Democratic, 32
“FeRoom” - Lenina, 219a
"Laluna" - Tavricheskaya, 1
“We sat down and ate” - Starookhotnichya, 17
“Venice” – March 8, 2
“Royal Fish” - Bestuzheva, 1/1
“Pizza Papi” - Nizhneimeretinskaya, 32
“RIG Island” - Ostrovsky, Melodiya shopping center

Older children often like to watch films in the cinema. Adler can offer excellent cinemas with various effects that will not leave anyone indifferent.

The best cinemas in the resort:

“City Stars Plaza” - Kirova, 58. 6 halls accommodating 750 people. Open from 10.00 to 3.00
“Komsomolets” - Ulyanova, 58. 2 halls accommodating 350 people. Open from 11.00
“Summer Adlerkurort” - Prosveshcheniya, 85. Open in the summer, open-air areas.

Southern Cultures Park

This is the oldest park in the city. In 1910, General Drachevsky laid out a private dendrological park on the banks of the Mzymta with landscape design characteristic of the early twentieth century. Alleys with southern trees are interspersed with numerous staircases, decorative ponds, elegant bridges, lawns, and green flowering terraces descending to the water. A great place to hide from the heat.

The park is located near the airport. Bus stop - "Southern Cultures". Paid entrance.

Where to celebrate your birthday?

If it’s your child’s birthday and you’re in Adler, you can celebrate it just as well as at home. For a spectacular holiday, it is recommended to find out about the resort’s establishments, local prices and the menu offered.

The best places to celebrate a birthday in Adler:

Cafe-pizzeria "Gosti" - st. Sovetskaya, 65
restaurant-pizzeria “La Strada” - Adlerskaya, 1
restaurant "Adriano" - Gorkogo, 56/5
pizzeria "Capri" - Lenina, 219a
restaurant "Luciano" - st. Olympic records, 35
Cafe "Del Mar" - Primorskaya, 11
Trattoria "Fettuccine" - Teatralnaya, 11
bowling cafe "Grilyazh" - Navaginskaya, 3/4

Advice! You can also go to the Sochi Circus, located on Deputatskaya Street, 8.

Transport

Travelers do not really need public transport in Adler. It is enough to know several useful routes: buses No. 105 go to Sochi with a stop in Khosta and Kudepsta, No. 105c - directly to Sochi (this saves up to 40 minutes), No. 135 and 163 - to Krasnaya Polyana.

The estimated cost of tickets, depending on the distance, is 100-200 rubles.

Convenient transport in Adler for restless tourists is electric trains. Trains depart from the city several times a day to Sochi and Krasnaya Polyana (Esto-Sadok, Rosa Khutor), the exact schedule is on the Russian Railways website.

A ticket to Lastochka costs approximately 170 to 300 rubles, depending on the seat category; travel on a regular train is cheaper. Children under 5 years old travel on commuter trains for free; tickets for children from 5 to 7 years old are discounted.

To get around Adler, you may sometimes need a taxi - for example, in the evening, when buses and minibuses no longer run. A trip within the city will cost 300-500 rubles. The safest thing to do is to use taxi services operating throughout Russia with understandable tariffs.

Beaches for children

The Adler coastline includes 17 km of equipped beaches and several wild ones. Little guests of the city need excellent conditions - clean pebbles or sand, infrastructure, entertainment, the opportunity to change clothes or have a snack. Most beaches offer all of the above benefits of civilization.

The best children's beaches in Adler:

Central - located near the lighthouse, far from the railway, admission is free, pebbles are small, the sea bottom is flat and not deep
“Chaika” - well-equipped, covered with pebbles, with sandy areas in some places, the width of the beach reaches 40 m
“Ogonyok” has a length of 800 m, there are beach equipment rental points everywhere. There is an airport nearby, the planes of which cause wild delight among vacationers
“Mandarin” is a paid beach, the management of which has equipped the territory with attractions, trampolines, swings, and playgrounds.

Advice! When going to the beach, take sunscreen with UF+50 or higher.

Museums near the Olympic Park

Next to the sports facilities there is the Sochi Park amusement park, the Sochi Museum Center, which unites permanent exhibits and exhibits on one site, and the Sochi Automuseum.

Between the Ferris wheel and the Fisht stadium on the eastern side of the park, in a discreet building, there is an educational and developmental museum center (https://sochi-museum.ru/). It consists of the Leonardo da Vinci Museum, the USSR Museum, and the Nikola Tesla Museum. To visit each of them (they operate on an individual schedule) you will need a separate ticket.

You can get to the Museum Center by walking a short distance from the Sochi Park stop (buses No. 57, 135, 100, 125c, some of which stop only on request) or from the Fisht Arena stop.

The Nikola Tesla Museum is located on the ground floor. After an animated video with a story about the great scientist, stunt magician Megavolt arranges scientific and entertainment sessions with lightning for visitors - the Tesla Show (the group must be at least 6 people).

The USSR Museum (on the second floor) is open to the public daily.

The Leonardo Museum with an exhibition dedicated to the inventions and achievements of the scientist, artist, sculptor, mechanic, and philosopher Leonardo da Vinci is located on the third floor. Many exhibits are operational and reproduced according to the artist’s sketches. They can be touched and experienced during an educational walk accompanied by a guide.

Nearby, in a building with facades decorated with oriental ornaments, there is an Automuseum with a retro collection of Soviet-era cars (now closed). During the Olympics it was the House of Fans of the Russian national team.

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A trip to the sea with the whole family requires special comfort on vacation. An important factor to consider when planning a vacation is where you will be staying. Adler can offer tourists with children a lot of suitable accommodation options.

When choosing a hotel or sanatorium, you should pay attention to the availability of certain services:

healthy eating with fresh ingredients
spacious rooms with air conditioning
comfortable clean bathroom
high quality furniture in good condition
landscaped safe area
Availability of lifeguards and a first aid station on the beach
swimming pool, games room, playground
animators, nannies, teachers

Superior hotels provide parents of infants with strollers, playpens, high chairs, and special dishes. The sanatoriums provide health programs from the age of 7. A common modern service of good hotels is the organization of educational and development groups.

Advice! Some hotel complexes do not accept guests under a certain age, so check the information in advance.

Bestuzhev Park

The cozy city park of Bestuzhev-Marlinsky is located in the center of Adler. In a green picturesque corner with hundred-year-old plane trees and palm trees, it is good to relax under the crowns of old trees. In the park there is a monument to Bestuzhev, who died in the battle for Cape Adler with the highlanders, and an ancient cannon that was found during excavations in the vicinity of the city.

Not far from the square there is the Central City Market, the Museum of the History of the City, and the Cathedral of St. Sarkis. Public transport stop - shopping center "New Century".

Adler, Anapa or Lazarevskoye?

The resorts of the Krasnodar region are each beautiful in their own way. Anapa and Lazarevskoye are a huge competitor to Adler - all three places are ideal for children's leisure, have a mild, therapeutic climate and offer all kinds of entertainment for every taste and budget. So which city should you choose for your summer vacation?

Anapa is famous for its coast with a large layer of clean, fine sand; Lazarevskoye also has wide sandy beaches, and in Adler they are mostly pebble . Pebbles are good for health, especially for a growing child’s body and musculoskeletal system. In addition, it is easier to remove debris from it, but dirt often remains in the sand, dust collects, and glass may get caught.

At the end of summer, the sea tends to bloom. Anapa is especially susceptible to blooming water, which absorbs bacteria. The sea of Lazarevsky and Adler remains clean throughout the season. Also, the Adler region is considered the warmest place on the Krasnodar coast.

The downside of holidays in Adler is the ongoing construction , which often brings discomfort to visitors. Also in close proximity to the coast there is a railway and an airport. All day long you can hear the sounds of trains and airplanes.

Oceanarium Sochi Discovery World Aquarium

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The oceanarium is a record holder of its kind - the largest in Russia .

The numbers speak for themselves: 6 thousand square meters, 5 million liters of water, three dozen aquariums, thousands of fish, echinoderms, and mollusks. In short, the real kingdom of Neptune, which is ideal as a relaxing excursion for a child.

A trip to the aquarium turns into an interactive journey to almost all the seas of the blue planet, taking in large rivers. Freshwater inhabitants settled on the second floor. Here are giant sturgeons that promise to disappear from the face of the Earth, Mekong catfish a couple of meters long, funny armored pikes native to the Amazon, and voracious piranhas.

The first floor is dedicated to the seas and oceans; its design is impressive - in the form of a large and gloomy glass tunnel. There is a variety of dangerous and not so dangerous fish: reef sharks, deep rays, cave fish and many others. Sharks, by the way, are also artists. They have a responsible role - participation in daily shows with scuba divers who dive into aquariums with predators.

It will be real magic for a child to attend the “Underwater Tale” performance, which is held twice a day. During the show, by the way, you can make friends with a “real” mermaid.

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