The motor ship "Boris Polevoy" is a two-deck passenger ship designed for river navigation. It was made at the Obuda Hajogyar factory in Hungary in 1961. Until 1981, the ship had a different name - "Desna", and only then was renamed "Boris Polevoy".
After the ship arrived at home, it was placed at the disposal of the Kama River Shipping Company. For a long time it carried tourists along the route Perm - Astrakhan and back. In 1985, the ship was put in for a major overhaul, which lasted several years. And only in 1991 the ship "Boris Polevoy" resumed its work, already from the Sverdlovsk Tourism Council.
Later, the ship changed hands, changing several owners. Now the ship belongs to the Volga Travel Plus company, owned by Voskhod LLC.
Vessel specifications
The ship "Boris Polevoy" is 78 meters long. Vessel width - 15, 2 meters. The draft is shallow, only 1.36 meters, which allows you to pass in places where larger ships cannot pass.
The ship's displacement is 824 tons. Two four-stroke diesel engines work, which allow the vessel to reach speeds of up to 20 km / h. Their power is 800 horsepower.
The ship "Boris Polevoy" can accommodate 215 people. But the maximum allowed is 311. The crew works on the ship in the amount of 42 people.
At the service of tourists
This ship has two decks with cabins of various categories and main rooms. These are two restaurants. One for 60 and the other for 30 passengers. Equipped conference room for organized corporate groups.
There is a small but cozy bar and a music room with soft comfortable sofas. There are often entertainment programs for passengers in the evenings. You can read a book in the reading room in your free time, when the ship makes a river crossing from one port to another.
The sun deck is open in summer, where you can sunbathe under the rays of the warm summer sun in equipped places.
The ship also has a video room, you can take a steam bath in the sauna. If there is a need to seek medical assistance, qualified specialists will provide it to you in the first-aid post on board.
For the convenience of tourists, there is an ironing room with several boards and irons. Unfortunately for some passengers, it may be noted that there is no internet on board. So for communication you will have to wait for the port of destination.
Food
The cost of a ticket for a cruise on the ship "Boris Polevoy", according toreviews of vacationers, includes three meals a day. After reading a lot of opinions, you can come to a comforting conclusion. The cooks feed well. People liked the service, the portions are large. They note that the food, although not restaurant, but the dishes were beautifully decorated. The service staff is polite and attentive.
Food in restaurants on the upper and lower decks in two shifts. Periodicity - 1 hour. The chefs cooked deliciously, especially in the reviews they mention mushroom puree soup, liver soufflé with rice balls, cheese soup, beef steak in puff pastry, delicious borscht with garlic donuts, chicken fillet under a cheese pillow, puff pastry, fresh bagels, tender cottage cheese casserole.
But there are also complaints about the work of restaurants. Coming to the restaurant in the morning for the first shift, tourists could see yesterday's crumbs on the tablecloths, not the first freshness of the floor.
People also noted that by the end of the cruise the volume of portions was significantly reduced, and the waiters were often cheated with the number of passengers at the table. For example, one tourist recalls that instead of six bananas, five were often given on the table. Even the bread was not enough, and the pieces were very thin.
Cabins
There are several different categories of cabins on board the "Boris Polevoy", a motor ship of project 305. These are five rooms of a higher level of comfort: 2 suites and 3 junior suites.
The suites have two spacious rooms: a bedroom and a living room. Near the soft folding sofa there is a small coffee table, there is a kettle and cutlery (tea set). In the roomrefrigerator, video double, wardrobe, table with mirror and ottoman. The bedroom has a large double bed. There is a private bathroom with a shower. There is air conditioning.
There is only one room in the junior suite, but it also has its own bathroom with a shower. Everything you need is there: a refrigerator, a video double, a wardrobe, a spacious double bed, shelves, air conditioning, a table with a tea set and the kettle itself.
Windows in comfortable rooms are large square.
The rest of the cabins of the ship "Boris Polevoy" are designed for two-, three-, four-bed accommodation. The rooms are quite narrow with minimal furniture. The cheapest fourth-class cabins have two small porthole windows.
In the rooms there is only a washbasin. The bathroom is located in the corridor on the decks. But according to passengers, there were never queues, there was no need to wait, so only small cabins brought discomfort.
Tour service
Excursion program is not included in the price of the cruise. Excursions are paid on site. Reviews say that people really liked the trips to historical places. Yes, and on the radio during the transitions, informative reports are constantly broadcast about the places that the ship passes by. Entertainment activities with animators are organized in green parking lots.
People are advised to go on excursions in Kazan, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod and the Makariev Monastery. Be sure to advise when approaching the monastery from the side of the river to take a photo, the place is justfabulous. People who were not going on an excursion here, after seeing these landscapes, also decided to go to the monastery and were very impressed.
Small cities can be visited without paying for a tour service. It is easy to get around them in a couple of hours, and ask the locals for directions.
Entertainment
Passengers are entertained every evening on the ship by holding musical evenings, competitions and watching films. There are discos. But tourists with children complain that few activities are organized for children. They are bored on the ship and cause a lot of trouble to their parents. And if cartoons are turned on for kids, then they are all old, still Soviet. Kids these days don't watch that.
If you are a tourist without any special claims, like to travel, despite any conditions, then calmly board the ship "Boris Polevoy". Only vivid impressions await you!
