Sarpi is difficult to call the resort. It sounds too far as applied to a small village, located 15-20 minutes from Batumi and direct proximity to the border with Turkey. Despite the small territory that the village takes, Sarpi is very popular for recreation, but rest is more passive and measured than, for example, in Batumi.
What are the benefits of stay here? First, this is the distance from the center of Batumi. In Batumi, the life of "boils" in the midst of the tourist season, in Sarpi, you can find a privacy, but there is one one but ... The above-mentioned border point between Georgia and Turkey attracts a huge stream of cars, both cars and heavy trucks, so it is very noisy, And also quite problematic other times move the road, even though it is non-screens - two-band. Drivers are in no hurry to miss pedestrians even on zebra. This is the features of driving culture in many states, including Georgia. It seems that the rules of road traffic here even no one knows. Secondly, Sarpi is glorified by clean sea water. Indeed, in comparison with Batumi, the water here is transparent and warmer. Do not deny yourself the pleasure of Kuptice in the evening. Water per day warms up and closer to sunset the best time for water procedures. In the morning to dinner, it is very palette, but the presence of the mountains smoothes this bit, in Batumi from the beach, it is already necessary to leave for an hour of the day. More about the sea. For me, there was a minus - the presence of jellyfish, but they are harmless, do not harm, but nevertheless ... I do not respect these residents of the sea buffin. We float, then they can be hurt them, then the foot. And children willingly catch them, put in bags filled with water and are observed.
As for the beach, there is no particular difference from the beaches of Gonio, Kvariati, there is no Batumi. The beach is rocky, the entrance to the sea is also - stones, meters two bottom of the hollow, then break. It is difficult to walk on cobblestones, but many very quietly relate to such a coating. Rubber slippers are saved, which can be purchased for 12 lari. Lari course by the end of July 2015 1:37, about 28 rubles per Lari. The fact that in Sarpi pebbles and sand, as I read on a number of tourist sites, do not believe.
Tourists with children are most often coming to SarPi. This place is great for family holidays, when nothing is required except the beach and the sea. For entertainment it is worth going to Batumi, there is something to see and what to spend time and money. In Sarpi, there are hotels and guest houses. In the season, the room without food will cost about 80-120 lari. A number of hotels are located on the slope of the mountain, to the sea for 10 minutes, but you can save at the cost of living.
More information about the beach. The cost of the chaise lounger is 3 lari, if you need to take a shower after the sea, that is, shower booths. The cost of 1 LAR, if 50 Tetri is simply changed (half of Lara). All make money.
You can come with your cover, it is not necessary to take a chaise longue, this is your solution. Beach municipal. On the beach there is a small bar and constantly run by local traders offering hot corn (Tshheli Simmadi), bagels (bubliques), bananas, kozinaki, drinks, and other corn will cost you in 2 lari, bagel in 50 Tetri. The beach in Sarpi is not very controversy, and not too wide. If you stand face to the mountains, and back to the sea, then there will be a border post, to the left of the border with the village of Kvariati, which also as Sarpi is very popular for passive recreation.
If you want to cross the border, then Sarpi is advantage of other settlements. It is necessary to pass the checkpoint, you will leave by Turkey, go for passage 1.5 Lari and will be taken to the Istanbul Bazaar shopping center. Immediately, I want to say that I expected something ambitious. I thought it was really a huge textile center, and it turned out to be a very small shop, otherwise it is impossible to say. There is also a market, or rather, this residential street, on the first floors, houses are equipped with textile products. Since I myself came from the textile edge, arrived back without shopping. Taking into account the cost of travel, a trip to Turkey from Sarpi cost me 3 Lari. Probably no one is so exhausted in Turkey. Not me, one of the number of tourists came empty. Tourists from Kazakhstan were also disappointed, indicating that they have a choice much better and prices are approximately such. But the inhabitants of Georgia are very profitable to come here for purchases, but it turned out to be not for us.
In every place you can find the joints of the pros and cons, but since the rest wants to spend on a positive, then you should not seem to look for flaws. Everyone needs to look good. Sarpi is the place where the scheduled vacation can be done on perfectly. Here and the sea and mountains and the other country, the transition to which does not require special costs or temporary or money. There is a great sea, and the proximity to Batumi will allow you to change the passive vacation to active tourism if desired. Rest in Sarpi with pleasure!
Not far from Sarpi there is another village Gonio. There you can go because of the Gonio-Appsaro Museum. The fortress walls of the once former Roman fort are preserved to the present day. The museum is working until 18 o'clock, the cost of the entrance is 3 Lara. On the area it is small, but there is an interesting exposition of antiquities. For the extension of the horizon, you can visit this attraction Gonio.