8 days in Odessa at the end of August with kids 6 and 9 years old.

Odessa is definitely a pearl on the Black Sea coast. I have never been here before, but everything here looks familiar, as if I had walked along these streets and boulevards, whose names sound familiar. The old center of the city has been preserved well and is now actively being restored, and returning to the times of its glory.

Brief route:

Here you can see all the waypoints on the Google Maps and also use Google navigation to the place:

You can also download KML file and open it in other offline application for navigation and editing:

Odessa.KML

Day 1:
From the airport, we came to the center to the apartment we rented online for about 30 euros per night at the corner of Preobrazhenskaya and Mayakovsky, five minutes’ walk from the main Deribasovskaya Street.

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In Odessa, Uber application is the most useful for ordering a taxi. The driver arrives within 5 minutes and is not expensive. From the airport, 20 minutes’ drive to the center.
We recommend an excellent cafe “Zheto” on Mayakovsky street, inside it looks like vintage museum and it is very tasty. We had breakfast there.
The rope park in Pobeda Park or if you want something bigger go to Memorial 411.
Transfiguration Cathedral
City Garden and Fountain
The Passage
The house of Liebman
Walking on Deribasovskaya to the Opera Theater
Guided tour on the electric open car (starts near Opera)
The corner of old Odessa
The “Witch” House

Day 2:
The courtyard in the house of scientists
Palace of Tolstoy
The House with Atlantes
Shah’s Palace
Monument to Orange
Colonnade
Vorontsov Palace
Greek Park
Monument to Duke
The Potemkin Stairs
Funicular
Odessa port
Monument to Catherine the Great and the city founders

Day 3:
Everybody went shopping in the shopping center Tavria B and Europe, and I walked along the old Odessa to the Otrada beach.
By Deribasovskaya, then by Ekaterininskaya, I turned to Gretzka, and then to Pushkinskaya street.
Hotel Bristol
Philharmonic
Italian courtyard
Wall of outstanding characters of Odessa
“Privoz” Market
Central railway station
Mauritanian arch and cable car to the “Otrada” beach
Jet skiing
In the evening we went to the promenade of Arcadia

Day 4:
Chocolate Museum
Alley of stars
The Laocoon statue
Sculpture Park
Cafe “Event”
Dolphinarium “Nemo”
The “Langeron” Beach

Day 5:
Bicycle rental on Arcadia beach
Cycle route to Shevchenko Park and back
“Bono” Beach
Georgian restaurant “Khachapuri”

Day 6:
Medieval knights Festival in Shevchenko Park
Lunapark
Catacombs – the underground world of Odessa. We did not have time.
The Main post office building, beautiful inside.
Circus on ice.
Evening walk on Deribasovskaya

Day 7:
Primorsky Boulevard from the Pushkin monument to the Potemkin Stairs
Istanbul Park
“Palais Royal” court
Children’s ballet “Chipolino” at the Opera House.
The Opera thater is a must-see! We booked tickets online a month before.
Excellent restaurant “Kumanets” of national Ukrainian cuisine.

Day 8:
Museum of Interesting Science.
If you love shopping, then the 7th kilometer is your place.
Water park “Odessa” at 7m kilometer.
There is also a water park “Hawaii” in Arcadia.

Photos and description:

Day 1:

Cafe “Zheto”