The following useful info on accommodations was provided by Sardana Mikheeva via the Facebook group “Ask-Yakutia-Today” (don’t forget to join the FB group.) I added some info, more details and comments. So here we go.
Khandyga
So-called President’s Hotel
Available: single, twin, de-luxe, living room, dining room and kitchen. With all convinients (shower, toilet and bath). One day stay costs 1000-1500 rubles per person. Meals are not included.
Two hostels
With all convenience. Twin, 4 pax, 6 pax rooms, kitchen, shower and toilet. One day stay is for 600-900 rubles per person, meals excluded. Latter is not a big prob. You can buy food at shops, cook in the common kitchen or just have a dinner at the local bar-cafe (sometimes doesnt work).
Btw, don’t mix up with a shaggy, unheated two-store wooden hotel (gostiniza). The described hostels occupy multi-bedroom apartments in two-store living houses. Once I and fellow-journalists mixed, it wasn’t good at all to spend night with totally drunk guys in the neighbour room. Next night we stayed in the above-mention hostel (in Russian we call them mini-gostiniza/мини-гостиница) and were happy pretty much.
Tomtor & Kuidusun (Куйдусун)
There are a few private houses used as hostels. With 2-3 pax rooms. It’s more like homestay. 600 rubles without meals and 2000 rubles with 3-times meals.
Oymyakon
A private house (hostel) with 2 rooms for 6 persons. There is the Russian sauna (banya). Price: 1500 – 2000 rubles includes 3 meals.
Ust Nera
There is one, but no info on rates and condition yet.
P.S. A little clarification. We call a hostel any building/apartment, that is used for hosting travellers, but wasn’t designed initially as a hotel. We usually say “mini-gostiniza” (мини-гостиница).
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