Dining out is a delight as the number of eating establishments in Sochi are too many to enumerate - the list nclude expensive hotel restaurants that serve elaborate dishes and seaside cafés that serve a mix of shashlyk, salads, grilled meat and fish. Entertainment comes in the guise of bars, discos, casinos, pool halls, bowling, theatre, cinema,   shows, strip shows and special evening cruises on the Black Sea.

Money exchange facilities are available at counters at the sea terminal, in the city centre and at most of the hotels in Sochi. The main post office is on the Kurortny prospekt on the corner of ulitsa Vorovskogo. Bookings for rooms at the sanatoria , or for trips to Krasnaya Polyana, Mt Fisht   can be made via travel agents at most of the hotels.