City break in Lviv. Active leisure ideas for Lviv - attractions, recreation and nightlife

Upscale nightclubs, shopping and entertainment centers, scale markets, scenic parks and large sport complexes are the minor part of the entertainments Lvov offers to its visitors. Enthusiasts of billiards and bowling should pay a visit to the Barkley pub. Its visitors can set comfortably in the cozy hall or at the bar counter and order favorite beer and thereafter to proceed to the playing hall and devote some time to favorite game. The fans of contemporary music and dancing will better like the Cult nightclub located in the ancient cellar under the building of Lvov Philharmonic. Daily the visitors of the place are offered exciting parties and entertaining shows.

Another renowned night spot is the Chocolate Bar. Apart from a vast selection of speciality drinks and sweet treats the place offers to its guests a rich entertaining program. The bar engages popular music bands and DJs to keep the public hot. The local carting center is the same worth attention. It will turn to a perfect place of family leisure.

The nature enthusiasts will surely love the Botanical garden located on the territory of the National Forestry Engineering University of Ukraine. Its vast territory is a perfect place to walk and enjoy the sights of exotic plants and fragrant flowers. The history of the Lvov Botanical Garden dates back to the beginning of the by-gone century. Each year its vast collection of plants is added with ever new exotic specimens. The great choice of parks in Lvov will stun those tourists giving preference to outdoor recreation. Zamarstynovky park, the woodland park “Zubra”, Lewandowsky park and Bruchovichisky park are the few of natural areas which will best fit as for sport entertainments, so for picnics. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

The city has more than twenty parks and gardens each of them being charming, unique and glorious. In the evenings the guests are invited to visit the city cinemas. The 5D Cinema is of greatest popularity among city guests and local residents. The Kiev Cinema is the best to visit for watching some new films. Among the most popular cinemas there are also Sokol and Lvov. The best place for family visit is the entertaining center “Bez Problem” being of immense popularity among the youngest travelers. For older tourists the entertaining complex “Mi100” is the best leisure alternative. The complex offers as stylish bars and upscale restaurants so high end night clubs.

Lviv will also please those wishing to go down the slides and splash in the pool - Plyazh Water Park is perfectly equipped for this. Water rides and pools for every taste, lounges, comfortable sunbathing areas, thermal zones, playgrounds - that's what you can find here. Besides the swimming complex, a fitness center is equipped on its grounds, as well as a restaurant serving tasty meals. Themed parties with animator shows are regularly organized for kids. The water park enjoys well-deserved popularity both among locals and tourists. Any vacation is unimaginable without spa centers where one can “wash off” all the fatigue and have a good time enjoying spa treatments. In Lviv, the best place of this kind is Wai Thai Massage.

In the city, you can try balloon flights, a great opportunity to admire the city from a bird's eye view and get a lot of pleasant adrenaline-boosting impressions. For those who want to jump with a parachute but can't do it for some reason, it's worth mentioning Rope-Jumping Club offering indoor parachuting. Although this kind of entertainment is absolutely safe, visitors can feel how the blood boils in the veins due to a strong surge of adrenaline.

Workshops allowing to learn a lot of new things are in great demand among tourists. In particular, if you want to learn how to cook dishes like a Ukrainian, be sure to check out Sil 'Ukrainian Cooking Class or Yurashki Studio. For the sweet tooth, there is no better place than "Caramel Manufactory". Here you can watch how sweets are made and see the result in the form of magnificent delicious figures in the end. And, of course, taste the sweets. Exciting excursions and tours will help spend time in Lviv actively. For example, ecological tours with hikes through the picturesque surroundings of the city are popular with many travelers.

Karetnyy Dvir is a great place for those who wish to learn horse riding and watch magnificent shows featuring graceful horses. However, you can learn to ride a pony or horse (depending on the age) in another place - Maria Brodskaya Riding School. Want to learn how to shoot a rifle? Welcome to LSK shooting range! Want to plunge into the virtual world? It'd be useful to mention VR Cube where a virtual reality station is at visitors' disposal. Those who wish to assure themselves that “fear has big eyes” must visit Insomnia Panic Room and get a surge of the extreme hormone leaving only the most pleasant memories.

In Lviv, you can find several great escape clubs, the best among which are "Enigma", "Secretorum", and HUB Escape Quest. In the first center, visitors need to get out of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, and in Secretorum offers more rooms, from vampire-style rooms to the ones based on Harry Potter's story. HUB Escape Quest provides rooms mainly styled after popular films like Pirates of the Caribbean, 50 Shades of Gray, Hannibal, and Star Wars.

Have a great time with friends or family in an anticafe called Lviv South District. Here, guests will find interesting quests, games, and contests, as well as board games and game consoles. All this is complemented by exquisite Italian cuisine and a mini-cinema. As for nightlife facilities, there are few particularly interesting ones - namely, De Luxe Bar offering a great pastime with karaoke singing and !FESTrepublic, the most popular club for dancing all night long.