Did you stay in the big Hotel (I think it's the Kempinski now) on the other side of the Bay? I was in there just after it opened a few years ago - a total of 7 guests in mid November....... every one on a different floor.....
No, the Kempinski wasn't there then. I stayed in the nearby Nadezhda at Kabardinka, So I could keep an eye on the shipping traffic in and out of Novorossiysk
