In Yalta five city beaches are available:

Massandrovsky beach
It is one of the most visited beaches in Yalta. There are always a lot of people and all possible entertainments. On a beach "straw small houses" are located where to you will offer massage, a shower, water bicycles, skis and scooters on hire. Also - hire of clothes for a scuba diving (aqualungs) and many other things, such as flying on a hang-glider –and others. There are also remarkable bars, restaurants, billiards.
On the beach you can hire a plank bed, and on buns to hire a place under a straw roof or a special small house-bungalow.
In the evening the beauty of the Massandrovsky beach is indescribable. Lapms with light and music turn it into fantastic paradise of heat and happiness.
Input on the Massandrovsky beach is free-of-charge (with the exception the VIP of sectors).

The central city beach
It is near the most popular place in Yalta – the city quay. Usually, on the central city beach it is not so interesting, as on the Massandrovsky beach but if, walking around the city and along unforgettable quay you feel desire to swim and sunbathe - the Central beach of Yalta is for you.
Nearby, on quay you can find all possible entertainments: cafe, the restaurants, expensive boutiques and even a small rope-way.

The beach in the name of Moris Terez
It is boarding house "Pribrezhniy" beach. It is in three kilometres from Yalta. Mainly guests of the boarding house visit the beach. But among the inhabitants of Yalta who have a car it also is very popular because of its cleanliness and absence of crowds. On the beach you will find: a bar, hire of water motorcycles, bicycles. On the beach in the name of Moris Terez beach coast is flat and without any stones at the bottom.

Nikitsky beach
The beach is located in settlement Nikita. It is one of the finest sights of Crimea - the Nikitsky botanical garden. If to you has had the luck to get to this small southern paradise completeness to your happiness will add swimming on a local beach. It not so as populous as Yalta beaches and water there is pure and transparent. If you put on a mask and will dive under water than closer to a bottom you will see set of small fishes among beautiful seaweed in azure water. On a pier local boys catch the crabs hammered into cracks. And the youth masterly shows acrobatic jumps in water. Nearby steamships from Yalta and Lastochiko Gnezdo come to a mooring, and from entertainments here perhaps some trading shops and cafe come. Nikitsky Botanical garden is a place of calmness, a pacification and happiness.

Ayu-Dag beaches
Wild beaches of Ayu-Dag are tiny wild beaches. It is possible to reach them by swimming from sanatorium "Crimea" beach (Partenit) or to "make the way" from Artek side. These are beaches of unforgettable beauty... The beach of the “Big bay” is especially beautiful. This beach differs from the others with light pebbles. A scuba diving and hunting here are excellent activities among huge stones of these places. Fans of diving with an aqualung very often gather there.

Beaches of Yalta are divided by buns (some people name their "piers"). Buns are the stone walls going from coast, means for protection of coast against sea storms. Buns - it is a pleasure for swimmers, jumps in the sea from a pier is one of the best entertainments.