Winner of Best Hotel Building of the Year Award, this 5-Star hotel offers extensive business and leisure facilities, just 7 km from the beautiful Vitosha Mountain.
A warm Welcome to Sofias newest 5 Star hotel Winner of the InterContinental Hotels Group ... more
Best Newcomer Award in 2008 and Building of the Year Award the Holiday Inn Sofia features the highest standards of international contemporary design comfort an...
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Advantages: Not too busy, good value for money, green Disadvantages: Not many "attractions", not much for children
capital city, Sofia has the usual wide range of eateries covering all price brackets and styles of food. Bulgarian food is very good and quite varied so visitors should aim to go native at least once. My recommendation is "Tsentrale" - a traditional style "inn" serving hearty local dishes; the service is good, the prices reasonable and in summer you can dine outisde in the pleasant beer garden. A rather different but very Bulgarian experience is to eat at the Happy Bar and Grill - a Bulgarian chain which offers an enormous menu of grills, salads, vegetarian dishes and desserts. They have menus in English and fantastic colour photographs of the dishes. There are several Chinese restaurants, two sushi restaurants and there are pizza and pasta places everywhere.
Dedicated bars are less easy to find and there are more of the "cafe-bar" variety ...
Advantages: Great large town, that's compact and safe to explore Disadvantages: Probably only enough for a weekend; the Cyrillic language
For the first time theediscerning is hereby dabbling in foreign climes - no, not a first trip abroad, but a debut excursion into the esteemed realm of Ciao travel writers. That's what these competition thingies are for, of course.
To start with, a smallish city both tucked away in the middle of Eastern Europe's old Soviet / Warsaw Pact areas, yet far enough away from us in the UK to have some of the mystery and oddity the near east brings - Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
You will increasingly see this as a location for a long weekend holiday, for it is yet another fine eastern European city falling under the tourism industry's eye. With Bulgaria possibly entering the Eurozone in 2007, the urge is to go before it all gets changed.
The history of the country is far too complex to summarise here, but just one corner of Sofia ...
theediscerning 27.08.2005
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Advantages: swiming pool, massage Disadvantages: this is not one of the best parts of Sofia
The Hotel is near the center and the guests may see the most interesting part of the city afoot. This is a big advantage because in Sofia there are problems with the parking place.
The hotel is really near the Sofia railway station and near the main bus station.
The breakfast is good but the choice of the food is not big enough. Some of our colleagues don't like the specific bulgarian food and breakfast and don't have any choice.
The rooms are comfortable and clean. There is a TV with different channels.
There is a Casino - if you like such a games. A lot of people come from the neighbour countries espcecially for the Casino.
The massage is really great and not expensive.
I recommend this hotel for business travelers. ...
Winner of Best Hotel Building of the Year Award, this 5-Star hotel offers extensive business and leisure facilities, just 7 km from the beautiful Vitosha Mountain.
