Borovets

Borovets is the second largest ski resort in Bulgaria, an area now open for investment and exploitation of its huge potential due to Bulgaria's recent joining of the European Union. However, beware fellow skiiers that you cannot use Euros, but Bulgarian Levs. Now, the ski resort itself has several parts: The Hotels The food The nightlife The slopes/skiing Facilities/equipment The hotels: There are a vast variety of hotels, which are within ...
...at fartherst, all of which can be reached by taxi or horse and cart(a nice traditional element, if slightly smelly). The hotels range from the imposing communist styled 'Samako' to the quaint little 2/3 star ones further away. The ones like the Samako have everything from a bar to a shooting range, whereas if all you want is a few drinks before a quiet night I would recommend one of the smaller ones. I cannot remember the name of the one I stayed ...

Wdolidol 02.02.2008 · Read full review
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...Ski. The snow in Borovets isn't amazing. They can be reluctant to switch the snow machines on the lower slopes which can be annoying, but if you stay up on the higher slopes there isn't usually a problem. We went last January and got 3 good days of snow. The year before we went in March and there was very little snow on the lower slopes, but was better higher up. This was when we found out they don't switch the snow machines on very often. There ...
...favourite of mine is a run beneath the gondola lifts, but you have to look out for the pylons! In the evenings you can purchase a night lift pass that allows you on the lit runs until about 10 pm. If you get tired of skiing or boarding there are plenty of other activities such as toboganing, snow mobiles etc. The food is good if you know where to go. Do not eat in any of the hotels, I'll repeat that, DO NOT EAT IN ANY OF THE HOTELS! Between my friends ...

ChemicalAl 25.03.2004 · Read full review
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Who wants to be a millionaire - we all do don't we. Try a package skiing holiday to this resort and you can get a taste of what a millionaire's lifestyle must be like. The packages to Bulgaria still rank amongst the cheapest skiing around, and once in the resort the prices make your money go slower than a beginner down a nursery slope. Food, drinks (alcohol and soft) and cigarettes are dirt cheap and the night clubs welcome and treat like royalty ...
...for the best service at only slightly higher prices. The skiing is excellent with good relaiable snow and the lift network is suficent for all levels of skiers. Certainly it not all glamour - the airport and transfer are experiences probably best forgotten, why not stop skiing a day early and head to Sofia before your return, you'll gain a truer picture of the real Eastern Europe that you do not experience whilst in Borovets. ...

winprizes2000 16.12.2000 · Read full review
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...times or so now, and Borovets without doubt offered me the best value for money of all. About 2.5 hours away by plane, try to fly to Sofia rather than Plovdiv. The airport is a lot better and transfer times a lot shorter. When choosing a hotel, it is well worth paying the extra for a resort "centre" hotel- the hotels Samakov and Rila are the best (1999). The out of resort hotels are cheaper, but can be awkward when there is a lot of snow. Bulgarian ...
...serve- we complained about it. Borovets itself is now mainly purpose built, with two main skiing areas. The Mount Moussala area is higher, served by a Gondola lift, and almost snow sure. The Baraki area is lower, generally easier runs, but less snow sure, and is served by a number of chairlifts. I was concerned about getting bored, and skiing all the runs, but there is a good choice of pistes. I must mention here that the local ski school is EXCELLENT. ...

skimanant 01.01.2001 (03.01.2001) · Read full review
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...those more advanced. The Borovets mountains were incredibly beautiful, with some nice mountain swiss chalet style bars and restaurants high up in the mountains. The chair lifts I felt though were a bit rickety looking and quite hair raising. The hotel was great and easily looked after our hired gear, overnight, and very conveniently located. Mainly though - I loved the the Bulgarian people, who, if you get the chance to get to know them, are INCREDIBLY ...
...nice, and they really do seem to like us Brits. I have been to a number of countries now, and no-one has beaten them for their willingness to have fun and have a laugh, and the general kindness and patience they showed. Another incident I must talk about: At the end of the week, I went out on my own, but I got completely stuck on one very difficult slope where I unfortunately lost my bottle, but I was "rescued" by a snow plough driver, who couldnt ...

Deck 19.02.2001 (02.03.2001) · Read full review
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Having visited Borovets ski resort on a college trip in January 2000, I discovered that the place wasn't as bad as I had expected. Firstly, don't be put off by how cheap the holiday is compared to other countires - they keep the prices low to compete with places like Canada, the Swiss Alps, and Hillingdon! (only Londonders will get that). There are two main airports in Bulgaria, and Borovets is roughly in the middle of the two. It has 11 hotels, ...
...ones like Bor and Edelweiss (where I stayed!). The skiing itself is quite good with an excellent English speaking ski school, and slopes for all levels of ability. There are also some cross-coutry runs which most beginners will be able to handle after four or five days of learning. There are shows and events during the week throughout the evening, inlcuding an excellent ski display with ski-batics (acrobatics on snow!) and fireworks. The food in ...

philltowns 10.07.2000 (07.05.2002) · Read full review
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We went skiing in Borovets in Jan 2005, we were a little apprehensive because of some of the reviews that we'd seen, but we were pleasantly surprised and I would recommend anyone to go there, and I will be going back as soon as I can. We stayed in the Rila hotel, and yes the room was basic, but it was clean and in good condition, I only found one tiny bit of mould in the bathroom, which is less than a lot of places you get in the UK! We had a twin ...
...we were on the second floor. Checking in did take some time as there were so many people there, but you can't really expect anything less. The food was ok, no it wasn't 'hot hot' but at the same time it wasn't cold, and there was always plenty of choice, and considering Im a fussy eater I cleared my plate every day and there was certainly enough there to satisfy my hunger, the only down side I'd say was there wasn't a great selection of desserts. ...

Hydra101 02.04.2006 · Read full review
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Borovets is a great place to ski and you don't have to spend a fortune to go. We went two years ago and it cost just £590 for the two of us. This included ski and boot hire and liftpasses, plus lessons for me (I still feel better with an instructor!). We stayed in four star accomodation in the Rila Hotel. Its not what you would expect in a four start here but it was clean and there was plenty to eat, especially pasta, cheese and yoghurt. We stayed ...
...the lower learners runs. Borovets is a quiet place and the people were very friendly. I felt very wealthy as well when Ichanged my sterling into hundreds of thousands of lev (the local currency). A cup of coffee was 20 lev and a brandy about 30 lev. An omelette, chips ans salad at lunchtime cost around 1800 lev. We were getting an exchange rate that increased all the time, from hour to hour but on average it was about 2100lev to the £1. (While we ...

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...read some good reviews of Borovets but my experience there wasn't a good one. The hotel was dirty (The Rila). We had a small studio in the hotel itself. The food was terrible. Everything was full of calories. You could get plenty of bread with no butter (it was cheesey stuff), and loads of pasta. Every meal brought yet another dish of the Bulgarian equivalent of spaghetti bolognese. They added the left overs from the previous day to it. it got to ...
...You didn't need to go hungry if you would eat all this stodgy food. There was hardly any snow low down and we had to trek carrying all our gear to the lift and go up to the top of the mountain. This wasn't suitable for learners either. Prices were low but they varied according to the place, who served you and whether they liked you. A coffee in the same place, same time of day, ordered by two different people varied by as much as double the price. ...

jomorf 24.02.2001 · Read full review
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...had a great experience in borovets having snowboarding lessons, by the end of the week i could do jumps and spins.My snowboard instructer was very kind and although he only was supposed to teach us for 2 hours he stayed with us on the slopes and helped us out. The resteraunt food is very good for the price you pay but the food you get with the hotel package is horrible. I advise you not to take the excursions to sophia as the people in charge told ...
...the luggage got stolen. the hotel we stayed at - hotel moora had a strange smell as you walked in but had lovely veiws but poor resteraunt sevice. some of the bigger hotels have boot warming facilities so i would advise you to stay at those ones because it would be nice to wake up to lovey warm boots. ...

shloof 28.09.2002 · Read full review
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