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I went to Sunny Beach, Bulgaria last August with my wife, I think we went because we had heard it was so cheap to eat and drink and fancied seeing if this was true, and also to try somewhere a bit different as we didn't know anyone who had been before, so we had no idea really what to expect.
We paid just over £700 for both of us, for two weeks in August with taxi transfers and a three star hotel on the sea front which we thought was extremely good value for money. We arrived at Bourgas airport got through customs without any problems and our taxi driver was waiting to take us on to Sunny Beach which took about 20 - 25 minutes.
When we arrived at our hotel it was about midnight so we dumped our stuff in the quite basic hotel room and went out to explore the many bars and resturaunts. We were very pleasantly surprised at
what we found. The main promenade is about 25 foot wide and runs the full length of Sunny Beach nearly and this lined with bars, resturaunts, Hotels, Clubs and shops. It is also extremely busy with people on foot, bikes, golf buggies!! but you feel perfectly safe as you make your way along deciding where to try first. One problem on the main prom is that you do get hassled a bit to go in to the bars and resuraunts by the pa's outside, but like anywhere like this you get used to it by the third day and they do take no for an answer.
We tried out a lot of bars and resturaunts while we were in Sunny Beach and on the whole found them to be very good, the food is very nice and you can't complain at the prices - lager about 90p a pint in the main areas but by going off down side streets about 100 feet you can pay 35p a pint. A decent meal for two with wine is about a tenner! Cocktails tend to be two for one all night and you pay between £1 and £2.50 for two. Also other things are cheap like bungie rockets about a fiver a go, jet ski's £12 fo 20 minutes and lots of mini golf if you fancy it for about £2 a round.
The shopping is quite good also they have all the leather goods, belts, wallets and handbags, like you expect but also the clothes are pretty good quality and worth looking at.
There are two water parks in Sunny Beach and these both operate a free bus service both ways from about 20 different pick up points and I think from memory about £12 each admission so no need to book this with your rep just turn up any day you like. There is a boat trip that takes you all along the coast which was good £18 each for the day and includes food and plenty of drink!! Just a bit of a booze cruise really as there isn't that much to see, and those were the only trips we did so can't comment any further.
We did go into Nessebar though a couple of times and really enjoyed it. Its a bit quieter than Sunny Beach and older the buildings are nice and the streets narrow and lined with old shops selling there wares. You can get to Nessebar by boat, taxi or the little train that runs round the streets and will cost you about £1 each and its well worth going if you fancy a bit of peace a quiet for the day. We sat in a bar up in the hills one afternoon looking out over the sea its like a different world from the hussle and bustle of Sunny Beach and only about 1km away.
The Bugarian people are very nice, which always makes a holiday for me they are extremely helpful and speak very good english which is good as Bulgarian is a hard language to learn!!
If you like Bulgaria you could even buy your own place there, studios just on the outskirts of Sunny Beach start at about £10,000 and they have payment plans which make them very affordable. They are a stable country and are in the eu now and building work is going on like mad. We went on a viewing trip one day with an english estate agent over there and worried before that we would be given the hard sell, but it was totally the opposite we went round loads of different building sites and show homes, it felt like an episode of A Place in the Sun!! And in the end we decided on a one bed apartment on Royal Sun a big new developement in Sunny Beach so we will be back every year now!
All in all Sunny Beach Bulgaria is a fantastic holiday spot, its not what you expect, I think more and more people are starting to catch on that its a good place to go. There arn't that many brits going there yet and so there are a lot of european holiday makers there but this isn't a problem at all, and if you like nightlife its THE place for you.
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Advantages: Cheap hoilday, not overcrowded, friendly people,fantastic food,beer 30p a pint,Not a 'tourist trap' Disadvantages: Street vendors harassing you, hygiene in toilets, quite a long journey, can be crowded at PEAK times
bwsr2 07.07.2001 (08.01.2002)
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