Hi.
We usualy holiday in Turkey, but have decided we want to try Bulgaria for out summer 2007 holiday. We have never been to Bulgaria before and our local airport/company fly to both Bourgas and Varna, so either area would be ok to travel to.
Basically we are wanting to know wheres the best resort? We like somewhere decent in size, so we can have a good walk about, plenty of shops to look around, nice bars that allow children (we have a 3 year old son) and a decent beach.
I thought Sunny Beach looked nice, is it??
Any advice would be great as we truly are 1st timers to bulgaria, and have heard all sorts of mixed reports, good and bad, so just want really to know is it nice, wheres nice, and is it expensive to eat/drink whilst there?
Looking at booking with balkan Holidays, are they any good?
Thanks to you all in advance!
Lisa.
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Hi Lisa,
I consider Zlatni Piassatzi (Golden sands) better than Sunny Beach. Also Albena and Dyuni are extremely beautiful and well organized resorts. I live in the US and I used Felix Travel for my trip to Bulgaria. They were very helpful, gave me detailed information and knew everything what I needed. I recommend this agency. www.felixtravel.net
The beach strip is covered with fine golden sand. Some hotels are far from the sea and you have to ask the agent when you choose the hotel.
Hope this helped.
Dori
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Hi Lisa,
I consider Zlatni Piassatzi (Golden sands) better than Sunny Beach. Also Albena and Dyuni are extremely beautiful and well organized resorts. I live in the US and I used Felix Travel for my trip to Bulgaria. They were very helpful, gave me detailed information and knew everything what I needed. I recommend this agency. www.felixtravel.net
The beach strip is covered with fine golden sand. Some hotels are far from the sea and you have to ask the agent when you choose the hotel.
Hope this helped.
Dori
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Bulgaria is very good - have stayed in both Sunny Beach and Golden Sands resorts and would recommend Golden Sands, especially if you have a young child as it is less busy and not so noisy at night. Lots of family friendly restaurants and bars, beautiful beach, plenty shops.
Usually book my own flights as Balkan prices can be a bit steep. Suggest you book minimum 3* accommodation, higher if possible. This year booked through holidayhotels.com and got a really good price at 4* Hotel Yavor - ended up in an apartment with lounge, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms even though I had only booked a 1 bed apartment! Food was good here and the rooms had been recently refurbished and were really nice. Take a taxi from airport, much cheaper and quicker than transfers by coach.
As resort is quite hilly I suggest you try and book accomm on 1st or 2nd streets from the beach. You can walk right from one end of the resort to the other along the front street which is pedestrianised, without the risk of being ploughed down by golf karts which they rent out in Sunny beach and are driven recklessly throughout the resort by teenagers thinking they are in a formula one car!! Thankfully Golden Sands don%26#39;t have these.
Lots of watersports and a brilliant waterpark, plenty to do and still cheap - hope this helps!!
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Thanks for all the info. To be honest, since posting my original post, I was thinking Golden Sands looked better!
Will have a good look at that resort now. Thank you.
Lisa.
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Hi Lisa
We too are frequent visitors to Turkey, but tried Bulgaria end of May/June 2007. We went to Nessebur, a lovely place. If you stay in new Nessebur in a hotel on the sea front, you will have the best of both worlds - the lovely beach, and a 10/15 minute walk into Old Nessebur, where there are lots of shops. Most of the restaurants in Old Nessebur overlook the beautiful harbour, and are exceptionally cheap (far cheaper than Turkey nowadays). However there isn%26#39;t any nightlife, you have to go into Sunny Beach for that. Sunny Beach isn%26#39;t too far away, but we personally hated it - it is rowdy, and more suitable for teenagers.
However, Balkan are another matter! We arrived in Bulgaria in fog and was taken to Varna airport instead of Bourgas and left there for 5 hours in the middle of the night without a word of explanation. We stayed in a lovely hotel called the Arsena, where the fitness centre was advertised as free, which is why we chose it, and it wasn%26#39;t! We went through the correct channels of complaint, but to cut a long story short Balkan just don%26#39;t want to know about complaints.
If you can get to Nessebur with any other company, I would highly recommend giving it a try, we loved it, but I certainly wouldn%26#39;t go with Balkan again.
Bernice
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Hello Lola
I have just returned from Duni and had a wonderful holiday with my teenage children (6 in the party in total) We went to the Grand Marina Palace Hotel. The beach, scenery, wildlife, activitys were all amazing. Its a beautiful country and worth touring around the other areas. We visited Khans Tent in Sunny Beach and were pleased to have stayed in Duni. There is nothing wrong with Sunny Beach but it was more a place for teenagers (blackpool) than Duni.
Duni had a mix of nationalitys and didnt favour one over another, which was refreshing and fair. The hotel had Russians, French, Germans, Bulgarians and off course English and we all mixed well with each other.
The safari took us along the mountain that joins with Turkey and was a fantastic opportunity to see the wildlife. Another wonderful excursion ended in sampling the Bulgarian hospitality at a local village which had a stork and nest on every lamp post!
A beautiful country.
Let me know what decision you made in the end and whether you were happy with it
Best Wishes
Jenny
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