Is it really going to rain in Sunny Beach over the weekend?

We are travelling Friday amnd the 5 day forecast isn%26#39;t too good. Please can somebody who has just come back prove it wrong!!

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Sorry, but someone coming back now will be hard pushed to tell you what weather will be like next week.

Click here for a look at forecast for Bourgas area right up until next Tuesday.

weather-forecast.com/locations/…latest

Toonman

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I wouldn%26#39;t get to worried if it does rain probably only for short period and in an hour proabably won%26#39;t know its rained. This is what we found when we have travelled to Bulgaria in June. We are going Saturday

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hi all packed and ready flying out from manchester friday evening weather looks hit and miss packed my wellies and brolly first time for me we brits can take watever is thrown at us lets all enjoy sunny beach have 2 weeks of stress free holiday happy holidays all that are going tomoz cheers

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It%26#39;s really quite cold at night just now - be sure to take warm zippers or cardis etc. I%26#39;ve only got 3/4 trousers and sandals and wish I had something a bit warmer in the evening!

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Thankyou for weather link, just had look, will be keeping eye on it all week. Flying out 13th cant wait now.

sue

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Romance Hotel, St. Konstantine, near Varna

Pondering staying at the exotically named %26#39;Romance Hotel%26#39;, St Konstantine near Varna. It claims four stars.

Is St Konstantine a nice quiet place for walking, spa and beach. Or do the photos flatter to deceive. Thanks for any info.

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Actually staying at this hotel now ! It is really nice , room are very large and furnished with nice stuff .Staff are very friendly and no where smells of smoke .

The food is nice but not 4 star , tuna salad was tinned tuna , that sort of thing .But its a great price including room service and mini bar .

Out side the hotel is a bit run down , i thought it would be prestinne , gearing up for the summer , but no its more like a frontier town.

The beach is like 70s Benidorm .I took some pictures I%26#39;ll post them.

The hotel is great but St Konstatine is not what I thought is would be .

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Many thanks. Pity I have already booked will have to use it as a base for travelling around the area.

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Hi Inverkip,

Can you also tell what the local buses are like and does the hotel organise tourist trips.

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The hotel was great , I would say 4 star for sure , they also have appartments which are great value with a full kitchen and large lounge diner , one bedroom 55 euro two bedroom 75 euro .

Yes the staff where great I am sure they have literature about trips .( the woods are supposed to be amazing full of wildlife , including wolf !, I think shooting expiditions are done in this area!, ) If not you can walk out past the the pool there is a gate on the right , and you are 20 meters from a couple of supermarkets , lots of stalls selling everything from clothes to strawberries( by the way none of the stall holders are aggressive hard sellers or the open air restaurants ) , they have some venders selling trips for sight seeing and a bus stop to venture off independently . The string of stalls lead to the beach , where you pay to rent a brolly and a lounger , one beach bar after the other selling food a drink .The place was empty when we were there but they said the season would start in two weeks.

The hot spring on the beach is a site to behold , the water pours out what looks like an old drainage pipe , but that rock pool area was very popular , with russian and bulgarian tourists .

We are back in Sofia now , and lots of people say you don%26#39;t have to walk far down the beach for it too become quite lovely .I am sure that once you explore there are hidden gems .Most of trees are deciduous which are stunning .

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Hi I posted the pictures to my review of the romance hotel, if you want to see them.

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Many thanks for the excellent info. Where can I locate the photos. Directions please.

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Want to book holiday to Bulgaria...wheres best?

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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Artists

Hi all, i have a lovely photo of my kids which they had done for xmas prezzie for me. Ive seen the artists advertised, are they any good, as would love them to draw my teenagers for prezzie for my mum, if so does anyone know which one is best and how much levs.

thanks sue

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The cost is very much dependant on whether you want water colour, oil or pencil.You will see all their prices on display and I would take your photo with you just in case.

They are very good indeed and the guy with the big bushy beard always has a lot of trade.

Hopefully someone going this week can find out current prices for you and report back on their return.

Toonman

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Thanks will take photo with me, and have a look round, if anyone is going please could they have look and see how much.

thanks sue

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Best places I found were in the resort of Albena which is nr to Golden Sands..Not too expensive either.

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Will have a look, has anyone any idea of prices please.

thanks sue

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nessebar hotel in sunny beach,bulgaria

Hiya im going to Hotel Nessebar In Bulgaria Sunny Beach,In August with my husband and 3 children,can anyone offer any details for this hotel,its an All Inclusive Holiday do they offer a good deal,anything i need to no about this hote,ls there anything to do at night times,can someone give me any ideas please,

linda.dasilva@blueyonder.co.uk

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Linda,

Here is a link to some reviews on the hotel. Go to the bottom of the page to see all 16 reviews.

www.bulgariancoast.com/hotels/detail.asp…

Toonman

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Nessebar, Ravda and Sunny Beach are absolutely fantastic - you will not be disappointed. I don%26#39;t know your hotel, but we went for a family holiday and stayed in an apartment between Ravda and Nessebar. We have 2 kids, aged 16 %26amp; 12. Safe, easy to wlak about, good buses - the best for value is Ravda where a meal for all 4 of us 3 courses plus drinks etc, £15 - Nessebar more expensive and the market there has lots of snides ( Dolce %26amp; Gabbana etc) just don%26#39;t buy the perfume, trainers or holdalls but everything else ok and fantastic value. We gave our kids £50 each and ended up with an extra bag to come home with. The eldest loved shopping there in the old market. The waterpark between Ravda and Nessebar is a great day out and has everything you need such as food etc. Great first aid when youngest had a nose bleed but nurse attended to him whilst smoking a fag!!!!!

Downsides - the roads aren%26#39;t made up, agreed a fare with any taxi you use before you get in,any resturant near the sea in Nessebar is a rip off.Fresh milk - you can%26#39;t buy it.Avoid Sunny Beach, dirty and lots of Russian Mafia types.

Upsides - CHEAP!!!Ravda every night if you are eating. Buses about 20p each way and fairly frequent. Waterpark as before.Market in Nessebar old town. Ravda market.Loads of different Nationalities.

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Money....SB or Home

Hi All

Can we exchange at banks with a Credit/Debit card In SB ????

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Yes you can. There are numerous banks in SB but be aware that virtually all cards except the Nationwide Flex Account card carry charges of up to £4.95 per transaction.

Toonman

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Do the ATMs in Golden Sands accept EC Cards debit cards??

Going there next week and was wondering if the ATM%26#39;s will take an EC card, which is a debit card, or do they just take credit cards?? Cheers..

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I believe the EC card comes under the Maestro /Mastercard group and if so you should have no problem.

I use a debit card when in Sunny Beach( Nationwide Visa ) without any trouble.

Toonman

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