Pamporovo is the sunny one. Tucked into the Rhodope Mountains in southern Bulgaria, it claims around 240 sunny days a year, and it’s earned a long reputation as the country’s gentlest, most family-friendly resort. If you’re learning to ski, or…
Borovets is the easy answer. If you want a ski holiday with the least possible faff – short transfer, gentle slopes, lessons sorted, kids happy – this is where I’d send you. It’s the oldest resort in Bulgaria, the royal…
Bansko has a split personality, and once you understand it, the whole town makes sense. In winter it’s a serious ski resort – the biggest in Bulgaria, with terrain that keeps confident skiers happy for a week. In summer it’s…
Here’s the thing most people in Western Europe haven’t worked out yet: Bulgaria has the best-value lift-served skiing on the continent. A week here – lift pass, rental, lessons, hotel – often costs less than the lift pass alone in…
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Most people staying in Sunny Beach visit Nessebar Old Town once, spend 45 minutes there, and leave thinking they’ve seen it. They haven’t. I’ve walked through the Old Town more times than I can count — early mornings before the…
I’ve watched hundreds of tourists debate this on the strip. Is it worth it? Will I get seasick? Is it just a floating party? The answer depends entirely on which boat you get on — and there are more options…
Last updated: May 2026 | Reading time: ~12 minutes Bulgaria just made history. After years of strong finishes, an unexpected withdrawal or two, and what fans can only describe as an agonising near-miss in 2017, the country finally did it.…
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There are train rides that move you from one place to another, and then there are train rides where you stop checking the time. The Luzern Interlaken Express is the second kind. It doesn’t announce itself with engineering spectacle or…
