We arrived back on Saturday. No problems with flights either way. Snow was fabulous. New snow cannons have been installed. The new lift from Stoikite is coming on well.
Our first day was problematic with our friends suffering a broken binding, wrist and finger. Apart from poor Kate with her broken wrist though everything soon was fixed and back to normal.
Ate at the Castle mostly - prices in resort seem to have gone up a little but not as much as we had feared. ...
Hi all,
We arrived back on Saturday. No problems with flights either way. Snow was fabulous. New snow cannons have been installed. The new lift from Stoikite is coming on well.
Our first day was problematic with our friends suffering a broken binding, wrist and finger. Apart from poor Kate with her broken wrist though everything soon was fixed and back to normal.
Ate at the Castle mostly - prices in resort seem to have gone up a little but not as much as we had feared.
Biggest price increases we noticed was for massages etc - we paid about £90 for a 45 minute massage in the turkish bath in Hotel Pamporovo - worth it to watch Arron being stood on and pulled about though!
Our friends from the Castle took us out for the day to visit an ostrich farm, the village Arda and to the Greek border. Arda has caves but unfortunately they were closed when we visited.
Another friend who was there with us went down to Smolyan and had her hair coloured, cut and finished for 17 leva and it looked fab.
As Arron has already mentioned the Castle held a quiz and curry fundraising night for the orphanage which we won for the second year running.
The snow was so good we were up the mountain early everyday so we didn't get chance to explore Pamps much there was a couple of new restaurants opened but we didn't try them.
Overall we had fantastic snow, fantastic company a fantastic holiday, and can't wait to go back!
Forgot to add our praise for the Snow Shack once more - our friends binding broke and they lent him one for the week without charging him for it. Another friend also had a snowboarding lesson from one of their instructors and said he was brilliant.