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I am looking to book a week in Bansko, 3rd week in Jan08. I have been to Borrovets the last couple of years as beginner and thinking about trying Bansko as a change.

Can anyone tell me what differences I can expect??

I loved the party atmosphere in Borrovets and am hopeing Bansko will be pretty similar???

I am also still pretty much beginner level and hoping to build my confidence a little more this time round so are the blue runs pretty easy and not really red runs marked as blue???

Thanks

Vicki

In my opinion the skiing is better for beginner to intermediate skiers than borovets as the mountain at least when we were there was groomed better.The runs were easier to ski for this reason and as they are more spread out did not seem so crowded.The gondola can be abit of a problem but as we are early starters we never had to queue.As for the nightlife although there is plenty I cuold not tell you that much about it as we were nearly worn out at the end of the day and while we always enjoyed a few beers we never ventured far.
dbut

Night life is much better in borovets as all the bars are close together and busy, found bansko to be very spread out and not much going on. we did find a couple of busy bars but found the drinking to be abit more expensive.
Most people argue different to this but we stayed in the strazite and were paying 5lev a beer were as we were only paying 3.5o in the iglika. as a resort i prefer borovets but for the slopes there is more choice and better lifts in bansko, having been to bansko though im looking forward to getting back to borovets.

Hi Vicki, I have been to Borovets 3 times now, we did try Bansko one year and yes the slopes are more varied, a couple of them right up the top marked as blues really scared me but there are a few really nice ones. much prefer Borovets on atmosphere, in Bansko the daily trek and journey up the cable car a pain, we went at half term and the queues were horrendous we gave up getting there on time for the ski school, found the queues not so bad later in the morning. The food/bars on the runs at bansko all the same and expensive.