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Bansko gondola

Hi. Is the access from Bansko to the slopes a big delay/problem with only the gondola giving access? Are there immense que's? Had a bit of it at Borovets last year and now heading to Bansko. Is it best to stay in town or can one stay higher up? Thanks!

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I can only speak for last year - and the truth was if you were not there early (8.30 ish) then there were long queues of up to 30 mins.

Nothing much on the slopes for the evening - best to stay in the town.

PP

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We stayed next to Gondola at Kempinski hotel, late jan and only had to queue on a race day, didn't see what the fuss was all about and we had to meet an instructor on the mountain most mornings except the day the Bulgarian mafia shut the whole mountain with a false bomb threat, apparently it happens too often, but you can get a taxi up the road anyday that the gondola is slow or big queues.

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Agree with PP, i was there 3 time last winter. Avoid the 9am rush get there 8.30 or 9.30 onwards.

Not half as bad as some people make out and i've seen far worse in France and Austria.

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If you want to stay on the piste you can stay at the TODORKA Hotel but might be limited to what you can do in the Evenings.

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Also depends on the time of year. This March we did not que at all.

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Get a taxi up to the bottom lift - still cost effective if there's a few of you - we did this when there problems with the gondola q's!

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last March was terrible, although we only qued the first sunday got there for 8 to 8.30 the rest of the week which is ok as long as you dont have to hang around 4 a lesson.

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we had no problems waiting for the gondola in march and had great snow....only problem was missing the last one down on the first day and it is a VERY long walk

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Feb i/2 term the queues were loooong - up to 1 1/2 hrs