Bulgaria Ski discussion board

The Gondola will shut if the weather is poor for safety reasons. Last year it closed because it was so cold up the top that it would have been irresponsible to let skiiers up. If I remember rightly it was -50C with the wind chill brrrrrrrrrrrr!

It also closes when it is very windy. In 2003 this happened to us and everyone then went up the one man chair lift which next season will be a 4 man lift. I think there were more difficulties last year because the 1 man lift was out of action and therefore the options when the gondola was closed were very limited.

Assuming that both the 4 mnn lifts are open then the gondola shutting for safety reasons shouldn't cause too many problems. Of our 14 days in Borovets over 2 years the Gondola has only been shut for 1 morning.

Watch this space as they say!

Hope this helps

Ellie

I skiied in Borovets in March 2003 and am going back again in February. The gondola was closed one morning as it was too windy up top.

Let's think - nice warm gondola - stops for 5 mins due to power surge / delay getting people on or freezing cold chair lift.... hum... that's a difficult one. I got left hanging on the chairlifts in Pamps so many times last year would much rather be in the gondola.

It looks like that four man chair will be up and running in time for the coming season. I only did the 6km blue the once, but it was so nice, I'm not surprised people were up in arms last year when it was inaccessible cos the 1 man chair was out.