Bulgaria Ski discussion board

Hi all,

I've been reading the forum for a month or so and gained so much information, thanks to everyone for sharing with us all.

I got a few questions - hoping someone familiar with Borovets can help. I'm heading out and staying at Hotel Rila 8-12 March

1) Does the Hotel Rila charge guests for car parking? If so how much is it per day?

2) Are there are other car parks in the resort you would recommend using ? Are they free/safe?

3) I have done some research and cheapest hire car company to hire car for 4/5 days Plovdiv airport to Borovets seems to be with Moto Roads (£20 /day)

http://www.motoroads.com

anyone used them or recommend other hire car company thats reasonable and reliable?

4) I have driven in Bulgaria before and know the pros/cons (albeit I only driven in the summer months), but can anyone give directions from plovdiv airport to borovets... I have english/bulgarian map but know the signs can sometimes be misleading (or missing!)

Is it A1 Plovdiv to Kostenec

then take road to Dolna Banja onto Raduil and then into Borovets??

5) for those that will say DON'T DO IT i.e. forget hire car and get taxi... can someone recommend a reliable and reasonable cost for taxi transfer ( will be two of us) - I believe it could cost up to £100 return

6) In order to help come to a decision re: hire car or taxi... whats the roads like at the moment as it appears to be snowing ....?

Cheers all!
Paddy

hi Sune

Thanks for the reply. I'm sort of going off the idea of hire car the more I think about it..... so probably will look into alternate transfer to taxi which turns out expensive at £100 or up to 150 euros return... more than the flights out from UK!!!

I guess for bus you get taxi from plovdiv airport to plovdiv city and then locate buses to Borovez... I recall a posting about buses recently will search for that to see if bus transfer is feasible or not

If anyone has details of bus from plovdiv to borovets please can you drop a line to this thread?

Paddy