Bulgaria Ski discussion board

Hi Skatergirl, I've followed your posts with great interest and had great sympathy with you and your family when you first posted. You saved all year for your one holiday, you were worried sick re: snow/ conditions etc. I think everyone on this forum were hoping that you would have a great week. Sadly this wasn't the case, however it's become clear to me ( and only my personal opinion based of your posts , no offence! Lol ) that nothing was ever going to be a) good enough, b,cheap enough or measure up to your other great resorts. In Borovets it's not JUST about the skiing, it's about the whole package! Ski, social, friends ( new and old). Maybe that's where we're so different. So sorry you didnt have a great time, although I think you are in the minority of people going to Bulgaria!
Queenie. X

same here, "hear hear"
Ive been skiing all over europe but u cant beat boro for ski in/out ,value for money and really friendly instrutors.
i will be coming out to boro during feb half term 17th onwards.both my boys will be with me, age 10 and 12 and there like boro out of all the resorts we have been to.
there are too really good skiers and have really good techinque.
there learn on dry slope and had lessons for two years and did race training ,with top ten finishes .
what do you think!! skatergirl

I sympathise with you regarding your disaster regarding your ski lessons with yourself and children-there are so many aspects to consider when choosing a ski holiday and I was taught to ski very well many years ago in Borovets by very conscientious instructors-the insistance on technique has stood me in good stead as I am still sking many years later.These days I try to add up the factors that are important to me-the sking comes at the top-unfortunately although Bulgaria is cheap initially I believe you have to work out the snow sureness and the extent of the sking-for example although I paid over £200 for a lift pass in Meribel the week before Christmas it gave me over 300kms of sking on brilliant snow (yes I know that is not always perfect) with no queuing and a choice of 6 lifts within 2 minutes of the hotel-compared with 35 kms of pistes in Borovets for £100 (all of which are rarely open at one time)so pound for kilometre France wins hands down-the hotel was not too expensive as it was the week before Christmas. The down side was that the grandchildren had to ski with Granny instead of going to ski school to save money(and had to have a packed lunch ) The up side was we went to different places each day and skied our buts off.The apres ski drinking no longer attracts me but still enjoy a glass of wine in the evening.What we missed was the atmesphere and hospitality that you find in Borovets. I am taking grandchildren to Borovets at half term when it will be a completely different holiday and we will enjoy that as well.I always feel as though I am going to my second home.I do think that you were incredibly unlucky with your instruction and maybe Bulgaria is not for you-I find that it is a bit like Marmite-you either love or hate it.

Guys, I wasn't meaning ANY of you!! It was the people having a go at me saying that we had booked the learn to ski package when we hadn't and that the instructor was "assessing our abilities" when he wasn't!

I have thanked you Queenie on several threads which you obv have not read.

Plus you're very wrong with your assumption that I was determined not to enjoy it. I'd never have gone if that was the case.
On the contrary, we always say a holiday is what YOU make it!
We always give marks on the way home and overall we gave the holiday between 7 and 8 out of ten between us.
I was ill so that obv did spoil it for me, but that's not Bulgaria's fault.
It was the penny pinching misery guts people in the hotel, the balkan reps which were not very good and the awful ski school which wasted 2 whole precious mornings of my kids skiing time and upset them with their comments.
It isn't my one holiday btw. We also go abroad in sept/oct and we do several Pontins breaks a year though we get them for peanuts as I know the staff well. Again, we make the most of it and have great fun. I have written several reviews on Trip Advisor and if you were to read them you would see that we ALWAYS make the most our holidays.
However I actually felt like going home on day 2 because of the ski instr and the hotel staff.
We did turn it around in the end and the kids had a great ski for the last 4 days. probably did more skiing than anyone else if I am honest as they were out first thing, on the very last lift and only stopped for lunch for 10 minutes. Plus there was no stopping and starting as in lessons. So overall, the most was made of it. It just wasn't the sort of place that we say "oh I loved that" to.

I repeat, this post wasn't intended for any of you, it was the people who made false allegations and then when put straight weremn't big enough to apologise!
Again, thanks Queenie for all your help. And it looks as if we actually had a very good week snow wise.

A bit after the event but for anybody else in doubt, if you or any member of your party is not happy with their instructor, change them. Just tell the school you are not happy and they will generally find a way to accommodate. If you try to do this through the instructor, they may not be so helpful as it is possible that they see their tip reducing and/or possibly even a telling off. My wife doesn't like to be shouted at and out of the 3 times that she has been skiing (3 different schools) in Boro we have changed her instructor 4 times. Last season my sons were clearly in a class beneath their abilities, I asked for them to be moved up and they were, against their instructors wishes.