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Yes we have finally got time to give a report on our two centre holiday. The first week was spent in Golden Sands at the Luna hotel which was about 15 mins walk or a 1 lev 'noddy train' ride from the lively centre.

* the hotel- excellent, good location at the quieter end of golden sands. The food was good although it edged towards the german taste buds ( breakfast )

* Food and drink outside the hotel- there were plenty of places to eat and drink all excellent value for money i.e 1/2 litre of beer 2.5levs (aprox 75p)

* Night life! - plenty to do to suit all ages. Up in the centre there are lots of clubs, karaoke bars etc (if you don't want children to see the ladies of the night then be out of this area by about midnight, although they do leave familys alone and they are not 'in your face') There are also plenty of cocktail bars where you can enjoy a quieter drink

* Overall - good beach/sea plenty to do , friendly people HAD A GREAT TIME

BUT.............................The best part of this 2 centre holiday for us was BANSKO.

* hotel pirin-only had BB here, breakfast was good, hotel locatoin was perfect 2 min walk to centre

* Food and drink out side of the hotel was even better and believe it or not even cheaper than golden sands i.e as a family of 4 we were all having a large meal with drinks for about 35levs (£12)

* The pirin mountains are beautiful (even without the snow!) plenty of walks through pine forests, mountain tracks and meadows. GREAT SCENERY

* We noticed alot of new ski runs/stations/hotels being built which we were told would be ready for the winter season

* Overall if you want to find the 'real' bulgaria and its people bansko in summer is GREAT

p.s there was snow in pockets still around high up in the mountains!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi every-one,

yes ellie i did stay in 1 piece whilst we were over there!

but dad & mum got a bit wrong in the report.... they said bansko was the best... corection: golden sands was the best.... n the night life was the best in golden sands- that is the bit me n kim (sister) liked best and they only had 1 club in bansko and we opted out of it as it all for the bulgarians

so i say beach in the summer and mountains in the wnter ( bansko will come alive a bit more in the winter too!)

but mum and dad enjoyed it in bansko so that was good, and it wasn't that bad... it was actually quite good but if i had to choose i was defonataly choose golden sands, but that was the deal, do what me and kim liked the first week then what mum and dad wanted the second week!

over all the hol was brill though!

sophie
xxxx

Thanks Caz

We only booked a few weeks ago as having been skiing, me away for my 40th and a tshort break planned to Rome in October we weren't sure we would be able to get away.

Unfortunately the deal we got for Turkey was too good to miss and was for 2 weeks. Believe it or not there was hardly any availability for Bulgaria - only 1 week at a time and all allocation on arrival which we aren't prepared to do with Alister & Rosie in tow!! Bulgaria really does appear to be the place to be this summer which is of course great for their eceonomy.

Spoke to Krassi the other day and hopefully we may get to see him whilst he is over in September which would be good.

Hope you are all well and managing to dodge the rain on any of your camping trips.

Ellie