Bulgaria Ski discussion board

Hi Nige
JUst got back from The Yanakiev Hotel yesterday. You'll have a great time. Hotel is clean, modern, nice rooms (no kettle if you need your cuppa -take your own), good views
Friendly staff(language barrier was a problem sometimes).takes 5 minutes to walk to town, 8 minutes or so to main gondola.Nice hot choc. our fussy kids foundplenty to eat at each meal, lots of choice so they didn`t leave hungry. (always chips and toast if nothing else). had some lovely meat/sausages/salads. quiet hotel ,away from the hubub of the town .pleasant to sit with a drink playing cards etc with kids. also has table football, pool and driving games for the kids (have to pay).and a swimming pool.Only have jam n butter for toast so wished we took the marmite and peanut butter for the kids. any questions Nige just ask

Cheryl

Hi Nige
JUst got back from The Yanakiev Hotel yesterday. You'll have a great time. Hotel is clean, modern, nice rooms (no kettle if you need your cuppa -take your own), good views
Friendly staff(language barrier was a problem sometimes).takes 5 minutes to walk to town, 8 minutes or so to main gondola.Nice hot choc. our fussy kids foundplenty to eat at each meal, lots of choice so they didn`t leave hungry. (always chips and toast if nothing else). had some lovely meat/sausages/salads. quiet hotel ,away from the hubub of the town .pleasant to sit with a drink playing cards etc with kids. also has table football, pool and driving games for the kids (have to pay).and a swimming pool.Only have jam n butter for toast so wished we took the marmite and peanut butter for the kids. any questions Nige just ask

Cheryl

Hi Cheryl,

I was wondering how you were getting on,
It sounds just how I envisaged, Thank you so much for taking the time for your feedback.
It sounds like you have had some good skiing too according to the reports .
My Daughter is extremely pleased about the Hot Choc and the food situation is a relief as alot of people on here have said the food is cold generally, but I guess they are not staying at the best hotel in town eh?

A couple of things I was wondering about if you can tell me, Is it easy to navigate to the yastrabets slopes by ski or do you have to catch a bus or walk or...? I just cant work it out
Thanks again Cheryl, glad you had a good time and it was great to here from you.

Nige

Hi Nige,
Cheryl is an expert on the Hotel as she hurt her leg on the 1st day and spent quite a lot of time in there! As for the slopes for the more experienced skier take the gondola to the top. From there you can ski down in several directions. To the right you can ski to the bottom and then take a chair lift back up most of the way. Or you can ski down to the mid point of the Gondola and catch that back up to the top. If you ski back down to the Rila there is a way back up to the top, but it is time consuming along green routes to the bottom of the Gondola and back up. I only used the Gondola, but some people did take taxis up to the Yestrabets and then ski from there, I think they then take the Chair lift from the bottom right, back up. You would be best off going up and staying on the top slopes, only going as low as the mid point Gondola.
Hope the snow stays good for you and have fun...Cheryl's hubby.
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Cheryl..