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Just thought i would put a few words on this site about a bansko skiing holiday.Flew from manchester on a bulgaria air flight on thurs 9 feb 15.45 arrived at sofia at about 21.30 was met by hotel owner a chap called krassi he drove us back to bansko in about 2 and a quarter hours.We were stopping in the hotel Rahoff a 2 star hotel and were pleased with the quality of the hotel and the friendly welcome from Krassi and his wife.We had booked hotel and flights on the net so had no holiday rep to look after us but this was not a problem as Krassi pointed us in the right direction for ski hire, Bansko Sport on the right hand side on the road up to the gondola just opposite the road for hotel tanne.They looked after our shoes during the day and the skis etc overnight and had a warm fire and cup of wine on our return.We ate out everynight and tried a different mehana each night and did not have one bad meal.We had a problem one night when a salad did not turn up but it was only 3 lev so did not say anything.Had to queue on a couple of days for the gondola but not to bad considering it was half term week.I can understand why people go back time and again and hope we will return again next year.We had no problems with the lifts or the locals as some people have mentioned and walked about at night without any worries.

We ate at 5 different places all small mehanas mostly in the main street we also ate at one just down the road from the lion bar as in the reveiw we didnt have one bad meal.The price usually came to about 20 lev including drinks for two of us.As for brandy an choc didnt really give that much of a go but i did like the local beer Zakorka at 1.5 to 2.00 lev about 54p not bad at all.Forgot to say in the reveiw that the snow was the best we have ever skied but we have only been to italy before twice.Hope you have a good time if you have any other questions just ask.

Hi Guys,
Well have now just returned from Bansko cannot agree with the comments about the gondola queue it was bloody awfull from 8.30am to 10 am during the ski school start hours! We were a group of six and having been to pamp last year without this grief initially i would say over half term weeks in February forget it !! BUT !!!

To Daniel Petev our Ski Instructor what a guy! had us all ski ing the quite demanding slopes by the end of the week
and to our German frends who we met at the happy end bar at the end of some very hard days what a brilliant week at Bansko we have had.

To all of you that are going this week it has started to snow big time,we had brilliant ski conditions and snow is forecast to Tuesday and beyond !!

Kamenitsa best local beer in Hadji George on Pirin Street at 2 lev a 500ml bottle !Change your money in Sofia airport its at 3.15 Lev - GBP.(25/2/06)

All in all we had a great / fantastic time but In my opinion if your are absolute beginners go to Pamporovo the slopes are more forgiving.