Bulgaria Ski discussion board

Just wondering if anyone could give me some advice on the following, just about to book ourski-ing trip, am having second thoughts about pamporovo as alot of irish seem to be heading to bansko...however, hotel wise, we have a few offers, laplandia, finlandia, belmount orpamporovo hotel, they're all half board except laplandia which are s/c apartments.Any one actaully stayed at these places, what are they really like? We are young and want somewhere with good apres ski, hopefully meet a fe irish at the same time. Should we forget pamporovo altogether and head to bansko?

I haven't been to Bansko ,but have been in Pamporovo twice and iam Irish and could n't speak highly enough about the place and the people .Hotel Pamporovo and Finlandia are both excellent.
The apri ski is ok but he night life is excellent ,but why limit you'r self to meeting Irish people ,Turkish,Bulgarian,English,Welsh and Scotish all good craic .Flying from Ireland you will probably fly into Plovidive all looks abit primative ,but resort is excellent standard of Hotels is good.Beer and food are cheap great value for you'r Euro,book now and don't look back.
Vano

A group of us (all Irish) spent a week in the Belmont hotel - Pampovoro last year, had a ball fab hotel. Only downside to this hotel was we had to get taxis to main area for partying but to be honest if there is 4/5 sharing it's only going to be a few euro each night. Apres Ski is great you will need some booze to get over the bruises and sore muscles!! We loved it so much we're all heading back again at the end of January. Reason we chose Pampovoro was because it was better for begineers that Bansko - we heard it was more challenging. We will prob head there next year.
Enjoy yourself!