Bulgaria Ski discussion board

well... great holiday...a bit mad iwth the transfers and flights but as long as you don't mind living on the worlds biggest building site you will like it....the skiing was great...could have done with more snow but it was still good to ski on...the lifts were outstanding with virtually never any ques apart from the 4 man from the gondola to the blue run first thing in the morning...and make sure you get to the gondola wel before 9am or you will be in for a pushing and shooving competition to get up the stairs...very windy up top and on the cahairliofts it felt extrememly cold when you reached there...it was good holiday until the transfer back....left the hotel at 1am(BG) and got home about 30 mins ago...we ha the usual 4 hour transfer but got to the airport...everything chaos at plaovdiv as usual but i wasnt worried about that...we gt on the plane...taxied a short distance and for no reason to us stopped...with someone running to talk to the pilot and a BH air van immediatly coming to the plane....after about 5 mins we continued taxxiing thinking we was going to take off but taxxied right up the runway and parked again...after around another 20 mins had past they finally descided to tell us there was atechnical problem which caused an hour delay...possibly either engine problem or brake problem....couldn't make out which one....bumpy flight all the way their and all the way back so i havn't slept since thursday night...surviving on coffee not only that but we ordered a 2 bed apartment in the narcis and got 2 studios...doesn't sound like a complaint but it all adds up to the letter of complaint to balkan...we weren't informaed of our little stop at cardiff before reaching birmingham either! madness...balkan holidays are getting worse the busier and more popular they get

we had a simlar thing with balken stopping at preswick in glasgow both there and back this was a fair few years ago, much worse for some women her husband and three kids who had asked for a glasgow flight been told it wasnt possibly drove to stanstead airport which is about a 5 hour drive stayed in a hotel over night to be taken back to glasgow the next day, think she was writing a letter of complaint!!!!!!!!! they need to sort this out especially with 4 hour transferes to ski resorts means quiet often you could have got to canada and be on the slopes before you have got to bansko completely daft.

glad you had a good trip though, stop drinking the coffee start on brandy and you will be a sleeep in no time.

Just got Back from Bansko too...Apartments narcis...very nice inside ..very comfy..and warm and clean ...just in the middle of a building site..went to Bansko 4 years ago...and loved it ...im glad i saw it then to be honest...i was slightly shocked with the changes...building site...the slopes were good ..very challenging...although was not impressed with eateries on the mountain...it has all changed...we had no probs with lifts sytems very good...just got back from basko to bham 13 hours travel all in all with Balkan...exhausted...stopped off at cardiff was not infored about...apartments not what we ordered ..because apartments were not finished..technicl probs with plane....Balkan seem to be going downhill...am writing a letter of complaint ..have took photos..of surrounding area...unfrtunatly wont be going back...which is a shame ..cus 1st time we loved it...think its back to Pamps....Generally overall the slopes were quite good to ski on...and i believe more snowis forecast...which will improve it...