Bulgaria Ski discussion board

Hi Newguy
Yes the lessons start on Sunday morning at 10.00am approx. you will be met by your rep and explained what happens. Then you will get the bus to the ski slope where you will get your skis boots poles etc and be assigned a ski instructor. This ski instructor will stay with you for the weekand give lessons evry day from 10 until 3pm with a break for lunch in one of the mountain cabins. It will be best to stay with your class for the week and you will all progress at the same level. Friday night is award night and you will be presented with Diplomas from the Ski School. Have a great time

Skidancer

You normally meet your rep at about 8am great when you dont get there until about 2am, she will give you some vouchers for ski hire and lessons. then tell you to get the bus and meet you at the ski depot. once at the ski depot you will que for ages to get fitted for your boots and skis. Once they are fitted you will go outside and be put into ski school, they will ask your ablity if you can ski they will give you a quick test, if not they will stick in a complete beginers. then lessons start.
you will have a great time just be patient on the first day after that you just pick your skis up and meet the rest of the class.

You'll meet your rep at 8.30 then go on the coach to the ski depot. Your rep will give you vouchers - some of them you hand in at the depot for your euipment, others are to give to your instructor when one is allocated.

Once you have your skis, you have to queue at a small hut to one side of the depot to pick up your ski pass - you need a 6 lev deposit for this, but no pic as it's a plastic swipe card.

At this point, they ask if you've skiied before. If you haven't, it's off to the nursery slopes. If you have, they'll send you off in quite a big group with an instructor. You do the long green run a couple of times, then everyone meets at the Lodge at the top for lunch.

After lunch, everyone lines up to perform a short 'test'. This takes ages because it's one person at a time! You're then grouped according to ability (although they do let you move down a group to be with your family/friends if you want to). You're allocated your instructor for the week and there's usually time for another couple of runs before the end of the session.

You meet your instructor at an agreed time between nine and ten, then ski all morning with breaks for drinks and lunch. The afternoon session usually finishes around 3.15, although some instructors will go on longer. After that, you can go off and do some stuff on your own if you want - the last ski bus doesn't leave the slopes till 5.15.

You don't HAVE to stay with the instructor - they're quite happy for you to do your own thing, so long as you let them know so they're not hanging about waiting for you. We had a late flight back on the Saturday and arranged lift passes and equipment hire so we could have an extra day on the slopes by ourselves, which was brilliant.