 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi everyone, so our trip to France is looking increasingly unlikely as our 19yr old cannot get their vaccine in time due to catching Covid.
The ONLY places we can get into are Bulgaria, Slovakia and Slovenia and of these, Bulgaria is the only place with flights running (that don’t go through a neighbouring country).
So back to Bulgaria. We went to Borovets when the kids were tiny but now they’re more used to speeding down blacks in large resorts.
I’m a lazy, less confident skier so happy with almost anywhere.
Any thoughts on whether to return to Borovets or brave the Bansko lift queues?
I seem to remember that Borovets had an additional ski area higher up but it was shut nearly every day due to high winds. Is this still the case or have the lifts improved in the last decade or so?
Thank you in advance for any help.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I should’ve said they can’t get their *second* vaccine- they have one and recovery certificate. (This SHOULD be enough to get them into France according to Gov.Uk but NOT according to French gov websites, apparently!)
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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We'll be there this weekend so ping me to check 
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Wouldn't bother on the Bansko lift queues to be honest, waking up at 6am on holiday in order to get ready and then que for 45mins + before the gondola opens so I don't que for more than 2 hours and the slopes are packed is not my idea of fun, done it for 2 years over NYE, wouldn't go if I had the choice now though.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Been to Borovets a couple of times, last was a couple of weeks ago, Gondola to the top of the Yastrobeets side has been open when we've been there, even on moderately windy days, so I wouldn't worry about that too much.
The lift queue's put me off Bansko too, Pamporovo is another option, but not been there myself.
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you can prob go to Val Thoren @ Easter for the cost of Bulgaria at half term
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We went to Bansko a few years back for a long weekend. We simply took a taxi to the bottom of the Mosta every morning, rather than queue to take a fairly slow double gondola ride up. Yes you are paying for the taxi on top of your lift pass, but the taxi was cheap as chips between 6 of us and took us direct from our hotel.
we were at end of Jan, NOT half term so there was no queueing elsewhere and the slopes we didn't find at all crowded, HT may vary.
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