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Well according to the Sun it is:
Inside the wild ‘Magaluf of the Slopes’ ski resort swamped with Brits where there are 89p beers & crazy parties
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"Once the last ski lift closes at 5pm and the sun disappears behind the Pirin Mountains, neon lights illuminate the strip and the debauchery begins. Swathes of horny, raucous tourists descend upon Pirin Street, a 500-yard road that runs through the centre of the ski town.
It is where travellers can find a plethora of bars, two litre bottles of beer for 89p and more than ten exotic strip clubs.
At about 2am, Bobby, a young Brit from West London, spilled out of Amigo's Pub with hundreds of other revellers. "Please mister, come into my club I have a football team of virgin women waiting to meet you," he heard from a bearded man holding a juicy Bulgarian kebab."
It sounds like Bansko is crying out for a trip report from @savaloy joy to add to his memorable trip report to 'Soldin'.... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
Well according to the Sun it is:
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It sounds like Bansko is crying out for a trip report from @savaloy joy to add to his memorable trip report to 'Soldin'.... |
Hear hear!
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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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Sun article popped up on Apple news and made me laugh. Skiing for people that, er, only like to go skiing for an hour a day (after the hangover part clears). Little bit like Aspen, possibly in that regard, but a slightly different crowd!
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I take it you're not someone who would cross continents in search of a "juicy Bulgarian kebab" then, @ElzP? Each to his own.
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@pam w, I absolutely loved the juicy Bulgarian kebabs! It was the depressing 'British-style' bars I couldn't be having with...
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| ElzP wrote: |
| juicy Bulgarian kebab |
I've heard it goes well with a certain crispy bread hole 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Isn't Magaluf a bit staid and old hat these days?
Which snowsports resorts are like Ibiza Town, Malia, Ayia Napa and Padstow, where the cool kids hang out? 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I know a few people who fell for hype of what was going to be done to the resort & bought apartments in the golfing area just outside the town. So every year they are forced to go back or lose money just on the mortgage! Not sure how many still hold them as due to covid, job changes, etc. I have not seen a few of them to ask! Prices have probably gone up due to Bulgaria minimum wage introduction & being pegged to the Euro.
I have not been for a number of years, but the food was always better than the skiing. Doubt I would ever go back as it is cheaper to DIY a trip to the Alps these days.
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Surprised they haven't nicknamed it Bonksko, which would be the Sun's norm.
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You know it makes sense.
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| T Bar wrote: |
| Surprised they haven't nicknamed it Bonksko, which would be the Sun's norm. |
@T Bar, I think a career as a Sun sub editor beckons (if you want it!  )
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I went many years ago when it was really wild westy.
Skiing was fine for the intermediate I was, and the party boy in me loved the strip bars, cheap booze, and the guy that we paid a bit of cash to, who took us to some wasteland somewhere to mess about with (clearly "on loan" from the army) an RPD machine gun and AKM assault rifle.
The drunken night skiing was mental. Do the run, have a shot at the bottom, repeat until comatose. How no-one died is beyond me.
Ah, good times.
Never to be repeated. I can't work out if I am sad, or relieved about that.
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@Harry Flashman,
And all the home made spirits that have been topping up the branded bottles for god knows how long!
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Mrs MA and I went to Bansko for a few days, maybe six or seven years ago. Just to try somewhere new.
We had cheap digs (lovely modern apartment, four times the size of typical French places); no queue for the gondola; great snow; skiing top to bottom; good off piste; and very cheap food and drink.
We really enjoyed ourselves. The only minus point was that there was no sign of any debauchery 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
| no queue for the gondola |
Fwiw,
There was (might still be) a Ski in/out chalet up in the woods by the Shilingarnik area
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Is there a link to saveloy joys repprt. Sounds funny.
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It has been a long time since I've been to Borovets or Bansko and I think things might have changed a bit since then.
Borovets was a well known ski resort then with a big lift queue to get the gondola out of the village. The big hotel (the Rila I think) had live sex shows but most of the hotels were small places in the trees and quite nice places to stay.
Bansko was a small walled village with a few guest houses, no big hotels or apartments. It was late in the season and the then mainly agricultural village was getting ready for spring - lots of horse drawn carts and such like. It was there that I actually realised what hobling a horse actually meant. There was no queue for a gondola out of the village just a queue for the huge wheel drive truck that transported you up to the ski area. The skiing was OK, but I prefered the larger Borovets.
I imagine both places would be nice in the summer I only actually went to Borovets in the summer.
The food in both places was, like the rest of Bulgaria, terrible - almost entirely mixed grills with chips and never served hot. The beer and wine was nice. That is until I discovered Turkish restaurants.
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
Well according to the Sun it is:
Inside the wild ‘Magaluf of the Slopes’ ski resort swamped with Brits where there are 89p beers & crazy parties
Quote:
"Once the last ski lift closes at 5pm and the sun disappears behind the Pirin Mountains, neon lights illuminate the strip and the debauchery begins. Swathes of horny, raucous tourists descend upon Pirin Street, a 500-yard road that runs through the centre of the ski town.
It is where travellers can find a plethora of bars, two litre bottles of beer for 89p and more than ten exotic strip clubs.
At about 2am, Bobby, a young Brit from West London, spilled out of Amigo's Pub with hundreds of other revellers. "Please mister, come into my club I have a football team of virgin women waiting to meet you," he heard from a bearded man holding a juicy Bulgarian kebab."
It sounds like Bansko is crying out for a trip report from @savaloy joy to add to his memorable trip report to 'Soldin'.... |
I'm not going to try and match the genius of that report but this pretty much sums Bansko up for me, although I was disappointed to not find 2 litres of beer for 89p (to be fair, the old part of town is great).
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