We are off to Bansko 9th March for 1 week and are staying in a friends apartment which is apparently nearing completion . This will be our first skiing holiday and was wondering if anyone has been and if there are any recommended ski schools, bars, restuarants and things that you wish you had known about before you arrived! We do not have any transfers booked from Sofia so what is the best and most cost effective way to get 5 people to the resort??
What are the slopes like? Will there be any snow as I understand its rather late season for Bulgaria??
Cheers
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The White Stuff, welcome to snowHeads. I've never been to Bulgaria, but there are peeps here who have so hopefully one will be along soon. In the meantime try a forum search to see if anything of interest comes up.
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The White Stuff, Hi, I went to Bansko last March on that week. Snow was bad all over last year but I still loved it, first time snowboarding.
Everything was still open even with the dodgy season, haven't checked the snow outthere this year but must be better than last so would have thought you'd be fine in March. Town can be a bit like a building site but easy to look past that.
Lots of stray dogs hang about, at the bottom of the gondola etc, but they just sleep and dont bother the people
Spent quite a few nights at the Happy Bar , think thats the name, singing and skysports, food, nice friendly place and not far from the gondola
I booked through crystal and found my instructor very good, after 4 hours in a group I was happy going down blues and the odd red (slowly)
not going back this year due to a friend who been twice now and didnt fancy it a 3rd time.
anyway last year, slopes lower down not amazing, bit icy on practice slopes, but once higher up it was really good, really quiet slopes alot of the time, pretty wide
could probably write forever so i'll stop for now
few silly vids so you can get idea of how it was last march
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. This will be our first skiing holiday and was wondering if anyone has been and if there are any recommended ski schools, bars, restuarants and things that you wish you had known about before you arrived! We do not have any transfers booked from Sofia so what is the best and most cost effective way to get 5 people to the resort??
