Bulgaria

[docetae]

Hello,

Since a week I am back from a travel to Bulgaria, so here are some feedback.
For the first time I was delegating to my girlfriend all work to book our holidays...one week in Bulgaria.
That was a last minute booking done with an ukrainian travel agency located in Kiev, sputnik.
We went there with her son and her younger sister. My only concern was to have a 5* hotel. Her concern was to have an all inclusive (no worries to look for restaurant, etc).

The agency was excellent and I can only recommend it, I get trouble for the payment with credit card (detected as fraud by MC) and they were very patients.

The flight with Aerosvit from Kiev to Burgas was good, despite age of the plane (old 737), crew was very professional.
At the arrival, we have had no wait and immediate pickup to the hotel, in fact one the best hotel of Sunny Beach.
Hotel was really 5* , service and food more 3*, as usual.

There was 3 huge swimming pool and our day was shared between the swimming pool, the sea, bar. We offered ourself some quality time at the local spa, everything was perfect.

She was able to speak russian with everybody, I was speaking english and both of us did not feel isolated.

The bad : Bulgarian are often rude. We went to an aquapark and people were definitely missing education ...There are too much hotels constructions and new developments, with no respect for the environment , transforming a great  place in something looking sometime like a war zone with building half completed, etc.

So if you are looking for a place where you can be in family, you can choose Bulgarian coast, if you are traveling to discover culture and are looking for a romantic place ... do not go. Aegean sea in Turkey will be a better destination in this case. Photos will follow soon.

[William3rd]

very nice opening report. How about some hotel names, etc. Looking forward to the pictures.

[docetae]

In Sunny Beach, we were at the royal beach (5*, 50meters from sea, the largest swimming pool I have seen...), other good choices are Viktoria and Chaika hotels.

For photos, my Nikon P4 has decided to stop to work after one day, so I must wait to have our traditional film processed...

Something that occurred again is the difficulty to have a photo done without someone looking at her ...