Bulgaria

Pros: Great food, Accommodations, and Prices
Cons: Transportation

Recently I spent two weeks in Bulgaria traveling to several cities and seeing the beautiful Bulgarian countryside. Coming from the United States to Bulgaria was a long flight and trip, but I can assure you it was well work the travel and time. Having a ...

Pros: Beautiful mountain views, historical sights
Cons: Transportation

There is a place on the Balkan peninsula endowed with natural beauty whose people show warm hospitality to every traveler - a small country on the crossroad of Europe and the Middle East. A country whose early kingdoms enjoyed times of glory, prosperity...

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Review Topic:  Sights & AttractionsSports facilities of all Bulgarian pleasure resorts.Being aware of the widespread craze for fitness the management of these resorts do not hesitate to invest in this field.As a result excellent facilities for...

Pros: Rich historical heritage, natural beauty, amazing sights
Cons: Infrastructure needs improvement

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The Bulgarians view their country as the Switzerland of the Balkans. It is believed that there is a special bond between the Bulgarians and their land. Folk songs and poetry reveal the genuine fascination...

Pros: Painted Monasteries, Scenery, Quaint Villages, Inexpensive Prices
Cons: Cold and Gray in Fall and Winter

Why go to Bulgaria now? Well, better now than in the future when it's McDonalized, homogenized, and expensive. Avoid the cold, rainy, gray days of late fall and winter. If you are in Istanbul with time on your hands, travel to Sofia by overnight...

Pros: The beach & shopping
Cons: The hotel

We spent our last vacation before our daughter´s birth in Bulgaria. A former Eastern Block country which is now open to the west. It is still a pour country with low standard, but with very nice and friendly people.

The largest tourism area...

Pros: A place you can lose track of time, great beaches, interesting people, good for birdwatching
Cons: Takes a while to get there (but worth it)!

If you're looking for an active, structured vacation, the type where you can't take a breath between well-organized trips, sports activities, sight-seeing and the like, Sinemoretz is not for you. If you're looking for a manicured, sanitized environment...

Pros: Much to see,inexpensive, friendly people, great fruit and vegetables.
Cons: Temperatures in mid -summer can be hot in the valleys.

Pictures of Bulgarian peasant women, in a long-ago Elementary School book, out before dawn picking rose petals to be distilled into attar of roses, had always remained vivid with me. So four years ago when I saw an advertisement for a trip to the Valley...

Pros: Beautiful, open country in summertime. Cheap options for travel and accommodation.
Cons: Cheap options are of low quality, and foreigners are made for fleecing.

I just read through the existing reviews for Bulgaria and am amazed that some of them are allowed on epinions.com: Several are obviously advertising, and many of the glowing, five-star reviews are lures. I'm going to give you a different perspective. ...

Pros: Architecture, Cheap
Cons: Roads, Run Down, Taxi Scams

We visited Sofia for three days in April of 2003. We stayed at a private apartment that we had found on the Internet. When we arrived at the airport we were met by the driver/owner of the apt. He drove us to the apt. which was about a mile from the city...

Pros: Can't think of any
Cons: Reeks of cigarettes, entirely too many smokers everywhere.

What can be said about Bulgaria? A second-rate, third world country in the extreme south-east corner of Europe. Former communist country and a close Russian satellite. At present it is about to be expelled from the EU because of misappropriation of EU ...

Pros: Nice friendly people, cheap, culture, architecture, the lack of tourists
Cons: Not for the usual tourist type and the faint of heart

Before heading to Sofia from Greece, I didn't hear much about Bulgaria from anybody because most people won't even bother going there. A well-traveled friend of mine recommended it, told me that he met locals there and had a great time so I figured I...

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Review Topic:  Sights & Attractions

Many beauty spots in the Bulgarian mountains have recently been developed for tourism.Our oldest mountain resort is Borovets,located in the Rila Mountains,amid stately pines,hence the name...

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Bulgaria is stepping up its claim as a place for healthy holidays.There are more than 500 recognized mineral springs which produce hundreds ot thousands cubic metres of water medicinal...

Pros: Landscapes, people of Bulgaria, cities
Cons: Road thieves, police bribe, lousy custom officers, quality of roads

When travelling in Bulgaria by car you should consider the following, especially if driving by night:
- there was not singular cases in which cars and buses were intercepted and stopped by masked thieves, forcing the occupants to give all their...