Winter 2007/2008
BANSKO, Bulgaria

Bansko…Idyllic winter atmosphere adorns this town in the southwest part of Bulgaria, 160 kilometres away from Sofia and 40 kilometres away from Blagoevgrad, as the bottom of the mountain Pirin which was declared as the world natural property by UNESCO. In the family of ethno villages, Bansko occupies a significant place due to saving traditional image of the old Bulgarian towns. Today, Bansko is the youngest ski centre in Bulgaria. Modern hotels are magnificently packed into a picturesque surroundings embroidered by wonderful houses in the old style, narrow cobbled streets, lovely small squares, inns, churches, museums…Ski lanes are on the slopes of the mountain Pirin with the highest peak Vihren (291 meters). Ski season lasts from the middle of the December to the middle of April. Snow cover goes up to 143cm due to the fact that this is the place where Mediterranean and continental climate confront which results in abundant rainfall and average temperature of -2C in the ski season. New gondola and ski buses which function perfectly will take you to the lanes where you will have excellent skiing and you will be happy about your excellent choice of the ski centre which you may have not expected…

HOTELS and APARTMENTS

quality, comfortable, warm, good time and great skiing…

Hotel
RAZLOG

If you like going out…to different places…  redecorated, with good references...

www.hotelrazlog.com
for more information...

A good hotel which is situated in the centre of the city Razlog after which hotel got its name and it is 10 kilometres away from the starting point of gondola. There are many cafes, inns, clubs in the nearby and that is the guarantee of the good time after skiing on very convenient prices. The hotel has rooms with two beds. At one’s request, it is possible to add an extra bed. Rooms are equipped with new furniture, telephone, satellite TV programme, CD player and radio, mini bar, safety safe. There is also a restaurant with the open barbecue, lobby bar, ski wardrobe, fitness, sauna, steam bath, massage cabinet, nursery…all this is within the hotel. Delicious, various food is served as a buffet. High-quality service, kindness and hospitality are the features of the hotel Razlog. Because… this hotel is from the chain of hotels which hotels Katarino, Perun and Bulgaria belong to.

Hotel KATARINO Spa

New and luxurious, favourite… with swimming pools
and wellness centre

www.hotelkatarino.com
for more information...

This hotel will charm you. Spacious, beautiful and bright rooms with two beds and the apartments with a bathroom, hair drier, satellite TV programme, mini bar, telephone…Luxurious restaurants, Club 840 (magnificently designed tavern ), lobby bar, bar on the swimming pool…and especially the most modern Spa centre provoke indescribable sense of pleasure when you spend time there. Massage cabinets, manicure and pedicure, fitness, hot baths with aromatic steams, Turkish bath, hamam massage, therapies with special warm rocks, outdoor and indoor pool with hot water, fitness hall. There are magic mountain houses-apartments where you can enjoy all the beauties of the winter vacation with the fire flickering in the fireplace and use every moment for relaxing. Serving of the perfect meals is as buffet. It is 12 kilometres away from the starting point of the gondola. Shuttle busses to gondola and Bansko work impeccably and go on every hour.

Hotel
PERUN

... If you want to be in the middle of the action, indoor pool is available

www.hotelperunbansko.com
for more information...

This hotel is very popular for a good reason. It is 400meters away from the starting point of gondola and 900 meters from the centre of Bansko. It is built in the area which is in a process of rapid and high-quality building and it is becoming a great, real European centre. The hotel contains beautiful spacious bright rooms with two beds which are equipped with modern furniture, satellite TV, bathroom, telephone, a special heating regulator, mini bar, personal security safe. Indoors and outdoors swimming pool with warm water, a restaurant, vineteque Piano bar, traditional inn in a fantastic design, lobby bar, saunas, jakuzi, fitness, solarium, massage cabinet, guarded parking and closed garage, ski wardrobe, souvenir shops… All of this makes guests feel comfortable. High-quality and tasty meals are served as a buffet. Shuttle bus from the starting point is included in the price…

Hotel
BULGARIA

Friendly atmosphere… great location, very popular, kind hosts…

www.hotelbulgariabansko.com
for more information...

Fantastic hotel in which it is hard to get a free room, even from pre-gondola time…A small, cute candy…which provides a special intimate atmosphere. Warm, comfortable, mountain, in the centre of Bansko, and only 200meters away from the starting point of gondola. Accommodation area consists of luxurious rooms and apartments-all of them with a bathroom. Each of these units has a satellite TV, a radio, a CD player, a mini bar, a telephone… A restaurant- winter garden with outdoors barbecue, and all of this under the glass roof- it is something you would wish more than once. The hotel also contains: day bar, an elevator, an exchange office, a ski wardrobe, underground garage, indoors pool and outdoor jakuzi with warm water. Breakfast is served as a buffet and dinner a la carte. You will not resist thinking that you are at the best place in a beautiful object and in the nearby of everything you need in Bansko and all that at a very reasonable rate of price and quality.

Hotel
Villa ROKA

In a futuristic design… one of the best…with a pool

www.villaroka.com
for more information...

As a wonderful contrast to the traditional style of building new hotels in Bansko, this ultra-modern hotel represents a change which is actually a nice surprise. In a quiet area, 500 meters away from the starting point of gondola and two minutes away from the centre of the city it gives the impression of peace and tranquillity. Beautiful, vanguard decorated rooms with a bathroom, a hair drier, satellite TV programme, mini bar, a telephone…The hotel also contains a lobby bar, a restaurant, an inn, indoor pool, sauna, fitness, and Internet room. Meals are served as a buffet. This is a great choice for those who like good service and peaceful, pleasant atmosphere after skiing…Perfect meals are served as buffet. A shuttle bus to the starting point of gondola is included in the price of the hotel arrangement.

Hotel
PIRIN

PREMIERE

Before construction all of this in last 4 years, we need to die off every time when we want room here. This hotel is to be found in the centre of Bansko. At today's angle – that is one very gentlemanly to not say elegant hotel .He doesn't suffer from fashionable , he is standard quality .He is from Balkan Holidays family. Macedonian people are discovered him who are in Bansko were guest for years …Modern hotel renovate in 2003.Hotel consist two beds rooms with bathroom, satellite TV programmed, directly phone line, mini bar, terrace …and lobby bar ,restaurant, night club, indoor pool, fitness , solarium, sauna , tennis's terrenes, Internet room, Ski, parking… Room service served to 22.30.Meals are served as a buffet …Shuttle bus to ski paths or gondola (if you useful him) irreproachably function.

Hotel
BANSKO

PREMIERE

From the same family with hotels Stražište and Pirin … They avoid him unjustly in this place because he doesn't have "sonorous" recommendations (I think on our estradu who doesn't stay in them because he didn't heard for him so she cant mention him in clubs by the way … He is really excellent . He is 700 m away from gondola and 200 m away from old Lake Bansko. He has great food nobody doesn't have this hotel almost us. This hotel was build before main "impact" of build .In quiet part of Bansko , he is one of the best hotels in Bansko .Nice two beds rooms and apartments with bathroom ,hair drier ,satellite TV programmer, bar, telephone … Hotel consists and lobby bar, restaurant, indoor pool, sauna, fitness, Internet room. Meals are served as a buffet .This is a great choice for those who like good service and peaceful, pleasant atmosphere after skiing …Shuttle bus to the gondola is included in the price.

Hotel
MURA

PREMIERE

Youngest in the family Balkan Holidays ,increase with three stars .This is his second season …Pretended as a ideal ware-house for this who want to enjoy in coffee –house of Bansko and served only breakfast .And now when you ask me this – do you can without dinner – I want every day to try second coffee –house …(but to be a good hotel – we are not anymore to mountain houses from 1963 and 1995…) that is a real chance… He is to be found almost in the heart… of Bansko. This is 400 or 500m away from gondola… shuttle bus take you to this places… so is this 3 or 5 min far – doesn't matter. He doesn't have a pool.

Apartmani TODORA TOWER

Brand new…peaceful and high quality… you will love them…

It is the perfect, attractive and prestigious position where these apartments were built that makes them very interesting. They are 20 meters away from gondola and they are right across hotel Kempinski. Studios are adapted to accommodate three people most, or two adults and two children. Apartments with two rooms are adjusted to accommodate four adults most or three adults and two small children. All the apartments are equipped with new modern and high-quality furniture, satellite TV programme, kitchen block with a fridge, a cooker, dishes, a bathroom with showers, hair drier, CD and MP3 players…Due to their attractive position and high-quality, they are in great demand so it is not easy to get a free term.

OTHER INFORMATION

Notes

Occupying and leaving the room
A guest can settle in the room after 2 p.m. on the first day of using the arrangement and has to leave the room on the last day of the arrangement till noon.
Magic Holidays is not responsible for eventual different oral information about the programme. General conditions of travelling of the Magic Holidays Agency are valid for this programme and adjusted to YUTA standard.

Transportation
By comfortable, air-conditioned tourist bus on the line Novi Sad (minimum 20 applied passengers) /Belgrade/ Nis –BOROVEC- Nis/Belgrade/ Novi Sad. Departures are on the day before than the day in the table: Novi Sad – from the parking space in front of the main entrance to Novi Sad Fair at 9 p.m., Belgrade – at 11 p.m. from the parking space in front of Sava Centar (Sava side), Nis- in front of the hotel “Ambasador “. Seats on the bus are booked by making the advance payment; they are set by computer and depend only on the time of applying. Minimal number of registered passengers for each departure is 35. Magic Holidays sustain the right to inform the passengers about eventual insufficient number of registered passengers for each departure.

Price of the transportation
The price is 50 EURO per person from Novi Sad, 40 EURO from Belgrade and Nis. Children aged to 10 have their own seat in the bus. (For children aged to 3, it is not necessary to pay for the transportation, but in that case children do not have their place in the bus).

Your own transport
In case when passengers use their own transport, dinar part of the price of the arrangement for reservation, organization and programme executive expenses is 1500 dinars per person.

VISAS: Getting visa (if they introduce visas from the 1st of January, 2007) can be per-formed by yourself or with our mediation. Passports and accompanying documents for group visas are to be delivered at least 20 days before the departure.
Individual visa is provided by passengers with their compulsory presence in the embassy and after getting payments for the arrangement, trip organizer issues necessary papers (guaranties and a voucher). Magic Holidays are not responsible for visa denial and in that case it will be considered that the passenger quit the arrangement and further steps will be taken according the General conditions of travelling by Magic Holidays Agency.

Reservation / application for travelling

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