Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sleeping & Eating
In winter hotel rates are 25% higher than those quoted here.
Hotel Perelik $$$
( 8405;
www.perelikhotel.com
; s/d from 114/184 lv; )
The sharply renovated
Perelik has good, if not spectacular rooms, but people come for the extras. Facilities in-
clude a big indoor pool, spa centre, sauna, billiards, shops, restaurants, bar and disco. It
has all manner of special-price packages (some include lift ticket in ski season), so check
ahead.
HOTEL
Grand Hotel Murgavets $$$
( 58310;
www.murgavets-bg.com
; s/d/apt from 120/170/250 lv; )
This Pam-
porovo giant was snapped up by a nationwide chain, improving its look and already for-
midable services, which include a gym, spa centre, playground, pool, bar and restaurant.
The rooms are spiffy and the single beds surprisingly large.
HOTEL
Hotel Finlandia $$
( 58367;
www.hotelfinlandia.com
; s/d from 90/120 lv; )
The four-star Finlandia
has clean, classy rooms plus a nightclub, health centre and ski school with English- and
German-speaking instructors; there's also a kindergarten for depositing surplus baggage
while on the slopes. The hotel's Bulgarian-specialties restaurant is excellent.
HOTEL
Information
Try
www.bulgariaski.com
for updated snow reports, advice and accommodation informa-
tion for all Bulgarian ski resorts.
Most hotels, restaurants and shops in remote parts are closed from May to October, but
everything around the central Hotel Perelik is open year-round.
Getting There & Away
The hourly Smolyan-Chepelare buses pass Pamporovo, as do the regular Smoly-
an-Plovdiv and Smolyan-Sofia buses. A few daily buses from Sofia go directly to Pam-
