Anything you need to know about Borovets

Talking of one extreme to another, I went to Whistler at Christmas and then Borovets in the February... That may have had a slight influence on my opinion of Borovets.

verglas wrote:

Tony your reviews are part of the reason I chose the Hoff, so well done, you better be right!

The combination of the gentle stuff on the Ahorn for my better half and No 1 daughter and some more adventurous opps for me and the other two kids was very apealling, we usuallly ski together in the morning, have lunch together then split up meeting again at the bar afterwards.

Great, glad I do have some use to people!!!
Suggestion for you - take your Mrs and No1 daughter up the Penken early doors (first lift 8.15 I think) and ski down the front side on the fairly gentle reds before it gets busy. Best getting off their by 10 before ski schools get out though. Head over the back (quite steep and challenging, but you can take the chair down) and go up the Schneekaar and do Red 7. They will love it.
They will also love the chilled out blues and reds over the back in Rastkogel too, they get the sun all day which is nice as well. Plenty to play on there, as the Ahorn is very limited. The Ebbenwald red down the Ahorn turns into the Abfahrt off the bottom, and you will like that, but I only suggest you try it mid afternoon when its had a little sun on it, or when its been snowing as it can be very icy in parts. But its a fantastic run for good skiers.
Like I said, PM me if you need any more.
Sorry this is off thread. Back to Bulgaria now.....

AllyG yes that included lessons as they were packages, the component cost of each item Ski/boot hire, lift pass cost as much as the package with lessons. In the end only 3 of our family used the lessons and even then only about 50% of the time.

That was the worst aspect of the trip the tuition was very poor compared to Poiana, I was stood at the top of a lift one day and two of my children apeared with 4 other friends, I asked where the instructor was and they said they had lost him! We waited a while and set of down together, next day they had a new instructor. (nuff said!)

verglas wrote:

That was the worst aspect of the trip the tuition was very poor compared to Poiana, I was stood at the top of a lift one day and two of my children apeared with 4 other friends, I asked where the instructor was and they said they had lost him! We waited a while and set of down together, next day they had a new instructor. (nuff said!)

Verglas,
If you've been reading our posts for a while, you'll know that the same thing happened to me in Val Thorens, with esf. As far as I could see, our instructor deliberately lost people during the day (but at least they weren't children). I think losing children during a lesson is really terrible.

Ally

No sorry Ally never saw that.

My wife dicede she wanted a private lesson one day and I met her and her instructor at lunchtime, this guy was calld "Freaky" and he told us he used to be the Bulgarian ski jump champion and had competed in the Olympics with "Eddie the Eagle", he then went on to explain that Eddie joined him in a ski jump tour/roadshow type thing in Bulgaria, and the best bit, Eddie was responsible for introducing the Mars bar to Bulgaria, because he brought so many of them over with him and it was allegedly his staple diet!!!

Perhaps if anyone sees Eddie they could verify this factoid?

AllyG wrote:

verglas wrote:
... I was stood at the top of a lift one day and two of my children apeared with 4 other friends, I asked where the instructor was and they said they had lost him! We waited a while and set of down together, next day they had a new instructor. (nuff said!)

... As far as I could see, our instructor deliberately lost people during the day (but at least they weren't children). I think losing children during a lesson is really terrible.

I am a ski instructor. This is absolutely appalling.

I'm sure it happens in a lot of places but certainly in Borovets there are dubious instructors ... it certainly pays to know who will be teaching you.

MyBorovets.com uses Hunters because all their equipment is brand new... I wouldn't trust some of the dubious looking ski shops around the resort

I didn't have lessons in Borovets but while I was there I heard about and saw some appauling behaviour towards children from instructors including children being left behind and making there own way down. However I was also told about some brilliant instructors including the instructor my friends had.

MyBorovets wrote:

MyBorovets.com uses Hunters because all their equipment is brand new... I wouldn't trust some of the dubious looking ski shops around the resort

Look at these Skis a shop in a certain 4* hotel tried to rent to one of our party. These were the best condition Skis they had available . Needless to say we made him return them and we went elsewhere. This was through a major TCO as well.

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