J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by jocrad74

I know that feeling, been to Borovets in not-so-good conditions myself a few years ago. You'll be fine, we have friends living n L2A and they're reporting brilliant conditions.

Cheers Mekka, looks okay we thought, and if the food in the Neilson chalet we stayed in last year is anything to go by, we won't go hungry!!

Same as us this time...! Done both apartment and catered chalet before, but both out towards the Venosc end of town, so wanted something a bit more central. Loads of places nearby to eact/drink.

For lifts up in the morning, you can either take the Jandri Express or the "White Eggs", both right in the centre of resort, or head over to the "Red Eggs" at the Venosc end. You should be able to get one of the nursery lifts up then ski down to the red eggs, I think, or it's only a few minutes walk. Each will take you to a slightly different area, so kind of depends what you're after.

Neilson last year did the ski leading days - one for blue runs, one for red, one for blabks, which is a good way to familiarise yourself with the resort. I skiied on my own last year, as hubby had gone over to the dark side of boarding and was on the easy runs, so I went along on the blue day to refamiliarise myself with the resort. Really good day, the reps show you some of the slopes, which if you don't know the resort, is great.

Have a great time and save me some snow for the 28th!!

Sorry Matt23, where are you staying? Give me a shout and I can probably give you a few tips on good bars or restaurants, best lifts up, etc

I never see the queues as I'm usually at the front of them - ha ha!! I'm a realy morning person, love to be up there on the first lifts and knock off about 3pm for a gluhwein or two.

And I do think, because there are a number of ways to get "up top" the queues aren't as bad as they could be, never wait more than a few minutes even if you do have a bit of a lie-in.
That's the one advantage of going in March, lovely sunny and warm-ish weather, jacket of at lunchtime, soak up the rays...

Smokey Joes is right in the centre, live music between 5pm and 7pm I think. I also like the Polar Bear Bar, head from the centre down the main road towards the Venosc end of town, it's a few minutes walk and on the left hand side of the road.

Have been the first week in March twice - the first time, even the nursery slopes in resort had fantastic conditions. The second time, whilst the very lower slopes did suffer a little, from the Cretes pistes upwards (you'll spot these if you take a look at the piste map), the conditions were still superb.

As it's a glacier resort, and there's still skiing to be had in the summer, it's as safe a bet as you can take when it comes to there being snow. Rest assured, I would go again early March without hesitation.

No, think it was per helicopter, think the article said it carried 8 or 9 people at £4k per trip - big money!!