05 Nov 2024
Prepare for Winter 2025/2026
Winter is just around the corner, have you booked your ski getaway for this season? If yes, then now it’s the perfect time to start planning your next ski adventure for Winter 2025/2026! With our early bird ski offers now available, there’s no better time to book your escape to Bulgaria’s stunning resorts, Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo. Here’s why you should take advantage of these fantastic deals and secure your winter holiday today.
Enjoy Savings by Booking Early
Planning your ski trip in advance not only ensures you spread the cost but also allows you to enjoy early booking discounts.
08 Oct 2024
We’ve got some great news … snow has fallen on Mount Musala in the Rila Mountains and Vitosha mountains in Bulgaria.
The famous Borovets ski resort is here so snow falling now is really encouraging for the coming season.
The ski resort of Borovets is one of our most popular places, at a height of 1300 metres. It is well-known for all grades of skiers. Here you will find everything needed for a great skiing holiday, lots of skiing (58 km of ski runs), beautiful scenery, a wide variety of winter hotels plus a very lively apres ski scene. These all combine to make Borovets a great choice for all types of skiers, either groups or
17 Sep 2024
We like our blogs to be on all sorts of different topics that are useful for our guests. For example we’ve written about what to pack for a skiing holiday, what you can do away from the slopes or we go into more details about the different resorts such as Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo in Bulgaria and Kranjska Gora, Lake Bled and Lake Bohinj in Slovenia.
However, the intention of this blog is unashamedly a ‘salesy’ blog! It’s to encourage you to book your skiing holiday before 23 September, but it’s for a very good reason!
This is because when you book your skiing holiday on or before 23 September you enjoy so many savings,
19 Mar 2024
Pamporovo is a fantastic ski resort in Bulgaria. It is set high in the Rhodope Mountains among magnificent pine forests at a height of 1,620 metres. It has 38 km of marked ski runs, including the a new 7km long run and 25 kilometers of cross country tracks. There is another new feature, lift passes will give you access to the Mechi Chal ski zone at Chepelare resort with a free shuttle bus service to take you between the two. Chepelare is just 10kms from Pamporovo ski resort and it has the longest ski run in Bulgaria.
Pamporovo itself is perfect for beginner and intermediate skiers. It has a wide choice of nursery slopes plus there
14 Feb 2024
We now take a look at Borovets ski resort, Bulgaria’s most popular one, although Bansko, its noisy neighbour, is gaining all the time!
Set in the Rila Mountains, Borovets ski resort was originally developed for Bulgarian royalty to use almost exclusively. Thankfully these days everyone can visit and enjoy this wonderful ski resort with its soaring mountain peaks, excellent skiing and a lively apres ski scene.
Located in the Rila Mountains in south west Bulgaria, the resort of Borovets itself is 1320 metres above sea level (rising to 2560 metres at its highest point). It has 58kms of ski runs, 5kms of advanced or black runs and
31 Jan 2024
This week we thought we would take a look a look at skiing in Slovenia. It really is a beautiful setting for a skiing and boarding holiday. There are several resorts offering beautiful views of the Julian Alps, of serene lakes and even hilltop castles, real fairytale stuff!
We offer 3 resorts, Kranjska Gora, Lake Bled and Lake Bohinj. Here is an introduction for each one…
Kranjska Gora
Kranjska Gora is a picture postcard ski resort located in North West Slovenia near the border with Austria and Italy.
In terms of skiing it is ideal for beginners as it has wide open nursey slopes at the bottom of the mountain. If you make good
24 Jan 2024
Here’s a tip to save you lots of money this winter…BOOK your Skiing Holiday to Bulgaria with Balkan Holidays!
Why? There are so many reasons even before you get there! First there’s the cost of your holiday. One look at the cost of a skiing holiday in other European ski resorts and you see just how much they cost, so check our latest prices for the best value skiing holidays. That’s hundreds of pounds save already.
Then there’s the cost of ski services – Just a lift pass in other resorts will set you back many hundreds of pounds not to mention ski packs. Whereas a 6 day lift pass in Bansko starts from just £182 and a
17 Jan 2024
We are so pleased to say that current Skiing and Snowboarding conditions in Bansko and Borovets are excellent and our wonderful guests are having the time of their lives!
The snow is deep and conditions are excellent in both Bansko and Borovets. The skiing in these two resorts are good for all types of skiers, including beginner, intermediate and advanced. Plus, the great news is that snow is forecast this weekend (20 & 21 January) so conditions will be even better for the weeks to come.
The ski areas are also not very busy so there’s no queues at the lifts, including the gondolas, so all our guests
16 Jan 2024
Bansko is a town in south west Bulgaria located at the foot of the Pirin Mountain, 925 metres above sea level rising to 2746 metres at the top of Todorka, the highest peak in Bansko. Bansko is an actual town where people live, work and go to school, this is very different from Borovets (our other featured ski resort in Bulgaria), which is a purpose built ski resort.
That Bansko is an actual town adds to it charm. You can ski during the day and then head into the old town at night for a few drinks or a meal at one of Bansko’s ‘Mehanas’, a traditional style Bulgarian restaurant serving authentic and local food and
05 Jan 2024
If your partner is really good looking then it’s not really news when someone says to you ‘your partner is really good looking’ it’s not really news to you but hey, it makes you feel nice all the same! And that’s how we feel about the Ski Resorts in Bulgaria being named as one of Europe’s cheapest ski resorts, we know it, most skiers know it, but we like people to recognise it all the same!
We say all this because Eurochange, the holiday money people at most airports, have named Borovets as Europe’s cheapest ski resort. They compared the cost of things like a lift pass, accommodation, ski