Country Info
- Sofia
- Capital
- Lev (BGL)
- Currency
- 7,707,495
- Population
- BG
- Country Code
Bulgaria Slideshow
Top Hotels in Bulgaria
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Kempinski Zografski Sofia
117 reviews -
Sol Nessebar Mare
67 reviews -
Barcelo Royal Beach Sunny Beach
167 reviews -
Sofia Princess Hotel
120 reviews
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Sankt Peterburg Plovdiv
12 reviews -
Sol Nessebar Bay
54 reviews
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Novotel Plovdiv
43 reviews
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Rodina Sofia
52 reviews -
Victoria Palace Hotel Sunny Beach
456 reviews
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Marvel Sunny Beach
133 reviews
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Club Hotel Bolero Golden Sands
120 reviews
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Hilton Hotel Sofia
199 reviews
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Chaika Beach Hotel Sunny Beach
258 reviews -
Lc Sheraton Sofia Hotel
138 reviews
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Obzor Beach Resort
44 reviews
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Metropolitan Hotel Sofia
65 reviews
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Iberostar Tiara Beach Hotel Sunny Beach
99 reviews
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Cherno More Hotel Golden Sands
27 reviews
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Berlin Golden Beach Golden Sands
19 reviews
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Hotel Downtown Ski & Spa Bansko
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Hotel Orchideya Park Albena
22 reviews
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Parkhotel Continental Sunny Beach
61 reviews
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Grand Resort Beach Sveti Vlas
2 reviews
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Hemus Hotel Sofia
15 reviews
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Imperial Sunny Beach
57 reviews
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Holiday Inn Sofia
74 reviews
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Viva Hotel Golden Sands
91 reviews
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Majestic Hotel And Apartments Sunny Beach
297 reviews
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Dobrudja Albena
19 reviews
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Lion Hotel 4 Bansko
82 reviews
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Hotel Edelweiss Varna
13 reviews
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Radisson Sas Sofia Bulgaria
134 reviews
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Amphora Hotel Nessebar
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Privilege Fort Nessebar
6 reviews
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Lilia Hotel Varna
41 reviews
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Mri Aspen Golf Bansko
6 reviews
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Iberostar Festa Panorama Nessebar
79 reviews
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Amfora Hotel Sunny Beach
21 reviews
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Slavey Golden Sands
10 reviews
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Vitosha Park Hotel Sofia
9 reviews
Bulgaria
Travel Blogs from Bulgaria
28 Days Later
This is a top pick! ... The cops come to our compartment, ask the two old dears who had been crossing themselves for the last ten minutes where they're from... "Bulgaria" they say in unison. "OK", the guy says.... Then to me. "British", say I. "WHAT?" "Er, English?" "OK" ...
How We Ended Up In A Sofia Strip Club Is......
This is a top pick! "You are so fucking money and you don't even know it. You're like a bear with these big fucking claws and the ladies are like bunny rabbits, and you're looking at your claws and you're thinking, how can I kill this bunny with these claws?" Swingers ...
From Grey to Green.
This is a top pick! ... in Southern Oregon. Of course the occasional horse-drawn cart trotting down the shoulder of the highway would punctuate that Bulgaria isn't Oregon. Unfortunately for Katie, she missed a few of the beautiful views since she was entranced watching "Pretty ...
Sofia and Rila Monastery
This is a top pick! A bus and cab ride later we were in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria. The weather had turned horrible and cold again so we had to pull out the gortex. There were no Bulgarian grannies to meet us at the bus station so we had to find a hostel. Our first dorm ...
Into Bulgaria
This is a top pick! He Said: So after an interesting (and surprisingly relaxing) fourteen hour train ride we arrived today in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. Having a private sleeping car makes riding the rails quite pleasant! It was sort of a strange coincidence that ...
Sites, sun and mojitos
This is a top pick! Took a cushy bus to Sofia today...walked through the construction site in the hotel lobby to our triple room, battling dust and other musty smells, had lunch at Micky d's...saw 3 historical churches including one from Roman times, the ...
Not too much happening in Sofia
This is a top pick! 3 weeks of catching up over coffees and beers. A lot of coffees and a lot of beers. That was ...
The oldest city in Europe...
This is a top pick! According to historians, Plovdiv is one of the oldes towns in Europe...even older than Rome, Athens and Constantinople (Istanbul). Tomorrow will see most of the sites before jumping onto an overnight train to Istanbul....including another Roman ...
The sun is out...
This is a top pick! ... on a fairly new train from Bucharest to Veliko Turnovo, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnovo) the former capital of Bulgaria, was uneventful save a few delays at the border stops. Staying in a few pensions hugging the rocks of the hillside of ...
The only visitors... wherever we go
This is a top pick! ... 8am. When it hit 9am and we were not in Plodiv, we got worried. Plodiv is the second largest city in Bulgaria; yet, endless grassy plains stretched out the train window. Natasha got really paranoid and kept going to the conductor's room ...
Detour
This is a top pick! ... in Lille. They`d both been to Oz so had no trouble understanding our sense of humour and slang! The train crossed over into Bulgaria and stopped at a place called Ruse. The weather did the turn around and pissed down. The romanians with all the bags ...
Veliko Tarnovo and Plovdiv
This is a top pick! Veliko Tarnovo When we finally arrived in Veliko centre, Simon was marked by an old lady who had numerous rooms in a block of flats on the hill and a really annoyingly squeaky voice. The view was great, but I've seen better bathrooms! We were all ...
Wedding in Varna
This is a top pick! My beautifull cousin Anna tied the knot with Boris in a folk ceremony in Varna, the summer capital of Bulgaria. It was a propper wedding! I was the made of honor and as such (without prior notice) was asked to participate in the enterntainment ...
The Istanbul Islands
This is a top pick! Phin and I wake up leisurely and head over to pick up Debra and Kim at their hotel. After realizing why they woke up covered in glitter, we all head down to the harbor to catch a ferry to the neighboring island of Heybeliada. A brief, yet ...
Rila Monastery
This is a top pick! ... eventually led us to the monastery! Because today was Sunday (or because this is such a big destination), half of Bulgaria's population was visiting the monastery. The frescoes were from 19th C and were indeed impressive. I was admiring ...
Veliko Tarnovo: ancient fortress capital
This is a top pick! ... sate my religious fervour however so off I went to the neighbouring town of Arbanassi, to what Lonely Planet calls 'one of Bulgaria's most interesting churches'. Set like a barn on a gentle slope of grass and spring flowers, it has a deliberately low ...
Travelling through Romania & Bulgaria
This is a top pick! ... sad to think about all the people who had been killed in 1989. After nearly 2 weeks in Romania we crossed the border into Bulgaria and had an interesting 5 days in Veliko Tarnovo, the old capital. Vinnie, Paul and I stayed in a great little hostel run ...
Plovdiv: almost mugged!
This is a top pick! ... the Med to my final destination - the UK. Outside it's pouring rain and I'm back in a land of Cyrillics again - this time Bulgaria - already a world away from the aridity of the Middle East. I must admit that it has been good to get out of Turkey ...
Chapter 48: Entering Eastern Europe
This is a top pick! ... Go Europe 2003" (not ideal, but useful for places that won't warrant individual guidebook purchases), and bought a bus ticket to Sofia, Bulgaria for the next morning. The bus trip yesterday was long (9 hours) and dull, and it was broken up only by ...
Long-term winter travel - pros and cons
This is a top pick! I've had a few questions from readers about the practicalities and logistics of travelling through Arctic conditions and northern winters, and I know I was concerned about the extreme cold before I got there, so in the hope that it's useful for future ...
Sofia the no-man land
This is a top pick! ... , alcohol unimaginably cheap. It is Saturday night and Sofia supposedly has good night life, but we should get some beauty sleep for tomorrow's trip. We are visiting the best sightseeing place in Bulgaria: Rila ...
Mystical Rila Monastery
This is a top pick! ... interesting and not sugar coated which should appeal to many. Catch you next time. TT Great Brands of the World - Bulgaria With a pretty simple message plastered all over the country it's not so surprising that I am now very inclined randomly ...
Entering Europe
This is a top pick! ... great English, Tanzanians and Kenyans likewise. Things dropped off as we went up through the Middle East and dropped another level in Bulgaria. And we know that very few people over the age of 25 speak any English at all in Slovakia. Having said that, ...
Sofia - A Balkan Oasis
This is a top pick! ... , but I did it anyway. Perhaps because I could. Chapter 2 When trains pass through the rugged border crossing between Bulgaria and Serbia and Montenegro, the Bulgarian border guards meet the train, collect everyone's passport and then walk one kilometre ...
Sofia
This is a top pick! Sofia at art hostel, jess wenstrom, rila, meeting with nikolay minkov uconomics, abandoned factories and hand labor in fields from train, harvesting hay. Sofia trams. Playing music, walking around the churches and streets, belowground stores, Hostel ...
Turkish Reflections
This is a top pick! ... of Turkey. There's a big Y on the banknotes and for some reason I started calling them Yentils. On the way to Sofia Bulgaria, I asked Ellen to read a few of my notes. When I finished she asked "Aren't you going to write something nice about ...
Euro development explosion...
This is a top pick! ... . Some of my tourmates went to the Dancing Bear Sanctuary outside of town where many of the Dancing Bears in Bulgaria live after they were rescued from their former lives of bondage and torture. Apparently, their paws are greased and they ...