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My husband and I prefer to take vacations in August, but this year, under the pressure of personal circumstances, we decided to break the already established traditions and go on vacation in September (from 5th to 19 September 2008). I wanted to go to some not very "popular", but comfortable place. So that there are fewer compatriots, cheaper prices, well, and so that the benefits are for the "soul" and body : ) We hesitated for a long time between Romania and Bulgaria, in the end, the nostalgic memories of a loved one about a youthful trip to Bulgaria and more than discreet reviews about the delights of Romanian resorts helped make the right decision for us : )
Choosing a hotel, I once again trusted the reviews of "experienced" on "Turpravda" and my choice fell on "Menabria" - a quiet hotel located in a good location, overlooking the sea and all that. Surprisingly, it turned out that it was not so easy to find a ticket to "Menabria" in Kiev, in the end we succeeded with the help of the travel agency "Widershtral" (Kyiv).
Arriving at the place of settlement, we were once again convinced of the truthfulness and objectivity of the "Turpravdov" reviews. : ) The hotel is located right at the isthmus leading to the Old Town, it takes 10 minutes to reach the city's Non-Serbian beaches, it takes 20-30 minutes to get to the beaches of Solnechny coast.
We got a spacious room - from the window you could see the sea and Sunny Beach, and if you go out onto the balcony, you could see Old Nessebar and the excavations of a no less old necropolis. By the way, someone here wrote about the "inner courtyard" of the hotel - and so, this courtyard is no longer there, instead there is a deserted territory with excavated graves of the "-eleventh" year BC in which from 9 to 6 ( except for weekends) enthusiastic archaeologists are poking around : ) So, going out onto the balcony, we mentally sympathized with the neighbors, whose windows overlooked even a very old, but still a cemetery : (
The bathroom in the room is more than modest, but spacious: a shower with a tile edge instead of a pallet (without a curtain), a washbasin, a toilet bowl, a hairdryer - everything was written before me. In the room: TV (there is an RTR-planet), a small empty refrigerator, a table, a mirror, a folding chair, two bedside tables. In the hallway there is a hanger and a spacious wardrobe. There was a plastic table and two chairs on the balcony. So we often went out to the balcony to drink wine. LOVED the cleaning of the rooms. The maid worked like clockwork, changed towels daily, bedding was changed every 2-3 days. And when a sudden cold snap came, an additional heater was carefully installed in our room, without any additional requests : ) We left a small tip to the maid every day - we just wanted to thank the person for a good job. By the way, Bulgaria is the only place I have visited where they thanked us for the tip, and also tried in every possible way to “work it out”. We have become accustomed to the fact that the service staff takes the "tip" for granted. In Nessebar, I sometimes got the impression that the "interest" left on the table perplexed and even upset the waiter (and it was clear that it was not the "size" of the tip that was upsetting, but their very presence).
I return to the description of the hotel: the hotel has a small swimming pool, with sun loungers around, and a bar near the pool. The bar was not crowded, and also around the pool, until a multi-storey ferry landed numerous "Scandinavian troops" off the coast of Nessebar : )) To store cash and documents, we rented a safe at the reception (5 leva per day). There is Wi-Fi in the hotel lobby. In general, I liked everything in the hotel... EXCEPT BREAKFASTS. Breakfasts are simply disgusting and terribly monotonous, even if the plates were changed in places or something, otherwise for 14 days the same thing, in the same places : (. The choice of dishes is not rich: melon, watermelon, buns, croissants, cucumbers -tomatoes, one kind of "kashkaval" (hard cheese), one kind of "syrene" (brynza), soy sausage, soy sausages, scrambled eggs (burnt, absolutely inedible), poached, just boiled eggs, jam. Yogurt is absent as a class, instead juice - “yuppies". In general, those who like to eat fruit for breakfast were more or less satisfied. I like something more substantial for breakfast, so I mostly ate eggs... After a week, it seemed to me that I would crow : ( But in general, the problem of nutrition was not acute. We usually dined in the Old Town, since there are many cafes and eateries for every taste and pocket, and we bought "dinner" for ourselves at the "Mladost" supermarket on "Otets Paisiy" street; this is the "largest" supermarket in Nessebar We also found a small grocery store on St. Cyril and Methodius, a small supermarket on the way to the beaches - the hotel complex "Vigo"... There are also mini-markets in the Old Town, but the prices are higher there.
I really liked the town itself. And I liked both parts of it - both the old and the new : ) Everything is very comfortable, clean and somehow family-like, especially in the new city, where there are fewer tourists.
The beaches in Nessebar are small, but, as our guide from the Alma Tour host said, "you can swim everywhere", and this is true. Some swam right by the road, sunbathing on large stones.
Beaches.
The beaches are free, you have to pay "for services" - that is, for an umbrella and a sunbed (from 5 to 10 leva, depending on the type of sunbed and the owner of the "protected area"). Most of the beaches are "guarded", but there is one caveat - they are "guarded" only from 9 to 6 pm, and then lifeguards leave the beach and everything is already "unguarded" and, accordingly, free : ) the day we "bought" an umbrella for 7 leva, and since we are more "cupants" than "tanners" by nature, it did not make sense for us to sit on the beach all day, we threw a towel under the umbrella and went to wander around the neighborhood... We returned for hours by 5, the towel was in place and no one took the place itself. : ) There is also an "unguarded" beach in Nessebar, you will find it by going through a series of "guarded" ones towards Ravda: at the very end of the beach strip there is a wild beach, mostly Bulgarians themselves sunbathe on it, and nudists huddle under the very hill. : ) Despite the "wildness" and "unguarded" nature of this beach, it is still under the scrutiny of local lifeguards. And when the sea is stormy, the absence of a "red flag" on a wild beach does not guarantee you the absence of pumped-up guys on it, whistling out the vacationers frolicking in the waves. : )
It seemed interesting to me that the majority of Bulgarian women from 8 to 80, regardless of complexion and marital status, prefer to relax on the "topless" beach. In the order of things to see on the beach a portly "matron" without a bra, surrounded by young children and her husband, or a shriveled old woman, in which, in addition to bikini panties, only a faded Panama hat is worn... : )))
City beaches in Nessebar are sandy, but fans of pebble beaches can "nostalgic" on the beach of the Old Town. It is small, dirty, a lot of algae on the shore, the bottom is rocky there "a la New World"... But this is for VERY big haters of sand, because the sea there is as shallow as on a sandy beach, and crawling belly on well, very persistent people can afford stones, maneuvering between jellyfish 20 meters to a depth : ) I tried it once - I didn’t really like it... Although the bottom there is beautiful, if you dive with goggles - there is something to see : )
Most vacationers drive or go (we did) to the beaches of Sunny Beach. To be honest, in Sunny Beach, the quality of beaches is much higher, the beaches are more spacious, the system is the same - a fee for "services" on a protected beach, and the sea is free : ) There are also free areas in Sunny Beach - they are randomly located. You just have to walk along the surf and look out for "islands" without umbrellas on the beach : ) Personally, we chose the "unguarded" territory in the area of u200bu200bthe Dolphin boarding house : ) Buses run to Sunny Beach - bus stops in the Old Town, how much does it cost I remember that you can also drive up to the beach on a decorative "train" - the cost of this "attraction" is 5 leva. The train stops near the mill in front of Old Nessebar.
Excursions.
Excursions can be bought from a representative of the host travel agency. You can easily buy excursions right in the city, so it will even come out a little cheaper. We bought an excursion to Sozopol from our guide, and decided to go to Sofia on our own.
There are two ways to get to Sofia from Nessebar: take a bus to Burgas, and then go from Burgas to Sofia by train, or take a regular bus directly from Nessebar. We chose the second way. Buses run from the bus station located in Old Nessebar. There are two carrier companies - "Kalea" and "Metro", they have slightly different routes and schedules, as well as the price of a ticket. We went to Sofia by "Kalea" - 32 leva for a ticket, and back by bus "Metro" - 36 leva. To be honest, the bus ride is quite exhausting, especially at night.
The excursion to Sozopol was a little disappointing, because we expected something more "ancient", "Greek"... It turned out that there is much more "Greek" in Nessebar : ) Sozopol itself is a pretty town, but it is painfully similar to Nessebar - almost and the same thing, the same peninsula and the same houses : ) But I really liked the excursion along the mountain river Ropotamo, which was in the "set" : ) Also as an "entertainment" we WALKED in the city of St. we were 3 hours away, we got back to Sunny Beach in 10 minutes by bus (2 leva) : ) I would recommend Saint Vlas to those who like to sunbathe, the sun beats mercilessly there, there are almost no trees - you can get a portion of the tan "automatically", just wandering around town.
Weather.
Of course, we took a risk by going on vacation, albeit early, but in the fall. From the 5th to the 13th of September there was wonderful, sunny weather - the sea is warmest, the sun, although hot, is not evil. In general - beauty. But on September 14th it got so suddenly cold that we ran and bought ourselves some jackets! After that, the weather deteriorated, we can say completely. The air temperature dropped by 5 degrees, but in the afternoon the sun came out and the water in the sea was still warm. So the last week of our vacation we were still swimming, despite the fact that we came to the beach in jackets : ))
In general, I really liked Bulgaria. Although, of course, not everything is good and wonderful there, and the road from Burgas to Nessebar is strewn not with roses, but with plastic and paper bags, and in Sunny Beach gypsies will pester you... But the most valuable thing in Bulgaria is the Bulgarians themselves, mostly friendly, hospitable, humorous people who are sincerely glad to see you : )
Such a great review turned out... I hope that those who read to the end will not consider their time wasted : ) I wish you all interesting trips and pleasant impressions!
Choosing a hotel, I once again trusted the reviews of "experienced" on "Turpravda" and my choice fell on "Menabria" - a quiet hotel located in a good location, overlooking the sea and all that. Surprisingly, it turned out that it was not so easy to find a ticket to "Menabria" in Kiev, in the end we succeeded with the help of the travel agency "Widershtral" (Kyiv).
Arriving at the place of settlement, we were once again convinced of the truthfulness and objectivity of the "Turpravdov" reviews. : ) The hotel is located right at the isthmus leading to the Old Town, it takes 10 minutes to reach the city's Non-Serbian beaches, it takes 20-30 minutes to get to the beaches of Solnechny coast.
We got a spacious room - from the window you could see the sea and Sunny Beach, and if you go out onto the balcony, you could see Old Nessebar and the excavations of a no less old necropolis. By the way, someone here wrote about the "inner courtyard" of the hotel - and so, this courtyard is no longer there, instead there is a deserted territory with excavated graves of the "-eleventh" year BC in which from 9 to 6 ( except for weekends) enthusiastic archaeologists are poking around : ) So, going out onto the balcony, we mentally sympathized with the neighbors, whose windows overlooked even a very old, but still a cemetery : (
The bathroom in the room is more than modest, but spacious: a shower with a tile edge instead of a pallet (without a curtain), a washbasin, a toilet bowl, a hairdryer - everything was written before me. In the room: TV (there is an RTR-planet), a small empty refrigerator, a table, a mirror, a folding chair, two bedside tables. In the hallway there is a hanger and a spacious wardrobe. There was a plastic table and two chairs on the balcony. So we often went out to the balcony to drink wine. LOVED the cleaning of the rooms. The maid worked like clockwork, changed towels daily, bedding was changed every 2-3 days. And when a sudden cold snap came, an additional heater was carefully installed in our room, without any additional requests : ) We left a small tip to the maid every day - we just wanted to thank the person for a good job. By the way, Bulgaria is the only place I have visited where they thanked us for the tip, and also tried in every possible way to “work it out”. We have become accustomed to the fact that the service staff takes the "tip" for granted. In Nessebar, I sometimes got the impression that the "interest" left on the table perplexed and even upset the waiter (and it was clear that it was not the "size" of the tip that was upsetting, but their very presence).
I return to the description of the hotel: the hotel has a small swimming pool, with sun loungers around, and a bar near the pool. The bar was not crowded, and also around the pool, until a multi-storey ferry landed numerous "Scandinavian troops" off the coast of Nessebar : )) To store cash and documents, we rented a safe at the reception (5 leva per day). There is Wi-Fi in the hotel lobby. In general, I liked everything in the hotel... EXCEPT BREAKFASTS. Breakfasts are simply disgusting and terribly monotonous, even if the plates were changed in places or something, otherwise for 14 days the same thing, in the same places : (. The choice of dishes is not rich: melon, watermelon, buns, croissants, cucumbers -tomatoes, one kind of "kashkaval" (hard cheese), one kind of "syrene" (brynza), soy sausage, soy sausages, scrambled eggs (burnt, absolutely inedible), poached, just boiled eggs, jam. Yogurt is absent as a class, instead juice - “yuppies". In general, those who like to eat fruit for breakfast were more or less satisfied. I like something more substantial for breakfast, so I mostly ate eggs... After a week, it seemed to me that I would crow : ( But in general, the problem of nutrition was not acute. We usually dined in the Old Town, since there are many cafes and eateries for every taste and pocket, and we bought "dinner" for ourselves at the "Mladost" supermarket on "Otets Paisiy" street; this is the "largest" supermarket in Nessebar We also found a small grocery store on St. Cyril and Methodius, a small supermarket on the way to the beaches - the hotel complex "Vigo"... There are also mini-markets in the Old Town, but the prices are higher there.
I really liked the town itself. And I liked both parts of it - both the old and the new : ) Everything is very comfortable, clean and somehow family-like, especially in the new city, where there are fewer tourists.
The beaches in Nessebar are small, but, as our guide from the Alma Tour host said, "you can swim everywhere", and this is true. Some swam right by the road, sunbathing on large stones.
Beaches.
The beaches are free, you have to pay "for services" - that is, for an umbrella and a sunbed (from 5 to 10 leva, depending on the type of sunbed and the owner of the "protected area"). Most of the beaches are "guarded", but there is one caveat - they are "guarded" only from 9 to 6 pm, and then lifeguards leave the beach and everything is already "unguarded" and, accordingly, free : ) the day we "bought" an umbrella for 7 leva, and since we are more "cupants" than "tanners" by nature, it did not make sense for us to sit on the beach all day, we threw a towel under the umbrella and went to wander around the neighborhood... We returned for hours by 5, the towel was in place and no one took the place itself. : ) There is also an "unguarded" beach in Nessebar, you will find it by going through a series of "guarded" ones towards Ravda: at the very end of the beach strip there is a wild beach, mostly Bulgarians themselves sunbathe on it, and nudists huddle under the very hill. : ) Despite the "wildness" and "unguarded" nature of this beach, it is still under the scrutiny of local lifeguards. And when the sea is stormy, the absence of a "red flag" on a wild beach does not guarantee you the absence of pumped-up guys on it, whistling out the vacationers frolicking in the waves. : )
It seemed interesting to me that the majority of Bulgarian women from 8 to 80, regardless of complexion and marital status, prefer to relax on the "topless" beach. In the order of things to see on the beach a portly "matron" without a bra, surrounded by young children and her husband, or a shriveled old woman, in which, in addition to bikini panties, only a faded Panama hat is worn... : )))
City beaches in Nessebar are sandy, but fans of pebble beaches can "nostalgic" on the beach of the Old Town. It is small, dirty, a lot of algae on the shore, the bottom is rocky there "a la New World"... But this is for VERY big haters of sand, because the sea there is as shallow as on a sandy beach, and crawling belly on well, very persistent people can afford stones, maneuvering between jellyfish 20 meters to a depth : ) I tried it once - I didn’t really like it... Although the bottom there is beautiful, if you dive with goggles - there is something to see : )
Most vacationers drive or go (we did) to the beaches of Sunny Beach. To be honest, in Sunny Beach, the quality of beaches is much higher, the beaches are more spacious, the system is the same - a fee for "services" on a protected beach, and the sea is free : ) There are also free areas in Sunny Beach - they are randomly located. You just have to walk along the surf and look out for "islands" without umbrellas on the beach : ) Personally, we chose the "unguarded" territory in the area of u200bu200bthe Dolphin boarding house : ) Buses run to Sunny Beach - bus stops in the Old Town, how much does it cost I remember that you can also drive up to the beach on a decorative "train" - the cost of this "attraction" is 5 leva. The train stops near the mill in front of Old Nessebar.
Excursions.
Excursions can be bought from a representative of the host travel agency. You can easily buy excursions right in the city, so it will even come out a little cheaper. We bought an excursion to Sozopol from our guide, and decided to go to Sofia on our own.
There are two ways to get to Sofia from Nessebar: take a bus to Burgas, and then go from Burgas to Sofia by train, or take a regular bus directly from Nessebar. We chose the second way. Buses run from the bus station located in Old Nessebar. There are two carrier companies - "Kalea" and "Metro", they have slightly different routes and schedules, as well as the price of a ticket. We went to Sofia by "Kalea" - 32 leva for a ticket, and back by bus "Metro" - 36 leva. To be honest, the bus ride is quite exhausting, especially at night.
The excursion to Sozopol was a little disappointing, because we expected something more "ancient", "Greek"... It turned out that there is much more "Greek" in Nessebar : ) Sozopol itself is a pretty town, but it is painfully similar to Nessebar - almost and the same thing, the same peninsula and the same houses : ) But I really liked the excursion along the mountain river Ropotamo, which was in the "set" : ) Also as an "entertainment" we WALKED in the city of St. we were 3 hours away, we got back to Sunny Beach in 10 minutes by bus (2 leva) : ) I would recommend Saint Vlas to those who like to sunbathe, the sun beats mercilessly there, there are almost no trees - you can get a portion of the tan "automatically", just wandering around town.
Weather.
Of course, we took a risk by going on vacation, albeit early, but in the fall. From the 5th to the 13th of September there was wonderful, sunny weather - the sea is warmest, the sun, although hot, is not evil. In general - beauty. But on September 14th it got so suddenly cold that we ran and bought ourselves some jackets! After that, the weather deteriorated, we can say completely. The air temperature dropped by 5 degrees, but in the afternoon the sun came out and the water in the sea was still warm. So the last week of our vacation we were still swimming, despite the fact that we came to the beach in jackets : ))
In general, I really liked Bulgaria. Although, of course, not everything is good and wonderful there, and the road from Burgas to Nessebar is strewn not with roses, but with plastic and paper bags, and in Sunny Beach gypsies will pester you... But the most valuable thing in Bulgaria is the Bulgarians themselves, mostly friendly, hospitable, humorous people who are sincerely glad to see you : )
Such a great review turned out... I hope that those who read to the end will not consider their time wasted : ) I wish you all interesting trips and pleasant impressions!
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