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Ginny's trip to Bulgaria

bbc.co.uk, 30.05.2005

Ginny swapped the Mediterranean for the Black Sea and the EU for the Eastern Bloc to see if Bulgaria lived up to the hype of 2005's best bargain summer break. Sandwiched between Romania and Turkey on the Black Sea, Bulgaria offers the cheapest packages in Europe and once you get there your money goes further than any other Mediterranean destination. In the first six months of 2004 no less than 100,000 Brits took advantage of this, with the number set to rise in 2005. Bulgaria has 354 miles of beautiful coastline and the five-mile long Sunny Beach, is no exception. As Bulgaria’s biggest beach resort, it has over 100 hotels, which means that at full occupancy, up to 45,000 holidaymakers will share its Blue Flag award-winning sands. Bargain hunting However, step away from the beaches and you could be in any Mediterranean destination with a focus on eating, drinking and shopping. The pedestrianised promenade behind Sunny Beach is where most of the action lies, once the sun has set with bars, restaurants, and discos aplenty. If bargain shopping is your proclivity, you are likely to be in seventh heaven. Designer jeans sell for around £10, designer handbags are for sale at a fraction of the price of those back home and CDs go for a couple of pounds. A pint of beer only amounts to around 60p and a main course at a restaurant will set you back around £5. This value for money is what attracts the hordes of British holidaymakers, such as Linda, Ernie, Pat and Terry, who have taken package holidays together for years. They told Ginny that Bulgaria compares well to other destinations, with cheap food and drink and friendly service. The recently-built hotels at Sunny Beach have more personality than the concrete high rises of the Costas built in the 1960s and 1970s. But facilities still vary and as a general rule, the more you pay, the better you’ll stay. Ginny opted for an all-inclusive hotel, 100 metres from the beach with two swimming pools and a kids' club. Sunny Beach has the nightlife you’d expect from a purpose-built resort, but Ginny spurned the nightclub action for a meal with Linda, Ernie, Pat and Terry at Khan’s Tent, which overlooks Sunny Beach from a nearby hill. The price includes a Las Vegas-style cabaret, complete with a Charlie Chaplin-impersonating plate spinner, and dancing girls. Nessebar Next morning, Ginny took an organised coach excursion to the nearby town of Nessebar, three km south of Sunny Beach at the north of Bourgas bay and a designated UNESCO heritage site. At one time Nessebar had boasted 40 churches, in a town measuring less than a square mile. Today, its busy streets reflect the boom in visitor numbers with shop after shop selling tourist souvenirs. Ginny wandered down the back streets in search of a more typical taste of Bulgarian life. Ginny found Nessebar a great antidote to Sunny Beach. Considering the two are separated by just a few miles of coastline, the latter could be the image of the Mediterranean and you'd have no reason to think you are in Bulgaria at all, except for the exceptional value for money. But enjoy this while it lasts: with its impending move into the EU, and advent of the Euro, Bulgaria will have more trouble keeping up with the competition from its Mediterranean counterparts in the future. see source