Ski Lift Prices at Bulgaria’s Winter Resorts Stay the Same as Last Year
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“The prices will be known in the middle of November but it is unlikely that there will be a change compared to last winter,” Maya Hristova, managing director of the Yulen joint-stock company, which operates the facilities of the country’s biggest resort, Bansko, told the Sega daily newspaper.
As BalkanTravellers.com wrote last autumn, during the 2008/09 season, lift passes for adults in Bansko generally cost between 40 and 55 leva (around 20 and 27 euro) for one day, 118 and 162 leva (around 60 and 83 euro) for three days, 227 and 311 leva (around 116 and 160 euro) for six days, 439 and 599 (225 and 307 euro) for 13 days.
The price ranges depended on the period of the season, with the cheapest one being between April 1 and 30, followed by December 1 to 23 and January 5 to March 31, with the period around Christmas and New Year’s (December 24 to January 4) being the most expensive. A full season’s pass for the ski lifts costs 760 leva (around 390 euro).
Representatives of the Pamporovo joint-stock company also told the Sega publication that a price hike for the upcoming winter season is unlikely. Last year, a day pass for unlimited use of the resort’s ski lifts and slopes cost 50 leva (around 25 euro).
According to the publication, there have not been talks yet between the resorts’ operators and the Bulgarian government about renewing last year’s initiative of giving out free lift passes. In an unprecedented move, as BalkanTravellers.com wrote in December, 6,000 lift passes for the three resorts were given out for free as part of tourist packages – 4,500 to visitors from abroad and 1,500 to Bulgarians.
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