The Best Beach Resorts in Bulgaria

The Best Beach Resorts in Bulgaria by Marinova Marina

The Bulgarian Black sea coast is about 400 kilometers long
with large and small resorts. Sun-seekers have a wealth of
choices for accommodation. Most of the hotels are
privately run and maintain Western standards of health and
safety. Among the most popular resorts is the northern
Black Sea coast resort of Golden Sands, which has 61
hotels, many recently fully renovated.

The resort, 17 km north of Varna, is an attractive
combination of a calm and warm sea, forested slopes near
the beach, mineral springs and a tempting choice of good
quality restaurants. The area is famous for the purest
sand on the Black Sea coast.

Also on the northern Black Sea coast, very close to Golden
Sands, Riviera Holiday Club has six hotels located on the
beach in a nice and quite park.

Sunny Day tourist complex, 10 km north of Varna, has four
hotels ranging from five stars to two. The resort also has
two well-equipped spa health centres, with treatments from
mud baths to laser therapy to aromatherapy available.

Thirty km from Varna, Albena has a total of 14 900 beds in
43 hotels, ranging from two to four stars. Nestled in a
picturesque bay, the resort has a temperate climate and
boasts a wide sandy beach. Water sports, a children's
amusement park, and many fine restaurants complete the
picture.

On the southern Black Sea coast, Sunny Beach has more than
100 hotels, 2 campsites, over 130 restaurants, taverns
with folklore shows, bars with floor shows, night clubs,
casino, discos and cafes.

Sozopol, about 30 km south of Bourgas, has a smaller range
of hotels, with about 1,800 beds between them. Sozopol is
one of the oldest of Bulgaria's coastal towns. It is
founded in 610 BC by Miletian Greeks. Today, this charming
place is a popular tourist resort best known for its
casual ambience, sandy beaches and distinctive
nineteenth-century stone and wood houses.

Nessebur, named a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in
1983, draws about a million visitors annually, and its
narrow, historically venerable streets, are often choked
in mid-summer with tourists sampling its culinary delights
and shopping for memorabilia. The town, which dates back
about 9,000 years and is famed for its beautiful medieval
churches, has a competitive range of hotels and private
accommodation.