Hotels near Neofit Rilski Museum, Bansko

Nice , clean hotel with friendly staff and a good breakfast selection. Evening meals reparative though and not exactly schemed for a specific cuisine…. but plenty of choices. Large rooms, clean with good quality bedding, but too hot for us and it was difficult to adjust the temperature. Lovely spa and swimming pool facilities …. and shuttle bus to slopes every 15 minutes, Thanks for lovely stay. Hope to see you again!

All comments are highly distorted. If you visit the hotel during the week and not at the weekend, your breakfast will be moved from one restaurant to the other without you being notified. When you ask the reception why the guests are not notified, you get an answer from the receptionist: ”I can't do anything”, instead of an apology. Spa and pool hours are fixed from 8am to 8pm. The reception is also not sure about the opening hours of the pool. It turns out that the outdoor pool for adults is open until 6pm, not the children's pool until 7pm. No one cares that there are guests at the hotel. Anyone who wanted could ”melt” in the children's pool. In the morning, the outside pool starts when the lifeguard wants to come to work. You go in for breakfast and after 10 minutes a girl runs up to you, who has realized that she works at the hotel and comes to ask you which room you are from. Extremely poor breakfast variety. In the evening after 9pm there is no one to make you a cocktail at the lobby bar. Overall score:0. No one cares or wants to make you feel comfortable as a guest in the hotel.

Our visit was out of snow season. Many of the nearby pubs and restaurants were closed but that’s to expected. Breakfast had one of the best buffets ever! Amazing yoghurt, a chef on hand to make you omelettes how you want, and proper barista coffee makers, who don’t mind making you more than 1 coffee. Loads of helpful staff. Staying here with my family, there was a kids club, though my 8 year old was to cool for that. Several pools and some heated. Whilst next door was a massive jumping feature (much more than a castle) kids from 4-11 could have stayed on there all day. The inflatable was meant to cost 10 leva for 20mins but some days there were no one there and when my kids time was up and I tried to pay more they would not take it. Rooms are old, but clean and featured a lot of wood, loads of storage and reasonable size. Restaurants in the hotel, like the hotel itself, are rather expensive. There was a great alternative 10m up and across the road, which served a variety of food. Though I do recommend walking to main village centre and trying a tavern with local cuisine. A few times we went to reception and could not find anyone available and after waiting usually gave up. The most amazing aspect for me, was the spa relaxation zone, Which included a “Shower experience”, multiple sauna’s with differing degrees, a few hot steam boxes again with differing degrees, and an ice box which had ice/snow but wasn’t that cold. I haven’t experience all this before coming from Australia so I thought it was pretty cool to give all these a go and my skin felt wonderful afterwards. Also the toiletries are Salvatore Ferragamo were wonderful. During the warmer months there is plenty of hiking trails and that sort of thing, but next time if I ever get a chance to come back to Bansko it will be in the winter months. I would love to stay at the Kempinski Hotel Grand Arena Bansko again, but the biggest drawback was cost!

Stayed at the MPM Sport in February 2024. Rooms, apparently, had recently been refurbished and were clean and comfortable and of a decent size. Unlike our friends room, our room (number 6) didnt have a shower screen on the bath, so I’m sure you can imagine the state of the floor after the shower had been used. Also, the toilet was too close to the bath, so sitting down was extremely awkward. Again, this was only our room as the toilet in our friends room seemed to be placed where it should be. Also, the room was like a furnace with no way to adjust the temperature. Minor *******, that didn’t really affect our stay. Rooms cleaned everyday. Very good selection for breakfast. Cereals, fruit, yogurt, omelettes, other hot items, toast, bread, ham, cheese, etc…. Didn’t eat in there for dinner, so can’t comment on evening meals. The boot/ski room is based on the lower ground floor and has direct access outside. You can come back in the same way, so don’t forget you key card to enable access. The room is literally that… a room. It incorporated racks and shelves but no secure lockers, which I’ve had in other hotels in other resorts. In my opinion, the room could be done with being a bit bigger as well. The spa was lovely and was relaxing after a days skiing. The pool was a good size and the sauna and steam room were great. There was also a separate room with, what I can only describe, as having hot baths in. These were also very nice. There was also a hot tub outside. Just remember your key card so you can get back in!! They also massages and treatments at a cost, but I didn’t get any, so can’t comment. Overall, the hotel is in a good location with the main area of bars/ restaurants bring about a 2-3 minute walk.

A stay at Regnum Bansko is definitely worth. Quitely located in the upper area of the town, a short walk from the gondola station, this hotel offers everything that one needs for a nice holiday: indoor and outdoor swimming pools, water slides, sporting fields, whirlpool, massage rooms. The hotel has a dependency in the nearby Banya village where several pools with thermal water at temperatures between 28 and 39 °C can be used free of charge by the hotel guests. The suites are spacious enough and can accommodate families with up to four children. The hotel restaurant offers a variety of dishes of the national and international cuisine, a huge salad bar, desserts, fruit and vegetables. The opening hours are long enough for all visitors and there is enough of everything everytime so one doesn't need to hurry to get his favourite dish. The staff is very kind and client oriented. All requests are satisfied within a few minutes, no matter at what time of the day or night. I can only conclude with my children's now and then asking ”When are we going again to this great five-star hotel in Bansko?”

I cannot understand why this hotel is not scoring higher, we loved it! Rooms recently renovated so lovely modern interior & very clean. Comfy beds, great pool area with steam room, a few saunas and jacuzzi. Food is amazing. We stayed 4 nights on half board and never had a bad meal! The soup every night was outstanding, especially carrot & ginger on Friday night! Great choice at breakfast and love that they leave drink machines on for both meals. Usually they're turned off at dinner. Staff very attentive and fast at clearing dishes in restaurant. Also great location with ski shuttle bus to gondola free of charge or about 10 min walk.