If you travel to the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria using one of those last-minute tour service, chances are you will end up in a hotel, either on the Golden Beach or the Sunny Beach. As it turned out, my hotel was in the Sunny Beach area, which is full of high-rise hotels, holiday apartments, casinos, pubs, bars, night clubs etc.; in short, this place is packed with all the adult vice entertainment/fun you can think of, as far as any holiday resorts with lots of cheap alcohol and young holidaymakers of all shapes,colours and sizes from all over Europe go. Little wonder some calls the Sunny Beach 'the Las Vegas of Bulgaria'.
The frustrating thing about Sunny Beach is, most buildings you can see in this mega hotel strip are so bland and soulless, if you are not into all-night partying or clubbing or those kinds of things, you are either bored to tears, or you will end up sleepless while you are in Bulgaria because of all the noises from the clubs and bars outside your hotel windows. And I am not sure if it is really a place for ideal family holidays, given the presence of strip tease clubs all over Sunny Beach.
On the other hand, Sunny Beach does have some of the best and finest sandy beach on the Black Sea, much better than anything I had seen on the Turkish side of the Black Sea. If your top priority when going on holidays is good beach, cheap alcohol, and do not mind a resort full of cheeky beach bars full of teenagers singing their hearts out on the karaoke machine, seedy nightclubs, and slighty lacking in substance, then Sunny Beach is the place you can take into consideration of.
The view of Nessebar from the beaches of the Sunny Beach. This place, when it is not crowded, feels like parts of the Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca, except that the food and coffee in Spain are so much better than in Sunny Beach.
Come to think about it, the Sunny Beach is not a bad place for a beach holiday at all: at least you can still see the dense and green forest of the Balkan mountain range, instead of just luxury villas and hotel buildings on top of the hills, which has sadly become the case in many parts of the Mediterranean region.
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