i Love your content guys! I bought an apartment in Bansko at the end of last year... ive been at the nomad fest the last 2 summers.. Im kinda suprised ye didnt mention 3 months a year Bansko is a Ski-resort and Buzzing with life and tourism.. Im heading there for Christmas and New Year.. Greetings from a Vietnam based follower 🙂
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Saint Ivan Rilsky Royal Park apartments is the place to stay at the top elevation of Bansko if €50 per night is in your budget. That's way way up on the mountain but still walking distance. You'll walk past babbling brooks and dozens of grazing horses. The food at the hotel section is by far the best in Bansko and often it's a buffet to rival those on a Carnival Cruise liner. If you can pay €25 each for the spa and pool, it's like you're king and queen of the mountains. I can't recommend that place enough. I only wish I wasn't on a tight budget the month I was there and couldn't enjoy staying at the best place.
Next please do a video on Kavala, which is only a €100 taxi 🚕 down the hill from Bansko. It too goes to sleep with closed restaurants and hotels on October 1st, but you can swim for free in the warm Aegean right up to Halloween 🎃 after which the winter storms make the beaches of northern Greece not so much fun for four months. Great deals are to be had if you're okay with the loneliness of northern Greece in the winter, meaning if you have a family and you think it's cool to send your small child to a school where they only speak Greek . The family will be able to go for long walks on Blue Flag beaches with no-one around for miles. 😊
Kavala sounds great! We almost made it there for Joel's birthday but ended up staying in Bansko instead. Now we are going to have to add it back on the list based on your glowing review!
@@TheWanderingHartz Great choice. It's a big change from Bansko and less than 3 hours down the mountain. I recommend Hotel Porto Palio on the super clean and sandy Palio Beach ⛱️ to the west of the city about 10km. They are four stars but Google lies and says they're two stars. It's a secret I shouldn't be giving out publicly that this beach hotel can't be missed. Great restaurant on the beach as well. ⛱️ The swimming is to die for (it's really safe - I mean it feels like you're in Heaven there). A problem is the hotel might shut down for the winter in mid October like they did last year. Greeks don't like the weather when it dips below 25 Celsius at night. ;) The water temperature will stay above 20 until Halloween. Which is why your next destination should be Keramoti 35km to the east in the middle of a nature preserve. Many think of Keramoti as just the place to catch the huge ferries to Thanos, the massive volcano 🌋 island that dominates your view there and is only 20 minutes to get to by the ferry. The thing is, don't stay overnight on Thanos. Go to the Belvedere Luxury Apartments on the huge blue flag beach ⛱️ at Keramoti itself. Spend two months there for €40 per night and swim in the cleanest waters anywhere while the Thanos volcano 🌋 hovers over you. In October the entire beach is yours alone practically. Around November 1st a storm will roll in turning the beach into a winter nightmare, but you'll have the memories.
Where are you finding that taxi? Surely not in Bansko, where the cabs are a total rip off. I think I paid over 10 euro just to go three miles to the Pirin golf course. I was told that the cab company is owned by Russian mafia. I do wish I'd made it to Kavala.
I am currently trying to decide where I go after Albania, leave here at the end of October. How long would you say a slow traveller might enjoy Bansko? I prefer a month at a time, but it looks pretty small and isolated so is there enough to justify a month? Remembering I am talking slow travel, so not looking for daily activities. Thanks, hope you can reply.
We have slow traveled in Bansko now for three summers. If your working and want a place to chill and enjoy some nice hiking and affordable food it could be good option for you. October in bansko will be starting to get cooler and slower.
I love that you explore the road usually not taken.
i Love your content guys! I bought an apartment in Bansko at the end of last year... ive been at the nomad fest the last 2 summers.. Im kinda suprised ye didnt mention 3 months a year Bansko is a Ski-resort and Buzzing with life and tourism.. Im heading there for Christmas and New Year.. Greetings from a Vietnam based follower 🙂
That's awesome! We haven't been during ski season yet. I think we mentioned it at least from the skiing angle. 😊
We Have Vietnam on our list🤞
The nomad fest was great fun last year.
Too bad Bulgaria is part of the EU now..
OMG we know right? .😢
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Our Other Slow Travel Project Nomadicabundance.com
Saint Ivan Rilsky Royal Park apartments is the place to stay at the top elevation of Bansko if €50 per night is in your budget. That's way way up on the mountain but still walking distance. You'll walk past babbling brooks and dozens of grazing horses. The food at the hotel section is by far the best in Bansko and often it's a buffet to rival those on a Carnival Cruise liner. If you can pay €25 each for the spa and pool, it's like you're king and queen of the mountains. I can't recommend that place enough. I only wish I wasn't on a tight budget the month I was there and couldn't enjoy staying at the best place.
We know that place, sounds nice for a short trip. We prefer to be closer to the bottom of town, but that's just us 😎
@@TheWanderingHartz Yes, there's more oxygen at the lower levels. ;)
Next please do a video on Kavala, which is only a €100 taxi 🚕 down the hill from Bansko. It too goes to sleep with closed restaurants and hotels on October 1st, but you can swim for free in the warm Aegean right up to Halloween 🎃 after which the winter storms make the beaches of northern Greece not so much fun for four months. Great deals are to be had if you're okay with the loneliness of northern Greece in the winter, meaning if you have a family and you think it's cool to send your small child to a school where they only speak Greek . The family will be able to go for long walks on Blue Flag beaches with no-one around for miles. 😊
Kavala sounds great! We almost made it there for Joel's birthday but ended up staying in Bansko instead. Now we are going to have to add it back on the list based on your glowing review!
@@TheWanderingHartz Great choice. It's a big change from Bansko and less than 3 hours down the mountain. I recommend Hotel Porto Palio on the super clean and sandy Palio Beach ⛱️ to the west of the city about 10km. They are four stars but Google lies and says they're two stars. It's a secret I shouldn't be giving out publicly that this beach hotel can't be missed. Great restaurant on the beach as well. ⛱️ The swimming is to die for (it's really safe - I mean it feels like you're in Heaven there). A problem is the hotel might shut down for the winter in mid October like they did last year. Greeks don't like the weather when it dips below 25 Celsius at night. ;)
The water temperature will stay above 20 until Halloween.
Which is why your next destination should be Keramoti 35km to the east in the middle of a nature preserve. Many think of Keramoti as just the place to catch the huge ferries to Thanos, the massive volcano 🌋 island that dominates your view there and is only 20 minutes to get to by the ferry.
The thing is, don't stay overnight on Thanos. Go to the Belvedere Luxury Apartments on the huge blue flag beach ⛱️ at Keramoti itself. Spend two months there for €40 per night and swim in the cleanest waters anywhere while the Thanos volcano 🌋 hovers over you.
In October the entire beach is yours alone practically.
Around November 1st a storm will roll in turning the beach into a winter nightmare, but you'll have the memories.
Where are you finding that taxi? Surely not in Bansko, where the cabs are a total rip off. I think I paid over 10 euro just to go three miles to the Pirin golf course. I was told that the cab company is owned by Russian mafia. I do wish I'd made it to Kavala.
@@gsjackson34 Maybe I got the €100 price because I asked in Russian ;) But Kavala is pretty close so taxis will want your business
The taxis in Bansko are overpriced, we have a whole section in the next video about that 🙄
I am currently trying to decide where I go after Albania, leave here at the end of October. How long would you say a slow traveller might enjoy Bansko? I prefer a month at a time, but it looks pretty small and isolated so is there enough to justify a month? Remembering I am talking slow travel, so not looking for daily activities. Thanks, hope you can reply.
We have slow traveled in Bansko now for three summers. If your working and want a place to chill and enjoy some nice hiking and affordable food it could be good option for you. October in bansko will be starting to get cooler and slower.