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Just returned from Borovets, rested at the Lion Hotel. I will write my opinion. All pluses and minuses.
1. Location
Plus - in the middle of a very beautiful forest with clean air and indescribable beauty. The minibus to the ski lifts runs frequently. You can walk on your own, it's not that far. Even nice.
Minus - the minibus goes rarely during the day. Once we waited over half an hour. And if you go on excursions, it is not convenient to get there, since the collection takes place either at the Samokov hotel or at Rila.
2. Numbers.
Plus - quite comfortable rooms, there is a TV, a paid minibar, even blackout curtains. Good mattresses.

Minus - the room is closed by one flimsy door with a gap at the bottom, so when they walk along the corridor at 12 am, one in the morning, two in the morning - noisy foreigners - you wake up. It sounds like they're standing by your bed and yelling. The doors to the rooms close with noise. Therefore, sleeping normally is problematic. And the sound is terrible in general.
3. Food
Plus - the quantity and quality is normal.
Minus - the assortment, especially in the morning, is monotonous: eggs, scrambled eggs (overcooked), scrambled eggs with shells, bacon, sausages, sausage, cheese and cheese, butter and toast, sometimes boiled vegetables such as vegetable mixtures. From vegetables, tomatoes and cucumbers, from fruits, bananas, tangerines, oranges, apples are quite finely chopped. In the evening, the assortment is richer, but in the evening there are no drinks, not even tea, not even juice, nothing at all. Tea costs 3 leva, which is about 70 rubles for our money. That is, you still need to spend extra money for dinner. And since there are no kettles in the rooms, you still have to order drinks. Or bring a kettle or kettle with you. And you can't take anything out of the restaurant. Even fruits that I took but did not eat.
4. Contingent
There are few Russians, many Englishmen, there are also Bulgarians, also quite a lot. The English are annoying, noisy and behaving shamelessly. And at any time. When you sit in a bar, it seems that you are either sitting surrounded by Madame Storozhenko from Kataev’s story, who was yelling “Gobies, gobies!!! ”, or in the middle of a flock of crows and jackdaws that are yelling loudly. An hour later, your head starts to hurt from the decibel level. unexpectedly, one of them can yell very loudly, shouting over the rest, so sometimes you startle.
5. Level of service
They hardly speak Russian, but English is normal, this is understandable, because Borovets used to be an English resort. It seemed to me that they were not very accustomed to tipping. They pick up well.
6. Trips and excursions.
Pluses - there are various excursions: to Plovdiv, Sofia, Rila Monastery, Sapareva Banya. I advise you to go. But you can go to Sofia yourself. Get to Samokov (the city is 10 km), there is a minibus and then from the same bus station there is a bus to Sofia, every half an hour.

Minus - the guides do not speak Russian very well, some of them do not always understand anything at all.
In general, it can be described as normal. I wouldn't say it's very good, but it's ok.