We got back yesterday and are just waking up after a very tiring trip home (Damn night flights!)

Before I start, whoever was in Bourgas Airport on Tuesday morning and seen that old lady fall down the step and NOT get up to help (that was everyone!) be fully ashamed of yourselves! There was a bloke on a DS right next to her and he just gorped and then got on with his game whilst she was lay there in obvious pain. Her elderly husband was obviously in panic and didn't know what to do but eventually, someone from 50 yards away went and helped. She fell because loads of people were sat down on the steps and left only a little room for people to get to the coffee shop.

SO getting back to what I am here for! Sunny Beach has just gone to the top of my best holiday resorts ever, what a great place! I do now wonder why I read reviews and actually listen to them but on reflection the advice from the regular contributors to this and other forums helped us to not get ripped off, such as the below:

Cherry Sellers - Loads of them and they really were able to rip loads of people off who had not been reading the forums!
Ladies of the night - Only seen 1 all week and only because 6 english lads were giving her loads of grief
Mafia - No trouble at all, it was nice to see all the big cars etc but they kept well to themselves
Guys who try to get you in the restaurants & bars - Just say not tonight, no trouble at all
Closed facilities - Everything we came across was open (1st June to the 9th)
Bad weather - We had fantastic weather all week, with one day where it rained for 30minutes, we have great tans!
20Lev sunbeds on beach - Nope, we paid 7 Lev per bed but only had 1 bed and the rest of us stayed on beach towels.
Jellyfish in sea - We didn't see any but kids had a great time collecting small crabs, no one got bit
Mosquitoes - we didn't see any or have any bites until the last day when 1 had set up camp in our room
Pickpockets & Beggars - We did not see any at all nor see any dodgy behavior
Drunken Brits - Didn't see any trouble all week but we were in bed before 1am

All in all, very positive stuff and will be going next year for 2 weeks as the place is huge and didn't have enough time to look around everything nor did we do any tours or Khans tent etc.

Eating out

On reflection, I wish we went to Djannys every night as we went twice and each time the food was perfect and we never spent more than 60 lev per meal. Everywhere else was more expensive (Including Condor) and was not as good as Djannys. What seemed to make things expensive were kid's drinks where it was on average 12 levs for 3 drinks.

For 2 adults and 3 children (12, 5 & 4):

Djannys - Went twice had Rapier's, pizza's, chicken chop on clay, lots of beers. 1st time was 60lev, 2nd visit was 47lev.
Olimp - Spaghetti Bolognaise, Chicken on Clay, Beef burgers, Fish fingers & Chicken kid's meal, few beers. 70lev all food was OK except for the chicken that was like eating leather
Condor - Can't remember what we all had but spent about 80lev and neither I nor the wife felt it was anything to write about.
Far A - We had food from the promotional menu and all was nice but we still managed to spend 75lev and were expecting it to be 50lev
China Place - Best Chinese I have ever had but it was expensive as we didn't know how to order the food. As a tip to any potential visitors - 1 portion of rice will feed 2 to 3, 1 portion of food will feed 2 to 3 etc. We got 1 rice dish and 1 main course per person and it was far too much food for us to eat. It would have been best if we got 2 rice and 3 main dishes to share. 80lev spent
Malina - We ended up basing ourselves here as it was 89stonkis for 1 big beer and the staff were all friendly as well as they played all the sport when it was on. I went here myself for F1 and spent 11lev on a shopska salad and 6 big beers!
Unknown restaurant in Nessebar - We got ripped off here but the food was fantastic. Chicken Karvarma was 8.50 lev and the kids had stuff from the kids menu but it still came to 80lev, sums didn't add up but as it was so nice, we didn't argue.
Chicken Kebab (6lev) sellers and the 2lev pizza slices were all very nice
Jacket Potato sellers (6lev) were the best jacket potatoes ever.

Bars - Can't remember any names but this is where you can spend lots of money. 1 bar on the front where magic man Ali Baba (Very good I thought) was, we managed to spend 70lev in 45 minutes. Cocktails and soft drinks make it expensive. There was one bar however on the main road about 100 yards from Far A (Towards Flower Street) that was very cheap and during happy hour were doing very large local spirits at 1.20lev but 1 get 1 free.

Don't bother with the land train, walk, it will save you money
Bus service is great 1lev as expected and very regular
All if SB is very clean but be careful of broken slabs and pot holes
We seen some of the best hygiene ever by bar staff and cooks etc, very clean people we thought

Our hotel - Yavour Palace, it was actually a great place with an amazing choice of breakfast. I can not understand or see what people had in the past moaned about. It was the cheapest place when we booked and we was expecting a dive but it was great, we will have no trouble returning here and the rep (Wes) was also fantastic, very honest and not at all pushy with trips which is very unusual for a first choice rep. My only gripe was the usual with most places these days is that everyone reserves sun beds early so we had to pay 5lev per bed next door at the Kuban but it was quieter and for an extra 10lev, the kids can go on the slides but using the pools is free. We had to play the game at the end of the holiday though as we ran out of money.

Of the hotel, someone commented that it looks on to the back of a casino and erotic bar! We had one of those rooms! The Casino is just an amusment arcade with fruit machines and the erotic bar is the back entrance where all you see is the neon sign and a red car belonging to the bouncers, don't believe the hype, I was expecting good times on the balcony at night but was let down!