Hotels in Golden Sands, Bulgaria
357 Reviews
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Excellent95
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Very Good162
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Good63
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Average23
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Poor14
Review Overview
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Eating Out
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Nightlife
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Beaches
19 years 2 months ago
Resort is very clean! Entertainment - some bars had shows on here and there, so should find somewhere to go!! Drinks very reasonable!!
Asked every few yards to try various restaurants - though only doing thier job to entice you! Food in resort quite varied. All Much better than hotel though! Tip 10%
Beach is very nice, sea very clean and warm!
Only change money in hotel or bank - kiosks ripping people off dont fall for it! No Refunds!! If leaving resort take only what you need VARNA full of pick pockets! Mainly young children!
Plenty of fake goods on offer, Diesel,Von Dutch! most clothing quite cheap, just need to look around first, DON'T take too many clothes with you. Just extra cash n suitcase!
Golden Sands Good resort overall! would go back. Rate 7/10
Asked every few yards to try various restaurants - though only doing thier job to entice you! Food in resort quite varied. All Much better than hotel though! Tip 10%
Beach is very nice, sea very clean and warm!
Only change money in hotel or bank - kiosks ripping people off dont fall for it! No Refunds!! If leaving resort take only what you need VARNA full of pick pockets! Mainly young children!
Plenty of fake goods on offer, Diesel,Von Dutch! most clothing quite cheap, just need to look around first, DON'T take too many clothes with you. Just extra cash n suitcase!
Golden Sands Good resort overall! would go back. Rate 7/10
19 years 2 months ago
The resort was reasonably clean, particularly the beach. Resort entertainment was fairly good with something for everyone. What I found annoying was the number of people approaching me to go to their bar, eat in their restaurant. After a few days it become quire annoying having to constantly say no thankyou. I would not visit this resort again.
19 years 2 months ago
Resort was kept clean throughout our stay, although we didn't use any of the outside entertainment their seemed to plenty going on for all age groups. The standard of the beach area was good.
19 years 2 months ago
The resort itself is quite clean. The sand is very rocky and full of shells - so watch your bare feet.
There is no entertainment - so take some form of bat/ball/etc with you (or buy them from Balchik).
This is miles from anywhere and anything - so prepared to be bored.
Do not take kids here - they is nothing for them to do but swim!
There is no entertainment - so take some form of bat/ball/etc with you (or buy them from Balchik).
This is miles from anywhere and anything - so prepared to be bored.
Do not take kids here - they is nothing for them to do but swim!
19 years 2 months ago
Golden Sands is one of the cleanest resorts around, my partner felt guilty putting a cigarette butt in the gutter. The beach was spot on (although the 6L charge for sun bed, 6L for umbrella and 3L for a mattress was a little steep).
The Sea front cocktail bars where good value, the Dolphin Bar set in its own pool complex is highly recommended, the staff want your business, so too the Aladdin bar. Catch the Elvis show in the bar facing the Admiral Hotel for a laugh.
The bars on Party street are the same as anywhere else on the Med, full of touts and karaoke, oh and poor young Russian girls forced into selling themselves.
The restaurants are good but basic, usually offering the same menu at different degrees of quality. Try the 'pleasant' the converted galleon on the seafront, and Dolphin restaurant which is in the same complex as the above cocktail bar, this restaurant offered the most authentic Bulgarian menu such as potted rabbit and quail, bean soup, and fried goose lungs and a great cabaret including fire walking.
One gripe is the standard practise in bars and restaurants of having to pay a tip to the toilet guardian, usually a big woman with no teeth the usual price is 40 stinkies, thats their pence ha ha ha.
Tip at 10% and the staff seemed genuinely grateful, and for Sky football try the Irish bar a little to the right of the haunted house.
The Sea front cocktail bars where good value, the Dolphin Bar set in its own pool complex is highly recommended, the staff want your business, so too the Aladdin bar. Catch the Elvis show in the bar facing the Admiral Hotel for a laugh.
The bars on Party street are the same as anywhere else on the Med, full of touts and karaoke, oh and poor young Russian girls forced into selling themselves.
The restaurants are good but basic, usually offering the same menu at different degrees of quality. Try the 'pleasant' the converted galleon on the seafront, and Dolphin restaurant which is in the same complex as the above cocktail bar, this restaurant offered the most authentic Bulgarian menu such as potted rabbit and quail, bean soup, and fried goose lungs and a great cabaret including fire walking.
One gripe is the standard practise in bars and restaurants of having to pay a tip to the toilet guardian, usually a big woman with no teeth the usual price is 40 stinkies, thats their pence ha ha ha.
Tip at 10% and the staff seemed genuinely grateful, and for Sky football try the Irish bar a little to the right of the haunted house.
19 years 2 months ago
We had 1.5 days of sunshine in a week with thunder storms and rain. This ws a bit of a disapointment and we did not really see the resort at its best.
19 years 2 months ago
Weather was terrible so think before going in september. We are not big sun worshipers but a little sun would help. Wind and rain was the theme for the whole week. Some people paid to go back a week earlier if they were there for 2.
Plenty to do in the evening. A spot of shopping, drinking, dancing with plenty of entertainment everywhere.
This place is geared for Jun/Jul/Aug and if you go in Sep be ready for bad weather. The place does become a damp squid. Nevertheless, if you are not sun worshipers there is plenty of good walks to do.
Do not take the bus to Varna - get a taxi for 15 levs. Bus gets fuller and fuller. At least I got a free lap dance off this German bird who literally had to sit on me.
Seen it, got T-shirt never to return again as there other places to see and do and a bit warmer I think in September.
Plenty to do in the evening. A spot of shopping, drinking, dancing with plenty of entertainment everywhere.
This place is geared for Jun/Jul/Aug and if you go in Sep be ready for bad weather. The place does become a damp squid. Nevertheless, if you are not sun worshipers there is plenty of good walks to do.
Do not take the bus to Varna - get a taxi for 15 levs. Bus gets fuller and fuller. At least I got a free lap dance off this German bird who literally had to sit on me.
Seen it, got T-shirt never to return again as there other places to see and do and a bit warmer I think in September.
19 years 2 months ago
This resort is for the elderly. Very little going on in surrounding hotels, apart from the market there was nothing else to do in this resort by day or by night.
There was 2 beaches to this resort, one of which was very small the other one was quite big, but there was no water sports for most of the holiday apart from the first 2 days of arriving there.
There was 2 beaches to this resort, one of which was very small the other one was quite big, but there was no water sports for most of the holiday apart from the first 2 days of arriving there.
19 years 2 months ago
The resort was very good with plenty of entertainment, bars, restaurants very easy to get to and very clean and you never felt threatened when walking about whether it be late at night or during the day. The beach was very nice with plenty of sun beds available. I would certainly return to this resort again.
19 years 2 months ago
Golden Sands. Never much ventured on to beach that is why a rating of two, but did hear that it was not as good as it could have been, but that is to do with the sea more than the beach. Excellent entertainment in the resort, I recommend the Muppet Karaoke bar, we visited almost every night and made some good friends, and also the Monday night Quiz at the Golden Lion. If your a male walking through the town by yourself at night, watch out for the "working girls" eg keep your jhands in your pockets, but if you are with a family with young kids or your girlfriend or a single female, they just ignore you and you don't really notice them. Food and drink cheap and nice, band on in almost every restaurant, and even a few dancing shows here and there! Go there and have fun!
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