Although the resort of albena is the best i saw i would not go to bulgaria again. The resort itself (vita park) was focused on its german clientel, offering no entertainment for the english on the resort. The food was undercooked and there was no variety. The 3rd day there in a two week holiday i got food poisoning and so did my friend. Then we all got a stomach bug. We were ill for 8 days. We could not leave the resort during this time. The staff were rude and unpleasant throughout our stay. All in all it was a very bad experience.

On Arrival at the Vita Park Hotel we checked in but were not given our key it was given to a very rude porter who show's you to your room the after quickly throwing your bags in the room runs past you holding his hand out for money. All the entertainment is in German so all the English kids including my 12 year old were bored stiff. Apparently the English entertainment was across the road at the Ralitsa but you can’t use your armband inside that hotel because it’s a 4 * you can only use it at the pool bar. The food in the restaurant was edible but was the same sort of thing every day so was the snack bar. The bar in the lobby doesn’t have enough seats for an all inclusive hotel so unless you get there early you won’t get a seat. At the pool bar at night it was all Germans so we didn’t go but had no problem getting served there during the day. Some of the Hotel staff were reasonably friendly and some weren’t. The Hotel its self is very nice and clean the rooms are quite a good size ours had 2 bedrooms the pool is great with 2 slides in it. It is quite a steep hill up to the hotel but there is a little train every 10 minuets that will take you to the centre. The resort of Albena is quite nice but it isn’t very big and there isn’t much going on we went for a week and I think any longer would have been to much. There are a few bars with things going on a night Poco loco and the Tropical Bar are the 2 best ones. The weather wasn’t very good but that cant be helped, on the way back to the airport it was torrential rain and the plain we were supposed to be going home on was hit by lightning and we ended up staying for another 23 hours. The Thompson head rep Phyl was brilliant he found rooms for 300 people in about an hour and a half we were put up in a hotel in Golden Sands over night and the entertainment was in German there as well so I think it just isn’t the place for the English We were kept well informed about what was going on until we checked back in at the airport and then it was every man for himself. We defiantly won’t be going back to Bulgaria in any time soon but maybe it might improve over the next few years you never know.