Winter & the 2012/13 Ski Season Well & Truly Here

Looking Fab Bansko's Town Centre, Winter Wonder land 

Its been snowing hard for 3 days now and the slops are open, and by end of the week even the run down to the town will be fully operational a great start to the season and the Town is a buzz, as reported in our last post lots of new clubs bars and restaurants and even the existing ones have upped their game with major improvements our current fav place to be is Euphoria, food greatly improved on from last year, great friendly staff and a cool atmosphere, lets see how they hold it together through the season.

Chateau Antique open and looking great, the Friendly bar now Penguins (the name doesn't do the interior justice) not sampled the delights of either yet but will and will let you know our thoughts. But considerable time and money has been invested and serious people are at the helm of each endeavour.

Château Antique

Penguins

Also improved finally is the road leading up to our region YES its been properly made and tarmaced finally, no more 2 mile an hour through it in the Crown Smart, and yes the corner hotel (no release as to whats its to be called yet) is nearly complete and they have done a great job a million times better than that concrete eye-saw that been there for so long.

Roads done and what an improvement 

Opening soon.

At the St John Complex we have been seriously busy also, at the Hill the mains water pipe has been properly repaired and path way re-enstated, still some small finishing works to do but the weather beat us, and we will pick up these in the spring, UBB came to the party and properly contributed their share of the funds necessary to complete the works.

To match the stone work we had to source from the Strandza mountains in the far south of Bulgaria near the Turkish boarder 

In the Park the big project has been the roof repairs, major works there and when we set to it what a mess, but with the right people proper materials and me being on the roof far to many time for my liking , not the easiest roof to get a round on, it looks beautiful and dramatic form the ground and believe me its pretty dramatic up there also. With the weather closing in rapidly and temperatures dropping fast it was a bit of a race against time and conditions but we got all OA areas properly secure along with Block entrance lobby roofs and now they have the required integrity, i believe we did a proper belt and braces job and even worked in Vaka Flex as a finishing element to pick up the excess movement potential between the existing materials and new, its a wonderfully resilient roofing material suitable for the extreme temperature differentials the Bansko region endures.  

a remade valley

Remade double pitch valley

Some of what we had to deal with

Just got the lobby roofs done and complete before the first snow came.

One of the more difficult areas of repair the construction joint between blocks

Moving forward we are testing emergency lighting to all common areas Friday, pre season common area glazing cleaning well under way, IPM winter watch in place, test running lifts for winter operation small issue with hydraulic oil temperature, on first morning operation floor levels are out of sink working with supplier for solution this will be a temperature control system in the motor rooms and adjustment controls setting, other wise very happy with the lift and when emergence call system put in place confident full operation can be had across the complex.

Working on a number of cost effective and efficient heating and hot water solutions for apartment please contact for information, as well thermal efficiency ideas for apartments. Heating solutions will consist of 20, 25 and 50% consumption saving options for hot water 40% saving potential.

Our G4 internet and TV solution is just about to get better with a smart TV conversion solution for all HDMI ready TVs, so no need up grade the TV to get all the benefits of G4 technology, watch this space.

Other Big news for the resort and region the NEW Airport starts construction summer 2013 YES you heard it right Pirin Airport the former military airport near the village of Musomishte in the municipality of Gotze Delchev start summer 2013 see web site http://www.hwreit.eu/en/contents/pirin-airport for more detail.

Also big changes around the access to the gondola which will now be, for foot and vehicle access via the Glazne river bridge entrance at BRT, and sets the precedence for what we are told will be the new and exciting location for the next Gondola which if true will set the stage for the next evolution of the resort, including additional ski runs etc, when we here your hear it next.

The new mayor and his team have started to put in place proper resort management  structures and this has included the introduction of proper blue zone parking areas in place through out most of the town and active from 7am to 10pm at 1.2 leva an hour not bad value and perhaps finally we can move around the town properly with out having to worry for crazy parking antics of our European friends, we as always remain excited for the future and believe the resort is starting to make it way towards being a real and serious contended amongst other more well know and well established resorts, and we believe and are working towards taking the St John Village complex along that road also.