Sunny Beach

Sunny Beach is situated 42 km north of Bourgas and 434 km east of Sofia. Its construction began in 1958. Practically, the resort is located on the whole territory between the land of the village Saint Vlas to the north and the town of Nessebur to the south.

The construction began at the place where the two old wells providing water for Nessebur in the ancient times and the Middle Ages, had been. Nowadays there are more than 120 hotels and two camping sites, numerous places of entertainment. The Golden Orpheus International Festival of Popular Song, the Decade of Symphonic Music, part of the International Folklore Festival, fashion-shows, various beach competitions are held there. Hotels are also being built to the south of the Hadzhiiska River and an area of one-family luxury bungalows is being formed.

Lots of excursions in the country and abroad are organised for holiday-makers and tourists during the weekends or at the end of their holidays. The resort has tennis-courts, swimming pools, bowling, mini-golf playgrounds, yachts and sailboats, opportunities to develop and practice all water sports using the services of coaches, facilities and equipment, horse riding with coaches, water slides, a policlinic, and several big shopping centres for food, clothes and souvenirs. There is an amphitheatre with more than 1000 seats.

The hotel restaurants are three categories - deluxe, high and medium. Apart from them, there are plenty of other restaurants with different types of cuisine and entertainment. There are lots of private restaurants, refreshment stalls, shops. The prices are high but the supply and the quality of the products are beyond any doubt.

There is a local transport in the resort ? mini-train by which you can travel from the one end of the ten-kilometre beach to the other end. There is a regular bus transport from Nessebur and Bourgas to Slanchev Bryag, plenty of private minibuses, route and ordinary taxis, water transport to Nessebur and Bourgas. The ticket prices are moderate because of the competition and the flow of many tourists.

Zora Holiday Complex (Dawn) is situated here as well as the village of Saint Vlas, and Elenite. The complex was built later than Elenite but of a similar style. The areas covered with trees along the Hadzhiiska River and the dunes between the road and the resort are very interesting. The town of Nessebur is so near with the new quarter extending to the north that it almost merges with the resort.