About
An independent guide to Burgas, made by one person who lives here. No ads, no affiliate links, and no connection to the organisers.
This page does not yet say who makes it
Name, photo and how long they have lived here sit in one place in the code and have not been filled in. Until they are, the site itself is credited — and a trust page that hides its own gaps is doing the opposite of its job.
Why this site exists
When it became clear Burgas would host, accommodation prices climbed within days. Listings appeared at over EUR 4,000 a night for places that a week earlier went for around a hundred.
A visitor who has never been to Bulgaria has no way to tell a normal price from an absurd one. That gap is what this site fills: what things actually cost, measured on the ground, with a date next to every number.
The rest — transport, where to eat, where to sleep outside the city — is the same idea applied to the things a local knows and a visitor has no way to find out.
How the data is collected
Shop and venue prices are walked in person, against the same fixed list of items, once a month. The menu or shelf price is recorded — lowest, median and highest — together with how many venues were checked.
Accommodation is tracked separately by a daily crawl of public listings for fixed dates. It has its own page and its own methodology, and sources that decline access are respected — a site’s data ends where the site explicitly says it does.
The raw numbers live in git. Nothing is overwritten: a wrong reading is corrected by the next one rather than erased, so the history shows what was known and when.
Where something has not been measured yet, nothing is written. An empty field is more useful than a plausible guess — one invented bus fare turns every other number on the site into an assertion.
How the site is funded
By nobody. There are no ads, no affiliate links to hotels or booking platforms, no paid placements in any list, and no sponsored content. Hosting is one small server, and that is the whole cost.
This is not a pose. A site earning a cut of a booking has an interest in prices looking acceptable and in "recommended" meaning "pays best". There is no such interest here — which is why the numbers are free to say something is expensive.
If something here is wrong
Write. Prices move, bus routes change and places close — an error is a matter of time, not of good faith. Corrections carry a new check date, so it stays visible what was true when.
Affiliation with the organisers: none
This site is not affiliated with the EBU, BNT, the Municipality of Burgas or any of the Eurovision organisers. It is not an official source for tickets, dates, participants or accreditation — official channels exist for those, and they are the only ones to trust on them.
"Eurovision Song Contest" is a registered trademark of the EBU. The name is used here descriptively, to say which week is meant.
Contact
No contact address has been published yet.
What is on this site
The guide pages, and what each one answers.
- Getting aroundHow to get from Burgas Airport to the city centre, what a taxi costs, how to pay for a bus ticket, and how long the walk to Arena Burgas takes. Measured on the ground.
- PricesCoffee, beer, a doner, dinner, a bus ticket and a taxi in Burgas — surveyed in person, every number dated, with the full history kept.
- Where to eatPlaces in Burgas I have eaten in myself: two or three dishes with prices and dates, English menu, cards accepted, walking time from Arena Burgas.
- Staying outsideSozopol, Nessebar, Pomorie and Sunny Beach — how far from Arena Burgas, how to get there, what it costs, and which is the last bus back after the show.
- Eurovision 2027What you can see and do in Burgas during Eurovision week without an arena ticket: the fan zone, EuroClub, and what else the city is doing.
- Weather in MayAverage temperatures, sea temperature, chance of rain and the day-to-night swing by the water in Burgas in May — with the source named.