Aquapark Nesebar

Worth a detour

Ten water slides, a claimed thirty attractions and some four hectares of site, between Ravda and Sunny Beach with free parking for a hundred and twenty cars and a free shuttle from Sveti Vlas. It is the largest thing of its kind on this coast. It is also about €42 a head for an adult, which makes a family day here the single biggest expense a visitor to Burgas Bay is likely to face.

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Background

The park works a long season by Bulgarian standards, but in two quite different modes. From late May to the middle of September it is open to everyone, ten until six. In the fortnight before and the fortnight after, it opens only to guests of the resort attached to it, and then only for two short sessions a day with a rotating and limited set of attractions. Dates shift with the weather. Everything closes half an hour before the gate does.

Prices are posted in euro and there is no concession worth having: adults and any child over a metre thirty pay full rate; children between ninety-one centimetres and a metre thirty, and visitors over sixty-five, pay about a quarter less; babies under ninety centimetres are free. An afternoon ticket after half past two takes roughly a fifth off.

Getting there is easy and free if you are on the right part of the coast. The shuttle from Sveti Vlas runs out at a quarter to ten, a quarter to eleven and a quarter to two, and back at four, five and a quarter to six. From Burgas it is a car or a bus to Ravda and a short walk. The honest comparison: two adults and two children here costs about the same as four nights of museum tickets across the whole of this guide, and on a cool or windy day it is not worth it.