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Grand Hotel Sofia
Right in the heart of the city, the Grand is a swanky, 109-room, glass-and-granite affair looming over the southern edge of the City Garden...
Divesta
This modern hotel is located near the city centre and not far from the cathedral, and offers a good range of smart looking rooms including studios with kitchenettes...
Sheraton Sofia Hotel Balkan
This grand old Sofian landmark represents the epitome of luxury. Marble floors, glittering chandeliers and large, elegantly furnished rooms provide a level of opulence that would please the most demanding guests...
Hotel Kolikovski
Occupying a bright, attractively renovated building on a side street near the NDK, the Kolikovski offers a range of rooms, including ‘business class’ (with a free bottle of wine thrown in) and some spacious suites – the one on the 5th floor comes wi...
Kempinski Hotel Grand Arena
This global giant enjoys –but of course – a prime location, close to the gondola and winter nightlife, and boasts luxurious rooms with all expected amenities, prompt, efficient service and excellent facilities.
Hotel City Mark
Right in the pedestrianised heart of the city, City Mark is an attractive, modern option with some fair-sized rooms, though the scarlet-and-silver décor scheme can be a bit overwhelming...
Hilton Sofia
Built for business, this 245-room chain hotel - just south of Sofia's National Palace of Culture and Yuzhen Park - is a well-run hotel with personable English-speaking staff and lots of weekday guests using the 1st-floor conference rooms and busines...
Sofia Princess Hotel
With over 600 rooms, this gigantic place has a justifiable claim to be the biggest hotel in the Balkans. Rooms are comfy and spacious and top-notch facilities include a gym, sauna, pool and shops...
Boutique Splendid Hotel
Set in a grand, recently restored city mansion block, the wonderfully named Splendid Hotel is a charming place with spacious rooms and top class service. The location makes a handy base for sightseeing too...
Central Park Hotel
Overlooking the NDK, this towering four-star hotel is a classy, newish option offering large, airy rooms with some great views. There’s a very good restaurant and the hotel offers a baby-sitting service.
Sveta Sofia
Enjoying a superb location on the busy, pedestrianised ul Pirotska, Sveta Sofia has a slightly snooty atmosphere, but rooms are attractively furnished and there’s a good restaurant on site. Weekend and long-stay discounts are on offer.
Dobrudja Hotel
Right in the centre of Albena, though not near the beach, this vast concrete hive has unexciting but decent rooms. It has great amenities, though, including several shops, an internet café, nightclub, medical centre and a 17th-floor restaurant...
Arena Di Serdica Hotel
What might have been just another glassy, upscale hotel received a public-relations boost when the remains of Sofia’s long-sought-after Roman amphitheatre were uncovered during construction in 2004; the curving walls have been preserved below the fo...
Plaza Hotel Burgas
The snazziest place in town and in one of the best locations, the Plaza caters to business travellers, with a modern business centre and conference facilities...
Panorama
The location on a grubby and busy main road isn’t ideal, but inside this is a chic, modern hotel with good facilities including a gym and sauna, and many of the large rooms have panoramic sea views.
Asti Arthotel
All 26 rooms at this fresh hotel are apartments fitted with tiny kitchenettes. It’s good value, and there’s a tennis court, gym and restaurant on site.
Arte Hotel
One of the newer city-centre hotels, Arte is a friendly place with stylish rooms, all with flat-screen TVs, fridges and wi-fi connections. Suites have a sofa bed that can be pulled out to accommodate an extra two people...
Hotel Splendid
Off on a side street near the main square, the Splendid offers comfortable if unspectacular rooms.
Kiparis Alfa
A relatively new hotel located between the tourist office and Hotel Smolyan, it’s a vast improvement on its neighbour with bright, modern rooms.
Sofia Guesthouse
Newish, central hostel with clean dorms and a couple of private rooms sleeping between two and four people. It offers free pick-ups from the bus and train stations (€5 from the airport) and various day trips.
Leipzig Hotel
Renovations continue at this ageing yet popular high-rise, which boasts a ‘Cuban’ lobby bar, restaurant, beauty salon and wireless internet, to go with decent rooms (try a renovated one). Some have great views of the Hill of the Liberators.
Trimontium Princess Hotel
The grand old Trimontium seeks to be to Plovdiv what the Grand Bretagne is to Athens or the Moskva to Belgrade, though this old-world elegance is more apparent in the public areas than the rooms...