How this guide works

Where to drink in Borovets, when it's open, and what a beer costs: all from public sources, and all of it can change. Here is where it comes from.

The pubs and bars

31 of the 48 places here are on OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, and sit on our map where OpenStreetMap puts them; a hotel's bar is placed at its hotel. 4 more come from borovets.eu, our guide to the resort, placed at their building or by the venue's own map. The other 13 are where their Google Maps listing pins them. We looked each one up on Google Maps for what OpenStreetMap doesn't say: its opening times, its website and its menu, and whether it has closed. We take nothing else from Google: no ratings, no reviews, no photos. Last updated 4 November 2026.

The pub crawls walk the streets and paths on OpenStreetMap between places. Our server plans each crawl, so the walks stay with us. From where you are, your location stays in your browser: it finds the pub nearest you to start from, and only that and roughly how far away it is are sent to us; we don't keep them.

We have opening times for 31 of the 48 places, 26 of them from their Google Maps listing and the rest from OpenStreetMap. The crawls leave out a place that will be shut when you'd get there. Where we don't have a place's hours, they go by the hours places of its kind keep, going by the 31 whose hours we have: a pub or bar 08:00 to 23:30, a restaurant 09:00 to 23:00. Hours change through the ski season, so check before you go.

The beers and prices

Beers come from each pub's own website or the menu its listing links to, read by hand, politely: we respect robots.txt, wait at least five seconds between pages and say who we are. 2 places publish a drinks list we could read. We list beer names, sizes and prices, and leave the pub's descriptions on their site.

Prices are in euros, Bulgaria's currency since 1 January 2026; a menu still priced in leva is from before then, so we list its beers without the prices. Bulgaria pours draught beer by the half litre, a little less than a British pint, so that's what counts as a pint here: a half litre of beer or cider, from €2 to €12. Bottles, cans, jugs, offers and alcohol-free beers are listed but not counted. A price online isn't always the price at the bar: check with the pub.

What we don't use

No reviews and no star ratings, from Google or anywhere else, and no paying for a place in the guide: every pub is listed, and its page written, the same way (how the guide pays for itself).

Privacy and cookies

This edition sets no cookies and counts no visits: there's no analytics on it. If you sign in (with Google) to save crawls and places, we keep the name and email address Google gives us, that you said you're 18 or over, and what you save, in Google's Firebase: sign-in records in the US, what you save in London. Nothing else, never where you are, and we don't use it to contact you. Your account page lets you download it all, or delete the account and everything in it.

The weather forecast comes from this site's own server, which asks for Borovets's about once an hour: nothing about you goes with it.

How the guide pays for itself

Nobody pays to be in this guide. If a pub ever pays to be suggested on the crawls, its stop will say "Paid placement", and an advertisement will be in a box marked as one. Paying would change nothing else: a pub's page, its beers and prices and its place on our lists and maps are the same whether it pays or not.

Corrections and removal

Run a pub or bar and want a price fixed, your hours corrected or your venue taken off the guide? Email contact@plymouthresearch.uk with the venue's name. We'll take it off at the next update and stop reading your site.

Sources and licences

Places, positions and walking routes: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL; a few places OpenStreetMap hasn't got, from borovets.eu or their Google Maps listing.
Opening times, websites and closures where OpenStreetMap has none: each venue's Google Maps listing.
Forecasts: © Met Office (from its Weather DataHub, or when that can't be reached, Open-Meteo's run of its model, CC BY 4.0).

Drink responsibly

Every pub page lists its alcohol-free beers too. Après-ski and altitude make a drink go further, and the walk back can be icy. For facts about alcohol, visit Drinkaware. Looking for cocktails or wine instead? Our sister guides, Cocktail Compass Borovets and Vino Compass Borovets, cover them.