How this guide works

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

The places

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 cocktail 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 bar 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 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 drinks and prices

Drinks come from each venue'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 drink names, sizes and prices, and leave the venue'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 drinks without the prices. Typical prices count single cocktails only, from venues with at least three priced cocktails; jugs, sharers and offers are listed but not counted. Menus change and a price online isn't always the price at the bar: check with the venue.

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 venue 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. The site keeps the drinks you save with the heart in the cocktail finder in your browser's own storage, never sent to us. 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 venue 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 venue's page, its drinks and prices and its place on our lists and maps are the same whether it pays or not.

Corrections and removal

Run a venue 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

This guide lists alcohol-free drinks alongside the rest. Après-ski and altitude make a drink go further, and the walk back can be icy. For facts about alcohol, visit Drinkaware. Looking for beer or wine instead? Our sister guides, Pint Compass Borovets and Vino Compass Borovets, cover them.