The city is small, the coast is not
Burgas itself has a few thousand hotel beds. The strip from Pomorie to Sozopol has tens of thousands. Central rates will move first and hardest; coast rates move later and less.
What it costs
Fixed costs you can rely on, and hotel rates we record month by month.
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What a trip costs, roughly
A rough shape of a trip, not a quote. Flights and rooms are the two numbers that will move for contest week, and we publish no forecast for either.
Return flight within Europe
€120–350
Wide range: a seasonal direct to Burgas versus a connection through Sofia.
Our estimate
Room, per night
Not published yet
Median rates for contest week are recorded monthly below, once there is a real sample.
Food and drink, per day
€30–50
Coffee, lunch, a proper dinner with wine.
Our estimate
Local transport, per day
€2–5
Buses, the odd taxi, one coast trip.
Our estimate
Fares, transfers and May weather are on the Plan your trip pages.
Fixed and everyday costs
Bulgaria uses the euro. Fares below are published by the operators; anything marked as an estimate is ours.
City bus or trolleybus
€0.80
Single ticket bought on board, with a transfer window. Multi-trip cards are cheaper per ride.
Airport to the centre
€0.80 by bus
Line 15 runs from the terminal into the city. A metered taxi is roughly €10–14.
Our estimate
Taxi across the city
€4–8
Metered, for a normal cross-town ride. Always use a marked car and check the tariff sticker on the window.
Our estimate
Bus to Sunny Beach or Sozopol
€3–5
Intercity bus, one way, from the north or south bus station. Bought at the station or on board.
Our estimate
Coffee
€1.50–3
An espresso at a neighbourhood café is at the bottom of that range; a specialty flat white at the top.
Our estimate
Dinner for two
€30–60
Two courses with wine at a good city restaurant. Fish on the coast costs more, and is priced by weight.
Our estimate
Last verified ESC Burgas editors
Checked the euro-area entry date and the fixed 1.95583 rate against the ECB changeover page. No change since the 1 January 2026 switchover.
Last verified ESC Burgas editors
Re-read the Burgasbus tariff and the airport transport page. Single ticket and transfer window unchanged; taxi figures are metered estimates, not a fixed tariff.
Hotel rate watch
On the 13th of each month we record the median publicly quoted nightly rate for a standard double room, for a stay covering the grand final weekend, in each area on the Stay page. We publish the median, the number of properties it came from and the date. We publish no forecast. If a month is missing, we did not record it.
No data yet
No observations are published yet. Rates for May 2027 are only beginning to open across the coast, and a median taken from a handful of listings would say more about those listings than about the market. The first recorded month will appear here, with the property count beside it.
What moves the price
May is not high season
Contest week falls before the coast opens properly. Some resort hotels will not be trading at all, which tightens supply in a month that is normally cheap.
Three show nights, not one
The two semi-finals and the final spread demand across nine or ten days, so the whole week prices as a peak rather than a single weekend.
Flexible beats early
Rates this far out are guesses by the hotels too. A free-cancellation booking now, re-checked each month, usually beats a locked-in prepayment.
Before you book
Nothing on this page is a booking recommendation and we take no commission. If a rate looks impossible for contest week, it usually is — check the cancellation terms before you pay.
Which area to aim for is the bigger decision — that is on the Where to stay page.
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- European Central Bank — Bulgaria and the euro(third-party site)
Bulgaria adopted the euro on 1 January 2026 at the fixed rate €1 = 1.95583 lev. Checked August 2026.
- European Union — countries using the euro(third-party site)
Official list of euro-area countries, including Bulgaria. Checked August 2026.
- Burgasbus — tickets and prices(third-party site)
City bus and trolleybus single ticket, transfer window and multi-trip card prices. Checked August 2026.
- Burgas Airport (BOJ) — to and from the airport(third-party site)
Bus line 15 to the centre and metered taxi guidance from the terminal. Checked August 2026.