Which part of the coast to aim for, how long it takes to reach the arena from each of them, and the properties worth booking early.
Around Bogoridi and Aleksandrovska. Everything on foot: trains, the bus stops for the coast, restaurants, and the Sea Garden at the end of the street. The right choice if you want to walk home after a show.
Quieter, greener, a few minutes further out, with the park and the beach immediately below. Fewer beds here, so they go first.
The residential districts — Lazur, Izgrev, Slaveykov, Meden Rudnik — where most apartment rentals are. Cheaper, well served by city buses, and perfectly normal to stay in.
A former fishing village that is now the city's northern seaside suburb, right beside Burgas Airport. Its own beach, its own promenade and fish restaurants, and the shortest possible transfer if you are flying in and out.
Twenty minutes up the coast on its salt spit: a real town rather than a resort, with a long beach, spa hotels built on the mineral water, and prices well under the city centre.
The largest bed supply on the Bulgarian coast by a wide margin — tens of thousands of rooms in one strip, with the UNESCO old town of Nessebar at its southern end. Loud, cheap and open late. In May much of it is only just waking up, so check that your hotel is actually operating.
The prettiest base on this coast: a wooden old town on a headland, with modern hotel districts at Harmanite and Kavatsite behind it. Smaller than Sunny Beach, more expensive per night, considerably nicer to come back to.
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Primorsko, Kiten, Lozenets and the villages beyond them: hundreds of small hotels and apartments an hour or more from the arena, at the lowest rates on the coast. Only sensible with a car, and only if you are relaxed about the commute.
The pedestrian centre
Hotel · 4★
Hotel Bulgaria4.6 ★ · 2210 Google ratings
A large four-star landmark on Aleksandrovska, as central as it gets in Burgas.
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Central4.4 ★ · 158 Google ratings
Small central hotel on Ivaylo street, a few minutes from the pedestrian axis.
Their siteHotel · 3★
Hotel Opera4.1 ★ · 639 Google ratings
Mid-size three-star in the centre, walking distance to the park and the restaurants.
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Old House Hostel3.7 ★ · 84 Google ratings
Central hostel on Sofroniy street; the cheapest way to sleep inside walking distance.
Apartments
Samuil Apartments3.6 ★ · 199 Google ratings
Self-catering apartments on Tsar Samuil — useful for a group splitting a bill.
Along the Sea Garden
Hotel · 5★
Grand Hotel & SPA Primorets4.6 ★ · 2210 Google ratings
The city's five-star address, on the water at the edge of the park. The one to try first if budget is not the constraint.
The wider city
Guest house
Family Hotel Pelikan4.4 ★ · 789 Google ratings
Family-run and modest — the kind of place that is still available when the centre has sold out.
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Avenue Deluxe4.0 ★ · 289 Google ratings
Newer hotel away from the tourist streets — quieter nights, a bus ride in.
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Coral4.6 ★ · 154 Google ratings
Beachfront hotel on the spit, a short walk from the old town.
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Grand Hotel Pomorie3.9 ★ · 814 Google ratings
Large five-star spa resort on the beach, built on the town's mineral water.
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Sunny Bay3.5 ★ · 559 Google ratings
Mid-range seafront property — the sort of place that still has rooms late.
Sunny Beach and Nessebar
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The Mill Boutique Hotel4.9 ★ · 59 Google ratings
Small five-star boutique hotel in Nessebar — the antidote to the resort towers.
Their siteHotel · 5★
Helena Sands4.7 ★ · 1130 Google ratings
One of three Helena resorts side by side on the beach; five-star, adults and families split between them.
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Hotel Dune4.6 ★ · 535 Google ratings
Five-star on the southern end of the strip, closest to Nessebar.
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Dreams Sunny Beach Resort & Spa4.4 ★ · 4182 Google ratings
All-inclusive five-star resort on the northern beach.
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Barceló Royal Beach4.3 ★ · 1986 Google ratings
Five-star tower on the central beach — the strip's best-known international address.
Hotel · 4★
AluaSoul Sunny Beach4.3 ★ · 1145 Google ratings
Adults-only four-star, quieter than the strip around it.
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Sol Marina Palace4.3 ★ · 1237 Google ratings
Four-star on the Nessebar peninsula side, minutes from the old town.
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Festa Panorama4.3 ★ · 2618 Google ratings
Nessebar hotel above the bay, on the neck of the old town.
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Aquamarine4.2 ★ · 773 Google ratings
Four-star a street back from the beach — usually cheaper for that reason.
Their siteHotel · 4★
Grand Hotel Sunny Beach4.0 ★ · 1470 Google ratings
Big four-star in the middle of everything, with the noise that implies.
Hotel · 3★
Hotel Palma3.8 ★ · 517 Google ratings
Straightforward three-star, walkable to the bus stops for Burgas.
Their siteSozopol
Hotel · 3★
Sea Sense — Boutique Hotel4.8 ★ · 200 Google ratings
Small three-star boutique property, quiet and central.
Their siteHotel · 4★
Selena4.4 ★ · 624 Google ratings
Four-star family hotel in the new town, a short walk from Harmanite beach.
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Hera Hotel4.2 ★ · 225 Google ratings
Three-star in the new town — reliable and usually available.
Hotel · 4★
Villa List4.1 ★ · 964 Google ratings
Four-star on the water at the edge of the old town — the address people remember.
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Laguna Beach Resort & Spa4.1 ★ · 961 Google ratings
Resort hotel out at Kavatsite, on the long beach south of town.
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