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About

A local guide, written plainly

Sunny Beach Life is an independent, honest local guide to Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. We write for visitors who want a straight answer, and for people who come on holiday and start wondering what it would be like to stay longer.

Sunny Beach seen from the water, with hotels along the sand and green hills behind.
Sunny Beach from the water, July 2020. Photograph: Ivano Giambattista, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Who we are

This site is written by people who spend real time in Sunny Beach and the towns around it — Nessebar, Sveti Vlas, and the coast in between. We are not a travel agency and we do not run tours. The byline on articles is “By the Sunny Beach Life team” until individual writers are named.

The first pieces here are still stubs: the shape of the article is in place, and anything we have not stood over is marked [To verify]. Named restaurants, current prices, opening months and bus fares will only be published as fact once they have been checked on the ground.

Honesty policy

If we recommend a place, it is because we would send a friend there. We do not sell reviews, and we do not take payment for a mention in a guide. If a situation changes — a kitchen drops, a scam shifts, a bus route disappears — we update the piece or we strike the claim.

We prefer specific details: a price we have paid, a month we have been here, a walk we have done. When we do not have that yet, we say so instead of filling the gap with something that sounds finished.

Google is full of travel articles that could have been written from anywhere. We will not add to that pile. Photographs on this site are real pictures of this coast, credited to their photographers, not generated images.

A short letter when we publish

Not a daily digest. We will write when there is a new guide worth reading — a restaurant list, a warning, or something useful out of season.

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