Hotel Lion is a newly built 4 star luxury hotel in Borovets surrounded by an age-old pine wood.
Location: in a very beautiful and peaceful place, only a few minutes walk away from the ski runs and the main lift station.
Accommodation: 157 rooms in total - 67 standard double rooms, 62 deluxe rooms, 24 studios with kitchenette and 5 suites. (6 double rooms for disabled people).
Facilities
Hotel and room facilities of Lion Hotel - point the mouse over an image to see the meaning.
Room Facilities: Hotel Facilities:
Additional Information: Room facilities: Std room: telephone, satellite TV, hairdryer, bath tub. Standard rooms are only double, no twin.
Deluxe room: telephone, satellite TV, hairdryer, bath tub, twin rooms (the beds can be bring together), extra bed is possible. The rooms are bigger than standard rooms.
Studio: telephone, satellite TV, hairdryer, bath tub, King size bed, sofa for 2 pax, kitchenette with microwave oven.
Suite: studio + deluxe room with 2 separate bathrooms and WC. No separate entries for the each of the rooms.
Hotel facilities: room service, laundry and dry cleaning, business centre, conference rooms, outdoor parking lot, main restaurant (120 seats), traditional restaurant (80 seats).
Taxi services, complimentary daily shuttle bus to the ski runs in the resort, fitness centre, sauna, conference hall with capacity of 120 people.
It is a part of the hotel chain LION (in Sofia (two 3-star hotels), Borovets (4 stars hotel), Bansko (4 stars hotel), Sunny Beach (3+ stars hotel).
We had a family room at Lion Borovets in mid Jan 07. Very nice room, good size, clean, well decorated. Main bed very comfortable, sofa bed a bit less so but not too bad. Bathroom nice, lots of hot water. Food good to very good although we often ended up eating in town in the evening to be with our ski group. Free mini bus quite reliable to get to town and back for skiing but allow 10 lev (approx 4) each way for taxi in evening. Walk only 10-15 min but a bit dark/scary/slippy at night.Public areas of hotel very comfortable. Staff attitude ok but sometimes not great. Carpark area can be very icy so take care walking.
Overall - nice hotel and good food but if you want to be very central go for another e.g. Rila/Ice Angels, however if you do you may want to eat in town more as people did not rate the food as highly in the Rila as we did in the Lion. Borovets generally lots of inexpensive fun (if a bit scruffy in places)and good skiing/instruction for beginers and intermediates providing there is enough snow and the gondola is not shut due to wind. Waiting time for lifts etc can get long if skiing areas become restricted. We would go back but maybe later in the season as instructor says snow is more reliable then.
