Is this story like the "people decapitated at kite festival" story that comes around every so often? I know the link has a current date on the story but I would swear I have heard it before. I did a quick search of Fark headlines but couldn't find anything.

The Aristocrats?

FWIW, "gun battle", in this case, means "security guard tasering a teen girl in the face after falsely accusing her of stealing towels".

Man, my vacations suck compared to these people.

In some places people pay extra for this kind of thing.

And they're complaining?

He shoots, he scores!

Bulgaria is a really Krum-y country.

//I don't know if I hate myself for making that joke or for knowing I would have gotten it if someone else had made it.

On one floor you have a girl getting shot in the face with a stungun and on another floor you have a girl getting shot in the face with a studgun.

/Thank you, I'll be here all day.

I got it, and I hate you for it.

Wow, two things guys love most in life - violence AND sex... sounds like a man-musement park.

how do you say "think of the children" in bulgarian?

At least Bulgaria's maternity leave rights are pretty awesome!

/just came from the "daycare is infant abuse" thread.

The real question here is when is it going to be loaded to fantasti.cc?

/no I don't go there
//I swear

.... take part in porno film, ditch boring job for new career as porn star.

just needs a few midgets and clowns running around

I stayed at the hotel Rodina (in Sofia) back in 2002. Nothing happened like in the article but there were a lot of mafia types hanging around. It was apparently a former KGB hangout.

Totally unrelated a colleague of mine wanted to step outside for some "fresh air" as smoking was allowed everywhere. There was a revolving door at the front. I watched him go out, and right back in. The pollution especially from diesel was pretty bad.

...on holiday with daughter Danielle, 14, and her pal Ashley Heggie, 15, ...

hellooooooo ladies

What happens in Bulgaria stays in Bulgaria.

What the hell is a 'wean'?

Rascal King: What the hell is a 'wean'?

GIS (you Puritan pukes!)

-Ah, Bulgaria, the jewel of the Black Sea. Um, who the hell goes to Bulgaria for vacation?! Why not a place with a good reputation, like Lebanon or Myanmar?

I knew a foreign exchange student from Bulgaria so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

/back in middle school
//good guy
///ate lunch with him everyday of 7th grade
////SLASHIES!!!!!

We're very big in Bulgaria. And what-his-name, the other -garia...

Isn't Bulgaria where we get the word 'vulgar' from?

FTFA: "I was shocked. There were two blonde girls and one guy going at it, even though there were weans in the bar below."

Wean = child???

TripSixes: Isn't Bulgaria where we get the word 'vulgar' from?

-Really? I thought it was where 'Bulge' came from...



/with the porn and all

The taser use wasn't all that shocking - in Canada and the US where we are taser-happy countries, a face shot is either poor aim or a Botox alternative.

However, that porn shoot sounds like an intriguing display of street theatre... you puritans and married eunuchs can keep your mimes, beggars, buskers and robot-dancers, I'll "stick" with the nubile young starlets.

Blue movies: where a sucky performance is a very good thing!

As someone who went to Bulgaria four times during the communist days I will say that things have really changed. Now how do I get a reservation at that hotel?

we didn't start the fire its always been burnin since the world's been turnin

Algeria
BULGARIA
Cambodia
Dominica
Egypt
France
the Gambia
Hungary
Iran
Japan
Kazakhstan
Libya
Mongolia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Russia
Suriname
Turkey
Uruguay
Vietnam
West Xylophone
Yemen
Zimbabwe

There's nothing wrong with going to Bulgaria for holiday. There's a LOT wrong with paying £1500 to go to Bulgaria on holiday to an Egyptian themed hotel when the same family of four could go to Egypt for the same price for somewhat less (weeklong holidays to Egypt on similar shiatty packaged tours from the UK are around £300 in the summer).

/ live in West Xylophone, getting a kick out of these replies.

As someone who's spent a couple days in Bulgaria recently, I'm getting PISSED OFF at these replies.

/Where the hell were the porn filming when I was there? What a rip off!
//OK, seriously, if you ever get a chance, spend a couple days in Plovdiv. That is all.

bigolstinger: Algeria
BULGARIA
Cambodia
Dominica
Egypt
France
the Gambia
Hungary
Iran
Japan
Kazakhstan
Libya
Mongolia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Russia
Suriname
Turkey
Uruguay
Vietnam
West Xylophone
Yemen
Zimbabwe

You just nerded.

Amigajoe: TripSixes: Isn't Bulgaria where we get the word 'vulgar' from?

-Really? I thought it was where 'Bulge' came from...



/with the porn and all


I think it's where we got "buggery" from.

FTFA: But less than 24 hours after arriving, it became clear the hotel was more Fawlty Towers than the Ritz.



You think the sign would have warned them about the colorful floor show.

Is that supposed to be sarcasm on the headline? because I would literally stay for the porno film (although from the way the blowed the stun gun incident out of proportion, I bet it was just some bullshiat softcore skinnemax thing).

Went skiing in Borovets last year. Good time and beautiful women. Lots and lots of really hot women in Sofia especially. Couldn't believe it. Plus its really cheap. Would do it again, but probably not with my kids.

bigolstinger: Algeria
BULGARIA
Cambodia
Dominica
Egypt
France
the Gambia
Hungary
Iran
Japan
Kazakhstan
Libya
Mongolia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Russia
Suriname
Turkey
Uruguay
Vietnam
West Xylophone
Yemen
Zimbabwe

was literally looking for a TMBG t-shirt as i switched over and read that.
*nerdy tip of the hat to you

Phil the SWO: As someone who's spent a couple days in Bulgaria recently, I'm getting PISSED OFF at these replies.

/Where the hell were the porn filming when I was there? What a rip off!
//OK, seriously, if you ever get a chance, spend a couple days in Plovdiv. That is all.

So I hear.

The manageress of the Royal Park Hotel refused to comment on the allegations.

What year is this in Great Britain?

Someboy, think of the weans!

Anybody else notice the ads at the right of the story?
"Find Sex Offenders Free"

I giggled

I liked my time in Bulgaria, I was in Sophia just after their high-school graduation so the city was filled with drunk 17 year olds all partying and enjoying themselves.
Getting into and out of town was a bit tricky(bloody train into Sophia was unable to go past a station because of some BS construction so we had to bus it for an hour or so and the train leaving town took 5 hours longer than it should have because we were delayed 3 hours when we left and that messed up the schedual enough along the way that it carried over) but the city itself was really nice, relaxing and friendly.
If I spoke a word of Bulgarian or could at least read Cyrillic(I can now I couldn't then) I'd've probably enjoyed it more, if they'd been filming porn at my hostel then I would defiantly enjoyed it more.
As it was my hostel dumped me in a spare apartment down the road(because I'd screwed up my booking and showed up a day early) that had a TV with a free porn channel on it. But I doubt that its the same thing.

I recently spent a week in Sofia, Bulgaria. You would not believe the history there. I was in a church that is 1200 years old and had dinner at a restaurant that was over 400 years old. You get an interesting sense of 'old eastern Europe' meets the 21st century.

The Bulgarian people have a very self-deprecating sense of humor and are well aware of their place in the world. They are amazingly friendly and open for a country that has been oppressed by one entity or another for the last few centuries. I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed every minute I was there.

Been there, done that.

FTA: >"I was shocked. There were two blonde girls and one guy going at it, even though there were weans in the bar below."

They are worried about the kids seeing naked people and not about getting drunk? Seems there were already problems here if the kids were hanging out in a bar.

I just spent two weeks in Bulgaria in August working on a dig, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies. No gun battles, no porn, though the hotel where we stayed in Sophia was supposedly in the hooker area. Sadly, didn't see any obvious hookers.

Whole lot of history there

my question is... why the hell didn't i see this on Travel Channel... perfect for "Great Hotels"