Today was our first full day here in Bulgaria. Any doubts we may have had about the hotel or waterpark are now well and truly banished. Bulgaria isn’t necessarily the first place you think of when you consider a European holiday. However it is lovely here in our hotel, probably because it wasn’t opened until 2012 according to the picture gallery near the dining room. The food was excellent again today. The breakfast was probably one of the best we’ve had outside the UK, the acid test often being how good the sausage or bacon are. Instead of these nasty looking skinny half bred salami style sausages we had something like a pork sausage, albeit a bog standard one.
For lunch I had salmon in a pernod sauce and chicken breast srips with honey and mustard sauce along with a nice selection from the salad bar.
Luke wasn’t two hungry having demolished two large hotdogs at the pool bar grill only half an hour before. I think this was his insurance policy against not liking lunch!

Matty arrived late because he was playing rounders and then having a kick about with some lads he’s made friends with.
He acquired his new friends this morning while we were at the welcome meeting. The boys didn’t want to sit and listen to a boring meeting, so they went for a couple of rides in the waterpark and then into the hotel pool. Matty and Luke were then conscripted to play water polo (four passes and throw ball into goal) by one of the on site games staff. As you would imagine Matty put up a fight and refused to join in……. so minutes later Luke and Matty had joined one of the teams in the pool. It was while playing water polo he made friends with two lads and then spent time with them whenever their paths crossed. He even spurned two freshly baked four cheese pizza slices I got him because he was too busy with his new friends!! (Lizzy enjoyed it though)
After lunch we went on a few more water rides until 3:45pm when Matty had to get back to join in the on site football match which he’d arranged to play in with his new crew.
After our evening meal we decided to walk down to the beach, which is a ten minute walk. Sunny Beach was a little run down compared to our nearly-new hotel, although it was much like some Spanish resorts we’ve visited.