eyaler1
What could you possibly expect from a hotel being run as "just a hobby"? I have been stranded in the high winter of freezing cold Bansko for over two months due to Covid restrictions, without possibility to go home. James, the owner, has turned away multiple long-term booking inquiries, so I could extend my stay by another two weeks, then another week, then one more week, then some more days, until I could finally go home. To make me feel better with the nuisance of the uncertainty of my situation, James kept inventing bogus laws presumably forbidding him of kicking out a guest in need due to "the Corona situation". Seems to me more like some real medieval British chivalry B.S! Apart from running the hotel James has more "hobbies", most prominently: cooking and baking. About his famous curry and ribs nights you can read elsewhere (this is how and why I came to Avalon in the first place). For my critique of the complimentary baking see attached photos. For the price of two nights in e.g. the f***ing Kempinski Hotel Grand Arena (a mistake I made), you could stay one full month in Avalon. This includes heating, so its about half the price of renting and heating your own apartment. And indeed my room in Avalon was the single place in Bansko where I was not cold. I even had to turn off the heating at some point, and it was still literally the warmest I had. My only issue while staying there was that there was no microwave. So James bought a microwave. What could you possibly expect from a hotel being run as "just a hobby" indeed? You can expect it to be your home <3