Bulgaria prices for food and drink, price of a pint beer (2024)

Published on 22 November 2018 by admin

Bulgaria is a cheap holiday destination, with low-cost accommodation and with cheaper prices of goods and services.

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Strongest purchasing power on arrival. The price of a standard basket of goods inc beers, water and meals, which costs £ 106.45 in Nice (France), compiled recently by the Post Office (using today’s exchange rates), in various countries was:

Average price comparisment of a basket of holiday goods

Below is comparison of 12 holiday countries in Europe.

Source: Post Office (2018)

Holiday basket includes: eight tourist items – comprising dinner for two with wine, a range of drinks, suncream and insect repellent

According to the table above Bulgaria is placed as the cheapest country in Europe (but also in the world (not shown in the table above) ) for holiday makers. What you probably don’t know is that Bulgaria in fact is a Euro country. The exchange rate for the Bulgarian currency called Lev is fixed at 1.95583 Lev for 1 Euro.

1 EURO = 1.95583 BGN (Bulgarian lev)

This GBP/EUR Chart lets you see currency rate history for up to 10 years!

It seems the time is bad for a holiday in the euro countries – the cost of holidaying abroad has shot up when spending Pounds. For a certain amount in Pounds, you could have 4 beers in summer of 2015 and 3 beers only in summer of 2016 and 2017. (code: Brexit)

Bulgaria

The strongest tourist attraction of Bulgaria – apart from its beautiful nature – is the cost of the holiday, which is affordable for almost everybody.

People coming from Western Europe the prices will find that the majority of the costs for holidaymaking in Bulgaria – for accommodation, eating out, transport and services are significantly lower than those that they are used to. This fact makes Bulgaria with those looking for an affordable family holiday at a reasonable cost. Why paying EUR 6 for a co*cktail in Spain when you could have it in Bulgaria for only the half of it.

Bulgaria is a cheap holiday destination, not only because of the lower cost of the accommodation but because of the over-all cheaper prices. All local products in Bulgaria – like vegetables, meat & milk (and their products), drinks (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic) – are at least a third of what you would pay for similar items in the UK, Germany or France. Only imported items carry a significant cost.

Holidaymakers who like to eat out will find that restaurants in Bulgaria serve great food at low cost, especially if you avoid the typical tourist restaurants. How to recognize the tourist’s restaurants – look inside before you enter them and if you see 100% tourists inside, then you can be sure these are for tourists.

All in all Bulgaria is an extremely affordable place for holiday. In the following tables we have tried to give you some average prices of different holiday goods in Bulgaria. Prices are for your information only and we do not guarantee they will be the adequate in all places. Prices are actual and last updated in January 2019.

Last update of prices May 2019

Exchange rate in every bank office in Bulgaria is 1 EUR = 1.95 BGN
Exchange rate of Bulgarian Lev to more currencies on x-rates.com and xe.com (open in new windows)