Pirila Mountain Hotel is a small, family-run hotel with six double rooms and two family rooms.

The family rooms have twin beds and bunk beds and sleep up to four. Every room has a balcony with outstanding views, en-suite shower room, TV and wireless internet access. Tea and coffee-making facilities are also available.

Newly built to a traditional design with furniture hand-made by local craftsmen, the hotel combines modern comfort and traditional charm. The traditional style mehana (Bulgarian restaurant) has an open fire place with a roaring log fire and serves excellent meals prepared from the freshest, organic, local ingredients. Our two chefs, one English and one Bulgarian, serve both Western European cuisine and authentic Bulgarian dishes.

Every weekend, musicians from the neighbouring village play and sing. Our guests can either sit back and watch the locals dancing the ‘hora’ (traditional Bulgarian folk dances) or you are welcome to join in.

New for the 2009 summer season is our outdoor pool. Relax in the sun with fabulous mountain views during the day and once a week enjoy our poolside barbecue night.

Dolno Draglishte is a working rural village, not a tourist resort. Life here has changed very little for half a century. All the villagers have a plot of land where they grow their own fruit and vegetables and most have chickens, sheep, a goat or a cow and either a horse or a donkey and cart. They grow enough food to feed themselves through summer, preserve some for the winter and still have some spare to share with visitors.

Bulgarians love nothing more than getting together in someone’s home or mehana to eat, drink, talk, sing and dance 'til the early hours of the morning. As well as national holidays and birthdays, everyone is named after a saint and they treat that saint’s name day (imen den – in Bulgarian) as a personal celebration like a second birthday, so there is never a shortage of reasons to celebrate.