Inside the boozy ‘Benidorm of ski resorts’ in Bulgaria with wild drinking games and ‘erotic shows’

FIRE blazes atop  my metallic helmet arsenic I sound backmost a shot, earlier I’m whacked connected the caput with a bottle.

There are 4 much of the ­tipples — and 4 much bonks connected my caput shield — to travel arsenic the flames proceed to burn.

I’m besides smacked with a hammer, a wrench, a sledgehammer then, finally, an bare brew keg.

I’ve really paid for the privilege of losing immoderate encephalon cells and perchance mounting myself alight.

Yet I inactive don’t cognize what I’ve downed successful those 5 30ml drinks that were handed to maine by barroom staff.

As I decorativeness the challenge, the packed barroom cheers and punters queue up to effort retired Black Tiger’s helmet crippled — each for conscionable 50 lev (£21).

Welcome to Borovets, Bulgaria, wherever the apres skis volition permission you feeling similar you’ve been deed connected the caput — and you astir apt person been.

It’s not your mean skis edifice with Aperol connected the rocks and champagne astatine each turn.

Instead, it’s Benidorm On Ice or, arsenic information advisor Daniel, 36, puts it, “the Aldi of skis resorts”.

Outside, astatine a kiosk, punters are downing “Big Bastard Jagerbombs” — a pint of Red Bull with German liqueur Jagermeister.

And successful a barroom further down, boozed-up tourists are attempting to hammer a nail into a histrion trunk — utilizing the bladed extremity of the tool.

Within hours of arriving successful the tiny skis resort, a British stag has already pulled retired his willy to the dependable of whoops from his pals.

Snowboarding successful bikini

Some 95 per cent of the barroom unit present walk the summertime moving successful Bulgarian vacation hotspot Sunny Beach earlier heading to the ­mountain municipality for jobs successful the winter.

One is Emily, who worked connected a barroom crawl successful the summertime and present spends her nights successful Black Tiger. 

She told The Sun: “I’ve met friends for beingness successful some Sunny Beach and Borovets.

“The seashore has brainsick parties, drinking from time to night, and past the mountains person skiing in the time and huffy parties astatine night. Both consciousness similar a 2nd home.”

The upland municipality is importantly cheaper than different European skis destinations, mounting holidaymakers backmost astir £600 for accommodation, flights and rental, compared to an mean £1,500 successful astir different countries.

Expat Jack Smith, 32, from Grimsby, Lincs, who owns the Cool Runnings bar, said: “Borovets is simply a brainsick place, afloat of happiness. It’s a spot of a Wild West.

“About 80 per cent of tourists are from the UK oregon Ireland. 

"There is thing for everyone successful this resort, from chaotic games to household festival nights and, of course, skiing connected the slopes.

“Locals emotion the vigor brought by large groups, and fancy formal is welcome. It helps enactment everyone successful a bully mood. 

But it’s not a skiing holiday — it’s a vacation connected skis.”

Cool Runnings offers festival nights, including a drinking situation that sees 4 afloat changeable glasses stuck to a ski, and revellers tasked with rotating the plank to scope their tipple ­without spilling a drop.

There is besides skis rod limbo and different games. 

The edifice opened successful the 1950s, initially with smaller hotels. Since it started attracting a Western crowd, immense hotels and ample chalets person sprung up to supply much places to stay.

Despite this, the centre of the edifice has remained mostly the aforesaid and boasts the astir bars per quadrate kilometre of each the skiing centres successful Europe.

The immense influx of tourists sees coastal cops experienced successful dealing with boozy summertime revellers drafted successful from Sunny Beach, arsenic good arsenic trainees from the ­Bulgarian superior Sofia to larn connected the toughest spot however to grip drunks.

Leeds lads Luke, Liam, Josh and Reece revealed they were having a shot astatine the edifice and hailed the affable locals.

Comparing the country to different ­Bulgarian attraction, technologist Liam told me: “Bansko is the Magaluf of skis resorts, Borovets is the Benidorm of skis resorts.

“Borovets is cheaper by a agelong way. If you comparison it to France, it’s a no-brainer to travel here.”

‘Have amusive and beryllium silly’

The schoolhouse pals had spent the nighttime successful BJ’s Bar, pounding nails into wood with the abbreviated extremity of a hammer astatine awesome speed.

But Reece, aft losing a dare, had to spell snowboarding the pursuing time successful thing but a reddish bikini — and, of course, we joined him.

As helium slalomed down the achromatic tally successful his skimpy outfit, helium was met with yells of “alright, sexy?”, wolf ­whistles and edifice workers ­coming retired to person a giggle astatine him. 

He told The Sun “it was a spot chilly”, earlier wrestling himself backmost into salopettes (ski trousers to those of america who don’t bash wintertime sports) and thermals to lukewarm up.

But determination are much than conscionable chaotic drinking games connected connection here.

The Black Cat hosts tribute nights featuring “big names” specified arsenic Freddie Mercury and Cher — and dishes up piles of grilled meat.

Manager Kiko is focused connected getting arsenic galore Brits into the venue arsenic possible, adjacent serving Guinness and Madri to marque definite punters don’t miss their section backmost home.

“I’ll beryllium blessed erstwhile my lawsuit basal is 90 per cent British,” helium said. “The English bring specified a large atmosphere. They’re ever up for a laughter and cheerful.

“That’s precisely what we want. Everyone is invited here, including stag dos. We’d invited hen dos, but they don’t look to come.”

Angela Crompton, 39, primitively from Conway successful Wales, is co-owner of the No1 British Sports Bar and reckons Borovets is simply a destination hogged by men.

She said of Borovets: “It’s a spot of a concealed destination for men successful immoderate ways. We’ve ever had stags coming, but seldom ever hens.

“But everyone is welcome. Often, guys bring their families present connected skis holidays aft archetypal coming for a lads’ travel oregon stag do.

‘Erotic shows’

“Most of the unit enactment successful Sunny Beach during the summer, and portion it’s not rather arsenic wild, it’s inactive a batch of fun. 

"Most of america aren’t fussed astir stags and radical ­getting rowdy here. We person a antheral who skis present each twelvemonth successful a mankini, and announces it truthful ­people tin travel him around.

“The Bulgarians similar to person a laughter astatine the Brits.”

While overmuch of the edifice is ­family-friendly, it’s hard to miss the neon signs for “erotic shows”, wherever strippers bash their happening wrong the neon-lit buildings.

One drunken reveller boasts to maine that helium was offered oral enactment for conscionable 20 lev, which equates to £8.50.

Locals disagree connected the price, insisting it would beryllium much similar 150 lev.

But the girls offering services acceptable the prices themselves and the much charismatic you are, the cheaper it is apt to be. Lap creation costs are besides variable.

Doorman Dan admits: “Most punters don’t realise they are walking into a portion barroom erstwhile they spell in, truthful rapidly travel backmost out.”

But helium does person 1 ailment astir British stag dos. 

“You’re not arsenic amusive arsenic you utilized to be,” helium grumbled. 

“I’ve been present since 2007 and radical don’t bash their fancy formal arsenic good arsenic they utilized to. I’d similar to spot much of it.

“We’re each present to look aft the customer, truthful if you privation to person amusive and beryllium silly, that’s good with us.

“If you’re getting bare wherever kids are, that’s not OK. But if it’s precocious astatine nighttime and children aren’t around, that’s fine.

“Just beryllium polite. You scratch our backmost and we’ll scratch yours.”

It’s a dependable piste of advice . . .