18/01/2026
🏔️ **A New Chapter Begins – 2026/7 Borovets and Dolomites** 🇧🇬🇮🇹
As we approach the busiest time of the season, we’d like to clear up a few rumours with an official post.
There have been messages circulating suggesting that **Yanakiev Ski & Snowboard School is closing** — this is **not true at all**. We are **still very much in Borovets**, in the same location, with the same team and the same ethos you know and trust.
Some of you may have seen equipment for sale. Yes — we sold our older gear and have **upgraded to brand-new skis, boots, and poles**, including **BOA system boots**, to make sure our customers enjoy the very best equipment this season.
You may also have noticed links from my personal page to **Via Marmolada Residences**. This *is* happening — and it marks an exciting new chapter for us.
After 20 incredible years in Borovets, running Snow & Wake Bulgaria and Yanakiev Ski & Snowboard School, blending the very best of British and Bulgarian snowsports, we’re proud to announce our next adventure…
✨ We’re opening in the Italian Dolomites next season!** ✨
We are opening a brand-new, fully refurbished mountain complex at the foot of the Queen of the Dolomites – Marmolada*.
🏨 **The complex will include:**
• 14 rentable apartments (various sizes)
• 7 hotel rooms
• 2 restaurants
• Après-ski bar ( Maybe OTP 2 ! )& foyer bar
• Wellness centre
• 2 ski depots
• On-site ski school: Yanakiev Super Ski
⛷️ **A true ski paradise:**
• Direct access to 500km of piste
• Linked to the world’s largest ski area – **Super Dolomiti**
• A total of **1,200km of slopes**
• Just **1 hour 45 minutes from Venice Airport**
👋 **Familiar faces, new challenges**
You’ll still find the friendly Yanakiev instructors you know and love, moving between **Borovets and the Dolomites**, bringing the same great hospitality and teaching standards to Italy.
❤️ We love Borovets and Bulgaria — always have, always will.
But we also know many of you are ready for **new terrain, new challenges**, with the **same trusted instructors** by your side.
🌐 Our website is now open for **next season**, and we can arrange everything — accommodation, transfers, lift passes, and lessons.
👉 **See you in Borovets this season… and next season both in Borovets and the Queen of the Dolomites!**