Bukovel Pronóstico de Nieve 6 Días

Guillaume from France writes:

This is the worst ski resort I have ever seen:

- ski passes are very expensive - 110 euros per week for 50 kilometers of slopes for downhill skiing and 850 metres for Nordic ski. In France, for instance, in Les Saisies, you pay 180 euros per week for 250kms of downhill skiing and 120kms of Nordic ski. Bukovel is much more expensive - 2,2 euro per km vs 0,5 euro per km in France - 4.4 times more expensive than in the Alps!
- nature is ugly: they built too many hotels, parkings, and the air smelled pollution just like in a big city. In addition they keep playing loud music everywhere, so you really don't feel you are in the mountains. The Main Street in Kiev is quieter!
- because they built too many hotels all over the place, the resort is overly crowded.
- low safety: the level of skiers is very low, which makes skiing in Bukovel very dangerous. In the 3 hours I was there, I saw four people 'rescued' by medical staff and carried in stretchers. That's because skiers have low skills but believe they are great and ski too fast for their level. I also saw, twice, people bumping into other skiers. All this in 3 hours!
- water infection: I drank water there, from the hotel (of course not from tap) and had some infection because of this and stayed in bed for 3 days! After checking local websites in Ukrainian / Russian, I learnt that there is an infection in water, and this has been going on already for a few years! Visitors in Bukovel regularly get infected, locals and foreigners alike (I live in Kiev, and never got such a problem). Of course, everyone in Bukovel know it but authorities do not do anything.
- horrible service: staff, on average, are not helpful at all. They don't care, they don't know and don't try to help.

All in all, don't go there! it is very expensive, of very low quality and dangerous for health. A lot of people see that there are more slopes in Bukovel than in other resorts in the area and decide to go there, but this is really not worth it! It is the worst ski resort I have seen in the world (skied until then in France, Spain, Canada, Japan, Romania, Ukraine). In Ukraine, Dragobrat is much better, nature more beautiful, less crowded, better service, and no water infection.