Without the high-profile visitors of yesteryear Bohinj's Ski Hotel Vogel is rarely mentioned, other than to group it with other failing or derelict tourist accommodation, in the same breath as its iconic counterparts the Zlatorog and Bellevue. I doubt President Tito and his peers from the Non-Aligned Movement and various otherwise ostracised Communist regimes would…
Bohinj: what’s on offer to overnight guests
This blog post reviews many(but far from all) of Lake Bohinj's accommodation options in what has become a shrinking marketplace due to the demise of many of its mainstay operators. My overall rating(out of ten) is born from part experience and the location, tariff and facilities relevant to each property. Being purely subjective, I have…
Bohinj: finally some hope for Hotel Zlatorog?
*Please view March 2019 update: Bohinj: Slovenian Cryptocurrency millionaire invests in ailing hotel stock Being responsible for the majority of Bohinj's preeminent tourism accommodation places a large responsibility on the owner to sympathetically maintain properties whose position within the Triglav National Park(TNP) imposes exacting aesthetics demands and the need for sustainable renewal and reinvention. It is…
Vogel above Bohinj: summer visitors outnumber winter patronage
Figures eclipsing like for like data from the summer of 2014 by 40% have seen for the first time in fifteen years the number of summer visitors using the Ukanc-based Vogel cableway outstrip footfall during the winter season, presumably fueling the majority takeover of operating company Zicnice Vogel by Terra Australis and fronted by a…
Vogel: Bohinj-based ski centre sold to Terra Australis group
Interesting times lie ahead for arguably Slovenia's most famous ski resort, Vogel above Lake Bohinj, following news of a majority acquisition of KD Capital's 51% shareholding of the Ukanc-based cableway and ski centre.Whilst Vogel cannot offer high altitude winter sports that the soon to be rejuvenated Kanin lift above frontier town Bovec will once more…
Ljubljana’s Brnik Airport posts increased year on year passenger growth
Ljubljana's Brnik Airport handled close to half a million passengers during the first five months of 2015, data for May being particularly impressive that saw a 19.6% year on year increase on corresponding figures for 2014.Aircraft movements have nevertheless fallen but the replacement of larger aircraft on routes previously serviced by smaller planes has inevitably…
Vogel ski resort: a Slovenian success story celebrates anniversary milestone
One of the few cableways in Slovenia regarded as being a financial success, Vogel above Bohinj has just celebrated the 51st birthday of its ski resort designation with a raft of celebrations to commemorate this most evergreen of mountain lifts.Upgraded to the current two-carriage cable-car shortly after the turn of the millennium, Vogel's success has…
Bohinj: Municipality and Zmago Pacnik meet to discuss critical state of Zlatorog and Bellevue
Bohinj's most wanted man this week finally fronted up to the area's municipal council to explain his plans, if any, to bring the portfolio of holiday accommodation under his ownership back into serviceable use and arrest the shameful decay that has sadly seen, in particular, hotels Zlatorog and Bellevue degenerate to a point where demolition…
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