Bansko

Overview:

Katarino Hotel & SPA complex offers its guests 139 rooms and apartments and 46 attractive family houses. 4 Full service restaurants and bars are available. The guests can enjoy a lot of additional facilities such as SPA-Centre, swimming pools, fitness, two tennis courts, four lane AMF bowling, etc.

• 10 km from Bansko
  
• 153 km from Sofia
  
• 150 km from Plovdiv
  
• 53 km from Blagoevgrad
  

Additional info:
Every house is equipped with a build-in oven with hot plates, fridge, thermo-jug, and kitchenware to prepare and eat your own food. Every house also has cable internet.

• Type “ Todorka”- living-room with kitchenette and a bedroom
  
• Type “Vihren”- living-room with kitchenette and two bedrooms
  

Bars & Restaurants:

• Main restaurant with fireplace, barbecue, terrace and live music every evening
• Mehana-tavern “Club 840” with fireplace, barbecue, summer garden and live music every evening
• Lobby bar with terrace – offer traditional pastry and sweets and French cake
• Bar in the indoors swimming pool

Health & Beauty:

• Hydro-Therapy
  
  Hydro-therapy includes using water for healing purposes. Warm water has a soothing effect on the neural system, at the same time strengthening cardiac rhythm and improving blood circulation. Hydro-therapeutic baths work against stress, free muscles from pressure and remove toxins.
  
  Water ’Atlantis’ is a bath with high concentration of minerals and plant products. Processes running there support metabolism, remove tiredness and summon energy, have a relaxation effect and re-mineralize the skin.
  
  Cleopatra’s Bath
  
  Cleopatra’s Bath is for beauty, relaxation and healing. It is enriched with various cosmetic products milk, oils, special aroma substances, flowers, herbal extracts. You will sense the relaxing and strengthening effect with your body and your soul. Water temperature is about 38-40° C. Offers can vary depending on the season. Probably the most stylish and relaxing way to rediscover the ’old art of sweet laziness’ is exactly Cleopatra’s Bath. After completing the procedure, aroma-oil massage is most appropriate.
  
  Thalasso-Therapy
  
  The treatment can cover an entire program with body peeling, sea alga bath with mineral salts, alga or sea mud body packing, and lymphatic drainage with locking care product. This is a de-stressing, detoxifying treatment of pure bliss and relaxation to slim, contour and remineralizes the body.
  
  Precious Stones
  
  The precious stones cabin combines elements of the special stone therapy (litho-therapy), traditional Chinese medicine, therapy of reflex zones, colour and light-therapy.
  
  Litho-therapy is based on the principle that precious stones have the ability to absorb internal vibrations. They possess various characteristic features and are built of various minerals, which make each stone unique. During therapy, these stones absorb negative energy from the body.
  
  Serail-Bath
  
  This is a part of a revitalizing ceremony, coming from the ’Serail’. You or your partner will spread natural mud over your bodies yourselves. Pleasant warmth (about 45° C) dries the mud out and it can spread its effect deep into the skin. Thus your body starts to free itself from toxins. After about 10 minutes, warm steam with tender smell of herbs pours into the room. The mud over your body melts again and is washed away. The secret lies in the combination of various elements: water, fire, earth and aroma air. Your skin is being thoroughly cleaned and can breath again, prepared for further procedures. We recommend massage to follow.
  
  Floatation
  
  After body pilling by glove and soap lather on a warm and wet table, you can relax in a bath with high concentration of salts from the Dead Sea. The Floating Bath gives you an opportunity to experience a sense of lack of gravity in complete silence and darkness, taking you far from the time and space of everyday pressure. Floating is the fastest, easiest and most effective way to leave stress behind, achieving full relaxation. This procedure is completed by a warming massage of the whole body.
  
  Hammam Massage
  
  Enjoy a cleaning ritual from the East. After an optimal stay in the steam cabin to open pores up, a wonderful massage or pilling follows on the ’Hammam’ stone coach. Sea salt from the Pacific Ocean is used for this refreshing procedure, to clean and exfoliate the skin. Massages can be dry or wet, done by rubbing glove or brush glove. For pilling, small abrasive particles are spread over the body and the upper dead layer of the skin is removed through circular rubbing. This improves blood circulation in the skin and stimulates metabolism. The skin is prepared for next procedures - ’Serail’ Bath, Floating Bath, Precious Stones Therapy, Hydroxeur, massages.
  
  Skin Care
  
  The complex facial procedure includes cleansing, revitalizing, pilling, herb steam, ampoules, correction of eye brows, depilation, facial massage and mask. This is also applied to the neck and neckline. Procedures might be targeted to a smoother skin with fine pores, higher humidity, greater elasticity or the improvement of skin colour. The stimulation of blood circulation improves greatly the overall appearance. After an analysis of the type of skin and a competent advice, the best individual products and programmes are selected for each client. All procedures are performed by well-trained specialists.
  
  Massages
  
  Classical massages improve blood pressure and relieve the muscles. Muscles stiffing is a result from the accumulation of toxins. With the stimulation of blood circulation, toxins are removed from the tissues. Classical massages can be applied either to the whole body or to various body parts.
  
  Warm-Stone Massage
  
  A warm-stone massage, bringing harmony to the body and spirit. The stones are being warmed up in hot water and then placed over hands, back or feet, or used with together with massage oil for special massage techniques.
  
  Medicinal warm-stone massage brings full relaxation. This ancient healing method leads to physical and spiritual balance and satisfaction.
  
  Wraps
  
  After soaking in our pure, natural Mineral Water, the body is shroud in a sheet which has been soaked in a steaming herb solution- you are floated away in a cloud of softness. Meditation, stress-reduction and relaxation are enhanced by soft music and aroma therapy. This wrap is intended to prolong the toxin release process, and deepens relaxation. Not recommended for pregnant women or people with high blood pressure.
  
  Diet Menu
  
  Here, at the Katarino Hotel & SPA Complex you could experience the joy of a renewed body, the freshness of being healthy and the pleasure of staying in fit thanks to the personal programs with a diet menu. Diet menus are served throughout the day at Katarino restaurants, with the usual high standard of service.
• Pool
  Outdoor pool
  Steam Bath
  Steam Baths exert heat of about 45° C with 100% air humidity, which leads to pleasant sweat making the skin smooth and tender. The advantages of the Steam Bath are care for the hair and skin and their regeneration, as well as relief for the lungs. Steam Baths have a cleaning effect too. Special materials in the premises and the aroma appropriate for the different seasons according to Aroma-therapy philosophy add special charm to the experience of the Steam Bath.
  
  Lakonium
  
  Healing bath with cozy warmth functioning as a sweating sauna. Heated walls and benches provide pleasant comfort. Permanent temperature of 60° C causes slow and tender body warming and a more intensive cleaning and removal of toxins. The ideal combination between aroma and calm music contributes to the full relaxation of the body and soul.
  
  Sauna
  
  The stay in the sauna will have a miraculous effect on your body and soul. The combination of sauna heat with ice-rubbing at certain intervals improves blood circulation and strengthens the immune system. For people working under intellectual pressure, the sauna is also a place of inspiration.
  
  Kiva-sauna has been made of special pine timber of more then 500 years of age. Natural drying and slow growth have turned old timber into a special wood, which can usually appear only under arctic climate. Its structure is characterized by high density of wood fibers and silver-gray colour.
  
  The Finland sauna helps the organism to free from harmful substances. It cleans the body and opens space for new strength and life.
  
  The sauna is the ideal place to 'practice' the heart. At a temperature of about 90° C and air humidity of 15%, blood vessels are relieved and the skin gets more blood. As a result of the increased exuding of body liquids when sweating, the body is being freed from toxins. During the cooling break blood vessels narrow again, become more elastic and lead to better regulation of blood pressure.
  
  Special Showers
  
  The use of special showers is a recommendable procedure after Steam Baths and saunas. Water massage through side-off streams leaves a sense of re-vitalization for the body; the warm tropical rain reminds of a romantic experience in the Southern Seas that will wake your interest up; the cold water fog with thousands of icy sparkles pouring over you is a surprising but pleasant choice. All that is accompanied by special aroma and colour-therapy in a pleasant musical atmosphere.
  
  After a cool mineral-water shower, blood pressure is being improved and the temperature raised in Steam Baths or saunas is returned back to normal.