Very nice and kind guide and driver. Meeting point was easy to find. The guide explained about the trip and took entrance fee for the church in cash. Left from there on time.The drive to Rila Monastery was scenic but tiring(2 hours). First stop is around 2 hours into the trip so it is better to be prepared when you leave in the morning. The monastery was beautiful and you get to spend about 2 hours there. You can go on a stroll outside the monastery. The weather was great which made it possible. Lunch was at a local restaurant near the monastery. The food was nice. Although they had card readers, they preferred cash payment. So it’s a good idea to keep cash. The trip from the monastery to the church is around 2 hours again. The time at the church is limited. It is historic. Very small portion of the church is intact. The tour guide did speak english but majority of the group spoke spanish. The guide was kind to repeat things in english. All in all it was a well worth day trip.

Both the Rila monastery and Boyana church are very interesting and beautiful, absolutely worth a visit. Unfortunately the time in Boyana church is very limited, we could have admire a little longer. The bus was comfortable. The only thing that was not great for us, that half of the group was Spanish speaker, so on the bus the tour guide spoke most of the time in Spanish, and very little information were given in English, however on my booking it said that the language of the tour is English.

This tour was very informative and a great day trip to see the monastery. We did the English tour and were not aware we would be on a bus with the Spanish tour too. This meant that our guides were sharing the microphone, with the Spanish guide definitely having more time to share his tour. We also found that when the English guided was talking, a lot of people on the bus were talking over him, making it quite hard to hear what he was saying. The guide was very knowledgeable and gave us a lot of interesting information at the monastery. It was a good mix of guided tour with enough free time to wander around at our own pace too