Bulgaria can you use euros?

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DS is going tomorrow and bought euros. But Ive just read they use their own currency lev!!!

Anyone been recently and used euros as well?

Why did he buy euros? Bit daft.

You can usually but the exchange rate is awful.

Depends where you are going. In Sofia most places will take them but the exchange rate will be dire. Outside of the cities you need Lev.

The hotel told him he could pay in euros! Which I dont get if the rate is so low

No, he'll need Bulgarian levs.

He'll surely be travelling somewhere in the Eurozone again in future so I'd probably put the euros away for then and just buy some levs now.

Well, it'll give them the opportunity to shave a little extra off by incurring an unnecessarily high exchange rate. I'm not saying that's definitely what they're up to, but that's what I'd be watching for, because he's clueless enough to ask so what are the chances he can accurately calculate what the bill should be in euros based on the posted rate in lev?