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Recent reviews mentioning Sofia

43.90545, 25.98961

Great spot to ask people, got a ride 20km from Sofia, i think this is the right spot, anyway its just the gas station near the border, make sure to go up to people and not just stand with your thumb out

rating: 5/5, wait: 60 min, ride: 301 km ↙

―SunnySupertramp, July 2025

42.63038, 23.46659

Pretty easy to reach by bus from Sofia Center

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 💬, ride: 187 km →

―Anonymous, Fri 18 Jul 2025, 16:00

43.07889, 25.59908

Good spot towards Sofia. Take bus 2, 5 or 110 to get around here. You can wait at the bus stop of 110 (bus runs less often, so won’t block buses). Busy traffic. Waited 15 min. I'm a solo woman traveller.

rating: 4/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 121 km ←

―Anonymous, July 2025

42.99343, 22.8445

Good traffic, but some waiting. Had a sign Sofia and some Turkish guys coming from Antwerp going to Fethiye gave me a lift to Sofia.

rating: 3/5, wait: 40 min 🪧, ride: 54 km ↘

―Anonymous, Mon 30 Jun 2025, 13:24

42.65078, 25.29291

Good spot for Karlovo or even Sofia, enough space

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min

―Anonymous, July 2025

42.73784, 23.2722

My ride from the day before had invited me to stay the night and took me to the other side of Sofia to a great spot towards Plovdiv early in the morning.

rating: 5/5, wait: 0 min 💬, ride: 23 km ↘

―Suip, Sun 27 Apr 2025, 05:30

42.71409, 23.23224

I first tried to take the road south of Sofia towards Plovdiv, but people to Plovdiv are actually using the highway north of Sofia. Not very good place, seems like only local people stop. I got invited to spend the night in the Apartment of a couple as it was getting late. In the morning the woman took me to the other side of Sofia to a much better spot towards Plovdiv.

rating: 3/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 5 km ↗

―Suip, Sat 26 Apr 2025, 18:45

42.28131, 22.72283

My previous ride asked a guy that was filling his car at the petrol station and he took me to Sofia. He said it's easier to go to Sofia through the Highway west of Dupniza than through Pernik.

rating: 5/5, wait: 0 min 💬, ride: 79 km ↗

―Suip, Sat 26 Apr 2025, 16:10

42.21888, 22.4635

A lot of space, not a lot of traffic, but seems easy. Got taken by a guy that used to hitchhike in the socialist times of Bulgaria. He got me to Kjustendil to a petrol station and immediately found me a ride to Sofia.

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 28 km →

―Suip, Sat 26 Apr 2025, 15:30

42.19232, 25.19094

Most traffic is going to Burgas. Got stuck here all sunday afternoon + monday morning.
Cars are full, I asked to truck drivers but all declined until one drive me tl little before Svilengrad.
For Turkey better to wait longer to get a direct ride from Sofia/Plovdiv.

rating: 3/5

―RoadTripeur, Mon 07 Apr 2025, 12:00

43.34157, 21.92819

Kind of the only decent spot towards Bulgaria, police spend a lot of time here just as locals for coffee.
I've been trying for 3h until night with the little traffic from the petrol station (police was there) and 4h straight on the highway the next morning with a sign BG - СРФИЯ.
Most cars were completely full, I left with a big beer box under my legs and my backpack on my knees, that was the only room available in the car, but I made it to Sofia.

rating: 3/5

―RoadTripeur, Sat 12 Apr 2025, 12:00

43.08173, 25.59343

Straight ride to Sofia, despite it was late morning of Easter we got a ride with no time.

rating: 5/5, wait: 35 min, ride: 241 km ←

―luca86, April 2025

42.26418, 24.30872

quite some traffic but somewhat hard to get a lift. still a good option when moving from Sofia to the east.

rating: 3/5, wait: 40 min, ride: 140 km →

―Happy, January 2025

42.21284, 22.34643

Found a ride for Sofia. Pretty good!

rating: 5/5, wait: 25 min, ride: 119 km ↗

―kyliann, December 2024

41.95935, 22.78633

Gas station staff approached the customers and was very friendly. I stood parallel to the street. Could have even gone to Sofia, but just wanted to go to the other side of the border. Were not many cars but not 5 minutes waited.

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 30 km →

―Birdy, Mon 11 Nov 2024, 07:40

43.74949, 21.45022

It was really slow on a saturday, but I think I just had bad luck. At first I tried to get to Sofia directly, after an hour I switched to Niš and hitched directly from the sidelane of the highway, which worked fine. There are a lot of trucks and enough cars, so I think in general its a good spot during work days, on the weekend there was mostly local traffic and trucks on a break though. Has a restaurant too.

rating: 4/5, wait: 5 min

―Anonymous, October 2024

46.37216, 19.99735

Gas station with traffic. Mode of it goes to Romania but you have to be lucky and keep asking. I asked to the Serbian border and they ended taking me to Sofia (BG). You won’t have a better spot anyways

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 💬, ride: 608 km ↘

―Anonymous, September 2024