1 Best Coworking Spaces in Bansko

Our Story

Altspace started because Becky (the founder) was watching too many talented, interesting people sit alone in their apartments. When she moved to Bansko in 2020, there was already this quiet wave of remote workers discovering the town. People came for the mountains, the low cost of living, the skiing…but during the day they were isolated. Working from kitchen tables, fighting with dodgy WiFi and talking to no one. Something about that felt really wrong. Bansko had all the ingredients for an incredible remote work destination, but it didn’t yet have a space that felt intentionally built for both focus and belonging. So she built one! Altspace opened in the middle of a global pandemic, which in hindsight sounds mildly unhinged…but the need was obvious. Within a year Altspace had expanded to a second location. By year three, a third. Not because there was some aggressive growth plan, but because the community kept outgrowing the rooms. From day one, it was never about desks. It was about walking into a room and not having to explain yourself. It was about being surrounded by other people building things, working hard, figuring life out. It was about having deep focus during the day and someone to grab dinner with at night. Over the years thousands of nomads have come through the doors. Some stay a week, some stay a season, quite a few changed their lives here! Friendships form, businesses launch, relationships start, collaborations happen over coffee that turn into actual companies. There has also been something unexpected: people choosing to relocate to Bansko permanently because of the community they found inside the Altspace walls. Altspace has quietly become one of the social anchors of the town. You can ski or hike in the morning, work properly during the day, and find real connection in the evening…not forced networking, just humans being humans. At its core, Altspace exists to solve a simple problem: remote work doesn’t have to mean remote life. And in a small mountain town in Bulgaria, that idea has grown into something much bigger than had ever been planned.