https://mad-traveller.com/tags/bucharest/ Recent content in Bucharest on Mad Traveller Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-2-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-2-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Two days is enough for exactly one mountain day trip, not more. Land in Bucharest, sleep off the flight, then spend day two on Peles and Pelisor castles in Sinaia by train. Bran, Brasov, and Sighisoara all sit further north and need more days than this trip has; save them for our 4-day or 7-day version instead. Book these before you go: Your Bucharest hotel : Old Town for walking distance to dinner Peles Castle skip-the-line ticket : timed-slot caps sell out in summer A guided Peles day trip : worth it if you’d rather not manage the train yourself Day Focus Travel time Est. https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-2-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-2-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Two days in Bucharest, prices in lei not euros, is enough for the Palace of Parliament, the Old Town, and Revolution Square, and nothing else. Skip the day trips entirely at this length, Peles and Bran need a whole extra day each and rushing either one from a 2 day base does both a disservice. This is the tight city version: one booking call to make before you land, two solid days after that. https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-3-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-3-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Three days is our 2-day plan plus one long grind day: Bran Castle and Brasov, out and back from Bucharest in a single push. It works, but it’s a real 12-hour day. If that sounds rough, our 4-day version fixes it by staying the night in Brasov instead. Book these before you go: Your Bucharest hotel : Old Town, you’ll want an easy walk back both nights Peles Castle skip-the-line ticket : timed-slot caps sell out in summer A Peles, Bran and Brasov day tour : the easier way to cover the 500km round trip on day 3 Day Focus Travel time Est. https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-3-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-3-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Three days in Bucharest, prices in lei not euros, is the version that finally has room to breathe: the Palace of Parliament, Old Town, Revolution Square, and a full afternoon at the Village Museum without cramming everything into 48 hours. Still no castle day trips at this length, Peles alone eats a day round trip from Gara de Nord. This extends the 2 day route with a full Day 3; go longer with the 4 day version if you want the National Museum of Art added on too. https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-4-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-4-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Four days fixes the one real flaw in our 3-day plan : instead of a 12-hour Bran-and-Brasov round trip from Bucharest, you stay the night in Brasov and add Rasnov Fortress and the Poiana Brasov cable car on day 4. Same castles, none of the grind. Want Sighisoara too? Our 6-day version has room for it. Book these before you go: Your Bucharest hotel : for the first and last nights Your Brasov hotel : book ahead for summer weekends A Peles and Bran day tour : a guided option if you’d rather skip managing three separate trains Day Focus Travel time Est. https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-4-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-4-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Four days in Bucharest, prices in lei not euros, is enough to slow down: the Palace of Parliament, Old Town, the Village Museum, and a full museum day added on, still without touching a castle day trip. This extends the 3 day route with a fourth day built around the National Museum of Art and Obor Market; go to 6 days if you want Therme Bucuresti folded in too. Book these before you go: https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-5-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-5-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Five days is our 4-day plan plus a genuine wind-down day back in Bucharest, not a fifth castle. Sighisoara, the deeper Transylvania stop, needs at least 6 days to do without making your last day entirely trains; if you have them, our 6-day version adds it properly. Book these before you go: Your Bucharest hotel : for nights 1 and 5 Your Brasov hotel : nights 3 and 4 A Peles and Bran day tour : a guided option for the castle legs Day Focus Travel time Est. https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-5-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-5-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Five days in Bucharest, prices in lei not euros, has room for a genuine rest day: the Palace of Parliament, Old Town, the Village Museum, the National Museum of Art, and a full day at Therme Bucuresti to recover from all the walking. This extends the 4 day route with a spa day; go to 6 days if you want a flex day added instead of ending here. Book these before you go: https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-6-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-6-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Six days is our 4-day plan with Sighisoara swapped in for the Bucharest wind-down day our 5-day version uses instead. Sighisoara’s real, less-contested Vlad the Impaler connection earns the extra travel, but only as an overnight, not a bolt-on day trip. Book these before you go: Your Bucharest hotel : nights 1 and 6 Your Brasov hotel : nights 3 and 4 A Transylvania and Brasov tour : worth it if you’d rather not self-drive or juggle regional trains Day Focus Travel time Est. https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-6-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-6-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Six days in Bucharest, prices in lei not euros, covers all 9 things worth doing in the city itself and still leaves a genuine flex day. This extends the 5 day route with a Day 6 built around Cotroceni and the northern embassy district; go to 7 days if you want a second free day before departure. If a castle day trip is what you actually want at this length, that’s a different route entirely, see the Bucharest castles and day trips itinerary instead, Peles or Bran each eat a full day round trip and don’t fit cleanly alongside this city-only plan. https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-7-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-7-day-castle-trip-no-traps/?v=1 Seven days is our 6-day plan plus one extra day back in Bucharest before the flight, a real wind-down rather than another castle. If you’d rather spend that extra day on the road, our 5-day and 6-day versions show what that trade actually costs in travel time. Book these before you go: Your Bucharest hotel : nights 1, 6 and 7 Your Brasov hotel : nights 3 and 4 A Transylvania and Brasov tour : worth it if you’d rather not self-drive or juggle regional trains Day Focus Travel time Est. https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-7-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/itinary/bucharest-7-day-itinerary-no-day-trips/?v=1 Seven days in Bucharest, prices in lei not euros, is the full city version: all 9 things worth doing here, a proper flex day, and enough slack left over for one optional day trip if you want it, without turning this into a Transylvania itinerary by accident. This extends the 6 day route with a second free day before departure; for the deeper castle-and-mountains version, see the Bucharest castles and day trips itinerary instead, a genuinely different trip built around Peles, Bran, and Brasov. https://mad-traveller.com/posts/bucharest-7-castle-trips-and-2-to-skip/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/posts/bucharest-7-castle-trips-and-2-to-skip/?v=1 Bucharest is not the reason you booked a flight to Romania. The castles are. Spend a night or two in the city, paying in lei (RON), not euros, despite Romania’s full EU and Schengen membership, then head north into the Carpathians for Peles Castle, Bran, the Saxon town of Brasov, and, if the trip is long enough, Sighisoara deep in Transylvania. Seven of those trips earn their train fare. Two are a waste of a day. https://mad-traveller.com/posts/bucharest-9-things-actually-worth-doing/?v=1 Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:50:00 +0000 https://mad-traveller.com/posts/bucharest-9-things-actually-worth-doing/?v=1 Bucharest prices in lei, not euros, an EU-and-Schengen city that still hasn’t touched the euro and won’t for years. It sits in Wallachia, not Transylvania, a mix-up common enough to be worth stating plainly before you book anything. And the thing that actually earns Bucharest a plane ticket is inside the city itself: a dictator’s unfinished palace, a village’s worth of wooden churches moved into a park, an Old Town that’s genuinely cheap and genuinely fun.