Bucharest Activities Priced in Lei, Day by Day Land at Henri Coandă with about 6 lei in your pocket and you can be at Gara de Nord within 25 minutes. The CFR airport train is timetabled rather than round-the-clock, so check infofer.ro for the next departure. Express Bus 100 runs all night, every 15 minutes by day and every 30 at night, from the Departures stop. The Bucharest metro does not reach the airport, and the M6 line is still under construction.

Bucharest Attraction Tours: A Booking Guide Three of the capital’s best-known tours will refuse you at the door if you turn up unprepared. One needs a phone call, one needs a booking or an online ticket, and one needs the right paper in your hand. The rest are walk-up. Here is how each works, with prices in lei (RON). The phone-only one: Palace of the Parliament The Palace of the Parliament on Strada Izvor accepts visitors on guided tours only.

Bucharest Day Trips: Peleș, Brașov and Bran Two castles, one old town and a calendar that does not forgive Mondays. That is the day-trip menu north of the capital. All three sit in the Carpathian foothills, well over an hour from Gara de Nord, and each rewards a different kind of traveller. The trains are the easy part. Opening days and ticket rules are where trips go wrong. Peleș Castle: for interiors The royal summer residence at Sinaia, built between 1873 and 1914 for King Carol I, has about 160 decorated rooms, an armoury and a Florentine hall in marble.

Bucharest for Couples: A Two-Night Plan Two nights is the right length for Bucharest as a couple. The first evening sets the mood with music, and the second slows down with dinner. A day in between buys you either a spa or a train ride to the mountains. Prices are in lei (RON), at roughly 5.3 to the euro. Night one: the Athenaeum Start with a concert. The Romanian Athenaeum is a domed hall of 1888, 41 metres high, with a 75-metre fresco of Romanian history running around the walls.

Bucharest Multi-Day Trips: Carpathians or Delta Romania’s capital makes a good base for a longer loop, but the two classic choices could not be more different. The Carpathian circuit is fast, tidy and run on rails. The Danube Delta is a slow, watery trip that rewards patience and punishes a tight schedule. Pick the first for castles and old towns, the second for birds and quiet. The Carpathian circuit, five days Spend the first two nights in the capital, then two in Brașov.

Bucharest Sightseeing: Free and Low-Cost Sights Most of the best things to look at in Bucharest cost nothing, and the paid ones rarely top 85 lei. The capital’s sights range from a 15th-century prince’s court to the world’s heaviest building, so the budget stretches. Figures here are in lei (RON), at roughly 5.3 to the euro. Free Stavropoleos Church. On Strada Poștei, this 1724 chapel is a small masterpiece of Brâncovenesc style, with floral carving on its porch columns and 18th-century tombstones in the courtyard.

Family Activities in Bucharest by Age and Budget Families sort Bucharest by height and patience, not by neighbourhood. A toddler needs a pushchair path and a playground, a seven-year-old wants slides and skeletons, and a teenager wants something to photograph. The sections below follow that order, with prices in lei (RON) at roughly 5.3 to the euro. Under five Parks and gentle outings suit this age. King Michael I Park, by Lake Herăstrău, has shaded playgrounds, skate areas and an electric ferry across the water.

Walking Tours in Bucharest: Routes, Metro and Tips You can see most of central Bucharest on foot in a day if you let the metro do the long gaps. A single ride is 7 lei and a 24-hour pass is 18 lei, so one pass pays off quickly when you link three short walks. This plan stitches the main ones together in a loop, with pointers on where to rest and what to avoid.

A 2-day Bucharest plan, city only, priced in RON Two days covers Bucharest’s core without a rental car: the Palace of Parliament and the Old Town on day one, then Revolution Square, the Village Museum and Cismigiu Gardens on day two. This nests into the 3 , 4 and 6-day versions below if you add time. Book these before you go Book the Palace of Parliament tour or call +40 733 558 102 at least 24 hours ahead yourself; there is no walk-up or online ticket.

A 3-day Bucharest plan, city only, priced in RON Three days extends the 2-day city plan one stop further: the Palace of Parliament and Old Town on day one, Revolution Square and the Village Museum on day two, then a free Little Paris walk and an optional Therme Bucuresti spa afternoon on day three. It nests into the 4 and 6-day versions below, and compresses to the 2-day plan if you drop day three.

A 4-day Bucharest plan, city only, priced in RON Four days adds one museum-and-neighborhood day onto the 3-day plan: the Palace of Parliament and Old Town, Revolution Square and the Village Museum, Little Paris and Therme Bucuresti, then the Crown Jewels and Cotroceni on day four. It nests into the 6-day version below, and compresses to 3 days or 2 days if you have less time. Book these before you go Book the Palace of Parliament tour or call +40 733 558 102 at least 24 hours ahead yourself; there is no walk-up or online ticket.

A 6-day Bucharest plan, city only, priced in RON Six days adds a slower neighborhood day and a proper departure day onto the 4-day plan: the Palace of Parliament, Old Town, Revolution Square, the Village Museum, Little Paris, Therme Bucuresti and the Crown Jewels come first, then Primaverii and the Botanical Garden on day five, and a cheap airport run on day six. Compress to the 4-day , 3-day or 2-day versions if you have less time.

Bucharest runs on RON, and it runs cheap Bucharest prices in the Romanian leu (RON), not the euro, even though Romania has been an EU member since 2007 and joined full Schengen, land borders included, on 1 January 2025. Budget roughly 4.55-4.6 RON to the US dollar and 5.2 RON to the euro through 2026, and check the day-of rate since the leu has moved a lot this decade. What that buys is a genuinely cheap capital: a big-ticket museum tour is rarely expensive, a filling restaurant meal lands near 100 RON, and several of the best sights, Revolution Square, Cismigiu Gardens, the whole Old Town, cost nothing.

Bucharest Puts Peles, Bran and Transylvania Within a Cheap Train Ride Bucharest is the arrival and departure city on this trip, not the destination. Land, spend a night or two, then ride the rails north into the Carpathians for Peles Castle at Sinaia, Bran Castle and the Saxon town of Brasov, and, with enough days, the medieval citadel at Sighisoara. Everything here prices out in the Romanian leu (RON), not euros, even though Romania is a full EU and Schengen member; figure roughly 4.

Four days: one night in Bucharest, one in Brasov, castles both middle days Four days is enough for the two castles that matter most, Peles and Bran, plus one overnight in Brasov so neither day feels like a sprint back to the train. This plan skips Sighisoara entirely; it sits too far past Brasov for anything under six days. Want more mountain time, the 6-day plan adds Sighisoara, or the full 7-day version.

Six days: Peles, Bran, and a proper overnight in Sighisoara Six days over the 4-day plan buys you the trip Bran and Brasov alone can’t give: an actual overnight in Sighisoara, a genuine medieval Saxon citadel a further 3.5-4 hours past Brasov, too far for any single-day add-on. Shorter on time, the 4-day version covers just Sinaia and Bran. The full 7-day plan adds a second Brasov stay to break up the return trip.

Seven days: the same castle spine, plus a second Brasov stop to break up the ride home A full week takes the 6-day plan and adds one thing it skips: a second night in Brasov on the way back, so the return from Sighisoara doesn’t turn into one brutal travel day. Shorter trips, the 6-day version does Sighisoara in a single long return, or the 4-day plan skips Sighisoara entirely. Full price detail lives in the Bucharest guide .