Why you should book your trip to Romania right now

I think you deserved, and I mean it from all my heart. You have been working hard for a few months, maybe years, and now is necessary to have a break. Afterwards you are going to come back with an enhanced joy of life and mood for work, I can bet.

An original culture is to find in Romania at any step (here a Dracula castle!)

Besides, I am deeply convinced, as a travel guide here, that Romania is one of the best travel destinations worldwide, as you can tailor your vacation according to your budget and interest. Most of our tourists are German, and you can imagine that they have strong reasons for coming here. Some excellent offers you can find on the site of Karpaten, which is nowadays the best incoming company for Romania.

If you are kean about wildlife, we have some ideal places for you, Danube Delta is only one of them

The major reasons for visiting Romania would be on one hand the prices. There still some bargains to be found in this magnificent country if you have a clever skilled travel guide. If you travel on a budget, you can find good offers with half pension for 500 Euros, one week. Probably much better than coming individual on your own.

On the other hand, another major reason would be the people. Normal, friendly, always ready to help are 90 % of the Romanians. The country is safe and very friendly to the tourists from abroad. If you go deeper to the countryside and discover the genuine Romania would be an event. Everything tastes better comparing with what you eat and drink usually at your home, bought from supermarket. You are going to notice from the appetizer, when tomatoes will be surely there. This remark doesn't apply only to tomatoes, almost all the food are bio products.

We have also some modern urban life: behind this group of happy tourists you can see the second biggest building worlwide, behind the Pentagon

You can ski in Romania, you can lie in the sun and swim, you can do also culture and archaeological trips. You can even discover in style, not necessary on a budget. More and more love pairs choice Romania as a destination for honeymoon, we have some romantic destinations indeed. You can even have your marriage in an Orthodoxe church, after the prior necessary baptism ( if applies).

The genuine rural Romania can still be found in some places, despite globalization! Here the wonderful Village Museum

If you are a wine drinker, you are going to love Romania, it is a wine country. We can organize for you wine tasting (with or without folcloric show) and you can also enjoy at every meal another sort of wine, e.g. Merlot, Muscat, Pinot gris and of course some sorts like Tamaioasa, or grasa, which are specific to Romania and let them not so easy translated or described. Please discover them in the right places, if you are brave enough and don't fear the consequences.

Keep in touch for any other details, I am sure that booking now means a good save for you. Afterwards, I am in charge to make from your booking an unforgettable event! Cheers, you are waited and welcomed here.

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Best destinations in Romania for honeymooners

It must be the best time of your entire life your wedding and honeymoon. Organizing your wedding in Romania is also possible, but I am going to limit my report of today on spending your honeymoon in Romania and how to turn it in an unforgettable experience.

Danube Delta is a must see during your Romania travel or Romanian honeymoon

You must be full of burning passion, and your partner must share these fantastic feeling of love. Totally devoted each other, you will melt with the rest of the mankind and of the Universe. Love is for sure one the meanings of life, and starting from your passion discover the universal love and compassion might be an excellent idea.

The Romanian Apuseni mountains are not impossible to discover, even for the brides!

We in Romania have a lot of legends about weddings, about love, about brides. One of the most beautiful among them refers to a lake from the Western Carpathian Mountains (Muntii Apuseni). The name of the lake is Taul Miresei, and it is said that the water of this wonderful lake had special properties due to the brides bathing there just before the wedding. Every bride, totally naked, was supposed to take this ritually bath under the surveillance of the elder women in the  moonlight. The bath should be very short, and the bride was not supposed to swim.
 Until one good day when an irresponsible nonconformist bride talled to her groom to watch the secret bath from a neighboring  hill. Also, she tried to swim, and consequently she suddenly disappeared leaving no trace, excepting her fantastic chaplet. It is a beautiful yet tragic love story, and I won't unveil you the continuation, hoping from the deep of my heart that your love story will be concluded much happier.

Luxury in the middle of nowhere: Hotel Four Seaons from The Romanian Western mountains (Muntii Apuseni)

Here, in Muntii Apuseni is my first option and proposition for a honeymoon. Namely, go in its heart, in Arieseni, and choice  the exquisite Hotel Four Seasons . These mountains in that area are not very open to anyone, but nevertheless accessible. Discover them, listen to them and to the locals sharing you gladly from their wisdom and legends, when they were also young, proud and beautiful. Sometimes you don't need the words anymore to have a perfect communication. Walk on the trails from these mountains, and discover the caves and the holes from the area (Scarisoara,e.g. charming and impressive).

Pestera Scarisoara is natural wonder of Romania

Another wonder of Romania where you can still enjoy the privacy of your honeymoon  despite the mass tourism is The Danube Delta. Very stylish and luxury, with a good restaurant, with swimming pool, lies in the very center of the city of Tulcea, which is not big, but charming and peaceful for sure. You can walk for hours in this beautiful city without getting tired at all, holding the hand of your beloved one. Walk in the parks, visit the museums of Tulcea. Next days make some trips inside the Delta and eat the gorgeous fish soup, cooked by a local. Don't miss it during your Romania travel, it is unique.

Hotel Delta from Tulcea is a good starting point to discover The Danube Delta

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Discovering Romania in style

Usually you don't need to spend a fortune to discover Romania. There are many excellent offers which are really cheap and totally satisfying,but  it still is Romania on a budget.

The Romanian Athenaeum is a landmark of Bucharest, hosting many concerts and other cultural events. Also important: it lies 200 meters away from the renowned Athenee palace Hotel!

But supposing you are not anymore on a budget, e.g. you have special reason or occasion (like a wedding or a honeymoon etc) or you might not want anymore to stay on a budget. And you still want to travel to Romania, discovering it in style! Allow me, ladies and gentlemen, to introduce you Romania in style.

A have a few suggestions, as also tips at tricks for pampering you in Romania, without becoming too expensive. My wish is to know Romania in style without spending a fortune for it.

Hotel Atenee Palace from Bucharest smells and breathes the taste of aristocracy

If you come in Romania and reach Bucharest, our nice and proud Romanian capital, stay please at Athenee Palace or Casa Capsa. The both look back to a long glorious history of 100 years and more. Let your imagination run and figure the Romanian politicians, aristocrats and landlords sitting on the tables from restaurants, having a great time time with dancers, actresses and poets. These two renovated houses will help you a lot practicing this interesting exercise with their flamboyant inside architecture or their exquisite kitchen. During WWII Athenee Palace hosted the Headquarter of the German Army, and its briefings with the Romanian generals.

If you wanna breath fresh air walking in the center of Bucharest, be by guest further. Very close is the Romanian Athenaeum, with many cultural events inviting you to take part ( concerts of good symphonic music e.g.). Not far, the National Art Museum with renowned masterpieces of notorious masters like Rubens, Rembrandt etc. Bucharest was good renowned as the little Paris and is still today very proud of this label, keeping alive a rich intensive culture life.

As an exercise before Miss Liberty from New York and Tour Eiffel from Paris,French engineer  Gustave Eiffel errected in Iasi The Grand Hotel Traian

Another place full of legends is the fabulous Grand Hotel Traian from Iasi, a former Middle Age capital of Moldavia. You can feel again an aristocrat, a really one in this wonderful stylish hotel, build by Gustave Eiffel himself, two years before the Miss Liberty from New York and seven years before the Tour Eiffel from Paris! During WWI after a disaster campaign against German troops, most of Romania including Bucharest felt under the enemmies, but not Moldavia and Jassy, where the king and the government found their refuge. And you can already realize and figure out again, the notorious Grand Hotel Traian has been  the residence of the king and the Romanian government for two years. 

Princes, kings and princesses, ambassadors, ministers and state presidents, people of arts, pilgrims in quest for spirituality, or businessmen always on road, they all lived one day of their own story right here, in the old hotel, "symbol of the French-Romanian cultural community, made famous by Eiffel himself". Please join this select exclusive club!
Glamorous, elegant and with a privileged location downtown, TRAÍAN Grand Hotel is, together with tha  Palace of Culture, "Vasile Alecsandri" Theatre and the Metropolitan Church, a symbol of Iasi City.

Maybe this is your representation of Romania in style: Sun Garden Golf and Spa Hotel from Cluj Napoca

If you are not the legend aristocratic kind, but rather the modern one, you also can find something appropriate in Romania, namely a good spa hotel. The Sungarden golf and spa hotel from Cluj Napoca is a brand new one, with all modern ammenities and even more, an amazing state of the art property! The hotel itself has no legends around, but the city Cluj Napoca (Koloszvar or Klausenburg) all around will offer you some interesting sights and stories.

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