Children friendliest places in Romania

Hoping you made a wonderful celebration of Christmas and New Year, allow me further to wish you from the deep of my heart a much better year than 2013, with happy trips, vacations, getaways  and travels (a part of them to Romania, please!).

This little bar from Focsani, The Robert's , is not for the little ones, but for their parents, enjoying an excellent boiled wine 

One of the most important asset of Romania are the people. They are happy, healthy, enjoy life and make excellent hosts. Besides, most of the people in Romania are very friendly with the children. In most of the cases, they are not angry, no matter what happened, if the damage was produced by a child. We love children, and in some places of Romania it is still usually to have more than 2 children per family. Now you can realize better, I am going to recommend these places of Romania as the friendliest children destination in this country of mine.

New Year scene in the small town of Focsani was definitely children friendly

If you want to know a part of Romania out the beaten path, remember and keep in mind the region from Vrancea, with its local residence and country capital in Focsani (70 000 inhabitants). Vrancea is very well renowned as a land of vineyards, and forests, but these thing are not appropriate to qualify it as children friendly destinations. Wine tasting are good for the fathers, the children themselves can visit a museum, there are a few interesting museums in the town (e.g. history museum).

To the delight of mostly all the children, Focsani had an interesting New Year  Party, with many stars singing on this opportunity.

The inhabitants from Focsani are well mannered and can behave very nice with anybody visiting this nice interesting town, a former industrial center trying to reinvent itself. They are friendly and very children friendly. The place where the inhabitants and visitors of Focsani celebrated New Year was very childrenlike decorated.

In the North of Romania you can find a the historical region of Bucovina, staying under UNESCO protection for its unique painted monasteries, very interesting both for children and parents. The landscape is hilly and totally charming, and the society seems to be still in order. The Romanian from Bucovina raise traditionally many children, they are addicted to children and really love them very much. Most of them are good story tellers, which will captivate and seduce your children. You can learn to ride horses in the small picturesque town of Radauti, will be an event for your children.

Planning your vacation in Bucovina is an easy task, I can recommend the Hotel Gerald's from Radauti, with a friendly staff and an excellent services.

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Traveling in Romania with children

It is not easy to travel with your child, or children , somewhere in the world, and Romania is not excepted. A child can spoil and harm your vacations, but he/she is after all the most important achievement in your life, and consequently you may not neglect him/her!

Romania is for sure one of children friendliest countries on Earth, and this fact has some simple explanations. One generation before, during the Ceausescu communist era, it was the dictator stimulating the birth rate. Abortion were forbidden, contraception tabu, Ceausescu should reign over more and more people. In the factories who used mainly women, from time to time have been organized controls for detecting from the beginning a pregnancy and preventing abortion. Unfortunately, due to the abortions made under improper conditions many women died. Anyway, it was a pride having more children, and the families with children have been intensively supported.

The Pension Confort is very close to Suceava, but very quiet and peaceful, and for sure children friendly

Any bigger or smaller hotel in Romania has a playing ground, where qualified personnel care about you children, if you wanna let them there. Observe also among the all staff a special love and care for children. Even if they have no children, which is uncommon here btw, they are able to find the right behavior for any much or less spoiled children. It is simply amazing, you will see!

I found the best places for traveling with children in Suceava district, and this happened with a little help of the hazard. I thought anyway searching children friendly hotels and pensions in Suceava, because this district has one of the highest birth rate in Romania. It is for sure a tradition here, and Ceausescu came to power in 1965 with a baby boom. It applies also for districts Iasi and Botosani, but I did not find there such  children friendly hotels and pensions yet, I am still searching and will keep you informed.

The pension Casa Vicu from Gura Humorului is in a wonderful neighborhood

The pensions I am going to recommend are not in downtown Suceava, they have own farm, garden and playing grounds. It will be a huge relief for you and your family! Another tip: there are a lot of cows in the area, and the milk products are natural and organic! Also interesting for the adults, not only for children!

Discover at 4 km away from Suceava, in Scheia, the pension Confort, which is rather small (40 places, 20 rooms), familiar and surely children friendly, with sauna, spa and even conference room. You have a bbq where you can even grill yourself, if free and available (pls remember the right pairing of food and wines!). The cooker is good, even excellent in the local meat rolls! From there you can make short trips in Suceava, Radauti and the amazing painted monasteries.

In Gura Humorului I discovered another children friendly pension, namely Casa Vicu. It is even smaller ( 8 rooms) and consequently more familiar, but lacks some amenities comparing to a good hotel or or even with the pension Confort; for your budget is even friendlier  for sure! The neighborhood is amazing peaceful, which made me so enthusiastic about it!

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