DAY TRIPS · ROMANIA
One spare day and a long list. These 9 castle day trips in Romania are the ones that repay the early start, each with its price, its real length and the one thing to check before you pay.
Review of the Bucharest to Transylvania tour with Peleș Castle, Bran Castle, and Brașov, including costs, timing, transport, and practical tips.
“What a wonderful day, despite the extremely heavy snow Gabriel and the coach driver did a fantastic job. Really impressed with Gabriel, he was helpful polite and funny and certainly knew his stuff. Highly recommend! 🧛♂️🏰🚍😘”
Review of Bucharest’s 12-hour Transylvania day trip to Peleș Castle, Bran Castle, and Brașov, with costs, timing, tips, and honest drawbacks.
“A terrific way to see a lot of Romania and to visit hard to reach places. It’s a lot day, over 14 hours, but time well spent.”
Review of Bucharest’s 14-hour day trip to Peleș Castle, Bran Castle, and Brașov, with practical advice on timing, tickets, value, and what to expect.
“Had a great trip from the beginning to an end! Our guide Lucian was great! Very friendly, funny and informative. Made the trip comfortable and interesting. Everything was awesome. 💯 recommended 👌 lots to see 🏰 🌳 🌲”
Review of a Bucharest day trip to Peleș Castle, Bran Castle, and Brașov, with practical advice on timing, tickets, crowds, walking, and value.
“Otilia and Virgil were fantastic, otilia gave us a wonderful insight into romanian history, architecture We would ve been happy if we could see the peles castle from inside too, I highly recommend this tour”
Review of the Bucharest to Peles Castle, Brasov, and Bran Castle day trip, with honest advice on timing, tickets, traffic, guides, and value.
“It’s a long day. Gas station stop for bathroom break is a nightmare. 6 big tour buses and two bathrooms. Women queue was 50-60 in line. Horrible”
Review of a private Bucharest day trip to Peles, Bran Castle, and Brasov, with practical advice on price, timing, guides, and what to expect.
“Very interesting. Good tour. Castles were great. Brasov was lovely and a great place to visit. Very enjoyable day in Romania.”
Review of a private Bucharest day trip to Peleș Castle, Bran Castle, and Brașov, with practical tips on timing, tickets, guides, and value.
“Our day trip from Bucharest to Transylvania was very memorable and enjoyable. Our tour guide Alin was exceptional. He was funny and kept us entertained thoughout our trip. He sent us message few days before the trip with the link to buy tickets to Peleş castle which was very helpful. We left a bit early as suggested by him and we were the first ones in line to see the Peleş castle, which was the highlight of our tour. We also visited Brașov old town and Bran castle. Alin explained us all the history and interesting facts about the places. He ensured we are taking care of very well in…”
Review of the Brasov Transfagarasan tour, with Balea Lake, Vidraru Dam, Poienari Fortress, costs, timing, closures, and practical tips.
“Had the most wonderful day trip. Our guide was Charlie and he was excellent! Very knowledgable and very professional, always making sure we were comfortable and happy and safe. Charlie kept us entertained with details of the history and myths around the sites we saw. He also introduced us to some local foods when we stopped for lunch and my favourite desert...Papanasi...delicious. The views on this tour are breathtaking. i highly recommend this tour.”
Review of a private Bucharest day trip to Bran and Peles castles, Brasov, transport, costs, timing, guides, and practical booking tips.
“If you like mountains, history and gorgeous scenery this is your tour. Do not hesitate even if you have little kids, everyone will be smitten by the adventure on this route. Our guide Alin was absolutely outstanding, he went out of his way to accommodate us and show us the best of what this tour had to offer. Amazing and very caring! We came here knowing nothing about this country, but we love Romania now!”
A boat, a castle, a waterfall or a very long lunch.
