Travel tips

Below we've listed some travel tips to help arrange and enjoy your trip to Romania.

Travel advice

Things are looking good! The travel advice of the Dutch government for Romania changed on 17 June from yellow to green. And Romanian government no longer enforces entry restrictions from 18 June. You can see the latest travel advice on the website of the Dutch government. And the lastest Corona related measures of the Romanian government on the re-open EU website.

Airlines

We recommend booking your flights with SkyTeam airlines such as KLM or Tarom. We don't recommend BlueAir, some friends and family booked with BlueAir and had their flight rescheduled to after the wedding.

Using card, cash and ATM

In Romania you pay using RON instead of EUR, the exchange rate is about 1 EUR to 4,9 RON. In most places you can pay using your Maestro debit card or Apple Pay, your bank might charge an additional fee or give a slightly lower exchange rate. However it's also recommended to always have some cash with you when to pay at a cafes or parking lots. From our experience the BCR and BRD ATM's give the best exchange rate. Do not accept dynamic currency conversion (DCC), since that will give you the worst exchange rate.

Getting around in Bucharest

You can easily underestimate the size of Bucharest. We recommend a combination of walking, metro and ride sharing via apps like Uber or Bolt. You can use Apple Pay to check-in to the metro of Bucharest.

Food and drinks

The Romanian cuisine has influces from Hungary, Germany, Greece and Turkey, this resulted in some unique dishes. Futhermore every region has their own speciality or twist. This means that the same dish will taste different depending on the place where you stay.

Romania also has a culture of eating a warm lunch. You'll see the queues of office workers around lunchtime. In our recommendations you'll find a lot of restaurants that also have a great lunch menu.

Restaurants in Romania usually have a mixed variety of cuisines. They combine tradional dishes with the international ones. To help you with your choice we've listed some classic Romanian dishes and wines that we enjoy below.