Transport options

Some of the accommodation options would come with good deals for renting a car, so we’d suggest you first check with your hotels or hosts to see if they have any discounts or partnerships with any car hire companies

EuroCars have quite a few options, you can pick it up from the airport and drop it off at the airport. Prices start at €270 for 7 days (which includes insurance and road taxes). Have a look on their website if you want to find out more.

Autonom is a good option if you want to travel across Romania and want to catch a flight from a different airport than Bucharest, as they accept picking up from any main city and dropping off in any main city. They also offer options for dropping it in different countries, if you wish to do a roadtrip in Europe. 

Travis offers a few deals and discounts depending on your needs. The starting price is €110 for one day with a private driver (which doesn’t include parking fees, petrol costs or driver’s accommodation if needed for more than 1 day). They also offer self driving tours from Moldova to Romania and more. 

Nicolas Experience Tours do private day, weekend, week tours in various cities across the country. Most of them can include a tour guide. The prices vary depending on what city you want to go to, if you want it to be private (in a car) or public (with other strangers - in a bus). 

From Otopeni Airport: there’s a direct 25 minutes  train from the airport to Bucharest City Centre. It leaves just about every 30 minutes from the airport and a single ticket is just under €2. You can buy it from the ticket shop in the station (you might need to practice your Romanian on Duolingo for that one) or you can buy it online.

In Bucharest City Centre, most of the main touristic places are within walkable distance from each other. However, if you need to use the bus for any reasons, you don’t need to pay at the driver (how weird is that for all Brits reading this, right?) - you just pay by tapping your card on the card readers that you usually find in the mid section of each bus. Also, buses stop at each station and you don’t need to press the stop button, as we only press that in case of emergencies in Romania! Google maps is reliable and you can check the bus times and stations there. One tap of the card is about €0.6.

If you need to use the Underground (which Jamen and Amalia have never used in Romania before), you’ll have to buy a ticket from the underground station (or you can buy a card from the underground station and then add money on the card online). There 3 different Underground lines and a map with details about each one of them is here. If anyone chooses to go via Underground, please give us a detailed report about your adventures - we’d love to be brave enough to try the communist underground system one day!

The tram (another one of those we’ve never used before): it’s run by the same company that runs the buses in Bucharest, so the payment method is very similar - you get on the tram, you pay by tapping your card at one of the payment points. This is their website, if you want to check the maps and routes, but Google Maps is accurate for trams too.

If you are only coming for the wedding and aren’t planning on visiting much, this is probably the most convenient option. A drive from Bucharest City Centre to the Wedding Venue (about 31km) costs about €25, during the day on the Uber App. We also use Bolt in Romania, which is a very similar app to Uber and you can also download and use it if you prefer.

We are considering hiring a minibus for our guests to be able to get back to their accommodation after the big party. The details are not yet sorted, but more info about this option will be uploaded here closer to the date. Thanks for your patience!