Offers at Romania’s Travel Fair

This springs edition of the Travel Fair has been the biggest so far: more than 260 travel agencies from over 25 countries and 50 tourist areas from all over Romania.

Daniel Onea, 21.03.2013, 15:17

Whether we speak about children’s summer camps, exclusive circuits, seniors’ packages, countryside holidays or city breaks, the offer is rich and early booking discounts are significant. Today we review the most tempting offers for unforgettable holidays in Romania, in 2013.

The first offer we consider appropriate to present is one of relaxation in Romania’s oldest spas, Baile Herculane.

The area’s tourism representative at the fair, Florin Bazavan, has further details: “The accommodation fee for two persons in a double room, breakfast included, ranges from 33 to 40 euros, depending on the season. Apart from this pricing offer, we have specific packages, and the discount is substantial. Right now we have an early booking offer, with a 30 per cent discount for the whole package. Early booking benefits both tourists and the travel agency, because we know we have booked all rooms for a specific period of time”.

We’ve asked Florin Bazavan for whom the offer has been tailored: “I invite all mountain lovers, in general, to come to Baile Herculane, particularly this year, when they can enjoy a special event. We celebrate 1,600 years since the spa was first documented. It is the oldest resort boasting documentary evidence. Also, people can enjoy the area’s numerous tourist attractions. I recommend the fortress in Mehadia, we have several Imperial Roman baths, buildings with a special architecture, that have been refurbished. In a nutshell, our resort is ready to receive tourists.”

We have also found a relaxation and well-being offer at the stand of the Mangalia Sanatorium on the Romanian Seaside.

Chief nurse Florentina Stoica has more:“Our sanatorium offers a combination of natural factors, which is unique in Romania and even in South Eastern Europe. Also, we have opened a spa wellness area, where tourists can have volcanic stone massages as well as aromatherapy massages. We offer nutrition therapies, fitness, sea and sulphurous water swimming pools: we have a very generous offer. We are a medical establishment, but you can also find basic information about the monasteries in the area, the Danube Delta and the tourist attractions in the region, in general.”

The seven-day package fee, breakfast included, stands at 700 lei per person, that is 160 Euros. Medical services are to be paid separately.

We’re not traveling very far from the seaside to have a talk with Mihaela Andrei, the representative of a tourist compound in Murighiol, in the Danube Delta.

She was kind enough to give us further details on the services provided in Murighiol: “We offer a wide range of services, from accommodation to trips around the Danube Delta. We offer leisure services, we have an outdoor Olympic-size swimming pool, a heated indoor swimming pool, a salt-therapy room, a fitness room and Jacuzzi. We have sports courts, several restaurants, a pizzeria and beer gardens. Apart from all these, which are included in the accommodation fee, we can also organize trips, which take from three to seven hours, along the canals in the Danube Delta. We organize trips to Sfantu Gheorghe, where the Danube flows into the sea, or to the monasteries in the region. We have all the means to fill in a seven-day package for a family or a group of tourists. The accommodation fees, which do not exceed 100 euros per room, include all services we have mentioned. Tourists benefit from accommodation, breakfast included and have access to a whole range of services on the premises.”

Another beautiful area in Romania, Rasnov, boasts a rich cultural offer. This year, the resort, which is famous among mountain lovers, boasts many activities tailored for both grown-ups and the little ones.

With details on that, here is Nicolae Pepene, the Director of the Culture Directorate: “As early as April we organize a short-reel film festival, on May the 1stthere is a European festival that we are also part of and at Easter we have an egg-painting festival. Tourists can take part in workshops and can learn the traditions of the Barsa Land. In June, the great festivals start: the Roses’ Festival is a festival typical of Rasnov, having the rose, the town’s historical emblem as the main theme. We also organize all sorts of workshops, as well as contests and concerts dedicated to that beautiful artistic symbol, the rose. As soon as kids have their holiday, the Play Mania Festival is organized. A family with children can spend a whole week in Rasnov. From Monday all through to Sunday, the little ones can spend the whole day in the citadel and the town, take part in workshops and interactive games. We take pride in running a project, which is unusual in Romania: the Archaeological Kindergarten. Jointly with a team of archaeologists, kids are learning the ropes of archaeology, on a replica of an archaeological site, with the unearthed artifacts becoming keepsake items.”

And the summer continues with the Rasnov Citadel Days, the Horse Riding festival, the Historical Film Festival, which is Europe’s biggest such festival.

We stay longer in the mountains, as the manager of an adventure tourism company in Brasov, Radu Vancu, brings you one last offer: “In Romania we have set routes in almost all the mountains and across the Delta. We have mixed packages for foreign tourists. Apart from nature, mountains or the delta, our packages include cultural travel activities, in cultural centers; we also include folk traditions so that people can get a complete picture of Romania. The mountain season in Romania begins in May and ends in September-October. The first trip we have on our schedule is to the Nera Gorges. The program is a mix of trekking and rafting. For those who don’t know, the Nera Gorges are an area of a breathtaking beauty. The program includes crossing over the Nera river, using suspended bridges, and following routes that take you through tunnels dug through the rock, along the shore, as early as the Turks’ time. The fee per person for a three-day package stands at 700 Lei.”

Bucharest, Iasi and Targu Neamt came up with very attractive city break offers at the fair. Rural and ecological tourism was also a well represented sector at the fair, but we‘ll be speaking about that in a future edition of Traveler’s Guide.