Romania’s 2014 TravelFair

Romania's annual travel fair was held last week, with attractive early booking offers.

Daniel Onea, 20.03.2014, 12:51

Bucharest hosted the 31st edition of Romania’s Travel Fair. On that occasion travel agencies, B&B owners and vacation complexes got together with tempting offers for spending vacation in Romania. We could already see offers for Easter and for summer holidays. In today’s program we will outline some of the most attractive offers. We start in the west, with the resort of Arieseni, in the Apuseni Mountains. Cristian Pasca owns a bed and breakfast ready to receive guests who want to spend Easter there:

“Our package includes three nights accommodation, four days all-inclusive at the price of 130 euros. We include the festive Easter meal. Tourists can sample our homemade traditional drinks, plum liquor, blueberry liquor, cranberry liquor, and our homemade wine. We also have an Easter offer where we provide accommodation for any number of nights requested by the guest. For extensions, our semi-inclusive offer is around 30 euros per person per day. For the May Day period, we offer discounts, and the package is cut to 25 Euros per day.”

Lower down to the south, in Hunedoara County, in Orastie Mountains, we can find the only military theme park in the country. Actually, according to park manager Olav Bagyo, the only one in this entire part of Europe:

“This is a tourist park, a former munitions factory and military barracks turned military theme park. Right now we have 208 parking places, with a very large SPA center, with an indoor and an outdoor pool, two massage salons, a beauty salon, a gym, four saunas, and a restaurant. The park has the most varied activities you can think of: live ammunition fire practice, airsoft and paintball military simulations, military training, and rides with armored vehicles. On top of all that we have, we start a new process of development right at the end of this month. In 18 months we will have an Aqualand, a horse riding area, an artificial skating rink, a skatepark, 16 km of bicycle routes, a water tower with an elevator for bungee jumping, rappelling and ziplining, the longest in Romania, 700 meters. We will also set up a traditional sheepfold, which will also double as a restaurant with traditional dance and music shows for the foreign tourists, which are coming in ever larger numbers.”

The offer for two nights accommodation for Easter in a double room, the so-called ‘Officer’ room, costs 89 Euro per person, with meals and the festive dinner included. You also have access to all the park’s facilities.

In the north of Romania, in Bukovina, B&Bs also await tourists. The winter and Easter holidays are perfect for discovering local customs and traditions. Aurelia Badale is the president of the Vama Tourist Association, and also runs a B&B in the heart of Bukovina:

“We promote, at this edition of the Tourist Fair, tourist attractions in Vama, winter holiday customs and traditions, events such as the Wild Mushroom Festival, which is a local produce fair, with products based on wild mushrooms and berries. It is held in the third weekend in September every year. A lot of foreign tourists come to Vama. Some 80% of the customers at the B&B I run are tourists from all over the globe: Tasmania, Macao, South America, Singapore, Japan, the US, and Europe, of course. We are listed on international websites, and we are fairly known as a tourist destination. Vama is strategically placed at the place where the roads to the most famous monasteries in Romania cross, the UNESCO monuments Voronet, Sucevita, Humor, Putna, Arbore.”

A four-day package, with full accommodation and festive Easter, at a four-star B&B, costs around 78 Euros per night per person.

We now move all the way south and east. The resort of Eforie, on the shore of the Black Sea, is open all year long because it is a natural treatment resort. The accommodation offer there is quite varied, as Raluca Zaharia, manager of a three star hotel, tells us:

“We have great offers, with large discounts, between 30% and 60% off. We have diverse offers for the May Day holiday, with pool parties for kids on June 1, and early booking offers as well. Ours is a family hotel, with a lot of facilities for children. For instance, kids get swimming lessons, every night we have karaoke, we have a puppet theater, and children get participation diplomas. Parents have festive evenings outdoors, with live music. Every night we have traditional shows representing all regions of the country.”

Next, to the Danube Delta, called by some the Green Paradise. It is the only delta in the world that has been declared a biosphere reserve in its entirety. Starting in May, the airport in Tulcea opens once again after 20 years, to ease tourist access to the Delta. Iliuta Goian, from the Discover the Danube Delta travel agency, presents the latest offer:

“We have full packages at fixed prices, with everything included, irrespective of the number of people who book them. For instance, a spring trip to the Delta, as this is the best season for it, starts from 179 Euros per person. The price includes commuting by boat from Tulcea to Mile 23, a great circuit, three nights’ accommodation with full board and two full days on a guided boat trip. We have guides specializing in flora, fauna or geography.”

For more details contact your travel agency now. Don’t forget, early booking gets you substantial discounts, up to 60% off for tourist packages.