rhkkmk

has anyone had experiences with apartments in bucharest??....

also any experieces with renting either a car or an apartment through 'cars4rent.ro'???

lastly, any experiences with staying in the Unirii Square area??

thank you all...

bob

rhkkmk

any input

flanneruk

We had flats near Piata Unirii for nigh on a decade, though they were organised on a long term basis and negotiated directly with the owners. It's now three or four years since we moved elsewhere.

By some Western standards, it's a very mixed area. Most flats were assigned in communist days to surprisingly lowranking officials: policemen and the like (there are loads and loads of them). So most blocks had a complicated mixture of small (and not so small: before we took over one, it was the local office of the Leo Burnett advertising agency) foreign businesses, midranking state employees and sharp ladies and gents who'd made a few lei out of the post-communist confusion.

Public housekeeping was (and is) a disgrace: staircases and lifts appallingly maintained. Though most blocks look OK from the boulevards, they also look at the back to large courtyards, where feral dogs roamed and litter etc was no better than anywhere else in Europe: if anything worse than the once State owned housing estates in central London that were my other neighbours at the time (and that's saying something).

Security, though, was fine. I frequently walked back late at night with little more distraction than the occasional drunk or excessively interested dog. Many locals just throw stones at them (the dogs): I found shouting despatched them just as effectcively, and less dangerously. I don't know about car security: neighbours seemed paranoid about it, my driver had endless stories (he had endless stories about everything), but I never saw a car actually go missing and colleagues happily parked all day in the area.

Local foodshops were few and not very good: stocking up the cupboard meant a hike to bigger shops a mile or so away. There are a reasonable smattering of OK restaurants reasonably near, though getting back into town after 10pm usually meant going to McDonalds since many seemed to get bored and close surprisingly early.

Though Piata Unirii is sometimes portrayed as a kind of main square, Paris and Rome won't be looking to their laurels for many years.

rhkkmk

thanks for this info....

am i to understand then that this area is one of those that i have read about of endless blocks of communist era buildings, one looking almost like the next??

would you feel that we would be happy (married couple in early 60's) there for 4 days total while touring....it seems that the metro is at the square as well...

thanks for any advice

bob

takada1971

The Bucharest apartment rental.

I usually travel alone but this time I am with my friends from Bulgaria to spend a week in Bucharest. I was going to get a hotel room but my friends insisted we rather book a rental apartment so we can stay together. Even though the prices are generally cheaper in Eastern Europe, but the hotel is expensive! They also argued that the hotel charges a lot more than a good apartment rental. So we decided to go for it.


We found this one located at two minutes walk from the University Square subway station (city center). Intercontinental hotel is next door.

I have a satellite TV, but the Japanese animated cartoon channels with the original speech was broadcasted on Romanian subtitles! This means I still enjoy!

There is also a bathroom with a smaller bathtub. Of course, air-conditioning.

All needed in the apartment, towels of course, coffee maker and iron.

And washer! This is great! Even stay a few days during the trip I can wash my stuff.


Cleanup is two times a week. So not every day like a hotel.

And of course, no breakfast.

But from my own kitchen I have the liberty to cook, even buy food.

Finally it is a pretty good deal EUR60 per night to stay at the center (10000 yen per apartment).

The apartment is supposedly a two-person, with a sofa in the living room, one bed to the bedroom, for those who cannot afford much!

The company is using this site: http://www.in-bucharest.com

At the last. The landscape visible from the balcony. Yes, it is the building of that diabolical President:

THE HOUSE OF PEOPLE!

gpotvin

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jumperxxx

I travel often to Bucharest ,but because of the traffic and crazy drivers i prefer to use cars with driver ,i usually take this www.bucharestlimoservice.com ,their drivers are very nice people and they even negotiate with you the prices.