Question for Clifton (or anyone else who has been to Sighisoara)
 

Clifton, read your trip report and was glad for all of the info.

We are planning to stay in the Hotel Legenda like you did. A couple of questions if you don't mind...

1) Were you happy staying in this hotel?

2) Did you find free parking or did you have to pay (at the hotel)?

Thanks!

Kevin

I am glad that we stayed at a hotel at the bottom of the hill, clock tower side. The town on the hilltop is in danger of being just for the tourist, although it has some major administative buildings in it. In the lower town we just parked in the street.

Kevin....I highly recommend the very nice Casa Wagner, plenty of parking on the street. It is a charming old hotel, very good dining room. I escorted 16 people as recently as October, and to a person they were all very positive about the Casa Wagner.

Stu T. [email protected]

http://www.casa-wagner.com/

Alyssamma,

Yes, we liked the Legenda very much actually. I wouldn't count on the breakfast despite what the website says, but the room we had was roomy and homey. We had the The Countess' Room as shown on their site www.legenda.ro

One thing to know is that it is more a guesthouse than a hotel. There is a arched gate that opens to an external walkway. We walked past the door to the "Old Room", then the office, then a door with some steps down into the breakfast room, and then the door to the Countess Room. After that, I believe there are a couple more rooms around the corner at the end of the walk and up some stairs. No lobby or front desk or anything like that. But the staff were nice, the bed comfortable and we'd stay there again.

I will say that the best food we found in the citadel was at Casa Wagner.

On parking, I think it's going to depend on when you go. You have to sort of envision winding around town in a spiral until you come to the ramp that will take you up and through the gates into the old town. Surrounding the walls are some business's parking lots and stone stairs going up to the citadel. And right at the start of the ramp up, there is a large lot where there are no businesses. This leads me to believe that parking is tough to come by at certain times of the year. In late October, we just drove right in through the walls (once we made several attempts to find the gate, parked below at a pharmacy and walked up once). Once through the pair of double arches, we turned immediately left where the streets are narrow, one-way and cobblestoned, drove past Legenda and parked just down the hill next to the church at the bottom. And we never did have trouble parking at that time of year anytime we came back from a daytrip. Midday was about the only time when it seemed full. I bet thought that parking lot at the bottom of the ramp indicates that in higher season that you'll be walking up. There are no places inside of the citdel that have off-street parking.

Still, having seen both inside and outside the walls, I'd chose to stay inside the citadel again.

I hope you enjoy Romania as much as we did.

Clifton (and others) thanks for the quick reply.

We are going in March, so hopefully the streets will be empty then too :)