Bran Castle

Welcome to Romania !

Try to find the truth about Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler using a one day tour from MeetRomania.

The tour will include pick up from Bucharest Otopeni (OTP) airport, private car and driver service to Bran (Dracula's) Castle, Peles Castle, and Targoviste Fortress, and drop off in Bucharest or OTP airport. The cost will include: car, car insurance, fuel, road tax, English speaking driver. Does NOT include: medical or travel insurance, parking fees when visiting locations (if any), meals for the visitor/group, entrance fees for the visitor or for the group, photo/video fees for the visitor / group, lodging for the visitor / group, any other costs or fees that the visitor/group will add to the trip due to their desires/needs/behaviour.

Price per 3 persons - 170 US $

Price per 2 persons - 250 US $

Price per 1 person - 500 US $

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Day 1: Travelers hitting Bucharest will find it almost inevitable not to visit the Palace of Parliament, also known as the People’s House.

Day 2: When traveling to Romania, make sure you don’t miss the Danube Delta, a natural reserve included on the Unesco world heritage site list Also named Europe’s Amazon.

Day 3: The Danube Delta

Day 4: You'll see the muddy volcanoes, a curious place where the ground seems to boil with large bubbles, just like a genuine sci-fi landscape. At the end of the day we arrive in Brasov, one of the key destinations of Romanian tourism.

Day 5: There are tourist attractions accessible to everyone and those that can be considered surprising, only for connoisseurs. Today we’ll do a mix of the two: the most visited tourist attraction in Romania, Bran Castle, for Dracula fans (this is the place where the count created by Bram Stoker lived) and the bear reserve in Zărnesti, a wildlife sanctuary in the Carpathian Mountains.

Day 6: The list of original destinations from your holiday in Romania continues. We’ll cross the Carpathian Mountains from south to north, on one of the most spectacular roads in the entire world: the Transfagarasan.

Day 7: Sibiu is quite famed for its German influence and the rich cultural life, manifested mainly through outdoor theater shows.

Day 8: The country of Haţeg has plenty of legends about dragons, prehistoric dinosaur footprints being often encountered by locals. At dusk we’ll delve into the Corvin Castle to visit the cold, awe-inspiring Gothic halls lit by torchlight.

Day 9: Alba Iulia fortress has the shape of a six-pointed star. Sighisoara, with its beautiful, winding streets of cobblestone is the only European citadel where people have been living uninterruptedly since the Middle Ages.

Day 10: What you’re about to see today will certainly raise a few questions: at an altitude of over two thousand meters, there’s a rock chiseled by time and natural phenomena, with the shape of a human face. It has the dimensions of the Egyptian Sphinx, the similarities being striking, but it is much older.

Day 11: Your amazing holiday in Romania comes to an end.

Day 1: Welcome to Bucharest, a city first certified in documents contemporary with Vlad Țepeș, the prince whose personality and deeds inspired the legends of Dracula.

Day 2: We step into the heart of Romania, heading to Târgoviște, the capital of the region We’ll discover his ancestors, and later on we climb the 1480 steps up to Poenari Castle, also known as the Vlad Țepeș Castle. For locals this is the real Dracula castle.called Walachia in the Middle Ages.

Day 3: Today we’ll continue our experience in the Poenari Castle area and see places where the beauty of the landscapes chases away any thoughts associated to vampire stories. A carriage drive through Astra Museum, one of the greatest open-air museums in Europe is the perfect opportunity to see local customs and architecture.

Day 4: The life of the Romanian Prince Vlad Tepes was all adventure and drama. Today we shall visit the Corvin Castle. We’ll then visit another monument, closely related to Romania’s medieval history, the best preserved defense fortress in Romania: Alba Carolina Fortress.

Day 5: We experience such feelings when facing the fortified Church of Biertan, for instance, encircled by three rounds of walls, dominating the surroundings from afar. We then reach Sighișoara, whence the origins of Dracula emerged.

Day 6: Today’s sightseeing objective: Bran Castle, which has entered the top of the world’s spookiest places as The Dracula Castle.

Day 7: We then reach a unique place, Iulia Hașdeu’s Castle, a true esoteric centre, built according to directions received during spiritism sessions by Hașdeu, from his prematurely deceased daughter.

Day 8: Having acquired more truths and fewer questions, we leave behind Romania and its amazing history.

Day 1: Arrival – Cluj Napoca City Tour

Day 2: Today you’ll get an overview on the cultural mixture of Transylvania, shaped by over a thousand years of common history. Today’s agenda includes a visit to Banffy Castle where you’ll learn the sad story of the largest castle in Transylvania.

Day 3: The tour of Transylvania continues with a history lesson in the heart of Sighisoara fortress – monument included on the UNESCO world heritage list. We’ll visit Saschiz and Viscri, two small settlements, structured around the hundred-year-old churches. The two villages are often visited by Prince Charles.

Day 4: The tour of Transylvania continues with a visit to Prejmer, a church-fortress surrounded by white, 12-metre-tall walls, sheltering the church and the siege buildings. Brasov, one of the most beautiful Romanian cities is only 30 minutes away.

Day 5: Your holiday in Romania is completed with a tour of the most famous and …infamous castle in Europe, Dracula’s Castle, whose legend has been a relentless inspiration for Hollywood. The same medieval atmosphere is recreated by Rasnov fortress, dominating the surroundings from an altitude of more than 600 metres. The way to Fagaras fortress reveals, once more, the unspoilt beauty of Romania. Next in your holidays in Transylvania, we reach the feudal castle surrounded by moats and on our way to Sibiu we’ll stop to admire the old Cistercian monastery in Carta.

Day 6: This day continue with Sibiu, the elected European cultural capital in 2007.

Day 7: Today we discover a newly-added monument to the Unesco world heritage sites, Calnic fortress. Closely related to the European history is also Hunedoara Castle. The evening is reserved to visiting Alba Carolina Citadel, surrounded by 12 kilometers of sturdy walls enclosing more than 2000 years of Romanian history.

Day 8: Your holidays in Transylvania ends with a visit to a spectacular and quite unique site, due to its strange form: a huge subterranean cave carved in salt, a former salt-mine turned into a tourist attraction (Turda Salt mine).

Day 1: Arrival – Bucharest City Tour – Restaurant Count Dracula. Only a few kilometers away from Bucharest we’ll reach a charmed islet in the middle of a lake, with a small chapel inhabited by only one monk. The evening is devoted to the old historical center; the narrow streets nowadays filled with stylish bistros and cafés used to be witnesses of public trials whose merciless judge was the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impailer (Romanian Vlad Ţepes ), Dracula himself. The Halloween Party starts in a themed restaurant dedicated to Count Dracula.

Day 2: Bucharest hides numerous well-kept secrets and The People’s House, the largest functional building in Europe, seems to gather more enigmas and mysteries than any other place. Next in our itinerary is Brasov, an old medieval city at the foot of the Carpathians, surrounded by thick defense walls. It’s your first night in Transylvania!

Day 3: After breakfast we head out to Sibiu following the former trade routes taken hundreds of years ago by armies, caravans or fugitives. Among Transylvanian specific houses, the half-ruined tower of the Cistercian Abbey can hardly co unnoticed. Next, we stop in Sibiu to visit the old town with its large and picturesque square, and learn the secrets guarded by the city walls and the catacombs underneath. The evening’s attraction is Corvin gothic castle whose visitors never forget it.

Day 4: After breakfast we continue our journey through the region of Transylvania which has yet secrets to reveal, making your Halloween quite unforgettable. Later on we’ll reach Biertan where we visit the famous fortified church dating back to the Middle Ages, whose bleak image inspired many novelists. Sighisoara is closely related to the origins of prince Vlad, without whom Dracula’s legend would have never existed. We’ll pay a visit to the house where Vlad Dracul was born.

Day 5: Viscri is a small Transylvanian village near the Carpathian mountains where you’ll meet wonderful people. After a traditional Romanian lunch In the evening you have the unique chance to visit Bran Castle, the castle of count Dracula, lit by candlelight. Ielele, a kind of evil fairies present in the Romanian folklore will certainly try to lure you into the world beyond…

Day 6: On our return trip, we’ll delve into the enigmas of an even more mysterious palace: a somber castle whose chambers have strange symbols that many consider a gate to the world of the spirits.

Day 7: Your Halloween holidays come to an end but to story will be continued …