Solo Female Travel in Bucharest

Solo travel experience

Bucharest is mostly safe for women, except the verbal harassment and cat calling can be annoying. Please use ubers instead of the yellow taxis, as those latter ones will try to trick foreigners into spending much more than they have to - sometimes even 10x more. Food is great, diverse and cheap. Everything is open until very late. Public transportation is subpar but there are plenty of ubers.

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The hostel i stayed at next to the train station really sucked, it was dirty and smelly with bugs, the dust hadnt been cleaned in forever and the area sucked, it was filled with creeps. The train station isnt the cleanest either. However Calea Victoriei was amazing, beautiful and really safe, filled with nice restaurants with good food and boutiques. it was a very touristy but pretty area. The national art museum is really awesome and cheap too. it has paintings from 1700-2000 featuring french, italian, romanian, spanish artists. It is huge. I also visited the Historic museum which has a replica of The Colosseum and toys and journals from the communist era which was very entertaining to see.

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In my opinion, Bucharest is very safe, and also very cheap. I felt safe, even when I was walking alone at about 1 in the morning. Tickets to museums and Uber were very cheap. Not everyone there can speak English, but they do their best to help you even with the language barrier. The hospitality of the Romanians is the best in Europe when it comes to the places I have visited.

Solo travel experience

I was alone in Bucharest last year and I really enjoyed it there. I walked around a lot on my own, there is a lot to see and do. Plenty of great food and drinks. There is a huge, beautiful cemetery (Cimitirul Bellu) where I walked around for hours, and also Cismigiu park is really beautiful. I went on a one-day trip to Transylvania, which was a bit tacky, but overall it was a great day.

Group travel experience

We loved Bucharest and Brasov. We booked a one-day tour with Get Your Guide, who took us to Brasov from Bucharest. Brasov is so charming. The Brasov sign (similar to the Hollywood sign) on the hill is also beautiful. In Bucharest, the Old Town was truly great, especially in the evenings. During the day it was more calm with all the charming cafes, my favorite was the Van Gogh cafe. I recommend stopping at Carturesti Carusel (carousel bookstore), at the very top there is a charming cafe with a view over the bookstore below.

Solo travel experience

I usually avoid tours, but I took part in an alternative tour about beautiful decadence, which was amazing and I had a great time with my guide! Also, in Bucharest, there is amazing coffee everywhere, so if you like coffee, I definitely recommend Origo and Steam, which were my two main stops. I also enjoyed walking up and down Calea Victoriei, especially at sunset! I really did not like the Old Town, so as soon as I left there, I felt much better.

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Things to do: - University Square - Romanian Athenaeum - Macca-Villacrosse Passage - Stavropoleos Monastery - Triumphal Arch Safety: I felt as safe as in any other large European city. Recommendations: Bucharest is a city that must be seen. This is something you probably have never experienced before. The city is dirty and beautiful at the same time.

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To Do: - Parliament Palace - Romanian Atheneum - Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum - Triumphal Arch - King Michael I Park - Cișmigiu Gardens Safety: I felt pretty safe, but it's a city with a population of 2 million, so you should be careful. Accommodation: I stayed at the T5 Social Hostel. Great hostel, wonderful people and I really enjoyed the atmosphere! Recommendations: Try to avoid taxis. They might try to cheat you. I recommend Uber, it's cheap and safe.

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I love history and food, so I loved Italian food and French pastries, and I also loved to walk on the cobblestone streets of the Old Town and look at historical buildings. The Romanian Athenaeum is one of the gems. The tour of the Parliament Palace was fascinating. The Communist Walking Tour was interesting because Romania has a very interesting history. Cheap Italian and French food were great, as a complement to Romanian sarmale, papanasi, etc. Oh yes, the Village Museum was excellent. I made day trips to Sinaia and Brasov, Bran Castle, which is right on the edge of Transylvania with endless amounts of things to do and see.

Bucharest is pretty much a safe city(except for maybe Gara de Nord and Ferentari neighborhood), easy to get around by metro, buses, trams, but my favorite way to move (especially at night) is by electric scooters - like Lime and Bolt, as they are the most efficient. Lots of new cool bars have opened recently - my favorite bars these days are Negroni Aperitivo Bar, Bar Ton, with prices ranging from 6 -10 euros per cocktail. If you feel like dancing Apollo 111 , Expirat Club and Control Club should do the trick, just check out their events online. During summer Sera Eden is a perfect spot, or J’ai Bistrot, as they have welcoming outdoor spaces. Some restaurants I like would be Arome ( all vegetarian menu), Wing Eat, Paine si Vin, Mom, Energiea, Centrale, Lente, Buoni e Bravi. Lots of good coffee shops as well: Bob, Origo, Meron, Beans’n’dots, Uzina Coffee. For me personally the best area to stay in is near Calea Victoriei and Cismigiu Park, as it’s in the center if the city, close to Old Town and many Bucharest sights - like the Romanian Atheneum, the National Art Museum, National History Museum.

Bucharest is a pretty safe place, but you should be careful at night if you are not in the city center. Never take a normal taxi, always an uber or bilt from the airport ( you can also taje the train, in 20 min you will be at the trains station and it is less than 2 euros. The metro is the fastest way to move around the city, it is open until 23 in the evening

Try to visit Ceausescu's private villa to see how the dictator lived in luxury, while the country suffered from hunger. Take a tour to the second-largest building in the world, Casa Poporului, visit summer gardens (Cafe Carturesti Verona, Gradina OAR), head towards Parcul Ioanid and discover the area of embassies. Go to Therme near Otopeni to enjoy an amazing spa experience, visit the Village Museum to see all rural Romania in 2 hours, try the best desserts (check out Mara Mura, Chocolat bistro, French Revolution for eclairs... all are located in the same area behind the Atheneum), try charming gardens at Hanul Berarilor and Hanu' lui Manuc during an outdoor lunch/dinner, if you are looking for a more luxurious pool, visit Pescariu Sports and Spa, Sinaia royal mountain resort, as it is only 1 hour away by train (check out Peles Castle). When I lived there, I often went there for day trips (check infofer.ro for connections and tickets).

Here are my recommendations: - Check out the most beautiful bookstore, Carturesti Carusel in the Old Town! - Head over to the artist for a reasonably priced molecular gastronomy experience - Have a beer at Caru cu Bere, - Visit CEC Bank and the monastery located right behind it - Tour the rest of the Old Town - Rent a boat in Herastrau Park - The Village Museum is cool - Hop on hop off is an easy, cheap way to get around the city - Artichoke Cafe is a great place for breakfast

I am a foodie from Bucharest, so I will focus on culinary recommendations. Take a stroll around Calea Victoriei, there are many good places to eat there. I recommend Coclinta Brasserie for typical Romanian pastries or Love you Choux for delicious desserts or Fika18 for amazing croissants, French Revolution for amazing eclairs, Vice IceCream for the best ice creams, and the list can be long. Everything is located on or very close to Calea Victoriei. For traditional food with a twist, I can recommend the restaurant Mahala, but Caru cu Bere is equally popular among tourists because of their very traditional Romanian dishes. As for bookstores, Carturesti Carusel is definitely the most popular, they also have another bookstore at Carturesti Verona and a nice outdoor terrace. In the city center, I can also recommend a restaurant called 'Le Bab' and 'Paine si vin'. Another nice neighborhood is Dorobanti (search on Google Maps street names like Paris, Rome, Warsaw, London etc.) Generally speaking, this area has all the streets with capital names. You can go all the way to Aleea Alexandru. This tourist cruise you can start from the Romanian government building, which is located at Piata Victoriei.

I'll point out a few interesting places: 1. Old Town in Bucharest - hundreds of bars, trendy cafes, and restaurants; 2. Revolution Square in the center of Bucharest is a place full of history; 3. The Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum - This is an open-air exhibition showing traditional Romanian rural life from the past; 4. Herastrau Park & Cismigiu Park; 5. The Romanian Atheneum is a beautiful building, the main concert hall of Bucharest, so if you like classical music, try to attend one of the concerts. 6. The Carturesti Carusel Library - a real experience. Amazing bookstore with a fantastic cafe.