Romania Travel Guide 2026: Transylvania, Bran Castle, Bucharest, Bukovina & Danube Delta
Browse more guides: Romania travel | Europe destinations Romania Travel Guide 2026: Transylvania, Bran Castle, Bucharest, Painted Monasteries & Danube Delta I spent three weeks crisscrossing Romania last autumn, and I came home convinced it is the most underrated country in the European Union right now. Most travellers I met on the way had originally booked Budapest or Prague, then added Romania almost as an afterthought, and almost every one of them said the same thing on the train back: they wished they had given Romania more days and the other capital fewer. That is the position I want to argue in this guide, with prices, dates, distances, and the small details that matter when you are actually standing in a Brașov tram queue at seven in the morning trying to find a coffee. TL;DR Romania in 2026 is the easiest it has ever been to visit, and arguably the best value left inside the European Union. The country joined the Schengen Area for air and sea travel on 31 March 2024, ...