The Rough Guide to Romania (Rough Guides)

I used this for a 3 week road trip to Romania.Excellent for planning the road trip.Enough information for me to decide which places I want to visit.At that time (2017) was pretty much the only comprehensive Romania travel guide I could find.

A good detailed guide of the country.

Hard to find a travel guide specifically for Romania. This one was so helpful on recent trip! Pictures are great and information on towns, places to eat and see much appreciated.

Good information but not as easy to follow as other travel books I have read.

Better than expected and arrived earlier than expected. Very satisfied with this item, MA Ewing, NJ

Lots of great info! excited to bring along with me to my upcoming Romania trip!

While acceptable as a somehow quick guide to Romania, and while covering in general most destinations in this country, it could be easily observed by a Romanian-born reader that the author is not a Romanian and does not have any real knowledge about Romania. I never understood why travel guides are not written exclusively by people that were born and lived in the country they want to advertise. The book is ok as a quick guide and a average informational package for a visitor to Romania, and the author(s) had probably help with basic advice from Romanians. However, there are omissions that are bothersome in what regards certain touristic areas and even social or historical information. Just one, for example, inadmissible mistake - naming the city of Cluj as "Magyar city", along with Targu-Mures and Oradea! The city of Cluj does not even have a majority of Hungarian population (about 17%). Targu-Mures has about half population of Hunagrians and Oradea about 25%. Regarding the touristic objective, many omissions as well... Transalpina road is mentioned and "described" in only 4-5 lines, while it is one of the most scenic and one of the most attractive roads in Romania and Europe. The Ranca resort on Transalpina is not even mentioned at all. While describing the Sibiu region and presenting the Marginimea Sibiului area, the description is at best superficial. While one of the most ethnographically significant in the area and in Romania, the author introduces the reader to hardly two towns, and none of them the most significant. The village of Poiana-Sibiului, which is the "jewel" of Marginimea Sibiului, with a huge cultural contribution in the area and beyond, with a wooden church from 1766, is not even mentioned. Accomodations in turistic areas are presented really superficially, just two or three names in each area, and even those are not by far the most representative. Casa Humor, in Gura Humorului, one of the best lodges in town, is not even mentioned, for example. However, the author made a real effort to be objective and accurate (as far as his knowledge about Romania would allow him) and all in all this is a good guide, well informed and educational on most topics, but don't expect to get the full Romania out of it. Do your own homework if you travel, find out more about the destinations, and then couple it with this guide.

I've never needed to use glasses to read something, but the print is so small I may need to buy some to read the book. Not sure why a publisher would put something out that's so hard to reed.

Just got back from a week in Transylvania and used this rough guide extensively. Not only is it full of the usual things you look for in a comprehensive Romania travel guide (where to go, what to see, how to ask where it is and don't keep banging on about Dracula), it's also packed with persuasively written practical tips. On the basis of advice about the cost of a taxi for a particular trip and the common practice of overcharging tourists, I first confirmed the price with the airport and then politely challenged my driver who was charging me double what the Guide said the cost would be. I felt less embarrassed about this as, despite his being 6 foot two and looking as though he spent all day lugging around 12 boxes of earth for You Know Who to sleep upon, he left me to grapple my own suitcase into the back of the cab. I discovered that all the drivers seem to do this. But I'd had my porridge, so hey ho.

Before a recent holiday in Romania based in Bucharest, I checked out the Lonley Planet and Rough Guides in my local library to see which was the better choice. Unfortunately the Rough Guide was the 2011 edition and, when I received this 2016 edition I found it's coverage of Bucharest was patchy and difficult to follow. In particular, the maps that were not very helpful as either being too small scale or too localised and inferior to those in the earlier edition.We also visited areas near the Danube in Wallachia, and the coverage of that area in the guide was very limited.

I love these books for planning holidays and exploring. They are full of useful info but sometimes it is a little out of date (eg cost of things has increased a lot since the latest version was released). The restaurant info alone is worth getting the book. The cost is a bit high considering some info was out of date and that is the only reason I didn't rate it five stars! Still worth getting though.Oh and Romania was awesome, I definitely recommend going!

Used this on a train tour of Romania, it us excellent, well worth the money. Buy the latest addition.

A really useful book for a trip to Romania.The book is easy to navigate through with some nice pictures