Cluj hotel experiences, Cluj-napoca, Romania

    

Flying out to Cluj was not exactly an easy task. The connection was easy but I was traveling with my mom and my 96 year-old grandpa. This of course makes a trip like this quite a project. Where are the elevators and where are the toilets, are the most frequent questions :)

We drove by car to Munich and left the car at some farmer's place. It's quite convenient because you can simply drop the car off there and they take you to the airport. Once we managed to check in, we went to grab some lunch at the Flieger Bräu, which is a Bavarian restaurant conveniently located between terminal 1 and 2. I can recommend the place because of their Biergarten and imagine that a half liter of beer is about €2.
Anyhow, I was surprised to see my grandfather board a tiny Lufthansa plane, which was not easy because he had these really steep stair. We got into Cluj at around 5 pm and my mom and grandad were suprise how the 15min cab ride was only about €4, something we are really not used to anymore in western Europe.

Initially, we checked into this cheap Christian hotel type of place, but quickly found out that those stairs were not made for my grandad. I grabbed all the luggage and moved everything out of the room to find another place closer to downtown. We found a 3 star hotel called Victoria really close by which actually had an elevator and was pretty clean too. Unfortunately, it was some ex-communist Romanian hotel used by party officials of the old regime, so this obviously did not suit my grandad either.

I guess it's understandable when you consider what his generation went through in the past 50 years. We did find a nicer place two days later which was Hungarian-managed and that was very important to him... silly. I did not mind because the Victoria was really crap compared to this place called Agape, a very nice 4 star hotel in the center of Cluj with awesome service and good food.

Cluj - Oradea - Rome - overview

1. May 14, 2009 Cluj hotel experiences (Cluj-napoca)  ( 17)
2. May 15, 2009 Visiting Cluj for a couple of days (Cluj-napoca)  ( 12)
3. May 18, 2009 My trip to Oradea (Oradea)  ( 11)
4. Jun 1, 2009 On the way to Rome (Rome)  ( 5)
5. Jun 2, 2009 My first visit in Rome (Rome)  ( 181)
6. Jun 3, 2009 You must see Ostia Antica (Ostia Antica)  ( 32)
7. Jun 4, 2009 Public transportation in Rome (Rome)  ( 20)
8. Jun 5, 2009 Top things to see in Rome (Rome)  ( 27)

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