Timişoara Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

The small, shabby bus station (autogară;493 471; B-dul Maniu Iuliu 54; 6am-8pm Mon-Fri) has six platforms from where slow state buses run daily to Campeni, Arad, Sibiu and Rimincu Valcea. Maxitaxis run daily to Oradea, Arad, Deva and Campeni.

International buses leave from the east bus station (autogară est), which is merely a few kiosks cluttered outside the eastern train station. Atlasib (226 486) goes to Italy, Spain and even Sweden. Eurolines (288 132; Timişoara.ag@eurolines.ro) goes to Budapest, Greece, Switzerland and Portugal, among other destinations. Call Murat (0744-144 326) – no English spoken – for bus tickets to Istanbul (€100).

Train

All major train services depart from the northern train station (Gară Timişoara-Nord; 491 696; Str Gării 2). You can purchase tickets in advance from the Agenţie de Voiaj CFR (491 889; cnr Str Măcieşilor & Str V Babeş; 8am-8pm Mon-Fri, international tickets 9am-7pm Mon-Fri). The station’s left-luggage office (24hr) is in the underground passageway to the tracks.

Daily fast trains include eight to Bucharest (€22.50), one to Cluj-Napoca (€11.50), five to Băile Herculane (€8.40), one to Baia Mare via Arad (€12.60) and three sadistically slow runs to Iaşi (16 hours), aka ‘the Horror Train’. Additionally, three go to Budapest (€38) and one to Belgrade (€14), which leaves from Timişoara at 5.08am.

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Air

Tarom (200 003; B-dul Revoluţiei 3-5; 8am-8pm Mon-Fri, 7am-1pm Sat) has four daily flights to Bucharest (US$75 plus tax US$5; Tarom does not accept euros) from Timişoara, as well as international flights weekly to European cities, and a daily flight to Milan.

Carpatair (300 900; www.carpatair.com) strangely doesn’t have an office in its hub city, only out at the airport. It serves nine Romanian cities and a growing list of international destinations.

Austrian Airlines (490 320; all-tsr-to@aua.com; Piaţa Unirii 6) has daily flights to Vienna for about €200.

Yugoslav Airlines (JAT; 495 747; Str Eugeniu de Savoya 7) runs daily international flights to Europe, Turkey and Ukraine.

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