Budget Hotels & Hostels
Apartments
Guesthouses and B&Bs
Golden Tulip Victoria Bucharest
This very stylish 82-room hotel opened close to the centre in 2005, giving Bucharest a much-needed modern boost. Stark rooms feature plush red chairs set before full-wall glass windows, and the lobby bar goes curbside in good weather...
Le Boutique Hotel Moxa
The rooms are small but stylish at this new 24-room boutique hotel, a few steps from Calea Victoriei. Padded headboards face the flat-screen TVs, there's free wi-fi throughout, plus a small gym and sauna to use...
Central Hotel
Above a McDonald's, half of the 61 rooms overlook busy B-dul Regina Elisabeta. Rooms run the 'modern hotel' template by the book.
Inter Continental Bucharest
Its 283 rooms brag of a 21st-century makeover (cranberry carpets, padded walls, wi-fi), and the 1971 tower playfully shows its period at times (dig the bubbly skylights in the top-floor fitness centre - but there's no joking about the pool's panoram...
Hotel Confort
This quite colourful place with shiny tile floors and rather basic modern furnishings is done up in pastel. Six of the 35 rooms have wall-of-glass windows and air-con. Back rooms catch bird calls, not engine burps, from the busy street...
Central
Recent renovations have left this place glistening, modern and comfortable.
Hotel Opera
Set on a back-street triangular corner, this 33-room, faintly Art Deco hotel goes for an all-out music theme inside (lobby nooks for violins, occasional hip-hop through the speakers). The rooms are small, but nicely arranged.
Rembrandt Hotel
This wonderful, relatively new 15-room, Dutch-owned hotel faces the landmark National Bank in the historic centre...
Delta 3 Hotel
Hotel Delta While visiting the Danube Delta can be a peaceful, near-spiritual experience, upon return most people have a mind for soft beds, clean bathrooms and a good soak. Enter Hotel Delta...
Grand Hotel Traian
The multilingual staff here will make you feel at home in this elegant hotel, designed by Gustave Eiffel. The high-ceiling rooms are awash in old-world comfort, with large, modern bathrooms.
Best Western Ambassador Hotel
Book here when work is paying. This is a plush, opulently furnished business hotel, with a sauna, gym and outdoor terrace...
The Funky Chicken Hostel
Just a couple of blocks from lovely Cişmigiu Gardens, this hostel occupies a historic home on a shaded street, with three dorm rooms that sleep 18. There's a kitchen to use, free cigs to smoke on courtyard benches, but no breakfast...
Burg Hostel
Perhaps more focused on its basement lounge (rock music, internet) and restaurant, this very clean, slightly sterile hostel has nice rooms of various bed counts - all with their own private bathroom. Breakfast is extra.
The Old Town Hostel
In a 450-year-old building with spacious dorm rooms looking over a main square, this simple hostel has the most atmospheric location in Sibiu. Dorms are better than the private room (which has four beds and no window)...
Rolling Stone Hostel
Run by a long-time Braşov institution (Maria and Grig Bolea) - often found lingering at the train station - the Stone is a nice hostel spot with hidden doors opening to more dorm rooms (some in the arched attics) and a wading pool...
Butterfly Villa Hostel
Bucharest's best hostel, run by a German/Romanian couple, is not the best located. The clean, two-floor hostel has three dorms and three bathrooms, plus two private bathrooms...
Kismet Dao Hostel
Set up in a rather dorm-type building, the four-floor, six-room villa is a good budget choice, with video games on the TV, playful staff, and good-value day trips to Bran and area attractions...
Retro Youth Hostel
On a quiet lane amidst 16th-century citadel wall fragments, the happy, superbly run Retro is one of Romania's best hostels. Two colourful dorm rooms upstairs have gold walls, moonlight windows, and sunshiny bedspreads...
Vila 11
Those really not wanting to deal with the con-artist taxi drivers lingering at the train station can walk their bags to nearby choices. Homey pension Vila 11, run by a Canadian family, is on a back street, and rates usually include breakfast...
Nathan's Villa Sighisoara
This traditionally popular choice (with free laundry and a bar) stays open from April to November only. It's 200m west of the train station.
Gia Hostel
It backs to the train tracks in a slightly dodgy area (about a 15-minute walk to the citadel), but the nine-room hostel has lots of good services (bike hire, car hire and internet access) is good for the in-and-out, one-night stop...
Concordia Hotel
London chic meets Transylvania. This 34-room hotel, one of Romania's most surprising boutique hotels, offers stark, giant, stylish rooms with zebra-print chairs and framed fashion prints...