Prahova Valley
This pleasant three-star has no-frills rooms and an inviting restaurant with grotto-effect walls, strung with skiing paraphernalia. Next to the button…
Must-see hotels in Romania
Prahova Valley
Cabana Caraiman (2025m) sits on an outcrop with dizzying views of the valley below. Cosy though basic, this makes for a memorable night's stay. Call ahead.
Maramureş
The three rooms with shared bathroom are clean and homely in these central digs. The husband-and-wife team can drive you around. Meals cost 28 lei.
Transylvania
Forty-two rooms and suites, in bright primary colours and crisp monochrome, fill this amicable guesthouse. It's a 10-minute walk from the ski lift.
Bucovina
This modern place has nice rooms with great bathrooms, balconies and wi-fi. Some rooms have monastery views. The on-site restaurant is decent.
Prahova Valley
Comfortable modern rooms with safes, mini-bars and balconies with mountain views fill this 1600m-altitude hotel, near the cave monastery.
Bucovina
Near the Moldoviţa Monastery, this rustic eight-room place has cute, smallish rooms (bathrooms are simple), some with monastery views.
Romania
Pensiunea Laura is a wooden chalet with eight rooms and a charming restaurant conveniently located near the entrance to the Bears Cave.
Bucovina
Right outside Putna Monastery, Pensiunea Aga has 10 rooms, with those in the main house the best. No English spoken; breakfast 15 lei.
Moldavia & the Bucovina Monasteries
This pensiune has five double rooms with shared bathroom. Breakfast is not provided, but there’s a self-catering kitchen.
Székely Land
Plain rooms with pine furniture fill this magenta-coloured guesthouse, just off the main road at the southern end of Băile Tuşnad.
Transylvania
Right near the cable car up to Lake Bâlea, this lodge offers roomy but simply furnished rooms with dreamy views of the mountains.
Székely Land
This graceful Habsburg-era building is ornamented in stucco casts and carriage lamps and has 16 functional rooms with en suites.
Transylvania
These simple cottages and guestrooms are located on the road between Nucșoara and the edge of Retezat National Park.
Transylvania
Rooms feel faded, but Flamingo's location just outside the eastern gate of the citadel is hard to beat on value.
Transylvania
Pleasant rooms with alpine touches fill this amenity-rich hotel, which boasts a gym, jacuzzi and sauna.
Bucovina
This unassuming-looking home 30m from Humor Monastery is comfortable, with clean and modern rooms.
Moldavia & the Bucovina Monasteries
Simple, clean rooms, some en-suite, are available at this old Durău standby.
Hotel Carpaţi Imparatul Romanilor
Bucharest
This popular backpacker option in an old early-20th-century landmark hotel exudes a kind of communist-era charm; nevertheless, some of the 40 rooms have…
Transylvania
The plain rooms in a building adjoining the Brâncoveanu Monastery suit pilgrims, budget travellers, or anyone seeking a distraction-free environment near…
Cluj-Napoca
It's the location you're paying for with Meteor: the hotel stands on cafe-lined B-dul Eroilor, 250m from the main square. On our visit the rooms were…
Iaşi
Conditions have deteriorated at this old hostel, but shared bathrooms are clean enough and it's central. Ask for an upper-floor room as these tend to be…
Transylvania
If you're arriving by car and want to dip in and out of Retezat National Park without resorting to barebones hiking huts, rooms at Pensiunea Iris have a…
Braşov
Though it looks forbidding, the marbled lobby of this business traveller and tour group favourite sets the tone for upmarket rooms with good views from…
Transylvania
Simple hiking huts at a spectacular 1480m altitude, with trails extending from the door. It's possible to reserve a space via SMS. Bring your own sleeping…
Cluj-Napoca
Up a steep residential lane north of town, the simple rooms at this family-run pension make a pleasant base away from the traffic of central Cluj.
Prahova Valley
Shared dorms, electricity and running water are available at this hiking shelter (altitude 1509m). Simple meals offered (5 to 10 lei).
Prahova Valley
Perched high at 2206m, this hikers’ refuge has simple dorms and doubles, and there's restaurant on the premises.
Prahova Valley
This is a simple electricity-free refuge (2505m) with beds but no running water. Meals are available (15 lei).
Transylvania
A simple, wood-lined hiking lodge 35km south of Haţeg, by the northwestern boundary of Retezat National Park.
Prahova Valley
No-frills three- and four-bed dorms and homespun Romanian cuisine by the shores of Lake Bolboci.
Wallachia
A good-value pension located directly across the street from the entrance to the Princely Court.
Transylvania
Simple hostel-style accommodation for hikers, and meals are available on request.
