The old steam engine at Parcul Tineretului. Most kids ignore the sign...
Most visitors never get so far (even though Bucharest In Your Pocket has long sung their praises). This is a shame. Tineretului and Titan allow visitors to the capital to see real locals living real lives; they are the antidote to the fitze crowd that throngs like flies on the proverbial sh*t to Herastrau.
Aside from the parks, what else is there to do with kids in Bucharest?
Currently we list these activities over at inyourpocket.com.
We are now working on a new feature for the next issue of the guide, which we would like to be the definitive word on visiting Bucharest with kids.
All suggestions greatly received
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Agree wholeheartedly. Herastrau is the most overrated park in Bucharest! Ridiculously busy at the weekends and full of idiots that have obviously driven there in their beemvees, parked up and got some ‘exercise’. Tineretelui, not beautiful but spacious and with surprising nooks and crannies. Titan for the nice, new developed areas and great area to have a beer.
Dr Johnon said there were two good things about Scotland; “the whisky and the road to London”. Here you don’t even have whisky. I have two kids and find it damn hard to find anything to do with ‘em at weekends as there are so few play areas or entertainment centres, or even restaurants where they have facilities (McDonalds being an exception here). The best thing I have found is routes to take them on bike rides, and there are plenty in Bucharest — but not the main parks (overcrowded) or the absurd bike lanes (more motorbikes than bikes); I take them on the backstreets, through the forgotten parks, round the vast wilderness at the back of Lacul Morii, along the Dimbovita. Exploring these forgotten areas can easily take up all your free time at weekends. And if you’re looking for a really nice bike shop, where they don’t treat you like a moron and they do have a good selection of ladies and kids bikes, go to http://www.veloteca.ro/
Agreed, no fun for kids in Bucharest!
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When I was a kid we would play football behind our block where there was a small field, just enough for what we needed.
We also used to race toy cars, shoot ourselves with water guns in the summer and with plastic pipes using paper horns or some wild berries that grew in some bushes around our blocks (search “teava cu cornete” on google).
Sometimes we decided that we needed to attack something and we would raise a small army of 15-20 kids with plastic pipes loaded with wild berries and we would hunt trolley-buses on the street: waiting for the trolley-buses to ride by and shooting wild berries at them
Since computers became widely available I never saw kids on the streets in my area. The football field has long been deserted, nobody shoots water guns anymore. As for the plastic pipes with paper horns… not sure if kids today know what they are.
I think nowadays kids living in Romania become mature too fast.
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