A couple of days ago we went to meet Mrs. Bucharest Life at Otopeni Airport, and while waiting (the flight was late) we got thirsty. Being an airport we knew we would be paying over the odds at the kiosk in arrivals, but even so, we were shocked by the price they were asking for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bucharest Airports’
Satu Mare: Romania’s best airport
Having written a couple of weeks ago about Bucharest Baneasa, Romania’s worst airport, time to give a little credit where it is due and write about the best: Satu Mare. Satu Mare airport in the north of Romania is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the world’s busiest. One small plane takes off for [...]
Trying to be objective about Baneasa Airport
Deserving of a holiday, Bucharest Life and family set off last week for the sun, knowing full well that the joys of a week’s lounging around doing bugger all (isn’t that just a normal week? – Ed) would be tempered by the horrors of using Bucharest’s Baneasa Airport. We have banged on about Baneasa and [...]
New Bucharest airport cancelled: Did it ever really need one?
Bucharest will not be getting a new airport anytime soon, according to this report published by a local news agency yesterday. While news that the Romanian government had cancelled yet another major infrastructure project came as no surprise at all (last week the government was embarrassed into admitting that a major deal to build part [...]
Elena’s less than steamy ‘stranded tourist in Romania’ hotline
Romania’s Minister of Tourism, Elena Udrea, this morning announced the opening of a telephone hotline for foreign visitors stranded in Romania by the closure of the country’s airspace. Apparently, cheap hotel rooms will be made available. Commendable. (You can make up and insert your own joke about Elena Udrea, telephone hotlines and cheap hotel rooms [...]