Bucharest Airports

Bad News Day

by Craig Turp January 11, 2010 Bucharest

 Two snippets of information reach us today, neither of which is much good… Firstly, after just six months, Aer Lingus is closing its Bucharest – London Gatwick route as part of a wider set of cutbacks in routes served from Gatwick (eleven routes in all are being cut). No real surprise, as whenever we flew [...]

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Bucharest’s Otopeni Airport: Free of Duty Free

by Craig Turp August 10, 2009 Bucharest

 Got this email this morning… I reproduce it as sent. Hi Craig, I don’t have your direct e-mail address, so I’m writing via the general office one. Future editions of Bucharest IYP should warn unwary travellers departing from Otopeni/Henri Coanda Airport that there is no Duty Free Shopping at the airport. After passing immigration & [...]

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Otopeni Airport: How to avoid Fly Taxi

by Craig Turp June 25, 2009 Bucharest

 The wealthy, or those who like to see monopolies thrive can ignore this post… It is much easier than you think to avoid the monopoly held by expensive taxi company Fly Taxi at Otopeni Airport, Bucharest main airport. (Of taxis at Baneasa airport, stand by for a separate post). Fly Taxi, to remind you, charges [...]

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Train from Gara de Nord to Otopeni dies quick death

by Craig Turp May 27, 2009 Bucharest

 It looks like the train from Gara de Nord to a field near Otopeni airport, opened with so much fanfare not so long ago, is about to be consigned to the history books. It is attracting few passengers and losing money (but then so is the whole of Romanian railways). Four trains will be cancelled [...]

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From Otopeni to Gara de Nord by train. We tried. We really tried.

by Craig Turp March 9, 2009 Bucharest

 Back from a week’s self-catering in south-eastern Sudan with little more than an elephant tusk as a souvenir, we arrived at Otopeni at the weekend to be greeted by an enormous blue sign in Romanian and (quelle surprise) correct English telling us that we could purchase train tickets to the city from the booth on [...]

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Bucharest 1964: A Thousand Thanks to Alex Galmeanu

by Craig Turp February 21, 2009 Bucharest

 Don’t know who Alex Galmeanu is, but he has a blog, and a site, which deserve your urgent attention. If I ever meet him I will shake his hand and buy him a drink: these photos of Bucharest in 1964 are (probably quite literally) priceless. I know not where he got them from (and unless [...]

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Train service from Gara de Nord to Otopeni Airport to start running in two weeks!

by Craig Turp February 9, 2009 Bucharest

 That headline got your attention, didn’t it? It certainly caught ours. So much so that we thought it had to be a joke. Then we read the actual article, and realised it was… For those who can’t make out the Romanian, here’s the ‘news’: An hourly train service will begin running in a week or [...]

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