Mamaia

Romanian Tourism Ministry gets it (partly) right. At last

by Craig Turp March 26, 2010 Bucharest

 Now there’s a nice surprise. News reaches us today that everybody’s favourite Tourism Minister, Elena Udrea, has taken the sound advice offered here by our good selves (and, we doubt not, in many other places by many other people) and finally realised that Romania – as a tourist destination – cannot be all things to [...]

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Bucharest, Old Chap

by Craig Turp October 7, 2009 Bucharest

 Marvellous. Cancel your appointments and spend the rest of the week browsing this lot… The British Pathe News Romania/Bucharest Archive For those of you who might be a little busy, we have picked out a few gems… Bucharest, 1961 (in colour) Love the clipped accent of the commentator: pure Pathe News. It has been edited [...]

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The Romanian Riviera: It’s expensive and the weather’s awful

by Craig Turp July 10, 2009 Romania

 Just a quick couple of thoughts on why Romania’s seaside hotels are empty this year… 1. They are too expensive. Average prices of all kinds of hotel are far more expensive than in Turkey, Greece or Bulgaria. In exchange for higher prices visitors rarely get full board, or All Inclusive as its now known, and [...]

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Mamaia Mia

by Craig Turp June 19, 2007 Travel

 If the Romanian coast is so appalling, with huge numbers of Romanians voting with their feet and heading over the border to Bulgaria for their summer holidays, why does the country’s ‘elite’ insist on hanging out in Mamaia, Romania’s ‘top’ (everything’s relative) beach resort? Answer: Mamaia sums up just about everything that is wrong with [...]

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