Skiing in Romania

More on the cost of skiing in Romania

by Craig Turp January 10, 2012 Romania

 We first highlighted the quite shocking cost of lift passes at Romanian ski resorts over a year ago, in a rant about the general state of skiing in the country. Since then there has been improvement – infrastructure wise, at least. Besides the opening of the Arena Platos near Sibiu (more hereafter) new lifts and [...]

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Bucharest In Your Pocket 74

by Craig Turp December 2, 2011 Bucharest

 Is done and dusted. It features lots of new places to eat and drink in the capital (assuming that they do not burn down between now and the time you read the guide), as well as a feature on skiing in Romania. This year has finally seen a fair bit of investment in the skiing [...]

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Is Poiana Brasov Europe’s most expensive ski resort?

by Craig Turp December 10, 2010 Bucharest

 Our annual whinge about the state of Romania’s ski resorts. For last year’s, see here. Bucharest Life – then known of course as Wimbledon Life – spent Christmas 1990 in Romania; in Sinaia, to be precise. In those days, skiing in proper resorts was still beyond the pocket of a junior civil servant, so we [...]

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Urban skiing in Bucharest

by Craig Turp January 21, 2010 Bucharest

 We really ought to try this, though something tells us we never will…

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Poiana Brasov: Nice place, shame about the prices and the (lack of) pistes

by Craig Turp November 11, 2009 Romania

 We used to have a genuine soft-spot for Poiana Brasov, a legacy of a winter a decade or so ago when we would ski there every weekend. As soon as we’d finished work on a Friday we would head off for Brasov, eat at Taverna (then just about the only decent restaurant in the city); [...]

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Balea Lac is the only serious option for a proper Romanian ski resort

by Craig Turp August 21, 2009 Romania

 A story in Evenimentul Zilei caught our eye this morning: Romania’s much-maligned (and rightly so) Ministry of Tourism is launching a campaign called ‘Schi in Romania’ (no translation required) and is splashing the cash on improving several of Romania’s tiny little one-lift ski resorts. The largest slice of the cake will go to Petrosani, the [...]

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