Skiing Poiana Brasov

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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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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