Bran Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

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There are a million ssouvenirs having to do with Dracula outside Bran Castle. Our travel guide says it is not the real deal. The souvenir sellers insist that it is the real castle of Dracula, known as the "impaler" because he drove a stake through his enemy without hitting any major nerves in such a way that the unfortunate victim died slowly ov...

So to Draculas home we go - Transylvania (well Bran as it is known here), and who would have thought Romania would be the first country where they would actually look at our passports!! As soon as we entered into the Romanian border, for some reason things started to go wrong with poor Winnie - firstly, the shelves fell down (again!), then the i...

27/6-28/6 We woke up to the smell of rain and by the time we arrived at Sinaia it was poring with rain. We were going to wait it out, so we could find where the palace was and a few other touristy things, but it just didn't want to stop. After an hour of this and when the streets had become streams, literally, we decided that Sinai was not meant...

(S) First a word about the title of this entry. There is garbage EVERYWHERE! This country is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful but plastic bottles and just general consumer garbage clog the rivers and beautiful little lush green valleys that run on either side of them. It looks like peasants then pick up these bottles, clean them out (although...

We ventured out with our group, including the Canadians, and took a public bus to Bran, the home of Draculas castle! In truth, its not really Draculas castle as Vlad Tepes didnt build the place and only MIGHT have stayed here once while in hiding from the Turks, but somehow it got its reputation as serving the dark lord and it stuck. Regardless,...