We wanted to see Brasov, Romania as it is was near some of the castles that are supposed to be the inspiration for Dracula’s castle in Transylvania, and is the heart of that region of Romania. We took our 3rd MyDayTrips route, and had selected two castles to see en route from Bucharest and Brasov. …
We stayed at the JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel [on points] which was beautiful and amazing. It was near the Palace of Parliament. To be honest, I was floored by Bucharest’s scale. Everything was bigger and grander than I expected. The scale of the city was off the charts, which had been part of Ceausescu’s …
We decided we wanted to visit Bulgaria and Romania, then stretched the itinerary West hit North Macedonia, and East to Moldova [the least visited country in Europe according to numerous sources, so of course we wanted to go!]. We thought we’d use Bucharest as our entry/exit point as we could book with airline points, but …
Why the Balkans? In all honesty, why not? We want to go everywhere and see everything, and we hadn’t yet been to the Balkans. Also, we had visited the Baltics a few years earlier and loved that region, and we wanted to continue exploring Eastern Europe. Now having been there, our top reasons to explore …