Visited Bucharest during May, with a few friends. Weekend trip with mates, beats the expectation. So much do during the day and so much more to offer during the night. If feels like the old town never sleeps. We lived very central, about few mins walk from the old town. City has a lot to see, we didn't try to do too much, Took it very easy and covered a lot of main places by foot. Old town streets were buzzing even at 2am midnight. Lots of youngsters, will make you feel older :-) If you have time, wander out for a day trip to the famous dracula castle, hotel Transylvania. Won't be disappointed.

We met at the fountains; piatsa unirii under the big clock. Ancha the guide gave us a short introduction to the history of Rumania and Bucharest. We learnt that 80% of the population belong to the Orthodox Chruch and that there are over 300 churches in Bucharest. Some of the churches were moved or destroyed during Ceaucescu time as well as apartment blocks to give space for his grand plans for the city.She showed us Manucs and Cara cu bere. It was good to get to know these places to come back for a good meal. She also gave us personal information how it is to live i Rumania today. The tour can be recommened.

After an initial hiccup where the tour guide misunderstood the meeting time, we managed to reschedule with Anamaria. Since we had already been in Bucharest for a week and already did a long tour of old town, we asked her to take us directly to the wine bar and talk about the wines and the regions. She is very knowledgeable about that and Romanian history. We ended up having a fantastic time just sitting in the wine bar and talking about history and many other things. We had a great time, the cheese board was excellent, and the wines were fantastic too. The 4 rating is only because of the misunderstanding for the initial tour. Our experience would have been different if we had done this at the beginning of our trip as originally planned. Though we still very much enjoyed it.

Ana our tour guide was fantastic. Gave us lots of history and even gave me information about Romanian music that wasn't part of the tour, I just wanted to go record shopping! I wish I could remember the name of the cafe where we had lemonade, but I highly recommend the strawberry lemonade! The old city center of Bucharest is stone paved, so wear comfy shoes. The stones are sometimes loose, and you will be miserable if you just wear flats or flip flops.

Seems like the city is stuck somewhere in the 80's or something. As the building were built at some point, nobody has been taking care of them since then. Except a few nice buildings once in a while, this is not a place to visit. Unpleasent, dirty, crumbling.

A great time to be had! A nice, leisurely stroll, seeing all the new places coming up, the new happenings, yet reflecting back on how things were a long time ago.