Get in Bucharest

City transfer

The Henri Coanda Airport is relatively lacking in means of reliable transportation to downtown Bucharest. To get there, travelers can choose between car rentals, taxi (Fly Taxi), limo service and public transport (bus line 783 running from 5:30 AM till midnight, with cheap prices). For the public bus, you need to buy a 2-trip magnetic card (or a city-wide contact-less card) from the booth in front of either the Arrivals or Departures terminals. You are not allowed to buy tickets from the driver. During the night, only taxi-service is available for Henri Coanda Airport. The only taxi service allowed to offer transfers from the airport is Fly Taxi (the airport has auctioned the service), all others being pirate taxi services. Look for the authorized taxi service, do not bargain, demand that the meter be used, and look for the tariff on the meter (for extra-urban trips, current tariffs are around 3.3 RON (0.9 euro/km). Being situated in Bucharest proper, the Aurel Vlaicu airport is easily accessible, either by taxi or public transportation. Taxi fares should be 1.4-2 RON/km (0.4-0.6 euro/km). Do not bargain and demand that the meter be used. Bus lines 131 and 301 connect it with Piata Romana in downtown Bucharest and bus line 205 with the Gara de Nord train station. Bus tickets must be purchased in the big booth at the bus terminal, and cannot be bought from the driver.

By bus

There are bus connections between Bucharest and large cities in Europe (especially in Southern Europe) and also to many large and medium sized cities throughout Romania. Bucharest has several bus terminals: Baneasa (for northern bound routes), Obor (east), Filaret (south), Alexandriei (south-west), Militari (west), and Grivita (north-west).
The timetables for domestic routes are available here: www.autogari.ro

By train

Bucharest is linked through direct daily trains to all neighboring countries' capitals (Belgrade, Budapest, Chisinau, Kiev, Sofia), as well as to Wien, Venice, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Moscow and of course to main cities in all of Romania's 41 counties.
All international trains and most long distance internal trains arrive at Gara de Nord (Northern) station, located quite near of the city center, to which it is linked by subway and several buses, trolley, and tramway lines. Some trains to and from the Black Sea Coast use either Gara de Est-Obor (Eastern) station, or Baneasa station. The other three smaller stations (Basarab, Progresul and Republica) are used exclusively for local and regional trains.
The timetables for domestic routes are available here: www.infofer.ro

By car

The city�s entrances from the north (the E15 road coming from Brasov), west (the A1 highway from Pitesti), east (the A2 (Sun) highway from Constanta), south (the E20 road from Giurgiu) and the avenues in the city center are very crowded, especially at rush hours.