Family holidays in Romania

Our Romania family holidays let you see the places where myth and fairytale sprang, from Dracula to the Pied Piper – eerie castles, multicoloured Saxon towns with windows shaped like eyes. You can even stay with a real-life Count in an ancient Transylvanian village, while exploring a landscape full of bears, wolves and lots of bats! Our holidays will have you staying in the heart of rural Romania, enjoying the simple life: home cooked food from organic gardens and wood heated stoves, pitch in too with rural life and scythe hay, or ride carts. When you stay here for a week, you become part of the rural community, sharing skills and knowledge and helping keep traditions alive, and your money really does directly benefit local people: no myths about that.

Take your family from the tree-lined boulevards of Bucharest to the rural traditions of Transylvania where you'll be invited to pedal and paddle through glorious countryside as well as having the chance to saddle up and hit the Transylvanian trail on horseback. Aside from activities that can be added to a tailor made tour and accessed from centre based accommodation, Romania family holidays encourage a walk on the wild side with volunteering at the Libearty Bear Sanctuary a really rewarding experience for families with children aged over 14. It's often the simple pleasures that resonate most with families visiting Romania with warm and welcoming local people – still using horse and carts, scythes to cut grass, and hands to milk cows – conjuring up visions of the way things used to be against a backdrop of birdsong and refreshingly organic home cooking.

Although family holidays in Romania will usually feature a trip to Transylvania, to experience life in Sibiu, Sighisoara and the southern Carpathians, it’s worth mentioning the Black Sea resort of Constanta that makes a worthy extension to a centrally-located itinerary. Bucharest provides access to the coast and the mountains with a 2.5hr train ride north to Bra?ov offering an adventurous start to a tour that may well include vampires, bears and foreboding fortifications. Staying in Sinaia or the remote village of Miclosoara, in a guesthouse owned by an actual Count, opens up life in the Carpathian countryside. Here, a slower pace of life prevails for families looking to get back to basics.