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Stana de Vale -- Hotel Iadolina: No good alternative
Don’t go. Just don’t. Yes, it is a charming winding drive up the mountain, passing the horse-drawn carts every day, and yes the scenery is lovely. Some of the staff are even helpful. No, I don't have a better alternative, unless you want to try the Crisul Negru in Beius. But in the summer at least, too much of the clientel is local lowlife, and most of the staff consider waiting on these friends to be the full extant of their job. Other guests, at least of the American variety, are regarded with suspicion and even mild hostility. Why should they inconvenience themselves to get a coffee creamer for you (2 meters away) when talking with their friends is so much fun? The breakfast menu is limited for a resort: no fruit, no yogurt, no cereal. At the Sunday buffet, they will not get you anything not already displayed, not even hot water to make your own tea. The idea of waiting on customers they don’t already know seems foreign to them.
Transilvania Tours, the parent organization, did not communicate our internet reservation to Hotel Iadolina. This destination resort does not accept credit cards. If you must go, make it for dinner only – and bring cash.
The views are wonderful, there is hiking and skiing.
There is a nice chapel. recently redone
