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4 Cantacuzino Street, Oradea, 410175, RO
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Mititei and me
I am traveling to Baile Felix this May. My flight destination is Budapest. Does anybody know the most effective way to get from there to Oradea / Baile Felix? Any idea how much by car?
thank you
I think from Budapest the best thing is to go by train. You can travel by train from Budapest to Oradea through Arad or Timisoara.
Jonathan
here is the website for train travel within Romania
http://www.cfr.ro/
There is one direct train between Budapest and Oradea, leaving around 3.15 PM from Budapest Keleti station and arriving in Oradea at around 9.15 PM. Then you can take a bus to Baile Felix, like the ones leaving at 10.00 PM or 10.30 PM, see:
http://www.autogari.ro/Curse/Oradea-BaileFelix/98-12560.html
You can look for more train connections on the Deutsche Bahn site (especially through Arad), they have train timetables for all of Europe:
http://www.bahn.de/p/view/international/englisch/international_guests.shtml
and on the Romanian railways timetables site:
http://www.infofer.ro/default_engleza.asp?lng=2
There are also buses between Budapest and Oradea, some leaving from Budapest at 8.30 AM and 3.00 PM, reaching Oradea at 2.00 PM and 8.30 PM respectively, at a price of about 17 Euros:
http://www.autogari.ro/Curse/Budapesta-Oradea/716-98.html
thank you
thank you, but I was looking for a private ride, like a taxi or else. Do you know if it's possible to find something to go there right to the hotel and how much would it be?
Maya
I'm sure that you can travel by car (most likely you could rent a car with driver) from Budapest airport straight to Baile Felix, but I think it will be rather expensive, because the distance between Budapest and Baile Felix is about 270 km (168 miles). But you would better ask about this on the Budapest page of this forum.
The best way, is to fly to Budapest. Then to get a train or a bus or minibus.
Trains leave from either Keleti Palyaudvar or Nyugati Payaudvar (PU). To find schedules look at www.mav.hu or www.infofer.ro (CFR Romania information website)
Busses and minibusses go from Nepliget.
You can try www.nepliget.hu or try www.gigimpex.ro
Also you can try to get eurolines,which has stops in Budapest and Oradea.
Not sure from Oradea, but I believe you can take a regular bus from the Autobusz Gara, near the Big Market. (The main vegetable marketplace, in Oradea)
Grtz,
H.W. Roos
Dear Jonathan,
you don't sound like a local Romanian! Cause I don't see the reason in spending an extra 4 hours going first from Budapest to Timisoara and then from Timisoara to Oradea. The very idea of it! Someone's idea of a bad joke!
There are trains that go directly from Budapest to Oradea, no vias!!!
Hey Oradea Dream
Free advice is only as good as what you pay for it. I was just trying to help a little. Perhaps you might offer the schedule of trains directly from Budapest to Oradea, instead of just telling me I was wrong?
I am sorry! I didn't mean to hurt your feelings! Take care and have a nice day!
You can find interesting information about Oradea on the folliwing:
http://www.oradea.ro/
(available in english also)
http://www.oradea-online.ro/
http://www.oradea.net/
http://www.bihon.ro/
http://szig.on.hu/
(Nagyvaradi Allami Szinhaz - magyar nyelvu oldala)
http://www.propaganda.rdsor.ro/oradea/fotografii.html
(pictures of Oradea)
Unfortunately you will find a lot of beggars in Oradea, there are everywhere: in the restaurants, on the streets, on the trams, on the railways, etc. The best way to deal with them is to do not give them any-kind of attention.
This is the place to have a hot choco. Actually it might be a bit difficult to choose. They have a complete hot chocolate menu. So you can imagine that every once in a while we have to go here and taste a new kind of hot chocolate..
This building used to be the Public Finance building and was constructed in 1895. Nowadays it is part of the general hospital. I'm not sure whether you can get inside and have a quick look. I didn't try. It is a beautiful buidling but unfortunately not so well kept. Hopefully as Romania recovers and this region starts to thrive again as well, this building and all the others will get the attention they need.
This is the biggest museum in Oradea but it is a very impressive one. I had just seen the national museum in Budapest which is a number of times bigger then this museum but i liked this one much more. Even though the top pieces were taken away just after the revolution..
For one the building is really impressive. The museum is housed in the old Bishop's palace that was build between 1719 and 1797. And inside you can only wish you had a dress of that time and descend the monumental staircase..
And then the museum itself..... I guess i was one of the very few visiters that day. I encountered only a group of 4 teenagers during my 3 hour roaming of the place. And every time i went into a room, the room attendant put on the lights for me. And when i left, the lights were turned off... Which i found a really strange experience.
There was a room with a special exhibition by a slovak artist Pavol Megyesi. And some of his work i really liked. So that was a really promising start. The rest of the first floor were pictures and objects. Nice to see but not too special. I liked the old stoves the most. I am not sure whether they've always been original to the palace als nobody around spoke enough english to answer my question..
The attic floor was dedicated to all kinds of objects that were used in the Bihor County on one side, clothing in the middel and on the other side of the palace they had mamoth skeletons... and all kind of other old natural objects, fossils and such..
On the ground floor, there was a part of the palace that was dedicated to the history of Oradea (Bihor County) from Roman times till the present day.
Last year there was talk about the church wanting the palace back. The museum is situated in this palace since 1971 and there is no building in Oradea that well suited for it as this palace. But it appears that in the last year the church and the museum have come to an agreement. I'm not sure how and what but the museum can stay in the palace.
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