Bucharest was the city with the highest number of tourist arrivals in accommodation establishments in Romania in 2025. According to data published by the National Institute of Statistics, the capital recorded 2,053,700 tourist arrivals in tourist accommodation establishments, including hotels, apartments and rooms for rent. In terms of overnight st...
The Bucharest of communist childhood turned small things into true domestic epics. A burst ball, patched with Scotch tape, could keep an entire apartment stairwell busy. A matchbox became a garage. A queue for oranges, toward the end of the eighth decade, could enter a family’s memory as a great battle of history. The Bucharest child grew up among...
Children’s Day is one of the best reasons for a family outing in the city. In Bucharest, many restaurants and terraces have started adapting their spaces for parents with children: playgrounds, kids’ menus, generous terraces, green areas, weekend programmes or special activities. However, before making a reservation for June 1, it is best to check...
Baccalaureate results remain one of the most closely watched benchmarks when parents and students compare high schools in Bucharest. However, a ranking based only on average grades can create an unbalanced picture, especially when the same list includes high schools with hundreds of candidates and institutions with only 3, 6 or 9 students registere...
Bucharest has more than 1,300 civil protection shelters, popularly known as “bunkers” or “anti-atomic shelters”. However, the official term used by the authorities is “civil protection shelters”, and information about them should be checked through official sources, not only through maps or lists circulating online.According to the official situati...
Rahova is one of the Bucharest neighbourhoods that still carries a heavier reputation than the everyday reality described by many of its residents. For some Bucharest locals, the name of the neighbourhood automatically brings to mind the image of the 1990s, rough areas, old apartment blocks and stories about safety concerns. For those who actually...
Having a child in Bucharest does not only mean the obvious expenses, such as clothes, food, school supplies or extracurricular activities. For many families, the real costs appear gradually: daily transport, after-school programmes, school trips, gifts for classmates, days off when there is no one to stay with the child, medical appointments, cloth...
Bucharest offers many options for children who need extracurricular activities, from sports, dance, theatre and music to robotics, foreign languages, painting, chess, creative workshops or holiday programmes. For parents, the challenge is not the lack of options, but choosing an activity that suits the child’s age, the family schedule, the budget a...
An important event in Bucharest can mean many things: a wedding, a baptism, a corporate party, a gala, a photo shoot, a concert, a prom, an anniversary or a meeting where you want to look polished without running across the city at the last minute. The capital has many salons, makeup studios, nail bars and beauty clinics, but this variety can also...
For many people temporarily living in Bucharest, temporary residence registration is one of those formalities that becomes important only when a specific need appears: enrolling a child in school or kindergarten, dealing with local institutions, accessing certain public services, proving that you live at an address in the capital or updating admini...