GTR road trip to Romania

[BarryP]

Just got back from an amazing road trip across Europe. We spent several days in Romania driving some stunning roads in the Carpathian mountains, testing out the Transfagarasan Highway which Clarkson rates as the best road in the world.
Here's a link to my pictures from the trip: www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=528805

Edited by BarryP on Tuesday 20th September 09:33

[Kyodo]

Interesting stuff. How did you find the train?

[CarbonXKR]

That looked to be a great trip! Was the train expensive?

[Lordbenny]

Why on earth was this thread moved to 'roads'? A mod with absolutely nothing better to do I'd expect....it was posted in TRAVEL for gawd's sake which is where it should be!

[Zed 44]

Looks like a great run Barry. Was this one organised on any of the GTR forums? If so, I must have missed it. Damn.

[BarryP]

Kyodo said:

Interesting stuff. How did you find the train?

The train was fine, cabins were a bit cramped and only the deluxe cabins had a shower. One night on the train at a time was enough but it enabled us to sleep and cut out several hundred miles of driving.

[BarryP]

CarbonXKR said:

That looked to be a great trip! Was the train expensive?

I'll check on the train price but the whole trip was very reasonable as the group of us all organised it ourselves. Last year we did the usual Alpine and Italian stuff arranged by the GTROC and Automission, that worked out at £1900 plus fuel for two people, this year we had a more interesting itinery, much better hotels and it cost me £1200 plus fuel, this included hotels, tunnel and sleeper train. The total driving distance from my home was 2,200 miles so used about 100 gallons of fuel but it was quite a bit cheaper in Romania.

[CarbonXKR]

BarryP said:

I'll check on the train price but the whole trip was very reasonable as the group of us all organised it ourselves. Last year we did the usual Alpine and Italian stuff arranged by the GTROC and Automission, that worked out at £1900 plus fuel for two people, this year we had a more interesting itinery, much better hotels and it cost me £1200 plus fuel, this included hotels, tunnel and sleeper train. The total driving distance from my home was 2,200 miles so used about 100 gallons of fuel but it was quite a bit cheaper in Romania.

That's pretty good Barry. Our 3200 mile trip worked out at £3700. We were £1k for spending, £1k for hotels, £1k for ferries and tolls and £700 for petrol. 16 nights away.

[Kyodo]

Just a couple more train questions (sorry!). Do you load/unload the car yourself? enough room width-wise?

I only ask because we considered this approach last year, and still may in the future. Our issue is our car (a 360) is pretty wide and there's no way anybody else has a chance of driving it on/off!

Edited by Kyodo on Friday 23 September 09:01

[JayK12]

Great report.

I drove from the UK to Romania. Was a long drive but we did it in 2 days flat out lol. Also drove transfagarasan highway, but were snow blocked at the top (It was may). Those dogs look familiar, we encountered two that looked the same on the transfagarasan. Didn't get to do transalpina. But did visit Dracula's castle, Peles castle, Brasov, Sibiu, few other places I cant remember now.

Would love to go back and do the whole of the transfagarsan and transalpina.

[BarryP]

Kyodo said:

Just a couple more train questions (sorry!). Do you load/unload the car yourself? enough room width-wise?

I only ask because we considered this approach last year, and still may in the future. Our issue is our car (a 360) is pretty wide and there's no way anybody else has a chance of driving it on/off!

Edited by Kyodo on Friday 23 September 09:01

The train is tight but you load and unload the cars yourself, ramps are quite steep but I think you would just clear with a 360 and I would guess the R35 is probably wider than a 360.