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By Gold Voyage

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Free cancellation available
Price is €284 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 5h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup

Overview

    • Explore Romanian stories from the Dark Ages
    • Discover Romanian dark stories from the last 500 years
    • Take a ride with a private driver in a fully-restored Romanian Dacia 1300/1310
    • From Dracula to Nicolae Ceausescu, e red line of crime stories will be presented
    • Visit the place where Dracula was assassinated

Activity location

    • Bucharest
    • Bucharest, Municipiul București, Romania

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Bucharest
    • Bucharest, Municipiul București, Romania

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From Dracula to Ceaușescu - Romanian Terror Stories tour

  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 10:00
Price details
€175.90 x 2 Adults€351.80
Total
Price is €351.80
Until Thu, 12 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Hotel pickup and drop-off from your Bucharest address
  • Inclusions
    Professional local guide
  • Inclusions
    Restored 3-person Dacia car from the 80s
  • Inclusions
    Tour newspaper
  • Inclusions
    Personalised tour gift
  • Inclusions
    Water in the car
  • Inclusions
    Entrance at the Monastery where Vlad Dracul - Dracula is buried, at the Ossuary and the Natural Reservation

Know before you book

    • Not allowed: Luggage or large bags, Oversize luggage, Pets
    • Not suitable for: People with back problems, People with mobility impairments, Pregnant women, Wheelchair users
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

What you can expect

  • Discover the dark side of Romanian history on a tour through Bucharest's past, covering 500 years and 110 km in a classic Romanian car from the 80s. We'll cover 500 years from Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula, the actual founder of Bucharest, to Ceausescu's time, when the gigantic House of People was built and paid for in blood.
    Beheadings, mass arson, impaling or poisoning during Dracula's time to the 70s vampire serial killer, the phantoms of the House of Parliament or cannibalism in the Old City. The places where Romania's darkest stories from the last 500 years took place will be revealed.

    Self-made, overnight billionaire bootleggers during Ceausescu's time or million USD robberies from the National Bank of Socialist Romania complete the dark stories of this tour, each told in its historical context.

    The tour ends with a visit to Dracula's assassination and burial place, within a hidden Romanian monastery in a natural reservation that also hosts an ossuary of the victims from WWI.

    Highlights
    • A 6 hours private tour with a classic car which crosses the main city landmarks - The Revolution Square, The House of Parliament Square and the Old City
    • Stop at the Revolution Square, the House of Parliament and the Old City
    • Trip to the execution place of Vlad the Impaler- Dracula
    • Stop and visit the place where Vlad the Impaler was executed
    • Visit to the Monastery where Vlad the Impaler is buried
    • Visit to the Ossuary of the victims from the 1st WW
    • Presentation of the Natural Reservation – Comana
    • Return to Bucharest
    You will hop on or hop off at the main stops of the circuit, you will hear the most amazing life stories that portray the dark side of the life of Romanians from the last 500 years.

    What You Can Expect
    We meet with you at the hotel
    We present you the car
    We explore Bucharest landmarks linked to dark stories (3 stops), including the House of Parliament. We then travel to the assassination site of Vlad Dracul—Dracula near Bucharest. We visit the monastery where Dracula is buried, the ossuary, and the Comana Natural Lake Reservation.

Location

Activity location

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    • Bucharest
    • Bucharest, Municipiul București, Romania

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Bucharest
    • Bucharest, Municipiul București, Romania