The Butterfly Villa Hostel Bucharest, Romania

Surrounding Area

Located near the main trainstation in the heart of the city but yet in a very quiet and cosy area, our hostel offers the ideal place for excursions in the fascinating capital of Romania. A lot of cheap and good restaurants are in the near. In case you want to watch a soccer game, the Rapid stadium is just a 5 minutes walk away. Bucharests biggest park (Herastrau) is just a 5 minutes walk either. 10 minutes you need to go to Piata Romana and then ahead to Piata Universitate, the most crowded places in the city, where live pulses and the nightlife is famous.

Accommodations

Our hostel is a beautiful, italian styled villa with an old garden surrounding the house. We have a BBQ-Area, where the grill is on all over the summer and when weather allows (Climate is very mild in Bucharest). For your recreation, you can have a cold drink outside on our terrace, or relax and watch some TV in our living room. Inside the house is all parchet, warm and cosy, modern equipped bathrooms with the highlight of our florence styled hallway, where you can enjoy to have a chat to other guests, or spending some time surfing the internet (FREE).

Rooms/Suites

Our rooms are brandnew and modern equipped with air condition, moskito net on the windows, parchet and carpets, just to make you feel at home. The bunk-beds are made of massive and solid wood with antiallergic, antirheumatic matresses and bedsheets. (All linen is included in the price for a night)

Amenities

We have a guest kitchen, where you can cook your own meals, the breakfast (included) is served here. You may use the fridge to cool your stuff. We offer coffee, tea and mineral water for FREE all the day and night.
Unlimited Internet Access for our guests as well as a wireless accesspoint for your laptop are offered as well.
In our living room we have a satellite TV with international stations.

Services Offered

The rooms are cleaned every day and as often as needed. Sheets are changed every day or upon your request.

Restrictions

Our Hostel is a non smoking house. The 2 teraces though allow you to smoke outside.

Other Information

The Butterfly Villa Hostel is the place where -once you flipped your backpack under one of the large, comfortable beds- you never want to leave again. With the founders combined 30 years of backpacking experience, you can expect the comfort and security of a well maintained resort in one of east europes most beautiful cities, also called "The Paris of the East"

Directions

FROM THE TRAIN STATION (Gara de Nord):

!!!!!!!! ATTENTION !!!!!!! DO NOT TAKE A TAXI WITHOUT READING !!!!!!!!! DO NOT ACCEPT ANY TAXI OFFER FROM INSIDE THE TRAIN STATION !!!!!!!!
There are guys hanging around the train tracks or elsewhere inside the train station awaiting tourists and offering taxi rides or other services whatsoever. DONT BOTHER !!!!! JUST IGNORE THEM !!!

!!!!!!! Lately we had reports about fellows hanging around the train station pretending to be drivers from Butterfly Villa !!!!!!!
THIS IS NOT TRUE, WE ONLY SEND A DRIVER TO YOU ON REQUEST, WHO WILL CLEARLY HAVE AN ID FROM US, JUST FOLLOW THE ADVICE BELOW !!!!!!!!

!!! IF YOU ARRIVE DURING DAYTIME BEFORE 11PM IN THE EVENING WE STRONGLY ADVICE TO TAKE THE BUS AS DESCRIBED BELOW !!!

Take BUS number 282 from the train station as follows:

As soon as you leave the train, head towards the end of the tracks, just where the rail tracks end turn left and leave the train station passing all the dead end rail tracks for the different trains.
If you leave the train station like this, just cross the street outside of the train station called Calea Grivitei. You just need to walk LEFT for a few meters to see the big yellow sign with "BANCA ROMANEASCA" on it.
This is where the BUS STOP for busnumber 282 is.
Attention, there are several bus stops at the train station, so please make sure, you are waiting under the big yellow "BANCA ROMANEASCA" sign, the bus stop sign itself is a white sign with a red frame written "RATB" on it and number of the busses serving this station (282 among others in this case)... Enter the bus
Get off the bus at the 6th station called Piata Domenii. In the bus, the stations are not announced, so please just count them until the 6th station, NOT including the one you enter the bus.
Leave the bus towards the back of the bus, right cross the big street (called ION MIHALACHE) on the pedestrian crossing and then turn left on the sidewalk of the opposite side of the broad road.
Cross a little street, pass a big building in construction on your right side and then enter to the right the next street called STR. DUMITRU ZOSIMA.
The hostel is on the left side after 50m, you will see a white garden wall and a door bow with BUTTERFLY VILLA written on it.
The complete walk from the bus is not more than 150m.

Before you enter the bus or the tram, you need to buy a valid ticket (1.1 new Lei = 0,35 Euros = 0.45 $). Look for booths with "RATB" label to get some. In front of the trainstation you will find one also written "BILETE" on them. On the other hand, if you talk in a strange language to the controllers (very rarely seen), they usually dont bother, but we DID NOT SAY this :))

The Taxis at the main train station are mostly private drivers and you are in danger to get ripped off, so disregard any taxi offers in and outside the trainstation and take the bus or the tram during the daytime until around 11 in the night.
If you arrive in the night we offer to PICK YOU UP for 2.50 Euros per car , please write to us or call us, we will arrange the transport...

If you really want to go with the challenge of taking a taxi then please head straight out of the trainstation and turn left towards the metro station ( a big M sign). The taxis there (and only there) have a company written on them (Taxi 2000, Cobalcescu, Leone, Cristaxi, Meridian, Domino) and these bring you to the hostel for a reasonable price.
Please make sure, that the price for the km (written on the left and right of the taxi near the door) is not more than 1.20 new Lei (or 12.000 old Lei) per KM. If unsure, please CALL US, we will assist you. But as said before, better take our pickup service or take a bus as described above...


FROM THE AIRPORT(S):

Bucharest has 2 airports, one in the city called BANEASA (the cheap airlines usually go there) and another one called HENRI COANDA (or the old name OTOPENI, OTP on your ticket).

If you arrive at the Henri Coanda (or OTOPENI) airport, it is best to call us or write to us and WE PICK YOU UP for (10 Euros per car)
A taxi is possible as well, but please make sure, that you only take Fly-Taxi form the airport. The Ride is about 15 to 20 Euros, since the Airport is about 15km outside of the city.
!!!! ATTENTION !!!!!! Usually in OTP there are guys hanging around the terminal building offering (or better say insisting) a taxi ride to the city, even having some kind of official looking badge around the neck...
YOU WILL END UP PAYING 50 EUROS, SO DONT BOTHER, JUST IGNORE THESE GUYS!!!!! If you reallt want to take a taxi, walk out of the building and enter one of the waiting FLY-TAXI.


If you arrive at BANEASA airport, we offer to pick you up for 5 Euros per car, just let us know... A Taxi is NOT recommended from Baneasa, since you may end up with a private driver (see above) and pay way too much.
As an alternative, you can take the bus number 205 and leave the bus on the second station AFTER you see the ARC DE TRIUMPH (Looks like the one in Paris, white huge bow)..
Leave the bus, cross two littles streets, pass a big building in construction on your right side and then enter to the right the next street called STR. DUMITRU ZOSIMA.
The hostel is on the left side after 50m, you will see a white garden wall and a door bow with BUTTERFLY VILLA written on it.
The complete walk from the bus is not more than 150m.

Discounts Offered

Stay 7 night (one complete week) and pay only 6. The seventh