Travel to Oradea

Oradea's closest large international airport is Budapest's Ferihegy, which serves flights from all corners of Europe. Cluj-Napoca is another option for most flights from elsewhere in Europe.

Oradea also has a fairly small but increasingly busy international airport. This airport has TAROM  flights from Bucharest twice daily, as well as flights to Satu Mare and other provincial cities. There are international flights by private Romanian carrier Carpatair to places such as Ancona, Venice, Padova, Rome, Milan, Munich and Stuttgart, which are useful if you come from these places.

 Rail

Getting into Oradea is moderately easy, as from Romania as from Hungary. Most visitors arrive in by train, as Oradea is located at the western extremity of the Romanian train network. If you're travelling from Bucharest, there are two or three trains per day, one of which is a very comfortable yet fairly inexpensive night train, especially if you decide to travel in a refurbished first-class sleeper. Make sure that you take your tickets well in advance if you intend to travel by the first-class sleeper cars because the tickets sell out quickly.

The journey from Bucharest is a 10-hour, 650 km trip across Romania. Getting to Oradea from other parts of Transylvania is a lot easier and quicker - there are now fast InterCity (IC) connections with brand-new trains from Germany to Cluj-Napoca, Arad and Timisoara. Besides these, there are fast trains that link Oradea at least once daily with