Travel to Oradea

If Oradea is your entry point to Romania, and you are coming from Hungary or Central Europe, there are five trains per day from Budapest to Oradea (some of which continue onwards to Brasov and Cluj-Napoca). Two of these trains are early in the morning, and one leaves Budapest in the afternoon and arrives in Oradea in the late evening, after about four hours.

There are many bus from Budapest (Nepliget) to Oradea/Nagyvarad. Many bus from Budapest who go in Romania stop at Oradea.

If you want to visit Oradea from any other place, the worst idea is to do it from Bucharest.

For a good domestic trip finder see Romanian Railways

For an international pan-European trip finder try Deutsche Bahn European Timetable

Bus

Intercity bus and coach services running through Oradea are strongly on the increase, and most of the residents see them as a welcome departure from what they see are slow, uncomfortable trains. This is due to the fact that intercity coach travel is very much a novelty in a country where trains and aeroplanes have been the primary form of public transportation for decades. Even today, train is by far the recommended way, being much more comfortable and increasingly modern and luxurious.

Bus services are private, and are either run by large cross-European companies such as Eurolines or small Romanian or Hungarian companies which operate coaches between, say, Oradea and Budapest