Bears Sanctuary, Dracula Castle and Poiana Brasov-Private day tour from Brasov

We started the day with Dinu collecting us from our central-Braşov Hotel at just after 8am. You need to be at the bear sanctuary quite early so we booked the 9.15am tour. The sanctuary is very well kept and away from any main towns or roads. The sanctuary guides are brilliant and the bears are just so adorable. The stories that accompany so many of them are heart-wrenching but it's great to see them in such beautiful and open surroundings. And they are fully out in the open; it's not like you have to search for them....unless they're in the foliage high up a tree. We then travelled to Bran castle. Dinu, with his perfect English, was a top-notch travel guide and was so incredibly informative about everything at the castle. It is a great place to visit. We can really recommend this tour. Dinu is a fantastic driver and tour guide and the whole day is well worth the money. Plus you get to see lots of this beautiful country.

We really enjoyed this tour, the bear sanctuary and bran castle we're both great, we had a lovely stroll around bran afterwards and then headed to the ski resort to admire some stunning views, our guide Ramona was fantastic, telling us all about the history of Romania and showing us some lovely sights whilst driving through some beautiful towns, I would definitely recommend this tour.

We spent the day very privately with Radu. In the morning we were picked up by him and then drove to Libearty Bear Sanctuary. Thanks to the fond memory of Ramona about a week earlier, we had already bought the tickets for 9 a.m. Which was also good as there are only about 40 tickets for the timeslot and we actually reached this group size. The tour was led by a guide from the Sanctuary and Radu has always given us additional information. In addition, he also asked questions for us because the stories of the guide were partly incomprehensible (partly also due to the group size). Since the group was very large and the guests were sometimes noisy, we often did not understand the guide. We would have liked the group size to be smaller up to about 12 people to just understand more and certainly this would also be more pleasant for the bears and also the guide. We are aware that Radu and Ramona have no influence on it now, but we still wanted to note this here. We continued to Bran Castle. Since we travelled during the holiday season, there was clearly more crowds of people. Again, Ramona had lovingly asked us to buy the tickets online beforehand. This allowed us to queue directly to the castle and not have to go back in line for ticket sales. Together we also got in line. Radu has suggested to us that while he stops in line, we can look at the garden of Bran Castle. We gladly accepted this thankfully and were able to explore the garden a bit. Radu said that we had actually made rapid progress. From our point of view, that wasn't quite so. However, we also have no comparison. The castle was very crowded and we had to focus on the stories of Radu. Radu has always involved each of us and provided us with information. The next day's programme should be a visit to a nearby ski resort. However, as we were less interested in this, we wanted to dive more into the culinary arts. Our wish was to go to typical Romanian food. Radu took us to a beautiful restaurant in the mountains. Not only the food was wonderful, but also the view. Radu, thank you for taking us there and eating with us. That was exactly what we wanted!:)