Peles and Dracula's Castles Premium Tour: Day Trip with Historical Insights and Hotel Pick-up

Experience a premium tour to Peles and Dracula’s Castles in Transylvania, with historical insights, small group size, hotel pick-up, and a luxurious minivan. Discover the roots of Dracula’s legend and explore Romania’s history and cuisine.

Duration: 14 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Bucegi Mountains - Start your day by enjoying the amazing views that the most important passageway between the principalities of Wallachia and Transylvania has to offer. Prahova Valley is the most important destination for mountaineers and for winter sports fan in Romania.

  • Bran Castle (Dracula’s Castle) - At the medieval Bran Castle, commonly known as “Dracula’s Castle”, you will have the chance to immerse yourself into the legend of Vlad the Impaler, the main character of the Bram Stoker novel.

  • Peles Castle - The last royal estate of the Romanian monarchy, Peles Castle is built at the end of the 19th-century during more than 40 years of craftmanship, the castle represents a blend of neo-Renaissance and Gothic Revival architectural styles. Its interior has over 170 rooms decorated in different consecrated styles like Florentine, Turkish, Moorish, French and imperial, etc.

  • Bucharest - Back to your hotel

What's Included
  • Local guide
  • Driver/guide
  • Surcharges on fuel
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Tickets
Additional Information

Explore the roots of Dracula’s legend on a day tour and visit two of Transylvania’s most famous castles on a semi private tour, with maximum 5 people. You will be picked up from your hotel between 07:00 and 08:00 am and the transportation will be made by minivan equipped with top of the range interior. On the way to our first stop your guide will make you an overview perspective about the places that will be visited and approach topics like Romania’s Latin roots, Early Medieval times and the Muslim threat, Vlad the Impaler between myth and reality, Modern Romania and Hohenzollern Dynasty, Collapse of the Monarchy and the rise of communism. After visiting Bran Castle you will have a nice lunch in a traditional food restaurant and you will hear about the origins and influences of the Romanian cuisine. On the way back to Bucharest you can enjoy the car’s DVD system and watch thematic movies about Peles Castle and communist times.

  • Monday and Tuesday Peles Castle is closed and we will visit Rasnov Medieval Citadel
Location
Bucegi Mountains
Main Steet
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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May 30, 2023
A fantastic day out! - This was an amazing experience! I was lucky enough to be the only person on the tour and it really felt as if I had a completely personalised experience. Alex and Cipriano were my guides and they were the perfect combination of knowledge and humour. The banter between them added to the richness of the day. We visited beautiful sites and we were very lucky with good weather so photo opportunities were abundant. We ate a meal together in Brasov, they definitely know the good places, and by the end of the tour I felt like I had had a road trip with two old friends. When I return to Bucharest I will be looking them up again!
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78tugbak
Mar 27, 2023
Thank you Horia! - We had a great trip with our guide Horia, who is very knowledgeable and very successful in narration. Transylvania is a very nice and authentic place to visit. Thanks for everything!
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H8069edwilliamc
Apr 11, 2022
Amazing day, learned a lot. - This was an amazing day out! Alex really knows the history of Romania. He told us a lot about the castles and a lot of background info. Perfect tour guide.
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836profdeprof
Apr 11, 2022
A must-do when in Bucharest - Our guide was super nice and chill. He was extremely informed and gave us so much interesting background information on Romania and the castles. I would a 100% recommended thus tour! The car was very comfortable and the two castles and also the mountain landscape very stunning to see. We shall come back to this area
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971paulinac
Apr 11, 2022
Excellent experience - Amazing tour, our guide Alex made is very special with many stories about Romania,knew all the answers to our questions, very easy to chat with and could not recommend a tour with Alex any stronger!
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Z0illym
Sep 14, 2021
Great tour! - Alex is the best. The best guided experience ever. He is so friendly, and kind. I would do tour again, any time. Thank you Alex. Egészségedre!
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Daisy_s
Aug 7, 2021
Well Worth Doing - Alex could have chosen anywhere and made it wonderful. First class guide, perfect recall and knowledge of history that he relays with humor and insight. Bram castle is more crowd than fun, but reviews warn us going in. Pele's us fantastic, and if you are very lucky there might be surprises in store..
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Cheryl
Jun 11, 2020
An amazing day at the castles - We took this tour on 10th June, 2020. Excellent and knowledgeable tour guide, who's also a good driver. :-) The castles are amazing, and their history is incredibly interesting. We highly recommend taking this tour with our guide 'the Highlander'. :-)
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436kayn
Mar 12, 2020
Excellent Experience - My friend and I had a brilliant day out with the “Highlander”. He was very knowledgeable and friendly. The castles were beautiful and we had plenty of time to see everything. We were taken to a lovely restaurant near Peles Castle that served traditional Romanian food which was a real treat. Traffic was very bad but as long as you are prepared for this the trip is amazing. We had a great time even in the traffic with our own Queen concert 😀.
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Sharon_g
Jul 11, 2023
Good trip - I would left five stars but there was lack of communication tour company and viator but saying that the driver/guide was very apologetic and really tried hard to make our day special which he succeeded. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable about the history of both castles. I think this is a new branch of this tour company to offer private tours so still has a few teething issues. Quality of transport was very good, very spacious and good air-conditioning, music. Given a bottle of water and chocolate bar when we got in the car was a nice little Touch.
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