Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
helpful at guiding you to make the best of the city and cultural events, finding accommod-
ation, and booking train and bus tickets. They also give away an excellent city map.
Travel Agencies
Casa Luxemburg
( 0269-216 854;
www.kultours.ro
; Piaţa Mică 16)
Travel agent of-
fering loads of city tours (9 to 14 lei) and day trips (50 to 90 lei); has a useful free map of
the centre too.
Getting There & Away
Air
Austrian Airlines
(
www.austrian.com
)
Flies between Vienna and Sibiu.
Blue Air
(
www.blueair-web.com
)
Flies variously to Stuttgart, London, Paris, Rome and
Milan as well as others. The Agenţia de Voiaj CFR office sells tickets.
Tarom
( 0269-211 157;
www.tarom.ro
; Str Nicolae Bălcescu 10; 9am-12.30pm &
1.30-7pm Mon-Fri, 9am-1pm Sat)
Has daily flights to London, Bucharest, Barcelona, Mu-
nich, Vienna and many other destinations.
Bus
The
bus station
(Piaţa 1 Decembrie 1918)
is opposite the train station. From this station
and from Autogara Q7, bus and maxitaxi services travel to:
Alba Iulia
(20 lei, one hour, 10 daily)
Braşov
(25 lei, 2½ hours, three daily)
Bucharest
(40 lei, 4½ hours, six daily)
Cluj-Napoca
(30 lei, 3½ hours, 16 daily)
Deva
(25 lei, two hours, three daily)
Timişoara
(51 lei, six hours, three daily)
Târgu Mureş
(20 lei, three house, five daily)
Maxitaxis to Cisnădie (6 lei) leave every half-hour from platform 9. Another microbus
heads west a few times daily, stopping in Sălişte (8 lei), 4km from Sibiel, and ending in
Jina (11 lei). Some village-bound buses also stop outside Hotel Parc. Three or four daily
buses to Râşinari and Păltiniş (9 lei, 1¼ hours) leave from in front of the train station.
Eurolines sells tickets to many European destinations.
