Talk:Bucharest

Removed districts

I removed this pointless list of districts that was in the almost pointless district section. But I leave it here in the hope that someone will eventually use it when this article gets to a decent size and needs to be split off to districts. (WT-en) Tim 02:38, 20 August 2006 (EDT)

In alphabetical order, these neighbourhoods are:

• 1 Mai
• Aviatiei
• Balta Albă
• Băneasa
• Berceni
• Centru (divided in Victoriei, Romană, Universitatii and Unirii)
• Chitila
• Colentina(Europa shop)
• Cotroceni
• Crângaşi
• Drumul Taberei
• Ferentari
• Floreasca
• Gara de Nord
• Giuleşti
• Giurgiului
• Iancului
• Militari
• Obor
• Orzari
• Pantelimon
• Primăverii
• Rahova
• Titan
• Vitan

RON=Leu

I know that for peasan children it's hard to compute that the new Leu means precisely 10 000 old ones, but for clarity's sake - the National money equals LEU and not RON, ROL or whatever you might call it. Maybe it was useful for your village general store to differentiate between the two currencies some time ago, but there is NO MORE confusion. And there shouldn't be.

Speaking English

Quoting from the text : "Most educated people born after about 2000 will speak reasonably good English " People born after 2000 are at most 9 years old and are hardly educated, let alone good English speakers. There is a correction to be made there.

Please just go ahead and change the sentence. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 21:38, 19 January 2010 (EST)

Short term rental apartaments in Bucharest - clarifications

Hi, I have seen that you consider that the listing of short term rental apartaments does not comply with the policy of Wikivoyage for Bucharest. I find that hard to grasp, because since we started the business, 6 years ago, many foreigners who came in Bucharest to work or to travel, and have chosen to use our services ( and other companies as well ) really appreciated they could use this type of accommodation while they were here. This is really a very comptetitive way of reducing your costs and increase the comfort while visiting Bucharest ( short or long term ). Isn't this what every traveller wants ? - to visit a place, but do it while they minimize their expenses ? If this Bucharest page on Wikivoyage wouldn't have a section for accommodation, I wouldn't mind your refusal to allow this listing. But not accepting it, while allowing other types of accommodation businesses show up here, seem like discrimination to me and it is against the spirit of this project. I asked you the question if you've ever been to Bucharest and used this type of services and it seems it was hard to answer it.

We have a lot of big companies ( multinationals) that use our services and this idustry is very developed in Bucharest. If you look at our website you will see that we have a big portofolio. Does this ring a bell ? If you continue to unlist this type of accommodation, I think the one that should be blacklisted should be you not the companies that try to list themselves here.

Please think about it and allow the listing, to be able to let the people that enter this site to have a complete list of choices when it comes to Bucharest accommodation.

Best regards ! —The preceding comment was added by (WT-en) 92.80.21.198 (talk • contribs)

As outlined in the apartment listing policy, there is no argument here that short term apartment rentals are a common accommodation option for travelers to Bucharest, nor any indication that the user in question wants to list apartment rentals for any purpose other than to gain visibility for his/her own business, so I see no reason based on the argument presented to make a policy exception in this case. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 12:04, 10 June 2010 (EDT)

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Unless you de-list all the hotels on this page , I consider it an unresolved issue, because I cannot agree that a person can censor a form of accommodation ( against others) just on the basis that he thinks that "there is no argument here that short term apartment rentals are a common accommodation option for travelers". May I ask you where do you take your arguments from ? Have you ever visited Bucharest in the first place to know what is relevant and what is not ? Short term rental is a very good option for a traveller to take into account when visiting a place and especially in Bucharest, where there are very profesional companies doing this business. On top of that, our company owns all the properties, so it is not an agregator, it is like a hotel with the rooms spreaded in the city Downtown.

Please review your attitude towards this and allow the listing. —The preceding comment was added by (WT-en) 92.80.21.198 (talk • contribs)

By my count you've now been provided at least ten pointers to our apartment listing policy, and from your responses it seems you refuse to read that guideline. As a result I don't think there is anything else we can say to you other than you have thus far not come close to meeting the standards of that guideline. -- (WT-en) Ryan • (talk) • 12:35, 10 June 2010 (EDT)

Am I correct in the observation that this business owner/rep has re-added themselves, knowingly violating our apartment listing policy even after a written warning?

--Willthewanderer (talk) 13:38, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

A*** Apartments is currently listed under Bucharest / Mid-range. I tried to update the entry but this was black-listed. I'm visiting Bucharest in the near future and a test booking showed good availability for a 3-4 night stay, price competitive with hotel. I've no connection with this business but it seems like a useful accommodation option - I can't comment on the other WV listing criteria eg for keys. So either allow updates or delete. Grahamsands (talk) 17:56, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

I don't see the issue at MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. Could someone explain the problem? Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:18, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

Districts?

Bucharest has quite a couple of listings (some still need coordinates), so maybe it the article should be districtified. I think something like 4 districts should suffice for the Bucharest article (turn on the dynamic map to see what I mean):

• South - everything south of Dambovita River
• Old town - the small triangle between Dambovita River, Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta and Pasajul Unirii, if I understand correctly this is the old town..?
• Northwest - straight north of this triangle; the eastern border would be highway DN 1 which according to the Mapnik layer goes north-northwest from the University Square
• East - east of that border (clockwise) to Dambovita River

-- ϒψιλον (talk) 09:23, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

A year and a half later, any comments? --Ypsilon (talk) 18:07, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Nobody? @IonutBizau:, do you have any comments? --Ypsilon (talk) 10:33, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

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It's not in the article, but possibly in some listing. That said, this behemoth of a building is probably one of the most famous in Romania if not the Balkans. And if all or most of them are deleted at commons (because there's apparently no freedom of panorama in Romania and the architect only passed away a few years ago so the building will still be "copyrighted" for decades), I think we should upload it (or another pic of the palace) locally, and add it to the article. --Ypsilon (talk) 10:31, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

rail link to airport

https://www.railwaygazette.com/passenger/bucureti-airport-rail-link-opens/58099.article

Airport express bus: price

Hello, right now, it says "The two-trip fare is 8.60 lei (including the cost of the card)". When looking at [1] I have the impression, that it should be either 6 LEI ("2 Metropolitan trips" with the Multiplu card, which is "free of charge, as long as it is loaded with a minimum of 2 trips") or 9,7 LEI ("2 Metropolitan trips" with the non-nominal Activ card which "can be obtained for 3,7 lei"). Is this correct? Furthermore, I assume that it might be an option just to buy a single metropolitan trip for 3 LEI using either the 24pay app or a contactless bank card (if available on the specific bus). Can you confirm this? In this case, I will update the article text in that way. Thanks a lot --Svencb (talk) 10:44, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Airport express bus: lines

The article mentions the express bus lines 780, 782, 783 and 784. On [2] there are only schedules for lines 780 and 783 available. Do 782 and 784 still exist? --Svencb (talk) 10:48, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

No, they have not existes for a while now. (a bit late I know) TheElectrifiedFreak (talk) 19:19, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Guide status? DoTM?

What is this article missing to achieve Guide status? Could it be a Destination of the Month with some additions? /Yvwv (talk) 13:28, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Districts possibly (see my comments above from a few years ago). --Ypsilon (talk) 04:48, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

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Should the "stay safe" section be shortened?

I don't know the city well enough but could any danger which is now extremely rare be removed? For example "A common scam is for a stranger to tell you that a place is not safe, and to direct you to an official "government" or "student" taxi, that is driven by an accomplice. They will then drive you a remote location, and demand high sums of money, possibly threatening you with violence if you don't comply." has been in the section for at least 10 years.

Shortening the section to only the current main dangers might make readers more likely to read the whole section. Chidgk1 (talk) 14:56, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Dead links and possibly outdated information in Get around-Payment section?

I was trying to find out how the public transport works in Bucharest. There are two 404-ing inks in the section. Which current links should be there? Furthermore: I was consulting the site for a purchase of an Activ card with a 7-day pass which should be cheaper in my case, but the current info on Wikipedia states that you cannot use an Activ card on the Metro whilst the STB site does: https://stbsa.ro/eng/abonamente_eng . Has there been an update of the card system recently? NuserYame (talk) 17:43, 30 September 2023 (UTC)