Travel Romania - video trip advisor on Dracula's medieval castles and towns
“One travel video is worth a thousand brochures when researching a new destination”
Tower Travel - Fort Lee, NJ
US Travel Agents see Romania as the second new destination in Europe!
Lonely Planet Travel Press, 8 Sep.2003 15:48
We wish to thank Dr. Elizabeth Miller - Vice-president of the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, internationally recognized as the leading authority on Dracula - for her kindness of telling you about our film.
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Castle, hotel and resort video trip
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Dracula Resorts trip advisor is a travel video that allows you to
preview Eastern Europe across the legendary routes of
Vlad the Impaler in Romania.
Our Romania trip advisor offers a single travel spot on Dracula's medieval castle, cheap eco tourism, and rural life - unchanged for centuries.
Each indexed hotel on our filmed trip helps you to
compare and choose
your favorite vacation stay next to the medieval castles related with Vlad the Impaler, into the Carpathian mountains. One word, our Eastern Europe journey brings you up a LIVE trip advisor particularly on Romania, looking to show you that the historical places and truth about Vlad the Impaler go far beyond the fiction on Dracula. If you read Bram Stoker's novel or watched Coppola's movie, you should know they are nothing to do with the real, great figure of Vlad the Impaler - king of Romania 1456 - 1462. He's the author of so famous military victory against an invading army twenty times bigger that amazed Europe and made his people to love and never forget him. Ever since, a global myth was born. Let's go exploring the real Dracula !
Geographically, our video trip goes to the mysterious tableland of Transylvania, then moving south over the Carpathian Mountains to Danube River. We traveled over 800 km, following the routes of Vlad the Impaler back in the 15th century, see the map here. - the historical tour of around 50,000 square km in Central Romania. Best of all, we managed to film our journey and make it available right away.
You'll virtually trace the legends of Dracula and get advised on the cheap 3*/4* hotel resorts along the trip:
Ecotourism, Adventure, Family, Hiking, and Ski.
Our Romania video trip previews adventure landscapes, medieval castles related with Dracula, rural civilisation, and premiere hotels to stay. It reveals viewers an exciting tour between myth and truth, past and present time.
Here in brief what should you expect to “visit” right from your home:
Sighisoara (Schaessburg, by its medieval name) - 800 years of history, the burg of Central Romania where Dracula was born in 1431, today is being recognized as the best-preserved medieval fortress in Eastern Europe. We’re going to step inside the Princely Birth House to meet the room of little Dracula.
Brasov (Kronstadt) - 750 years of history, the largest medieval town in Transylvania where Vlad often stopped over, leading terrifying raids against the German Saxons. Together we’ll go back in the 15-th century, following the chronicles of Kronstadt along its legendary streets. As punishment for complot and ignoring his trade laws, early in 1460 Vlad Dracula destroyed Saxon army near Brasov and ordered 1,200 captives to be impaled on stakes. No one was left alive.
Bran Castle - 700 years of history, moving 30 km southwest from Brasov, you can go up the dark stairs that Dracula went up himself! He came over Bran castle only once, in september 1462, going to Oradea fortress in order to meet his cousin Mathias Corvin - King of Hungary. There he hoped to get some help from Mathias and together drive the Turks away from Romania, and even far from the Balkans. Leaving Bran and its ecotourism resort, we’ll move into the mountains along the Mountain Pass of Bran to the adventure site of “vampire” at Castle Dracula, near Arefu village.
Castle Dracula - in 1459 Dracula ordered hundreds of arrested traitors to build a fortress for emergencies above the mountain. The surrounding area belongs to Fagaras Mountains, which frequently are over 2,400 meters height. No prisoner survived. To revenge his wife’s death during a siege in 1461, he launched a large scale raid against Turkish Empire crossing the Danube river deeply into the Balkans. As a result of first proper “blitzkrieg” war of medieval history, Dracula killed 28,000 Turks so cruelly that he established a bloody reputation around Europe. This place inspired as much imagination as FF Coppola persuaded his fans with the myth of the Count Vampire of Transylvania. Still, legends and facts remained for centuries, far beyond just a fiction movie.
Snagov Monastery - in 1458 Dracula built a church on the island of Snagov Lake bordered by oaken forest, today the place where the Prince is buried.
Cheap Hotels and Villas - near Sighisoara, Brasov ( Poiana Brasov ), Bran Castle and Castle Dracula. We’re going to take a look inside the rooms, including bathroom and your restaurant where you’ll enjoy the master cuisine of rural Romania - fresh and natural. On the terrace you can watch the pool, kids ground, and wild surroundings.
Adventure and Civilisation - throughout the Countryside of Romania, preserving lifestyle, customs, and unspoiled nature from the Middle Ages until today. No other place in Europe can show you traditionally dressed shepherds who often use to pipe their ballads along the mountain valleys of the Carpathians. After 550 years, many Dracula legends are still told in Fagaras mountains. Nowadays, it is an amazing fact that peasants keep asking for Vlad's help every time an injustice happens to them: “Unde esti tu Tepes Doamne?” which means “Come back my lord to protect”.
Dracula Resorts trip advisor on DVD showcases 10 hotels & cheap ecotourism villas. Every property shown comes with address, phone number, fax, web site & email when available.
Comments and narration on the video guide are translated into English.
Cheap flights to Romania: book online from wherever you are at CheapTickets
“Romania is the cheapest destination for ski lovers”
The Times, 27.Sep.2003
“The Carpathian Mountains in Romania reward hunters with the biggest trophy in Europe: the brown bear”
France Press, 05.Jan.2004
Discount coupons for your favorite hotel or ecotourism villa are available with your DVD purchase
On the Links page you can find well-documented resource of useful, compressed information about travelling in Romania. The map of our Romania trip is this.
“Researching an adventure destination appears to me now as easy as opening your DVD, much easier than any book ever shows. Special mentions for the filming inside of the castles with Dracula’s pictures and bust. I ordered the DVD and it really helped me to narrow down my list”
Bill Jason - Denver, Colorado
“We found the video to be very helpful…it calms my fears of staying in rural hotels throughout the countryside, as I thought they would be rather substandard as they were inexpensive compared to the hotels near Brasov City. I especially enjoyed seeing views of the inside of the hotel rooms and castles, which is hard to find”
Catherine Dryden - London, UK
