The best accommodations West

This is the hotel to choose when coming for thermal water treatments and cures. Hydrotherapy, thermotherapy, kinetotherapy and other treatments are available all year round. Rooms are welcoming and overlook the forest. A large outdoor pool, an indoor thermal pool and a sauna are available at no extra charge. The hotel restaurant serves breakfast and dinner (Romanian and international specialities). Last but not least, the hotel's friendly staff and the quality of its treatments make it a safe bet.

This is one of the many private hotels to have sprung up in the region in recent years. Unlike the villas built alongside the main road, this 72-room complex offers a more peaceful ambience and decent conditions. Low-rise buildings surround the outdoor swimming pool, lined with deckchairs. There's also an indoor saltwater pool and sauna. The spacious rooms have a contemporary look. All have balconies, but only the most expensive are air-conditioned. There's also a children's play area.

This guesthouse, literally "at the crossroads", offers 14 double and triple rooms. They are simple but comfortable, clean and pleasant. Some have en-suite bathrooms, while others share common facilities. The inn's small restaurant serves delicious Romanian cuisine. The house specialty is goulash, not to be missed! The dining room is decorated in a pretty rustic style, with old musical instruments on the walls. In the common room, you'll find games and a TV. There's even a sauna.

Just a stone's throw from piața Unirii, this pretty, recently renovated hostel has retained an artistic, alternative feel. It occupies the floors of a building typical of the city's architecture: an inner courtyard lined with passageways, serving various rooms. In addition to 8 and 10-person dormitories, thehostel offers private rooms with or without en-suite bathrooms. Footstools are available on the graffiti-strewn passageways. For those who prefer a quieter atmosphere, there's another option: the beer garden on the first floor closes at around 1am.

A pleasant hotel, though not quite up to 4-star standards. Located just a few minutes' walk from the city center, in the Elisabetin district, it enjoys an appreciable degree of tranquility. The hotel offers rooms and suites with 3 or 4-star comfort. They are large and well-decorated. Guests have free access to the outdoor pool and fitness room, while the sauna is available at an additional cost. The restaurant serves international cuisine as well as traditional Romanian specialties.

Occupying a six-storey Soviet building without much charm, this 2-star hotel benefits, as its name suggests, from a very central location, 100 m from piața Victoriei. However, it is located in a quiet street near the Hunyadi castle. Some rooms overlook the noble building. Decorated in a slightly dated style, they are however rather welcoming and well kept, equipped with air conditioning, Wifi and a minibar. The restaurant of the establishment offers Romanian and international specialties.

The resort's largest and most luxurious hotel, with a high quality/price ratio. Housed in a renovated high-rise, the rooms are large, comfortable and well-decorated in a modern style. All have balconies. There are five swimming pools, both indoor and outdoor, as well as a sauna and salt caves. Its wellness center offers a variety of treatments and massages (hydrotherapy, physiotherapy, mud wraps, etc.). There's also a restaurant, gym, bikes for hire, table tennis and children's games.

This modern and unassuming building has the advantage of being located away from the centre of the resort, on the edge of the forest. It's also just across the street from the Aquaparc, which is part of the same complex. The hotel offers family rooms and apartments, elegantly decorated but a little dated. It has two thermal water pools, indoor and outdoor. Within the complex you will also find a pond, a miniature golf course, a football pitch, a health centre, two restaurants, bars and children's playgrounds.

Off-center in the south of the city, this recent hotel is located on the banks of the Mureș. Many of its rooms, as well as its terrace, offer a lovely view of the early ^20th-century Traian Bridge. It has 42 double rooms, 6 single rooms, 3 suites and 3 apartments. The carpeted rooms are warm and pleasant, and rather elegant with their wooden furniture and leather sofas. The lobby and restaurant recreate a period atmosphere of woodwork and refinement. A tennis court and sauna are also available.

A hotel inherited from the communist era, completely renovated. It feels good, despite the austerity of the building. The rooms, with their dated decoration, have little charm, but they are comfortable. You will find them in different sizes: single, double, triple, as well as apartments for 2 to 4 people. You will also appreciate the spa facilities: sauna, whirlpool, indoor swimming pool. You will be able to follow seaside treatments there. The establishment also has two restaurants and as many bars and terraces.

The hotel is housed in a large, beautiful villa dating from 1890, formerly owned by an imperial railroad company. The building, which resembles a medieval castle, comprises a dozen spacious family rooms and suites, all modernly decorated and impeccably clean. The communal areas are more dated, but pleasant, especially the covered terrace overlooking the garden. The on-site restaurant serves fine European cuisine. Free parking is also available. The guesthouse is just a stone's throw from the Ștrandul Moneasa complex.

Overlooking piața Victoriei, this tiny hostel occupies an apartment in the venerable Chamber of Commerce building, a listed historical monument. It has three small rooms: a micro-dormitory for six people and two private rooms with double bed and single bunk bed. It also has a well-equipped kitchen and a small sofa corner. The place has been designed to foster the link between the guests. You should also know that Mihail, the boss, rebuilds and rents retro bikes from Pegas, the national brand under communism.