Romania travel tips

Romania travel health

Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Romania, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Romania: Brașov, Bucharest, Danube Delta, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Oradea and 1 more.

Required to enter

Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.

Recommended

  • Routine vaccinations up to date
  • Tick-borne encephalitis if you will be walking in Carpathian forest between spring and autumn
  • Rabies if you plan to work with animals or spend long periods in remote countryside

Emergency number

112

Care for visitors

Good and affordable

EU/EEA and Swiss visitors are treated on the same terms as residents with an EHIC or GHIC card; UK visitors use a GHIC. Everyone else pays, and travel insurance is worth having for the repatriation cover rather than the treatment. State hospitals are free at the point of use with an EHIC or GHIC, but under-resourced; the private networks — Regina Maria, MedLife, Sanador — are quick, English-speaking and cheap by Western standards, and are what most visitors end up using.

Ticks in forest and long grass from April to October — check yourself after walks. Bears are genuinely present in the Carpathians around Brașov: keep food sealed, never approach one, and do not walk mountain trails at dusk. In the Danube Delta the mosquitoes from May to August are relentless and need proper repellent rather than a supermarket spray.

The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.

The guides in Romania

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