Itinerary
Mon Oct 12 -13 Toronto - Paris - Vienna
Oct 13 - Vienna
Oct 14 - Vienna
Oct 15 - Vienna
Oct 16 - Vienna to Budapest by train
Oct 17 - Budapest
Oct 18 - Budapest to Zagreb Croatia
Oct 19 - Zagreb
Oct 20 - Zagreb - Belgrade Serbia
Oct 21 - Belgrade
Oct 22 - Belgrade
Oct 23 - Belgrade - Bucharest Romania
Oct 24 - Bucharest
Oct 25 - Bucharest - Transylvania overnight Brasov
Oct 26 - Transylvania - Bucharest
Wednesday, October 28
After breakfast we kicked off our morning at 10:30 AM with a quick ride to Bucharest Airport, then had to exit outside the airport and drag our bags into departures. We were early and our flight was not posted until 11:30. We flew through priority check in and fast track security and headed to LOT lounge. It was a big improvement on the premium lounge.
Crazy airport, this is the escalator that was not running when we arrived.
Forget about priority boarding, this was a free for all!
However, once seated service was impeccable.
We landed smoothly at Warsaw Chopin Airport at 1:55 PM. Navigating the airport was incredibly simple; we bypassed the ground-floor exit and headed straight upstairs to the Departures level to get a Bolt.
Our ride straight into the heart of the city center took exactly 20 minutes. By 3:00 PM, we were officially checked into the Hampton by Hilton Warsaw City Centre.
We shared a mixed platter that was very good.
Looking across at the monumental perimeter of the Soviet-style Palace of Culture and Science. Right afterward, as we walked back toward the hotel, we stopped at the massive central intersection of Al. Jerozolimskie and Al. Jana Pawła II to witness a hilarious local urban phenomenon. Standing on this single street corner, you can literally see four completely distinct McDonald's branches all at the exact same time—one inside the Złote Tarasy mall, one inside the underground tram passageways, a street-level branch, and the futuristic glass-dome branch inside the train hall.
