★ Curated
Mălâncrav · Saxon Triangle
Apafi Manor
A 17th-century Hungarian manor restored by the Mihai Eminescu Trust.
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedroomsFrom €380 / night
Curated Carpathian Stays
Beyond the postcard.
A small collection of hand-picked homes, manor houses and hidden retreats across Transylvania and the wider Carpathians — each personally visited, each booked through the people who live there.
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Experiences
One mountain range, six ways in
Everything we do starts with houses we know — the rest is how you want to use them.
Stays
Hand-picked houses we have visited ourselves, fairly priced.
Road trips
Passes, villages and loops — with our houses along the way, or without.
Nature & outdoors
Ridgelines, bear hides and volcanic lakes, done properly.
Sightseeing
Castles, UNESCO churches and medieval towns — built into your route.
Ski
Small resorts, empty slopes, a warm house at the bottom.
Weddings
Barns, manors and villages for the weekend that matters.
Group trips
Linked houses, one kitchen table, logistics handled.
Concierge
A real person who knows every house. Tell us what you have in mind.
How we work
We do not list every house. We visit before we recommend. We speak to hosts on the phone, not through a portal. We make our money the old way — a fair commission from the owner, never from you.
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Personally visited
Every home in our Curated collection has been walked, photographed and slept in by a member of our team.
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Direct host contact
We hand you the host’s name, voice and WhatsApp the moment you book — no anonymous portal in between.
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Concierge that picks up
Local people on a real phone number. We will plan your week, book your driver, and find you the right bottle of wine.
How we curate
- homes we stand behind
- 11homes we stand behind
- Carpathian regions
- 8Carpathian regions
- languages, one real reply
- 3languages, one real reply
- fees added for guests
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Featured stays
A few of our favourites this season.
★ Curated
Moieciu de Sus · Burzenland
Casa Piatra
A modernist mountain villa with a clear view of the Piatra Craiului ridge.
Sleeps 10 · 5 bedroomsFrom €540 / night
★ Curated
Viscri · Saxon Triangle
Casa Saxonia
A four-hundred-year-old Saxon farmhouse on the high street of Viscri.
Sleeps 8 · 4 bedroomsFrom €320 / night
★ Curated
Borșa, Cluj · Apuseni
Conacul Borșa
A small Transylvanian manor in the wine hills north of Cluj — restored room by room over eight years.
Sleeps 12 · 6 bedroomsFrom €480 / night
★ Curated
Sibiu · Saxon Triangle
Kuria Magna
A six-room boutique guesthouse inside a baroque Saxon townhouse in Sibiu.
Sleeps 12 · 6 bedroomsFrom €280 / night
Where we travel
We start where we know best — the Saxon heartland, the Burzenland, and the wild ridges south of Brașov.
3 stays
Burzenland
The old Saxon basin around Brașov — fortified churches, beech forests, and a mountain wall at the southern edge.
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6 stays
Saxon Triangle
Sibiu, Sighișoara, and the seven Saxon villages between them — a quiet, fortified, slow-travel landscape.
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2 stays
Apuseni
The western mountains — caves, ice, scattered hillside farms, and a quieter kind of Transylvania.
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0 stays
Maramureș
The wooden-church north — tall shingled spires, hand-carved gates, and a graveyard that laughs at death.
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0 stays
Bucovina
The painted-monastery north-east — Voroneț blue on exterior walls that survived 500 winters.
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0 stays
Danube Delta
Europe’s largest wetland — pelicans, fishing villages, and 4,000 km² of channels you can only see by boat.
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Bucharest
The capital — Belle Époque arcades, Communist megalomania, and the best coffee scene in the country.
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Hunedoara & Hațeg
Corvin Castle, Roman ruins, and a country where dwarf dinosaurs once lived.
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Travel by mood
Themed collections for the way you actually travel — not 17 filter checkboxes.
From the journal
Field notes, host portraits, road trips.
11 July 2026 · 2 min read
The Transfăgărășan Is Open Again — 2026
As of 12 June 2026, the legendary DN 7C is open daily between 07:00 and 21:00 on the Bâlea Cascadă – Piscul Negru section — and that means it is time to start planning your Carpathian adventure.
11 July 2026 · 7 min read
What a ski week in the Carpathians really costs
We priced the same family ski week twice — once in the Alps, once above Brașov. The difference pays for the flights, the ski school, and most of the food.
11 July 2026 · 6 min read
Snow reliability in the Carpathians: where winter actually delivers
Altitude beats latitude, snowmaking beats hope, and January beats everything. A practical guide to picking the resort where your week will not melt.
What guests say
"Matei picked us up at the airport at 11pm and somehow already knew which kid had the peanut allergy. The house in Viscri was nothing like the photos — better. Real wood smell, real cows at 5am."
Familie Werner
Hamburg → Saxon Triangle, 9 days
"We booked through a big platform once and never again. CarpathianStays put us in a cabin off the Padiș plateau, with our own forester for a dawn bear hide. No app, no chatbot — a phone call."
Anna & Lars
Stockholm → Apuseni, 6 days
"They built us a roadtrip from Bucharest to Maramureș in three days. Forty-six guests, a wedding in a Saxon courtyard, the bus driver knew us by name by the second day. The most relaxed wedding I have planned in twenty years."
Sarah, wedding planner
London → Maramureș, 5 days
A letter from the Carpathians
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