My friend and I flew into Bucharest, Romania and rented a car to start our East European vacation. According to the guy at the rental car agency, Vama Veche is were hipsters go to party. So, of course, my friend and I loaded our backpacks into the vehicle, directed the GPS to Vama Veche and started driving.
We arrived in the beach front town of Vama Veche at about 1am, turned down a road that looked “promising” and crept along to get an idea of what the place was all about. Immediately, barking dogs started chasing our rental car down dusty streets lined with bars and groups of extremely drunk, mean looking men. It wasn’t looking good. My friend wanted to park the car and go exploring, but I convinced him that finding a hotel was our top priority. We checked into a hotel for 80 Lei ($25) that had two single beds, one electrical outlet being used by a table lamp and a shower that could only be used to bathe babies and baby makers (bc the shower head was only 2 ft off the ground). After talking to some people that didn’t rob us outside the hotel, we decided it probably wasn’t all that dangerous and set off to explore the town. All in all, we had fun. And it only scary a couple of times!
After spending some time here, I’d say that, instead of a hipster mecca, this is where the white trash of Romania go for vacation. This place is definitely a little sketch. We left our table for less than a minute to get a beer and someone stole our cigarettes. Thanks for the memories Vama Veche.
