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RedPatrol Driving Tour of Bucharest: Experience History in a Classic Romanian Car
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58 Ratings
București
Experience the history of Bucharest in a classic Romanian car on the RedPatrol Driving Tour. Drive a fully restored Dacia from the 70s-80s and visit iconic landmarks while hearing fascinating stories from the Communist era.
Duration:
3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Revolution Square - The place where Communism started & ended in Romania
- Casa Radio - - The exploration of the Communist Ghost Palace of Bucharest ;
- Stop for stories & photos
- Academia Română - The Socialist Academy Of Romania Ghost Palace Building. Brief presentation and pictures.
- Palace of Parliament - The 2nd world’s larges administrativ house of Bucharest
- National Library of Romania - Exploration of the Communist quarter blocks of flats.
- Piața Victoriei - - Exploration of the Residential Quarter of Bucharest. The Palace of The Romanian Government
- Bulevardul Aviatorilor - Exploration of the Residential area of Bucharest buit in the early XXth century. Panoramic tour.
- The House of Ceaușescu - The private residence of Nicolae Ceausescu . Brief presentation .
- Triumph Arch (Arcul de Triumf) - Presentation of Romania’s unification monument .
- House of the Free Press - Exploration of the communist press palace area.
- Calea Victoriei - One of the oldest boulevards from Bucharest, a full car ride.
What's Included
- Private driver included (if you prefer not to drive)
- Complimentary bottled water
- Expert local guide accompanying you
- Drive a classic 80’s Dacia car
- Receive a special tour newspaper
- Enjoy a personalized tour gift
- Convenient hotel pickup and drop-off in Bucharest
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
Additional Information
The Red Patrol Communist Tour of Bucharest is the out of the box private tour of Bucharest that sends you back in time by driving a fully restored Romanian classic car from the 70′-80’s!
A private tour of Bucharest by car of 3-3.5 hours that crosses the city landmarks like The Palace of Parliament (Casa Poporului), The Revolution Square, Victoria Socialismului Boulevard, (The Champs-Élysées of Ceausescu), the Romanian Communist Party Headquarter, Casa Presei or the Private Residence of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
You will discover in a 30 km city circuit the fancy boulevards of Bucharest while driving by yourself (or with a private driver) a fully restored Romanian Dacia 1300/1310 from the 70’s-80’s.
A drive and stop tour with a Romanian vintage car on a city panoramic itinerary where you’ll get the best photo shots of your travel and hear the most amazing life stories of the locals from the last 100 years!
- Bring your ID card and driving license with you at the tour
- If you want to drive, please be sure to provide a driver with a valid driving license on the date of the tour!
- Dacia 1300/1310 is a 70- 80’s classics car that do not include AC, ABS,GPS navigation servo-direction or automatic gear drive.
- All the cars provided by The Red Patrol are fully restored classics that meet fully the safety traffic regulations.
- Take with in the day of the tour a comfortable outfit for driving.
- The Red Patrol Tour of Duty provides quality and safe conditions tours with fully restored vehicles and we do not allow the participation with pets or children under 10 years old.
- During wintertime our cars are heated !
Location
Revolution Square
Piața Revoluției
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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318christofferb
Sep 24, 2024
Best introduction to Bucharest - We started our first day in Bucharest by doing the 3,5 hours Communist Tour with Red Patrol, and thus had the best introduction to the city, and the history of Romania altogether.
We were a group of 7 old friends in our mid 30’s and went with three of Red Patrol’s beautiful and cool old Dacias, each with a private chauffeur who took turns on guiding and introducing us to the city.
You make several stops and get to see a lot of things and places. Time went by easily, and the guides were very friendly and informative.
I would recommend this tour and this team to everyone.
Hope to see you and the cars again one day.
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Venture54390241724
Sep 15, 2024
A must in Bucharest - Serban and his colleague Dan showed us the most important places and the history of the Communist era and driving with the Dacias was a pleasure. It's great how well preserved the classic cars are.
I can only recommend the tour. TOP!
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Camper00837383739
Sep 14, 2024
Outstanding tour - Outstanding tour operators
We had a great tour with Serban and his colleague. They took a lot of time to explain the stops on the tour and gave us an exciting insight into the history of Bucharest.
Also driving (with the Dacias) was a lot of fun.
Thank you!
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Crystal_r
Sep 6, 2024
Great experience! - We really enjoyed this tour! Our guide shared so much history, including his personal experiences with communism that provided a deeper understanding for us. We also love the souvenir paper he gave us.
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Draghici
Jul 15, 2024
Must do while in Bucharest - While visiting Bucharest with friends we booked The Red Patrol for one early afternoon. It was probably one of the best experiences we had in the city . Not only that we learned so much of the cars, thanks to the vivid passion of Serban about Dacia cars but the city unfolded to us, places and real life stories some of it long forgotten were brought back to life by our guide Cătălin .
Highly recommended for anyone visiting Bucharest, especially if you have a short stay you will get to see the entire city and listen to it history !
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Markcburbank
Jul 6, 2024
Driving a classic car in Bucharest - It was a thrill to drive the old manual transmission car through the streets of Bucharest. In the rear view mirror was the arc de triomphe! Great history lesson with a passionate and accommodating guide. This was a fun tour.
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Paul_h
May 23, 2024
Fantastic tour - a great guide, fascinating sights and you drive a fun car! - Very interesting sights accompanied by the brilliant commentary and ‘story telling’ of Serban plus the added bonus of driving a 1977 Dacia 1300. A fantastic afternoon and terrific value. 100% recommended.
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Paulvharvey
May 23, 2024
An excellent combination; driving a great classic car, seeing the principal sights and Serban’s fascinating commentary! - A great afternoon in the company of Serban. He brings the history and present day of Bucharest to life through his fascinating commentary and story telling; all ‘on location’ of the main events in Romania’s history. Driving the rather wonderful Dacia 1300 was a huge added bonus. I can’t recommend this tour too highly - it is quite brilliant and great value.
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Ed
Apr 24, 2024
Must do activity! - Fun being driven in a classic Dacia. (So happy i did not need to drive myself). Insightfull wrt the recent history of Roemenia told in a enthousiastic way. Extremely knowledgable guide who is on a mission to tell the balanced good an bad parts of the history of Roemenia. Thanks for this impressive afternoon.
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Lars
Apr 20, 2024
Learn about communism by driving communist cars. - The Red Patrol Tours is a time machine were you can travel back to the days of communism by driving the communist cars. We were a group of 12 people raking the your and we had a great time. And we learned a lot about communism in Ronania. The cars were fantastisk. Highly recommended!
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