About mycraiova.online
An independent guide to Craiova and Oltenia, built as a reference rather than a booking funnel.
What this is
A complete, checkable guide to one city and the region around it. Hundreds of places across six categories — attractions and museums, pubs, craft beer and wine bars, restaurants, cafés and patisseries, cocktail bars and nightlife, and accommodation from central hotels to guesthouses out in Oltenia — each with its real address, coordinates and, where the venue publishes them, opening hours converted into a form the site can actually evaluate. That is what makes the "open right now" filter work.
Alongside the listings sit the things a listing cannot answer: which neighbourhood to sleep in, why the Brâncuși collection here is the beginning of a story that finishes 110 km away, when the Christmas market opens and why it is a fortnight before everyone else, what each day trip in Oltenia actually costs in driving time, and how to get here from Bucharest — or whether you can skip Bucharest entirely.
How the listings are built
Place data — names, addresses, coordinates, ratings, opening hours and photographs — is ingested from Google Places and refreshed periodically. Editorial text, category introductions, guides and the practical pages are written by us.
We do not invent facts. Prices, hours and dates come from the operators' own pages wherever possible, with the date we checked them. Where no trustworthy source exists — and across Oltenia that is most of the time, because the show cave at Baia de Fier publishes its timetable as a scanned image and Hurezi monastery's official page carries a placeholder email — the page says so and gives you the phone number instead. An honest gap beats a confident wrong number.
The distances and driving times in the Oltenia section we measured ourselves, and each carries the date it was measured.
How this is paid for
Two ways, both of which we would rather state plainly than bury — and there is no display advertising on this site:
- Affiliate commission on accommodation booked through our Stay22 maps and links, and on tickets, tours and experiences booked through GetYourGuide and similar partners. They never change your price.
- Paid placement for venues, always carrying a visible badge, never affecting editorial text.
None of these decides what gets listed or what we say about it. A recommendation the reader cannot distinguish from an advertisement is worth nothing to anyone.
Corrections
If something here is wrong — a closed venue, a moved address, a changed timetable, a lift that did not open — tell us. Corrections are free and are not a service we sell.
