Between 20-30, depends of day, I recomand friday

Fuck this shithole. Tons of traffic. Tons of space, tons of visibility, a big sign, slow traffic, nobody stopped for 3 hours except a taxi. Eventually I got desperate and stuck a 20 euro note in my hand while thumbing. Car stopped within 2 mins. Shithole

In theory a good spot a good spot to Brasov? But lots of people gestured that they were staying in Campulung and the spot is just around a blind bend. In the end our hitchhiking plans were foiled by a convenient bus after about 15 minutes.

Spot seems perfect for Bucharest, but we got bad luck and waited for around 60 minutes

First guy wanted money, but 10-15 min later got somebody for free to border

All the traffic at this point is crossing the border, now that both Romania and Bulgaria are in Schengen, no border checks either, and the cars are going pretty slow and do stop to ask where you're going. Be aware that at the time of my crossing, the bridge was getting renovated, and only one way was open, might be difficult to cross on foot if you wanted to, and might make the waiting times longer. But you can walk up to people and ask to take you!

Pretty good place, can get there very easily with tram from Bucharest City Center, and all of the traffic is south, few shops nearby and can easily get back to town if need be.

Suggested to have a written sign for your destination

We were trying to get the ride at the bus stop close to Petrom and the roundabout next to Auchan without any luck for 2h. We went to the roundabout to the highway and got a ride within 5min. Not much place for car to stop, but still the best option from all I mentioned.

Not even 2 minutes and a truck driver picked me up. Brought me all the way to Turkey. Roads are shit and it takes forever.

I took the tram from the city centre and walked 100m to the roundabout. Enough space to stop and cars go slow. It took less than 5 minutes (with sign Ruse and Türkiye) to catch a ride. A very nice and old man took me to right to the border. He drove like crazy and did not want any money.

If you are dropped off in GALATI and wish to go to Moldova , this is probably your best spot. You can take bus 13 to get right by this roundabout. This is a low-traffic road, but that can work to you advantage as it is quite easy for cars to stop with holding up traffic. With sign MD I was picked up and driven over the border by a young Romanian couple who were going to Moldova for petrol, which seems to be a fairly common practice

Better than just after the roundabout in my opinion, cars are still going very slow, but now vehicles in the left lane have the chance to merge to pick you up. Got a ride in 10 minutes to GALATI

I tried GALATI from here, first of all at the time I was thumbing there was mostly local or Braila bound traffic it seemed, but more importantly it is awkward for cars to stop here because there is a decent amount of traffic, especially for cars in the left lane. I abandoned this spot after an hour and found what I believe to be a better one just down the road

As of now I think this is the best spot for east/northeast in Bucharest. It was recommended to me by a friend who hitchhikes very often from Bucharest to Tulcea and vice versa. This catches all traffic heading in this direction, and while there is technically no lane for cars to stop, the right lane is basically unused and so is a fairly practical stopping place. With single SLOBOZIA i got lucky and landed a direct ride to Tulcea, my final destination.

This is either a really good spot or a terrible one, depending on your luck. A truck dropped me here, and I found a Turkish truck, which got me further almost immediately, but if I went around all the trucks and nobody would take me, I would have been screwed.

I just switched to a different truck while mine was having a break. Do I think this is a good spot? Not really, but I was lucky enough to get a good ride from here, and you might as well.

Not a bad spot, I asked around and found a guy going to Sibiu. It was kinda funny because he spoke no languages I speak, and it was truly a spiritual experience, but he was nice and got me to a place where I changed cars.

I thought this would be a good spot, but, to be honest, it wasn't. I spent nearly two hours here to get from here to Pitesti. I tried traditional hitchhiking and asking around at nearby McDonald's, but neither worked very well. You might be luckier than I; it was morning.

I found a guy willing to take me to the western part of the city almost immediately, from where I hitchhiked further.

All the traffic at this point is crossing the border, now that both Romania and Bulgaria are in Schengen, no border checks either, and the cars are going pretty slow and do stop to ask where you're going. Be aware that at the time of my crossing, the bridge was getting renovated, and only one way was open, might be difficult to cross on foot if you wanted to, and might make the waiting times longer. But you can walk up to people and ask to take you!

If you want to go to Poprad people will stop all the time. If not there are some truck drivers who will probably take you to Hungary or Romania.

I waited over 6 hours before getting a lift to Belgrade. People did not want to take me because they were worried about the border, even when I showed them my valid passport. I tried regular thumbing, sign with Belgrade, and asking. Sometimes I asked to go towards Romania, since most cars seemed to be going that way, but it did not work anyway. Mabye I should have spent more time asking people than hitchhiking, but it is the latter that eventually got me out of this hellhole (in which you can find Wifi, free toilets and food). Good luck

With a sign to lublyana went to maribor. Possibility for Budapest and Romania randomly.

This spot it was 😍 amazing. I found a car DIRECTLY to Romania.

I was in no rush, so take my waiting time with a grain of salt. This is a good place. A lot of trucks are going through this place, most of them heading toward Budapest, but after asking for a while, I got a ride directly to Romania.

Went here because the roundabout was being used by local hitchhikers. Took quite a while for some reason but a polish guy on a roadtrip through Romania picked me up for Brașov/Brassó

Waited there half hour, pointless. Cars from Bucarest or the periphery. Even going to Ploiesti you won't find a lot of cars going there. Better to take the bus to the airport!! Way easier especially for Ploiesti, can bé lucky for Brašov top. Actually someone was going there but asked for money like often in Romania.

No one wanted to give me a ride at the truck stop, so I got frustrated and was going to walk across the border to Romania. But as I was walking past a gas station, I saw a car and asked if he can take me across the border. It turned out that he was going to Bucharest.

Busy Petrol station, but no one was going towards Romania. Many people to Budapest though. We ended up going to the other side of the roundabout which seems to be very good if you want to go east

We stood in front of the bus station, there is enough space to stop and the cars don't go super fast. Took us 15 minutes to get a ride to the next town on our way to romania

We arrived at 20:00 and didnt get a ride that day. Next day we also didnt get away, we were trying to get to northern romania. Good Infrastructure but no lifts. Might be good for other directions

Don't accept rides to Csengele if you want to go to Serbia, you may eventually get lucky and get out of this godforsaken place but you'll lose a lot of time trying, mostly tourists with packed cars or truck drivers heading towards Romania stop there

Got ride straight to Romania after standing there with i sign saying HU/ROM. It wasn't exactly busy here tho, we were lucky.

Managed to hitch a ride straight to Romania. Plenty of traffic towards Hungary, Romania and Serbia, especially on fridays and saturdays. Great spot certainly worth the walk from the nearest Bratislava bus stop ("Čunovské jazerá").

Amazing spot. We have asked the truck driver from Romania and he took me and my boyfriend :)

restaurant visited by many travellers coming from and going to Romania, it's open 24/7, so always people there to ask, food is great too :)

Was quickly picked up by locals, and dropped off at the border. A lot of cars passing by to Romania

Great spot if you're travelling to Romania, not so great for Serbia. There's a city bus stop 10 minutes walk west the station from where you can get to Szeged and then the next OMV station by bus, which is 3km from the border. A driver told us you can only cross the border on foot on the crossing Horgos 2, but not on the highway one, so be aware of that.

We reached late at night and decided to wait for the morning to continue hitchhiking. The restaurant is cheap, the food is good and it's open 24h. There's also a 24h service station with cozy sofas to sleep in and power sockets. Buy water at the service station rather than the restaurant, it's 5 times cheaper for the same amount. In the morning a truck driver gave us a lift to Lugoj in Romania, although we could have gone further to Sibiu. There are many Romanians passing by, go talk to the people rather than showing your sign. If you're heading to Serbia ask for Szeged, sometimes that's as far as they can take you before the border.