Hitchhiking in Romania
Hitchhiking to Romania
Recent reviews in Romania
47.73931, 23.91722
Was waiting for the bus but got offered a ride to Baia Mare within 5 minutes of standing.rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 36 km ←
―Anonymous, September 2025
45.58487, 24.64079
despite high traffic, noone wanted to stoprating: 3/5, wait: 110 min, ride: 2 km ↖
―toth5le, September 2025
45.59494, 24.62049
second this, nobody wants to stoprating: 3/5, wait: 90 min, ride: 53 km ↖
―toth5le, September 2025
44.97504, 24.21774
A local with a audi a4 b8 took me to a local pizza placerating: 5/5, wait: 4 min 💬, ride: 2 km →
―Anonymous, Thu 06 Feb 2025, 23:24
45.0014, 24.6053
Basically no one stops but there is very friendly and helpful staff plus there is access to free water that is drinkablerating: 2/5, wait: 260 min 👍, ride: 24 km ↖
―Anonymous, Tue 02 Sep 2025, 17:10
44.434, 25.99515
Good spotrating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 158 km ↖
―Anonymous, Tue 02 Sep 2025, 10:25
44.43397, 26.00906
Got ride behind pitesti on route to sibiurating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 160 km ↖
―Anonymous, Tue 02 Sep 2025, 10:20
47.04118, 21.90117
Nice spot, enough space for cars to stop.rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 182 km ↓
―anettlee17, Thu 28 Aug 2025, 17:00
45.94816, 22.65231
I tried asking drivers here if they could take me to Hungary. But I was very tired. So I just wrote a sign and someone picked me up.rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 410 km ↖
―Okubobrakurbober, Sat 30 Aug 2025, 11:18
45.78922, 24.08554
It's easy to find a car going west here.rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 140 km ←
―Okubobrakurbober, Sat 30 Aug 2025, 08:20
44.33697, 26.1002
At this gas station, there is a chance of finding a car traveling west on the ring road.rating: 3/5, wait: 60 min 💬+🪧, ride: 281 km ↖
―Okubobrakurbober, Fri 29 Aug 2025, 13:13
44.31388, 26.06481
It's a terrible spot to find a car going west, as I did. I was waiting with a sign west in my hands. I hoped that someone would pick me up before going to the new exit on the A0 motorway. But as I understood, people are not yet used to this exit and prefer the old Bucharest ring road. So I had to change my sign to Bucharest and drive a couple of kilometers to the old ring road.rating: 1/5, wait: 130 min 🪧, ride: 4 km ↗
―Okubobrakurbober, Fri 29 Aug 2025, 10:50
46.67701, 28.04439
rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min, ride: 31 km ↙
―RickyLucy, August 2025
45.83837, 21.29408
Hitched a ride in truck all the way to Budapest! The spot has perfect visibility a lots of space to stop.rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 297 km ↖
―Skaletta, August 2025
45.88573, 22.908
We stood a bit more in front of this road, between mc Donald's and the Petrol station, with a sign to timișoara but no one even thought about stopping :(rating: 2/5, wait: 60 min 🪧
―princessescharming, Thu 21 Aug 2025, 11:15
46.53148, 22.45817
Good place to go to Deva, but the local hitchhikers stand here as well and most of them just want to go to the next village so it was a bit frustrating to see so many people being picked up before us :) but one of them reassured us that we're in the right placerating: 4/5, wait: 45 min 🪧, ride: 99 km ↘
―princessescharming, Tue 19 Aug 2025, 16:13
46.98239, 21.98642
Amazing spot, there was enough space to stop and everyone going to Beius/Stei/Deva is going your way. There was construction works though so maybe the space to stop doesn't stay long. If you're getting here from town, you can take the bus 511 at least one stop longer than Google maps is proposing, the bus passed by us after we got off and started walking which was a bit annoying.rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 78 km ↘
―princessescharming, Tue 19 Aug 2025, 11:11
46.86497, 23.02189
Lots of locals not going further also a lot of local hitchhikers but drivers want money but I got lucky and met a nice local and they couldn’t drive me so they paid for my bus so not exactly hitchhiking but I got free transportation from having my thumb out hahaOver all don’t get stuck here
rating: 3/5, wait: 210 min 👍, ride: 109 km ←
―Xavybaby, Wed 27 Aug 2025, 14:20
46.75681, 23.38616
Spot is good plenty of good speed traffic and an ok amount of space to stop. Drivers on this road ask for money so try to ask when you’re getting in or try to find non local cars my driver tried to make me pay €15 to go to Oradea so I got out early.rating: 4/5, wait: 20 min 👍, ride: 38 km ↖
―Xavybaby, Wed 27 Aug 2025, 09:52
45.69523, 25.58327
Good space to stop cars going somewhat slow because of roundabout was Solomon’s for Cluj got driven to Sighisoara I walked to the spot which was a pain but there are busses to the spot.rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 105 km ↖
―Xavybaby, Tue 26 Aug 2025, 12:23
Recent reviews mentioning Romania
43.86375, 26.01536
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.rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 💬+🪧, ride: 63 km ↑
―Okubobrakurbober, Thu 28 Aug 2025, 19:15
47.23473, 21.53341
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 eastrating: 3/5, wait: 90 min 💬
―princessescharming, Sun 17 Aug 2025, 15:05
47.41533, 21.62442
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 romaniarating: 4/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 27 km ↓
―princessescharming, Sun 17 Aug 2025, 13:02
47.37925, 19.05277
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 directionsrating: 3/5, wait: 360 min
―Anonymous, August 2025
46.54577, 19.88455
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 thererating: 2/5, wait: 150 min, ride: 48 km ↘
―szymanski, August 2025
48.08544, 17.09877
Got ride straight to Romania after standing there with i sign saying HU/ROM. It wasn't exactly busy here tho, we were lucky.rating: 4/5, wait: 45 min 🪧, ride: 632 km →
―Alenicevopice, Mon 14 Jul 2025, 12:00
48.01091, 17.17682
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").rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 🪧, ride: 506 km ↘
―suburbandrifter, Mon 16 Jun 2025, 10:30
49.67766, 13.32696
Amazing spot. We have asked the truck driver from Romania and he took me and my boyfriend :)rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 💬+🪧, ride: 456 km ←
―Anonymous, Wed 11 Jun 2025, 10:45
46.30324, 20.07162
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 :)rating: 4/5
―Anonymous, May 2025
47.23276, 21.53839
Was quickly picked up by locals, and dropped off at the border. A lot of cars passing by to Romaniarating: 5/5, wait: 15 min, ride: 28 km ↘
―Anonymous, May 2025
46.3722, 19.99715
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.rating: 4/5, wait: 180 min 💬, ride: 26 km ↓
―JuanPabloSegundo, Tue 29 Apr 2025, 13:43
47.41995, 18.92221
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.
rating: 4/5, wait: 50 min, ride: 374 km ↘
―Anonymous, February 2025
43.89788, 25.99694
Still possible to walk bridge from Romania to Bulgaria as of december '23, but I hitched a lift to Ruse here.rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 🪧, ride: 8 km ↓
―pixelatedcrab, November 2024
47.92176, 17.11406
Big amount of cars to Romania. You can very easily aim Szeged in oneI tried at the gas station onAustrian side and then restaurant on Hungarian side.
Side note: slept near the gas station and got woken up at 4am by Austrian military
rating: 5/5, wait: 40 min 💬, ride: 348 km ↘
―Anonymous, September 2024
46.37216, 19.99735
Gas station with traffic. Mode of it goes to Romania but you have to be lucky and keep asking. I asked to the Serbian border and they ended taking me to Sofia (BG). You won’t have a better spot anywaysrating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 💬, ride: 608 km ↘
―Anonymous, September 2024
49.43831, 21.69016
A big station where all trucks stop when they're going to Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and further. Once even the driver asked me first where I'm traveling when I arrived at the station, so it's really very easy. The best time is on Sunday evening because often the road to Slovakia is closed till 10pm and a lot of trucks are waiting for it to be open. There's a nice restaurant and you can exchange currency.rating: 5/5, wait: 3 min 💬, ride: 215 km ↓
―umpalumpa1312, September 2024
47.89918, 21.55901
Small station, majority of cars drive to Ukraine, but I was trying to get to Romania, so probably it's easier if you are going to UA. The trucks stop only when they have to take a long 12h break to sleep.rating: 3/5, wait: 80 min 💬
―umpalumpa1312, September 2024
48.08524, 17.09886
I had sign with direction Budapest ( wanted to go to Romania ) After 5 minutes stopped the romanian car and took me almost 600km to Romania.rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 539 km →
―MichalZN, September 2024
49.54383, 21.68902
road with almost no place to stop except pathwalk, but its a main road to slovakia, hungary and romania. Romanian truck stopped and took me straight to Oradea.rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 347 km ↓
―hubert, August 2024
47.45448, 19.11414
Really bad place to hitchhike. There is a lot of homeless people around this place, which means they annoy the drivers and they just leave the place as soon as possible. If you are heading towards Szeged/Serbia/Romania, make it yourself easier and take the train to Inárcs-Kukacs and walk to the gas station over there. It takes 40 minutes from the railway station but it is the best option for you.rating: 1/5
―Michael, August 2024