A trip from Bulgaria to Romania by CFR

Saruman a scris:

International ticket Ruse - Giurgiu is 12 Ron

This is the "normal" IR price for the distance... it's theft, but this is it.

By the way, if you come only for photographing trains, I suggest you go to Predeal instead of Sinaia. If you are interested in tourism, Sinaia is the place to go.

Saruman a scris:

International ticket Ruse - Giurgiu is 12 Ron
Ruse - Bucuresti is 36 Ron

OK, so in this case:

Ruse - Giurgiu: 12 RON
Giurgiu Nord - Ploiesti Sud (all the way with IR382) is 46 RON (or even 34.5 if paid online with Maestro/Mastercard)
TOTAL: 46.5 - 58 RON

OR
Ruse - Bucuresti: 36 RON
Bucuresti - Ploiesti with regional train: 7.3 RON
TOTAL: 43.3 RON

Ruse - Bucuresti is only 36 RON - that must be the SET Tariff, quite good.
Then, have you also thought about a through SET ticket from Ruse all the way to Sinaia? It should cost something like 50 RON, which looks cheaper than the multiple tickets Ruse - Bucuresti, Bucuresti - Ploiesti and Ploiesti - Sinaia. In addition, a ticket Ruse - Sinaia would give you full flexibility - you can take any train you want. You can buy a return ticket directly in Ruse. However, in the IR trains you have to buy a reservation which costs 3.3 RON/train and in case you take an IC, you also have to pay a supplement, according to the distance you travel.

In any case, since you cross the border with train 382, I think you also have to pay for the obligatory "international" reservation which should cost something like 13 RON.

Does the transport police make problems when taking photos at stations ? Because at some stations in Bulgaria it's a problem the take your ID start mocking at you sometimes they say that it is forbidden and stuff like that ... I ask because this is a foreign country and if they do not agree this it won't be good for me

The police no (well, maybe on border stations), but some CFR employees may star shouting at you. If they become enoying, tell them to call the police. The Police will ask your papers, then will tell you that there is nothing illegal and let you return to your pictures.

It happend to me for a few times... once the police officers were very angry on the CFR employee... ,,And that's the reason you are disturbing us?! I thought you caught him stealing... let him take his photos and leave us alone".

Here I'll post some clips from our trip to Romania which was different than the plan because we took the Galati - Bucuresti group instead of the Brasov one from Ploiesti sud ...


A photo of IC from Constanta :
https://2img.net/r/ihimizer/img12/3976/dsci2279d.jpg

Clips :

27.12. Bucuresti nord :

IR 14004 Brasov-Bucuresti nord-Constanta :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJbN-x3wRJE

IC 584 Constanta-Bucuresti nord :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH2qyTe5pdw

Regio 7037 Bucuresti nord-Urziceni :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V1ew_8hgBY

tIR 1597 to Craiova :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzxgPjHZcaQ

IR 1752 Suceava-Bucuresti nord arrives with 8 overcrowded coaches :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoSNTzvCa4

IR 383 (Moscow) - Suceava - Bucuresti - Ruse - Sofia arrives with delay of 15 mins :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNFYP-0Sb8M


Something I disliked about the travel was that in IR 382/383 most of the passangers (they are really few) give money to the ticket chargers in the train ... 10/20 lei from Ruse to Bucuresti or from Bucuresti to Girgiu. The only ones who have tickets were the group of Bulgarians from our forum and a few foriegners most of them English and one Asian... Also the annoying border control which made a delay of 50 minutes in both directions at Giurgiu nord ... But there are non-eu citizens in the train and this could be a possible explanation. But whatever it's unpleasant.