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Kraków to the Black Sea by car: a Polish road trip through Romania, from the wooden churches of Maramureș to the Transfăgărășan
Every summer, cars with Polish number plates roll south through Slovakia and Hungary and cross into Romania at Borș or Nădlac, loaded with tents, bicycles and cool boxes. Their drivers are heading for a country that, for many Poles, has become the most affordable and most surprising holiday in Europe: villages in Maramureș where wooden churches with needle-thin spires have stood for three centuries, the winding Transfăgărășan road that climbs above the clouds, the painted monasteries of Bukovina, medieval Sighișoara, the Danube Delta and a Black Sea coast with long sandy beaches. The distance from Kraków to Cluj-Napoca is around 750 kilometres, and to Bucharest about 1,300. Poland and Romania share a border with Ukraine, belong to the same alliance and the same Union, and have become closer partners in recent years. Yet one thing separates the two travellers' wallets: Poland pays in zloty and Romania in lei. This page helps with the arithmetic. Use it to Convert PLN to RON with the daily reference rates published by the European Central Bank: both currencies are quoted against the euro, the page combines them into a zloty-leu figure and prints the date beneath the result. The amount you type never leaves your browser.
Using the converter
Zloty in, lei out
Before you pack, Convert PLN to RON for the whole trip budget and keep the figure next to the booking confirmations.
Type an amount in zloty and read the equivalent in Romanian lei. The two currencies are close in value, so the result is a number of the same order as the one you entered, which makes small errors easy to miss; look at the decimals. The date of the rate appears under the result, and at weekends or on public holidays the page uses the last working day and says so. A table of round amounts and a thirty-day line complete the page. For the opposite direction, from lei into zloty, open Convert RON to PLN.
Reference, not offer
The published rate is a mid-market figure fixed once on each working day, without any bank margin. A card, an exchange office or an app will give you slightly less, and the difference is their fee. Treat every attempt to Convert PLN to RON as a yardstick for the offers you receive: under one per cent is excellent, two or three per cent is normal at banks, and over four per cent is a reason to compare. In the examples below, purely for arithmetic, an invented rate of one zloty for 1.2 lei is used. It is not a forecast and not today's price; replace it with the real figure from the calculator.
Leg one: getting there
The road south
The usual route from southern Poland leads through the Tatra foothills into Slovakia, then across northern Hungary to the Romanian border near Oradea or Satu Mare. Since Romania joined the Schengen area for land borders in January 2025, the long queues of earlier years have shrunk, though traffic can build at weekends and on the first and last days of the holiday season. Motorways are patchy on the Romanian side, so allow generous time. Tolls apply in Slovakia and Hungary, and in Romania a road-use vignette called rovinieta must be bought before you drive on national roads. It costs a few euros for a week and can be purchased online or at petrol stations near the border.
Fuel and distances
Fuel in Romania is sold by the litre, and its price, in lei, is comparable to that in Poland, with the exact difference changing from month to month. Road signs show kilometres. Drivers from the United States or Britain use Convert km to mi to translate distances into miles, and Convert L to gal for fuel. Whenever you buy fuel, Convert PLN to RON for the amount on the pump and compare it with what you would pay at home.
By train or plane
Fares are in zloty on Polish sites and in lei on Romanian ones, so Convert PLN to RON for the second and compare on equal terms.
Not everybody drives. Direct flights connect Warsaw, Kraków and Katowice with Bucharest, and some regional airports link Poland with Cluj, Iași and Timișoara, usually through low-cost carriers. Trains are slower: a journey from Kraków to Bucharest takes more than twenty hours with changes. Buses between the cities of the region are cheap, and car sharing is popular among students. Poland is one hour behind Romania in time, so a traveller who flies east gains nothing but also loses little. Convert CET to EET shows the exact gap for any hour.
Leg two: Maramureș
Wooden churches and the Merry Cemetery
In the north of Romania, near the Ukrainian border, Maramureș has preserved a world of timber: gateways carved with sun symbols and ropes, houses with deep porches and eight churches on the UNESCO list, built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with steep shingled roofs and slender towers. In the village of Săpânța, the Merry Cemetery has hundreds of blue crosses decorated with naive paintings and humorous verses about the dead. A ticket costs about 10 to 15 lei, and a guesthouse room for two in a village such as Breb or Botiza is around 200 to 350 lei per night with breakfast. Convert PLN to RON for a week of such stays and you will see why Polish hikers return year after year.
Food of the north
A dinner at a village guesthouse looks cheap, but Convert PLN to RON for a week of them to see the real daily cost.
Local specialities include sour soup with smoked meat, boiled cabbage rolls called sarmale, polenta with cheese and sour cream, and doughnuts with plum jam. A home-cooked dinner at a guesthouse costs 40 to 80 lei, and a bottle of plum brandy, țuică or pălincă, 30 to 60. Guests are invited to drink and eat a lot. Politely say that you are full if you cannot manage more, because refusing a toast too often is considered unfriendly.
On the trail
Hiking in the Rodna and Maramureș mountains is for experienced walkers, with marked trails, rough weather and few huts. Carry a map, extra food and a rain jacket. Bears and wolves live in the forests: never feed them, keep your food sealed and make noise on the trail. Mountain rescue is reached by calling 112.
Leg three: Transylvania
Sighișoara, Brașov and Bran
Castle tickets, cable cars and coffee add up in a day, so Convert PLN to RON for each and total them in zloty.
Sighișoara has a walled citadel on a hill, with a clock tower and pastel houses, and is thought to be the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, the prince who inspired parts of the Dracula legend. A ticket to the clock tower is 20 to 30 lei. Brașov offers a Black Church, cable-car rides up Tâmpa mountain and a pleasant old town with cafés. Bran Castle, marketed as Dracula's castle, charges around 60 to 80 lei for adults and attracts crowds. The real history of the castle is more modest, but the view of the forested valley is lovely. Prices in cafés run from 10 to 18 lei for a coffee.
The Transfăgărășan
One of the most spectacular mountain roads in Europe, the Transfăgărășan, climbs to 2,042 metres across the Făgăraș range with hairpin bends, tunnels and a glacial lake near the top. It is usually open only in summer and early autumn, from about July to October, because heavy snow closes it for the rest of the year. Drive slowly, watch for cyclists and animals, and carry a warm layer, since the temperature at the pass can be 15 degrees lower than in the valley. Convert m to ft turns 2,042 metres into feet for readers who think that way. Fuel up before the climb.
Cluj-Napoca and Sibiu
Cluj-Napoca, the unofficial capital of Transylvania, is a university city with a lively café scene, festivals and a large Hungarian community. Sibiu, once a Saxon town, has a beautifully restored old centre with houses with "eyes", windows set into the roofs. A night in a central hotel costs 300 to 600 lei, a meal in a good restaurant 80 to 150. Both are served by airports, which makes them good points to begin or end a trip.
Leg four: the sea
Black Sea beaches
Sunbeds and parasols are priced in lei by the day; Convert PLN to RON for a week before you choose a resort.
The Romanian coast runs from the Danube Delta to the Bulgarian border. Mamaia, near Constanța, is the busiest resort, with big hotels, clubs and a long sandy beach; farther south, Vama Veche is known for its alternative spirit. Prices in July and August are high, and a sunbed with an umbrella costs 50 to 150 lei a day. The water is warm in summer, around 22 to 25 degrees. Convert °C to °F shows the same in Fahrenheit.
The Danube Delta
The delta, a UNESCO site, is a maze of channels, reed beds and lakes that shelters hundreds of bird species. Visitors travel by boat from Tulcea to the village of Sulina or to guesthouses in smaller settlements. A boat tour costs 100 to 300 lei per person, depending on length. Pelicans, herons and egrets are common, and fishing is a local tradition. Insect repellent is essential in summer.
Leg five: Bukovina and Bucharest
Painted monasteries
In the north-east of Romania, in the historic region of Bukovina, a group of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century monasteries is covered with frescoes not only inside but also on the outer walls. Voroneț is famous for a deep blue that painters have been trying to match for centuries, and its Last Judgement scene on the western wall is one of the great works of medieval art. Sucevița, Moldovița and Humor are equally impressive, and all are on the UNESCO list. Entry is cheap, 10 to 20 lei each, with an extra small fee for taking photographs inside. Dress modestly: covered shoulders and knees for women and men alike. A scarf is lent at the entrance in some places. Convert PLN to RON for the entry tickets, and you will find that a day among the frescoes costs less than a pizza in Kraków.
Iași, the city of the old capital
Iași, once the capital of Moldavia, preserves a university, a grand cultural palace and dozens of churches. It is a calm stop on the road between the monasteries and the Black Sea. The palace, with its Gothic Revival halls, charges about 30 to 50 lei for a visit, and a coffee in the old centre costs 10 to 14. Many Poles combine Iași with a visit to the borderlands of Moldova, where wine cellars welcome tourists.
Wine routes
Romania has been producing wine for more than two thousand years. The Cotnari and Murfatlar regions are known for sweet whites, while Dealu Mare in the south makes powerful reds. A tasting with snacks costs 40 to 100 lei, and a bottle of good local wine 40 to 90 lei in a shop. If you plan to take bottles home to Poland, remember that within the European Union you may transport wine for personal use, but limits apply to quantities sold or intended for commercial purposes.
Bucharest, a capital of contrasts
Bucharest is a city of grand boulevards, elegant houses of the early twentieth century, communist-era blocks and the huge Palace of the Parliament, one of the largest administrative buildings in the world. Guided tours are offered in several languages, require advance booking and a passport, and cost about 40 to 80 lei. The old centre, Lipscani, is full of bars and restaurants, and the Village Museum shows traditional houses from all over the country. A day in the capital can include a museum, a long lunch, a walk in Herăstrău Park and dinner in the old town. A metro ticket costs a few lei, and a taxi from the airport 60 to 100 lei when ordered through an app.
A week's budget for two, in lei and zloty
Careful
Even a cheap trip needs a daily limit, and the simplest way to set it is to Convert PLN to RON for the total and divide by the number of days.
Sleeping in guesthouses at 200 to 300 lei a night, eating one meal in a restaurant a day and cooking the rest, paying for fuel and entries, a couple can manage on 3,000 to 4,500 lei for a week, excluding the journey. With the invented rate of 1.2 lei to the zloty, that is about 2,500 to 3,750 zloty. Replace the rate with the real one in the calculator.
Comfortable
A mid-range hotel at 350 to 550 lei, restaurant dinners every night, a couple of guided visits and a boat trip in the Delta will cost 6,000 to 9,000 lei for a week. Book rooms ahead in July and August, when the best guesthouses are full, and read the cancellation terms.
Generous
Four-star hotels with spas, private drivers for the mountain roads and tasting menus reach 12,000 to 20,000 lei for a week. At this level the margin charged by a bank on a large exchange becomes significant, so compare offers against the reference figure.
Staying safe on the road
Driving in Romania
Fines are written in lei, so Convert PLN to RON for the amount to see what it means in your own currency.
Romanian drivers can be fast, and overtaking on narrow roads is common. Keep headlights on, as the law requires outside built-up areas, keep to the speed limits and avoid driving at night in the countryside, where horse carts and pedestrians appear without lights. Check that your car insurance includes Romania. The emergency number is 112.
Wild animals and mountains
Brown bears live in the Carpathians, and they are common near Brașov and the Transfăgărășan. Do not stop to feed or photograph them from close range, and keep windows closed. In mountains, weather can change fast, and thunderstorms in summer are dangerous on exposed ridges.
Health and documents
Carry the European Health Insurance Card from Poland's health fund, which covers necessary care in public hospitals, together with private travel insurance for repatriation. Pets need a passport and a rabies vaccination. Remember to take your ID card or passport, as the border checks may resume at short notice.
Money in Romania
Cards and cash
Cards convert for you, but you should Convert PLN to RON at the till to check that the statement shows a fair amount.
Cards are accepted in towns, hotels and large shops, and contactless payments are common. In villages, guesthouses and market stalls cash is preferred, so keep notes in the local currency. Cash machines are plentiful in cities and rare in remote areas. Never change money on the street. Refuse the offer to be charged in zloty at a terminal, because the terminal's rate is worse than your bank's.
The leu, in brief
Prices in euros in tourist places hide a rounding; Convert PLN to RON for the euro price first and decide whether paying in lei is better.
The Romanian leu, plural lei, is divided into 100 bani, and its name means "lion". The banknotes are made of polymer, and the coins are small. Romania is a member of the European Union but has not yet adopted the euro, so prices in tourist places are sometimes shown in euros as well. Pay in lei where you can. A coffee costs 10 to 15 lei, a lunch in a simple restaurant 40 to 70, a beer 10 to 15.
Tipping
Service is not always included in restaurants, and a tip of about ten per cent is customary if you were satisfied. Rounding up is common for taxi drivers and in cafés. Leave the tip in cash or ask to add it to the card payment.
Other zloty conversions
If your trip continues
Travellers who go on to Hungary can open Convert PLN to HUF, those visiting the Czech Republic Convert PLN to CZK, and for the euro area Convert PLN to EUR. A flight home via London is priced with Convert PLN to GBP.
A habit worth keeping
Write down the rate and date at every exchange, and compare them later with the card statement. It takes seconds.
Mistakes to avoid
Forgetting the vignette
Driving on national roads without a valid rovinieta leads to fines. Buy it before you cross the border.
Planning the Transfăgărășan too early
If you arrive in May, the road may be closed. Check the official road authority's notices before you go.
Using an old rate
A rate from last month can be wrong by several per cent. The date beside the result protects you each time you Convert PLN to RON.
In short
The only thing fetched from the network is the table of daily rates, while your amount stays in the browser and no account is needed. From the wooden churches of the north to the hairpins above the clouds, the routine is the same: Convert PLN to RON, read the date and compare each offer with the number on this page.