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Hotel Castle Dracula is in the exact location of Count Dracula's castle in the book Dracula. When you arrive at the castle, if you have recently read the book you will see it is at the top of the Borgo pass, just where it should be. Hotel Castle Dracula was started in 1976 and finished in 1983. It has around 90 beds and several well kept family rooms that will sleep up to four people.
When you arrive at Hotel Castle Dracula you check in and are invited to meet the Count. Trip advisers are sworn to secrecy as to what happens when the Count greats you but according to the Lonely Planets a Canadian was so scared when they had a presence with the count, they had a heart attack and died on the spot! One group that visited Hotel Castle Dracula had 6 children in the group and you could hear the screams threw out the hotel for a good half hour after the first meeting with the Count.
The hotel is new, so doesn't provide the full Dracula feeling you would expect. This is why you should arrive at night so it's more in keeping with what you would expect. You meet the count and after having a shower and descending to the dinning room on the blood red carpets throughout the hotel, any feeling of 'this is not Dracula castle' are long gone. If your with children it's a great experience, but be prepared to have a few of them in your bed, the little ones do get scared.
There is a choice of rooms. There are the blood red, yes definitely stay in Dracula's Castle rooms, all with en suite and TV's not that you will be watching any TV for there is far too much to explore. The rooms are tidy and well looked after. Perfect for your first night sleep in Transylvania if you are visiting Hotel Castle Dracula on the Dracula Tour of Transylvania.
On leaving Hotel Castle Dracula, you are asked to have your passports ready and given a stamp showing you have stayed in Count Dracula Castle, just in case your friends don't believe you when you get home.
Hotel Castle Dracula's official web site has very little information on it, but worth a look just for the scary werewolf that appears on the home page. You can view the page in Romanian (default) or in English.
Addendum by Procurator:
Room prices vary depending on package selected, but range from approximately 220 to 1000 RON (Romanian New Lei) depending on your duration of stay, with the latter price being for 3 nights and 4 days. The website has current pricing, so please check there.
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