City guides

The guides are the part of this site that answers a question with a plan rather than a list. An itinerary has hours, distances and an order that accounts for the fact that Iași sits on hills: get the sequence wrong and you climb the same slope three times instead of once.

What is here

• Itineraries — 48 hours in Iași, the version of a first visit you can actually test, and the monastery route, a full day among the fortified foundations on the hills.
• Practical — Iași with children, where we also say what does not work with a tired child, and from the airport into the centre, with every option and what each really costs.

How they are written

Every guide starts from the places in our own database — the same attractions and restaurants, filtered by rating and review count — and puts them in an order that makes geographic sense. Where something changes often (opening hours, fares) we say so plainly and point to the official source, rather than burying a number that will be wrong a season from now.

We do not invent walking times, we do not recommend places that are not in our database, and we do not inflate a 40-minute visit into two hours to make a day look full.

If you are just starting

Read Iași in brief for context, then 48 hours for the plan. For timing, when to visit Iași lays out the city's real calendar — including the months when it empties out because the students have gone home.