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Shopping in Bucharest
Bucharest’s main shopping areas are the shopping centres listed here, as well as B-dul Magheru and Calea Victoriei.The overall shopping experience remains lousy, however, and if you’ve come to Bucharest for the shopping you are in for a nasty shock.
Still, there are plenty of places to buy souvenirs, and if that special someone is demanding you bring back something Romanian, here are a few ideas...
Romanian Monopoly
Features the streets and districts of Bucharest (placing Primaverii in place of Mayfair). It can be bought for around 60.00 lei in good toy and book stores.
Romanian Folk Costumes & Souvenirs
All of the handicraft shops listed here sell some kind of folk costume, though perhaps the best places to find such items is the museum shop of the National Peasant Museum.
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i have friend who lives in Bucharest, and she recently had her first baby, MotherCare in Bucharest is so exspensive, it is actually cheaper to buy from the MotherCare store in England and post the items to Romania... but naturally my friend living i[...]
Wow! I most be living in a Romania from a parallel universe, because I never saw a bookshop where ALL the books are face-forwards on the shelves. This is stupid... There are, indeed, A FEW bookshops where SOME of the more popular books are face-forw[...]
Seems whoever wrote this thought Romanians are nothing but cavemen. "Books are arranged on shelves spine-forwards". Hell, what's next, you guys are gonna teach us how to make fire or the wheel?[...]
wow, what a stupid review! fortunately you won't find the same arrogant attitude in the bookshop.[...]
Best place for antiques in Bucharest. Really nice and special antiques for half the price of other antique shops. Lots of small products. Owner is a very young guy (he is from Holland I believe) but surprisingly well informed. Whenever I visit Bucha[...]
When we asked the owners of "Anthony Frost" why do they keep advertising as "the first (real) English bookshop in Bucharest" as long as they used to come and visit Nautilus Bookstore for ten years, they explained it was a missunderstanding and only [...]
I like this place, nice and big. Building need some renovation.[...]
Beauty full antique shop in the old center of Bucharest. What a lot of nice decorated rooms upstairs in the building and a big collection. A must see[...]
Nautilus is one of the best English bookstores in Bucharest, for the sole reason that it offers diversity: you can find almost any book you're looking for, from any domain at a very reasonable price. Not to mention that, when it comes to fantasy and[...]
Nice place but is it a shopping centre or a high security prison. Yes its a big step up for Bucharest shoppers but it is spoilt (as far as I am concerned) by some over zealous security. When you arrive you cannot miss the blue clad BGS security sta[...]
Looks pretty good on the outside, spacious, clean and bright inside. Good underground carpark opposite (direct access), and comfortable 4-screen cinema nice and cool. Shame that the air conditioning in the mall can't counteract the large expanse o[...]