Your flight lands at Otopeni and the centre of Bucharest is 19 km down the DN1. The road takes about 25 minutes when it is clear. It takes a lot longer at 08:00 on a weekday, and nobody tells you which one you have landed into.
A pre-booked transfer settles that before you fly. You get a named driver holding your name in arrivals, a price agreed at booking and a vehicle sized to your party. The private car runs to £31 whether you are going three kilometres to Otopeni town or all the way to Piața Unirii.
Bucharest has a cheap express bus into town, and it is a genuinely good one at 3 lei. Book a car for the mornings that bus cannot help with: a 03:40 landing, four cases between two of you, a first visit with no Romanian, or a run up to Sinaia and Brașov where no bus goes.
Private car from £31 · Minibus from £56 · Free cancellation up to 24 hours before travel · Prices are indicative. Check hoppa.com for live prices.
Henri Coandă (OTP) is 17 km from the centre, with a cheap bus, a metered taxi and a pre-booked car all on offer, so start with the fare and the road.
A hoppa private car for three costs £31 to any address inside Bucharest. A metered taxi from the rank runs 60 to 130 lei, and the meter keeps counting in traffic.
Travel details move the fare, and a hoppa promotion can lower it at checkout. Prices are indicative.
Old Town and Piața Unirii cost £31 in a private car, about 25 minutes away. A 5-seat MPV is £54 and an 8-seat minibus is £56.
Your date, party size and any hoppa promotion running when you book can change the quote. Prices are indicative.
Four people with full-size cases fit a private MPV at £54, with room for a buggy. Five to eight of you can take the minibus at £56, about £2 more for three extra seats.
A promotion on the day or a change to your party can shift the quote. Prices are indicative.
No. The private car stays at £31 for every address inside the city, whether you ride 9 minutes or 25. The city you are going to sets the fare, not the kilometres.
The final quote reflects your travel details, and a live hoppa promotion may trim it. Prices are indicative.
No. One fixed fare covers the vehicle, the driver, fuel, tolls, terminal parking and the meet in arrivals. You hand the driver nothing, and tipping is not expected in Romania.
Some routes add a fee for rides starting between 22:00 and 08:00. It appears in the quote at checkout, so a night landing holds no surprise at the kerb.
Henri Coandă sits 17 km north of the centre. By road it is about 19 km to Piața Unirii in the Old Town.
About 25 minutes when the road is clear. Closer to 45 minutes in the morning peak, when the DN1 slows right down.
Piața Victoriei takes about 21 minutes and Băneasa about 15. Otopeni town is a 9-minute hop from the terminal.
Set off three hours before a morning departure. The 25-minute run can double between 07:00 and 09:30 on the DN1.
Otopeni, north of the city, houses Romania's main gateway. Henri Coandă (OTP) works from one terminal with a domestic side and an international side.
Henri Coandă, known locally as Otopeni, is the main airport and the one hoppa transfers run from. It takes flights from across Europe and the Middle East, with domestic hops to Cluj, Timișoara and the coast.
Four routes exist: express bus 100, the train to Gara de Nord, a metered taxi or a pre-booked car. The bus and train cost a few lei. The car gives you a fixed fare and a driver at the door.
Yes. Express line 100 costs 3 lei and runs round the clock, every 15 minutes by day and every 30 from 22:00 to 06:00. It takes 40 to 60 minutes and calls at Băneasa, Piața Victoriei and Piața Romană before Piața Unirii. Buy the ticket before you board.
It costs about 6.50 lei and takes around 25 minutes, with a train roughly every hour. Gara de Nord sits a long way from the Old Town, so most people need a second ride from the station.
Use the yellow touchscreen terminals in international arrivals. Ignore anyone who offers a ride inside the building. Expect 60 to 130 lei into the centre on the meter.
Expect 50 to 80 lei for the 25-minute run. The app pick-up point is to the right of the parking platform. Fares climb on late arrivals banks.
No. The 3 lei bus costs less, and a metered taxi often does too. A hoppa car at £31 buys a named driver, a fare agreed before you fly and room for your cases.
Your date, party size and any hoppa promotion running when you book can change the quote. Prices are indicative.
A private car for three costs £154 for the 156 km run. A 5-seat MPV is £253 and an 8-seat minibus is £272. Allow about 2 hours 17 minutes.
A promotion on the day or a change to your party can shift the quote. Prices are indicative.
A private car costs £115 for the 108 km up the valley. The 5-seat MPV is £200 and the 8-seat minibus £202. The drive takes about 1 hour 28 minutes.
The final quote reflects your travel details, and a live hoppa promotion may trim it. Prices are indicative.
No bus runs from the airport to either town without a change. Many visitors book a car for that reason, and it takes you straight to your hotel door.
Yes, on the Sinaia and Brașov runs. Declare skis and boards when you book so the vehicle has room for them.
The DN1 is single carriageway for most of the mountain stretch. It backs up on winter weekends. Leave extra time for the return to Otopeni, where a clear run still takes just over two hours from Sinaia or Brașov.
Your driver waits in the international arrivals hall, in front of the exit from customs, holding a board with your name. The car is a two-minute walk away.
Your driver tracks the flight number you gave at booking. On a domestic flight, your up to 60 minutes of free waiting starts when you land. On an international flight, a 30-minute buffer is added to your landing time first, and the free wait of up to 60 minutes starts after it.
A landing more than 2 hours after the scheduled arrival time may need a reschedule. If the driver cannot collect you as scheduled, the order is cancelled without charge.
Stay inside the arrivals hall rather than heading to the kerb. Phone hoppa support, open day and night, and a person answers in 11 seconds on average.
Domestic arrivals use the smaller hall and have no passport control. You can reach the kerb within ten minutes of the doors opening, so tell the driver your landing, not your gate time.
Yes. Book the return with your arrival and the pick-up is already set. Enter your Bucharest address as the start and the airport as the drop-off.
Up to 15 minutes after the scheduled pick-up time. Be downstairs and ready, since the clock starts at your booked time.
Each passenger gets one case up to 24 inches. A case over 24 inches counts as two pieces, so pick a larger vehicle when you travel heavy.
Yes. The first child seat is free, and you ask for it at booking so it is fitted before you land.
For a vehicle with 7 seats or fewer, cancel at least 24 hours before pick-up for a full refund. Under 24 hours, the full fare is charged. An 8 to 14 seater needs at least 48 hours. With 16 seats or more, 14 days or more brings a full refund. Less than 14 days but more than 7 brings 50%. Less than 7 days brings no refund.
Allow 5 to 7 business days for the refund once your cancellation request has been received.
You can update passenger names, contact numbers, passenger count and luggage count within the vehicle's capacity. One free change applies where your booking is eligible. A new route, vehicle or pick-up point means cancelling and rebooking at the current price.
A private car is £31 to any address inside Bucharest, whether that's Otopeni town beside the runway or the Old Town 19 km away. The fare is set by the city you're going to, not by the kilometre.
The mountain runs price differently. They climb the Prahova Valley on the DN1, a single-carriageway road that slows to a crawl on winter weekends, so they're priced as the longer journeys they are. Otopeni is Romania's main gateway, 17 km north of the centre, with flights from across Europe and the Middle East and domestic hops on to Cluj, Timișoara and the Black Sea coast.
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Non-Schengen arrivals at Otopeni clear passport control in the same hall as everyone else, and a bunched arrivals bank can hold you at the desk for half an hour before you reach the carousel. Your driver tracks the flight number you gave at booking and times the pick-up to when the wheels touch down. On a domestic flight, your up to 60 minutes of free waiting starts when you land. On an international flight, a 30-minute buffer is added to your landing time first, and the free wait starts after it.
You'll find your driver in the international arrivals hall with a board showing your name, and the car is a two-minute walk away.
Four things decide the answer: how many of you there are, how much you are carrying, when you land and how far you are going.
No, and it would be strange to claim it. Express line 100 is cheap and frequent, and a metered taxi into the centre usually costs less than the car as well. What the private car buys is certainty: a named driver, a fare agreed before you fly, a vehicle big enough for your bags and no cash at the kerb.
The number you see at booking is the number you pay. Your fare covers the vehicle, the driver, fuel, tolls, parking at the terminal and the meet in arrivals. Three things at Otopeni cost nothing extra and are worth knowing about:
Two things do cost extra, and both are in your hands:
Six details decide whether your booking runs smoothly, so check them before you pay.
Five destinations take almost every transfer out of this airport. Two are in the city, one is a suburb most visitors never hear of, and two are up the mountain.
The terraces of Lipscani, the Stavropoleos monastery and the Palace of Parliament are all inside a walkable square here. Most short-stay hotels sit in these streets.
About 25 minutes · private car from £31
Government buildings, the Grigore Antipa museum and the long run of Calea Victoriei. Business travellers tend to stay up this end of town.
About 21 minutes · private car from £31
Bucharest's green northern edge, with the lakes, the zoo and the big shopping centre. It is the first district you reach coming off the airport road.
About 15 minutes · private car from £31
Peleș Castle, the monastery and the cable car up Cota 1400. The first real stop in the Prahova Valley and the one most day trips aim for.
About 88 minutes · private car from £115
The Black Church, Council Square and the road on to Bran. A little over two hours from the terminal, and the gateway to the rest of Transylvania.
About 137 minutes · private car from £154
Yes. For a private car or any vehicle up to 7 seats, cancel up to 24 hours before travel for a full refund. Larger vehicles carry longer windows: 8 to 14 seaters 48 hours before, and 16+ seaters 14 days before. Cancel a 16+ seater less than 14 days but more than 7 days before pick-up and you get half the booking value back. Cancel less than 7 days before pick-up and you get nothing back. Where your booking is eligible, you can make one free change to passenger names, contact numbers, passenger count or luggage count. A change of route, vehicle type or pick-up point means cancelling and rebooking at the current price. You can add a refundable upgrade at booking. Its price depends on the booking and the vehicle you choose. The first child seat is free when you request it at booking.
hoppa manages the network you book through: 70,000+ vetted local operators in 182+ countries, every one checked for licensing, insurance and service standards. 40M+ travellers have used it, and Mastercard and UnionPay trust it as the mobility infrastructure layer for agentic travel. You get a price that is fixed, a driver who tracks your flight in real time and a real person on the phone at any hour.
On this route that network matters in one specific way. The airport has a long-standing problem with drivers approaching arriving passengers inside the terminal and quoting a fare off the meter. A booked transfer takes you past all of it. You know the driver's name, the vehicle and the price before you land.
Yes. An AI agent can book your airport transfer directly through Mastercard's Agentic Pay platform, powered by hoppa's global mobility platform and its network of 70,000+ vetted local providers. The agent searches, compares and completes the booking on your behalf, with nobody stepping in to finish it. hoppa is built for the agentic travel era.
Henri Coandă works from one passenger terminal, split into a domestic and an international side. The walk from the gate to the kerb is short by European standards. Here is what to expect, and what to do if something goes wrong.
Book your return at the same time as your arrival and the pickup is already set.
Your driver waits up to 15 minutes at the pickup point on a departure. Be downstairs and ready, since the clock starts at the time you booked rather than the time you appear.
Leave the Old Town three hours before a departure in the morning peak. The 25-minute run can double between 07:00 and 09:30 on the DN1. Coming down from Sinaia or Brașov, the road takes just over two hours on a clear day. Give yourself an hour on top of that.
The hard part of this airport is not the distance. It is the twenty minutes after the customs doors open, when you are tired, you have no lei yet, and somebody is already offering you a ride.
Book ahead and that whole stretch disappears. Your driver is holding a board with your name on it, the fare was agreed before you flew, and your free cancellation runs up to 24 hours before travel. Book your Otopeni transfer now.
A private car is £31 to any address inside Bucharest, including the Old Town and Piața Unirii. A 5-seat MPV is £54 and an 8-seat minibus is £56. Prices are indicative. Check hoppa.com for live prices on your dates.
Henri Coandă sits 17 km north of the centre, and about 19 km from Piața Unirii by road. The drive takes about 25 minutes on a clear run and closer to 45 in the morning peak.
Yes. Express line 100 runs 24 hours a day for 3 lei, every 15 minutes through the day and every 30 minutes overnight. Buy your ticket before you board. It calls at Băneasa, Piața Victoriei and Piața Romană on its way to Piața Unirii, taking 40 to 60 minutes.
It depends where you are staying. The train takes about 25 minutes for 6.50 lei and runs roughly hourly. Gara de Nord is well outside the Old Town, so most visitors pay for a second ride from the station and arrive no sooner than the bus.
Order one on the yellow touchscreen terminals in the international arrivals hall. Those machines call pre-authorised operators and the meter runs from 60 to 130 lei into the centre. Turn down anyone who approaches you inside the terminal offering a ride.
A private car to Brașov is £154 and takes a little over two hours. A 5-seat MPV is £253. This is the one route where the two larger vehicles separate: the 8-seat minibus is £272. Take the MPV if its seats are enough for your party.
A private car to Sinaia is £115 for the 108 km up the Prahova Valley, about an hour and a half. A 5-seat MPV is £200 and an 8-seat minibus is £202, so the two sit level. No bus runs this route direct from the airport.
Yes. A private minibus carries up to 22 passengers with one bag each, and a private coach seats up to 60, so a stag party or a ski group heading for Sinaia travels together on one fixed all-in price. Give your final headcount and luggage count at booking so the right size meets you. Larger vehicles carry longer cancellation windows: 48 hours for 8 to 14 seaters and 14 days for 16 seats and above. Cancel a 16+ seater less than 14 days but more than 7 days before pick-up and you get half the booking value back. Cancel less than 7 days before pick-up and you get nothing back.
Yes. For cars and vehicles up to 7 seats, cancel up to 24 hours before travel for a full refund. For 8 to 14 seat vehicles the window is 48 hours, and for 16 seats and above it is 14 days. Cancel a 16+ seater less than 14 days but more than 7 days before pick-up and you get half the booking value back. Cancel less than 7 days before pick-up and you get nothing back. Where your booking is eligible, you can make one free change to passenger names, contact numbers, passenger count or luggage count. A change of route, vehicle type or pick-up point means cancelling and rebooking at the current price.
Yes. The first child seat is free with every hoppa transfer. Request it at booking, with your child's age, so the driver fits it before you land. A seat that is not on the booking can mean a refused ride with no refund, so add it when you book rather than on the day.
No. You pay in full at booking and your e-ticket is your receipt. hoppa accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Maestro and PayPal at checkout. Your driver has nothing to collect from you. Tipping is not expected in Romania and is never built into your fare.
Your quote already carries it. The 22:00 to 08:00 period is priced into the fare you accept at booking, so a 03:40 landing costs what the booking said it would. Express line 100 still runs through the night at half the daytime frequency.
Express line 100 at 3 lei, by a long way. A pre-booked private car is £31 and buys you a named driver, a fixed fare and a vehicle sized to your luggage. Pick the bus for a light bag in daylight and the car for a group, a late landing or a lot of cases.
hoppa works across 2,600+ airports and resorts in 182+ countries, with Henri Coandă as the main Romanian gateway. See the Romania transfers page for the full list, and the hoppa app for your driver's details on the day.
