This is excellent value for competent travellers. If you want to stay in a centre-edge place in Bucharest, and get to and from the airport cheaply and easily, it is unbeatable. You have to ring or write ahead to get the building code; it's easier than that may sound, and I found the operators to be highly efficient. I took the 5 lei airport train to the main train station (Gara de Nord) and then a 3 lei metro fare to Obor (three stops), and got my bearings to walk towards Mihai Eminescu. You may find it hard to get cash out at the airport with a foreign credit card, but the airport train takes credit cards and you can buy lei at Gara du Nord with euros, dollars or a card. Not hard at all, and the walk from Obor metro was just a km, with a couple of enthusiastic beggars but no real drama (there was snow, but if you're neither inept nor too frail, you will be fine). The place was an enormous and clean studio apartment, with hot water; absolutely great value and gives you a sense of accomplishment for not having braved the much more expensive taxis and hotels. I wanted to eat ciorba (soup) that I saw on the way there, but it had just closed at 8pm in winter; funnily enough open late there was an exquisite Pakistani restaurant (of course more expensive and nichey than ciorba at about 20 euro for the meal, no alcohol sold, but as good as anything you would get in, say, the UK). Also a perfectly fine supermarket next door. Thanks Expedia for throwing this option out to me!
