Experience Transylvania - Conacul Apafi

We hired Apafi Manor through AirBnB for a 3 night stay. The house and gardens are grand, but the house is starting to fall into disrepair. There are lots of broken steps, furniture, some sockets hanging out the wall and lots of items around the house that are in poor condition or broken. The path up to the house is in poor condition and so the drive up is adventurous. However, if you accept that the house is definitely past its best, it is still a wonderful place to stay. At the current price it is still good value for money offering lots of space in a fairly unique environment. Beware that you will need to keep doors of the house shut otherwise tourists will come in wanting to look round. I think the house used to be a museum / restaurant and this is the reason why tourists think they can just walk in to the house. But to be fair the house is still like a museum inside. Finally Malancrav is 20mins down a one way road from the nearest main road, so be prepared for extra travel time when visiting other places. Despite all the downsides, we all really liked staying here and will never forget it as the house is very distinctive. As long as you aren’t expecting perfection then you are likely to have a fantastic stay.

A corner of paradise, the building itself is enchanting, the large garden is a pleasure to walk through while listening to crickets and birds. The food is fantastic and the staff feels like your own family welcoming you home. I felt like I was in a novel

My parent's married in this place 35 years ago ♡.. my dad from Amsterdam..and my mother from this village.. celebrated the anniversary from the village like 10years or more ago.. and have a lot of friends/holiday memories off this place. So it has something special for me.. ♡♡

Nice place, nice people! We had the chance to be only visitors at manor for a night and felt like the owners of that wonderful place! Congratulation for effort to build that wonderful atmosfeer!

Very nice experience. We were lucky to be the only guests for a night. Hosts are helpful and nice. Good breakfast.

Nicely renovated old cottage. Wonderful place, although the administrators are slacking and not really interested in bringing more tourists.

The place itself is an absolute gem, not to be missed! The people running it could be more service oriented.

I visited it from outside. A very peacefull place.