The Regency Hotel is known for its central location, simple but luxurious rooms, comfortable beds and great service. Although it was built in 2012, it looks brand-new, and its bathrooms sparkle. The hotel is close to Moldova’s Parliament Building, the Natural History Museum, Stefan cel Mare Park and other landmarks. The friendly staff can quickly line up tours for you of Chisinau and surrounding areas, particularly the alluring wineries.
REGENCY HOTEL****
CASA DACĂ BOUTIQUE HOTEL
The Casa Daca is a new boutique hotel that offers guests a blend of traditional and contemporary minimalist styles that complement each other, creating a comfortable mood. The owners were determined to give clients the best that Moldova can offer – hospitality, ambience, superb food and fabulous wine. Two talented young chefs create authentic Moldovan meals for you in the Den restaurant, where candles produce a romantic glow. Casa Daca is named for the Dacians, an ancient people who lived in today’s Moldova and Romania.
CITY PARK HOTEL****
The City Park Hotel is on a wide, cobblestoned walkway two minutes from Chisinau’s largest green space, Central Park. A bronze statue of a young man waiting impatiently for his girlfriend, who is walking slowly with high-heeled shoes in her hand because of sore feet, will put you in a good mood whether you’re walking to or from the hotel. City Park is a boutique hotel with a pleasant atmosphere and attentive staff. Since it is strategically placed, guests are close to excellent restaurants and coffee shops, theaters, museums, an open-air souvenir and crafts market, and other attractions.
ZENTRUM HOTEL****
The celebrated Russian architect Alexandru Bernardazzi designed the building that now houses the Zentrum Hotel in 1875. When the structure was converted into a hotel, each of its rooms was designed individually. Underscoring the value that the owners attach to art, the rooms are named for renowned artists – from Vincent van Gogh to Vasili Kandinsky and from Arush Votsmush to Mark Verlan. Such landmarks as the Birth of Christ Cathedral, National Assembly Square and Chisinau City Hall are just minutes away by foot.
RADISSON BLU LEOGRAND HOTEL*****
Radisson Blue Leogrand Hotel oferă o gamă largă de servicii și facilități: 3 restaurante, un bar deschis 24 h, un business centru, săli de conferință, full laundry service, parcare subterană, precum și un centru de SPA propriu, un wine-bar, terasă panoramică și un cazinou.
BERD’S CHISINAU MGALLERY HOTEL COLLECTION*****
Berds Design Hotel este primul și unicul design hotel din Moldova, amplasat chiar în inima vieții de afaceri și culturale a Chișunăului. Design-ul său modern rămâne fidel minimalismului datorită gustului rafinat al arhitectorului italian Luca Scacchetti. Exteriorul de palat, frumos combinat cu o colecție de lucrări de artă impunătoare te vor induce într-o stare de armonie și calm. Deservirea la cel mai înalt nivel și organizarea fără de cusur a tuturor mecanismelor de funcționare vă vor face să doriți să reveniți aici.
Botanical Garden
Moldova’s Academy of Sciences founded the 104-hectare Botanical Garden, which has more than 10,000 species of plants, in 1950.
Although it includes the kind of carefully manicured areas that the term “botanical garden” brings to mind, nature has been allowed to run its own course in much of the park. In those areas, it resembles a forest instead of a park.
The garden’s specific-species display areas include sections for roses, flowering vines, alpine vegetation and conifers.
The complex includes several lakes and quiet meadows.
You can often spot interesting wildlife in the park, including long-tailed birds.
La Izvor Park
The spring water that flows into La Izvor Park’s Elena Fountain is so pure you can drink from it. What other park fountain in the world can you say that about? The centerpiece of the 150-hectare park, opened in 1972, is several lakes linked by canals. The lakes’ waters are clean because, like the Elena Fountain, they are spring-fed.
You can also cool off in a waterfall or sun-bathe in two sandy beaches. And the park has paths around the lakes where you can jog or ride a bicycle.
If you’re even more adventurous, you can take a boat or swim to an island with a cave in it.
One reason you should consider going to La Izvor during the summer high season is that it is often less crowded than other Chisinau parks with lakes because it is farther from the center.
Alunelul Park
Alunelul was built in the early 1960s on 11 hectares of ground that once was a section of a Jewish cemetery. The Soviets relocated the remains they displaced for the park to a new burial ground, while leaving some of the old cemetery intact. The park contains a monument called the 1903 Pogrom Memorial that commemorates the dozens of victims of anti-Jewish riots in 1903 and 1905. The pogroms, which injured hundreds and forced thousands from their home, prompted many of Chisinau’s Jews to leave. Jews have begun returning to the city and elsewhere in Moldova since the break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.