The wooded site
Trees, shade and wide paths that suit pushchairs.
Tiia Monto — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Alexandru Panoiu from Bucharest, Romania — CC BY 2.0 · Alexandru Panoiu from Bucharest, Romania — CC BY 2.0 · Alexandru Panoiu from Bucharest, Romania — CC BY 2.0
The city is better for this than it looks. **Herăstrău Park** is the largest, with boats on the lake and playgrounds, and beside it the open-air **Village Museum**, which children like because the houses are real and can be walked into. The **Grigore Antipa** natural history museum is modern and interactive and the best for ages six to twelve. The **Dimitrie Leonida technical museum** has big machines out in the open. **Tineretului Park** is wide with playgrounds. And **Therme Bucharest** north of the city is an enormous thermal water complex with slides and palm trees — a full-day option in any weather.
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Bucharest Zoo lies at Băneasa north of the city, across about six hectares among the trees of the Băneasa forest, holding a few hundred animals of various species. It opened in 1955 and went through very poor years in the 1990s and 2000s when its cages were cramped and its conditions repeatedly criticised. A substantial redevelopment since then has enlarged the enclosures and rebuilt large parts, and the situation has clearly improved — **but it remains below Western European zoo standards**, and you should know that before going. What it is genuinely good for: a very cheap family half-day with young children, on a shaded, wooded site with playgrounds and wide paths. Anyone sensitive to how animals are kept may find parts of it uncomfortable. **Charges are very low**, and it is on the edge of the city, needing a car or a bus.
Trees, shade and wide paths that suit pushchairs.
Half a day with small children at minimal cost.
Băneasa, northern Bucharest