Travel to Satu Mare

 Rail

Satu Mare is linked with Oradea by six trains daily, with Cluj by four trains (4-5 hours of travelling), with Bucharest by three trains and with Timisoara by one (8 hours of travelling). There are no international trains crossing the town.

Car

You can get to Satu Mare from any neighboring county by using road E641 from Oradea (Bihor County), E81 from Zalau (Salaj County) or E58 from Baia Mare (Maramures County). The road conditions are good because there were several modernization projects financed in order to improve the main road connections. (but you can still expect some places were roadworks are still in progress - specially in the north / north-eastern part of the county) It is also very easy to enter the county from Hungary (via Csenger-Petea border crossing). Because Romania is a EU country scheduled to join the Schengen area you will only need to show your passport or your ID at the border (usually it will take no more than 5 minutes as there is only a single checkpoint). On the other hand, if you plan to enter the county (and in the same time Romania) from Ukraine the story is a bit different. Expect waiting times for up to 3-4 hours (august 2011) or even more when shift change. This is mainly due to the Ukrainian side, where border guards don't seem to be stressed at all, barely speak any other language than Ukrainian or Russian, and let cars to pass one by one every 20 minutes or so