Getting around Chișinău during a treatment trip

This guide covers travel, process and cost. It contains no clinical advice.

Arrange your airport transfer before you fly, either through the clinic or your hotel. In the city, use a ride-hailing app rather than hailing on the street: the fare is agreed in advance, the route is recorded, and you avoid the negotiation that unfamiliar arrivals usually lose. Chișinău is compact, so most journeys a patient makes are short.

The arrival

Ask the clinic whether they arrange transfers — many do, and some include them. If not, ask your hotel to arrange one and confirm the price in writing before you travel. The point is not that a street taxi will necessarily overcharge you; it is that arriving in an unfamiliar country, late, after a connection, is the worst possible moment to negotiate anything.

Save the clinic's address in Romanian on your phone, not just in English. A driver reading the address as locals write it will get you there faster than one interpreting a translation.

Getting to appointments

Plan for traffic, not distance

A hotel that is two kilometres from the clinic can be ten minutes away or thirty depending on the hour. Ask the clinic what time to leave for a morning appointment, and leave earlier than that on the first day, when you do not yet know the route. Being early costs you a coffee; being late can cost you a slot in a schedule built around your treatment.