u/tomislavlovric

Hey guys!

My girlfriend and I took a short trip to Romania and it was one of the best trips in our lives, but we had one negative experience and I feel I need to warn people about it.

We visited the castles of Peles and Bran on the same day, and Bran castle was arguably the biggest sightseeing disappointment I've had in my entire life. For the record, we know it's not Vlad's actual castle (and we know Vlad Tepes wasn't actually a vampire), but we wanted to see it since everyone said it was a "must-see" in Romania because of how well kept it is to this day.

That turned out to be a terrible decision as this was the most ill-organized tourist attraction I've ever seen in my life. I won't go into the details (you can read them in my Google review - screenshots attached), but I wanted to warn you about Bran castle removing negative reviews.

After returning to our hotel in the evening I wrote an honest review, and after a few hours I checked other reviews (sorted by newest), and found hundreds (and I'm not exaggerating here - literally hundreds) of negative reviews saying more or less the same thing I said as well.

Today, however, there are almost no negative reviews left from the past weekend (which is when we went and when I left the review). If you go to Bran castle on Google Maps and sort by newest reviews, you'll see only a few negative ones and hundreds of positive ones.

I don't know how they did this and I don't know if this is a common practice with other tourist attractions around the world, but they're somehow getting Google to remove negative reviews.

However this didn't sour our trip to Romania - it's a beautiful country, and even though many Redditors said that Bucharest is the most overrated city in Europe, we found it very interesting.

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Bran Castle is doctoring Google reviews