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Christmas and New Year at a cabin in Gărâna: the whole house for your group
Over the holidays, Cabana Craiu is rented as a whole, to one group: four bedrooms with private bathrooms, sleeping 12, and a fifth bedroom on request, for up to 14 people. The long table, the living room, the grill gazebo and the hot tub are yours alone, and the village ski slope is a quarter of an hour's walk away.
The house in winter
The house is built of wood, with big windows facing the hills and fir trees. Downstairs are the kitchen, a dining room with one long table and the living room opening onto the terrace; upstairs the bedrooms, each with its own bathroom. Here is what one guest who came for a winter weekend wrote:
“lying in bed in the morning and watching the snow fall lazily outside, among the fir and birch trees ... is truly unforgettable.”
The New Year's Eve dinner
You cook it yourselves, the way you like: the kitchen has everything you need to cook for a big group, and the dining room seats everyone at the same table. For barbecues or a cauldron there's the covered gazebo, with a grill, a disc stove and a solid wood table. Bring your own charcoal, wood and oil; if you use the house's, there's a charge.
“The kitchen has absolutely every utensil you need for cooking and eating, both inside and outside on the terrace, plus the barbecue area outside.”
The days in between
- the easy Gărâna slope, a quarter of an hour's walk away;
- the Semenic slopes, about 11 kilometres by car (more in the ski guide);
- in the evening, the hot tub in the garden gazebo; say when you book that you'd like it.
The road in winter
The last part of the road to the house goes down and up again. One review says access is rather difficult and fine with a 4x4. Before you set off, ask the hosts about the road on those days.
How to book
Pick your nights in the calendar: you'll see straight away whether they're free, and the request goes to the hosts on WhatsApp, already written. The hosts reply with the price for the whole house. For Christmas and New Year, message us early.
Questions about New Year
The quotes come from guest reviews, translated from Romanian. The 11 kilometres to Semenic are by road, measured on OpenStreetMap; the 15-minute walk to the slope comes from Lucian's review on Booking.