Mamaia

Mamaia is the most important seaside resort on the Romanian Black Sea coast. It belongs administratively to Constanta, lying northeast of the city on a 7 km long and 300 m wide strip of land between the Black Sea and the freshwater Siutghiol.

Economy

Mamaia is not a seaside resort in the traditional sense, so no grown and continually populated town with beach, hotels and urban infrastructure. Mamaia is entirely geared towards tourism and almost exclusively inhabited during the summer months. Kilometers long, the approximately 80 hotels are strung together. But in high season prevails here, as for example, the Bulgarian gold or sun beach, mass tourism. The flow of visitors in the hundreds of thousands.

The Black Sea coast of Mamaia has narrow white and very fine sand beaches that are very long and extended. The beaches here very shallow fall into the sea. Behind the beaches, there is a rich trees.

One of the first buildings erected here was the residence of the Romanian royal family. The building still stands today and is still operated as a hotel. It is one of the most luxurious hotels in Mamaia and once had the name "International ". After the Revolution of 1989 it was privatized and has since been " Rex", indicating its historical significance. In February 2011 there was a fire, due to which the hotel operation had to be stopped. The hotel remained closed since. Currently (summer 2012) being renovated.

The swimming season lasts from June to end of August; the average daily temperatures are at this time at 25 to 30 ° C. The season ends abruptly in early September, then Mamaia becomes a ghost town: a post-season, there really is not, although it is offered by tour operators. As of mid- May and until the end of September, you can book trips there. Most restaurants, bars and shops are closed during off-season.

History

The history and development of Mamaia is very closely connected with tourism in Romania. His heyday Mamaia in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The Romanian (just like the Bulgarian ) Black Sea coast represented a rare opportunity for tourists from Eastern Europe to be able to enjoy a seaside holiday at a constant warm weather and good bathing possibilities.

Because of the low by Western standards prices Mamaia was discovered by West German Reiser organizers and offered from the mid- 1960s as Pauschalreiseort.

The Romanian state saw here a good source of foreign exchange, which led to a construction boom. Initially, only the south of Mamaia was developed in the 1970s and 1980s and the north. Most hotels in the northern part is common that they no longer separates the road from the beach; they are located directly on the sandy beach.

Due to the narrow tongue of land, there is usually no one behind the other hotel buildings. While some hotels are not directly in the front line on the beach, but they are built into the rear shady green belt to the main road. The distance to the beach is a maximum of about 150 meters.

A clear break experienced Mamaia - just like the whole tourism in Romania and other former Eastern Bloc countries - after the revolution in 1989, the number of tourists from abroad went quickly back. . Money for urgently increasing the renovations was not present and the hotels were - if they were ever opened - rather poorly managed. International tourism came in Mamaia almost a complete standstill; the site was used in the main only of local tourists who traveled from all over Romania to there.

From the mid- 1990s, the state, the hotels to sell and privatize so began. The renovations went ahead, however, partially or not at all hesitant and slow. Related to it, the price level was quite high.

To date, there is still quite problematic (and also overpriced because of a few offer) to rent a car. Tourist transports exist in the form of a " Telegondola " ( = cable car from about the middle of the long beach to the entrance of Constanta ), taxis, horse-drawn carts and buses.

Mamaia experienced a renewed incision in the tourist crowds. Since 2010, the Constanta airport of Germany will again be served directly: coming once a week ends up a machine from Munich there. An organized international tourism, there are not more nearly; 90 to 95 % of the tourists present during the summer months are Romanians who they mostly arrive in the car to Mamaia. In particular, the population of just 220 km away in Bucharest uses Mamaia for weekend getaways.