Festival trip · Romania
A 24-hour festival around Bánffy Castle where the real planning problem is the 25 kilometres between Bonțida and Cluj.
The editorial call
Electric Castle is not a Cluj city festival. It is a temporary settlement at Bánffy Castle in Bonțida, with Cluj acting as transport hub, hotel reservoir and escape route. That distinction should determine the entire trip.
Plan this trip
Compare the practical parts of a trip to Bonțida / Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Camping produces the complete festival and removes the nightly transport problem. Cluj gives you a real bed and a city around the event, but makes bus or train timing part of every night. The official festival describes continuous bus and dedicated train connections; confirm the 2027 details before booking around them.
Give Cluj one full day before the festival if you have never been. Do not attempt a major Transylvanian road loop between festival days. Add Brașov, Sibiu or a longer drive afterwards, when the wristband no longer controls the timetable.
Castle grounds plus a very large crowd means mud is not a decorative possibility. The exact 2027 dates are not yet published; only July is currently confirmed. A ticket presale is not evidence for a specific weekend.
Official information
Checked 2026-08-26. Month confirmed. Dates, admission rules and programmes can change; use the organiser’s own pages before you book or travel.
Before and after the wristband
Use the centre, Someș river and neighbourhood bars before the site absorbs the trip.
Open official visitor information ↗The Moldavia guide shows a very different Romanian east if the trip continues after the festival.
Read on InstantTraveling →Same regional hub, completely different relationship between festival and city.
Read on InstantTraveling →
