It holds 9.6 on Booking from nearly 200 reviews, joined Relais & Châteaux in July 2024 and was named by TIME among the World's Greatest Places 2025.
About the place
The hotel sits on a hilltop above Șimon, at 987 m, looking out on the Bucegi and Piatra Craiului mountains. It has 16 rooms and junior suites and 7 private villas, furnished with elements of Transylvanian tradition. Its name means 'queen bee', and the hotel keeps its own bee colony. The Natura Spa has a heated indoor pool, a dry and a wet sauna, a halotherapy room, a jacuzzi and a cold-water pool; it opens from 11:00 to 21:00, for children until 16:00 and for adults only after that.
The STUP restaurant serves reworked Romanian recipes with meat and cheese from local producers and has a wine library of about 80 Romanian wines. It works by reservation only, from 12:00 to 22:00. For the holidays the hotel offers Christmas (24–27 December 2026) and New Year (30 December 2026 – 2 January 2027) packages.
Good to know
- In winter the last kilometres from Șimon up to the hotel may need winter tyres, snow chains or four-wheel drive.
- Book your table at STUP and your spa treatments early: both work by reservation only.
- On request the hotel arranges transfers from Brașov-Ghimbav airport and from Brașov railway station.