Originally Posted by
moondog (Post # 10)
If you or your hosts don't want to deal with self registration, simply stay at an approved hotel for a single night. This will get you registered in the system.
This sounds like an excellent work-around.
That is what I did in Romania during the Ceaușescu years (in 1982 & 1989), whereas registering with the communist Hungarian police then and in 1979 was much simpler.