Budapest Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

In an effort to economize my travels I bought "Sparschiene" tickets from Graz to Budapest. It takes 6 hours on a local train but only costs 19 Euros each way when booked at the right dates - almost like Airline Revenue Management already. Only trouble is the train leaves Graz at 6 am and I still need to get there. Exhausted from the last 4 days ...

Since we had explored the Buda side of Budapest the previous day, it was decided that we would use our last day in Europe to explore the Pest side of the city. After catching breakfast at a street side café, we headed down Andrassy Utca for the seemingly never ending walk towards Heroes Square and the City Park. After walking the mile or two we ...

It has become apparent to me over the years that Ray Charles was right, "night time is the right time to be with the one you love" and this is never more apparent to me than when I am in a great city. Analysis is a personal hobby so I it is only natural I try to understand why I feel such a sense of romance at night in the city. Shouldn't it be ...

On the weekend of June 23rd and 24th, we went to Budapest, Hungary. It is supposed to be about a five hour drive from Prague. All I can say is, dad, now I know how you felt driving in Italy. Our old reliable GPS turned out to be not so reliable. It quit working about half way into the trip. We realized this after we had driven about 55 km in the...

We arrived tired and hungry into Budapest and decided to stay the night. After 3 days on the train we needed a break. We found accommodation and a hot shower and headed into town for a well deserved hot meal. The food portions are large and salty but very tasty and Hungarian beer tasted great. We headed off into the town for a look at the old bu...

Yesterday, when we were at the Mathias Church, we saw a reproduction of the Holy Crown of Hungary. Today, in St. Stephen's Basilica, we saw another reproduction. Apparently, the Holy Crown is in the Parliament for the time being, but we didn't feel like forking over lots of money for a tour, so we didn't see it. St. Stephen's... how to describe ...