Budapest Hungary Travel

If you’d like to travel outside to Budapest by public transport you can choose train, river ships and autobus (Bus) by Volanbus.  Volan or Volanbus the name of the bus transport company in Hungary.
There are four main Volanbus bus stations in Budapest.

Nepliget along the blue number 3 subway line this is also an international Volanbus station with EuroLines buses.

Stadionok along the red number 2 subway line this is right next to the Papp Laszlo Sportarena the biggest sport stadium in Budapest.

Etele ter this bus station currently do not have any subway connection but this will be the end of the under construction the number 4 subway line. Buses go to the Statue Park Budapest from here.
Arpad hid this station is along the blue number 3 subway line. If you want to go to the Danube Bend (Visegrad) or Szentendre, Esztergom you can go from here.

There are some more minor Volanbus stations like Szena ter in front of  the Mammut Mall Budapest. Nagyvard ter along the subway blue line 3.

Choose Volanbus to go other cities and villages in Hungary.

Sightseeing in Budapest is easy because of the good public transport and a relatively short distances in the downtown of Budapest.

If you do not have to much time and want a sightseeing in Budapest I recommend sightseeing by bus. There are some tour operators offering this service.
The price is vary about 4300 HUF for a 2 hours sightseeing in Budapest is acceptable.
The place of departure is Andrassy ut 3 . Near to the Deak Ferenc square Metro station (underground or subway). And right netx to the M1 (Subway 1 line) Stop the name is the subway station: Bajcsy Zsilinszky út.

There are air conditioned bus tours and cabriolet ones and live English and German sightseeing in Budapest.

You can chose from 16 language for the bus tour like: Arabian: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish. You can pick up a headphone and listen.

For more information about sightseeing in Budapest visit the
www.budatours.hu tourist website the ticket office is at Andrassy street 2.
Telephone: +36 1 374-7070 or +36 1 353-0558

Budapest Weather

Hungary is situated in the temperate weather zone, with both moderate maritime and mild Mediterranean air currents influencing Budapest weather. Temperatures above 30 degrees centigrade may occur in the month of June, July and August but generally do not last very long.

The average temperature during these months is between 20-21 °C. January is the coldest month, but even then the average temperature does not fall below -1 °C. Budapest has a rather low rainfall which exceeds an annual average of 600 mm only in Transdanubia.

Nevertheless, sudden downpours and storms are frequent during the summer. The number of sunny hours is high exceeding 2,000 hours per annum in some regions of Hungary. July and August are the two sunniest months with almost 300 hours of sunshine.

For up to date Budapest weather forecast and information you can visit www.met.hu

The image of the Hungarian Flag.

The Hungarian national colors red, white and green are represented on the flag of Hungary.

It’s a special Hungarian Flag it’s used at the Budapest Demonstration Kossuth Square in front of the Hungarian Parliament. You can see a bit of the Parliament on the back of the photo.

There are several live webcameras in Budapest. One of the oldest webcam is on top of the Gellert Hill at the Citadel Budapest.

The direction of the webcamera is North. On the left side of the webcam you can see the Buda Castle in the middle the Danube river with the Chain Bridge.

http://www.irisz.hu/webcam_hun.html

Webcamera Budapest sight on the Budapest Map

Sightseeing Cruises on the Danube Budapest.

A pleasant daytime sightseeing cruise on the Danube. The one hour long boat tour is sailing from the Margaret Island to the National Theatre Budapest.

Guidance in 11 languages. Welcome drink inclouded in the ticket price.

All cruises depart from Vigado square Ship station.

Fares:

Adult HUF 2500/person
Children 86-15 years old): HUF 1250/person
Children under 6 years of age free!

Departure of ships:

1 of May-1 of October:

10am, 11am, 12am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8:30pm, 9:30pm

2 of October-5 of November

11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm

The Ships on the Danube from the Chain Bridge
Mahart PassNave Passanger Shipping Ltd.

H-1056 Budapest, Belgrad rakpart

Tel: +36 1 484-4013 and +36 1 318-1223 (Vigado square station)

St. Stephen’s Basilica Budapest

The Stephen’s Basilica  is largest church in Budapest. Its 96 meter high dome affords a view of over virtually the entire Budapest.
Building started in 1851 and then in 1867 the work was taken over by Miklos Ybl the greatest architect of the day and finally concluded in 1905 by Jozsef Kauser. The neo-Classical building holds the greatest reliquary of the Hungarian People: the mummified arm, the Holly Right, of King Saint Stephen after whom the Basilica is named. Among the church’s famous works of art and sculptures by Alajos Strobl and a painting by Gyula Benczur: St Stephan dedicating the country to the Virgin Mary.

Weekday guided tours in English: 9:30-11 am, 2-3:30pm (registration: +36 20 527-5329 cell phone)

Guided tours including visits to the tower: adults HUF 1600, students/pensioners: HUF 800.
Admission of the Tower for a 360 panorama of Budapest: adults HUF 500, students/pensioners: HUF 400.

Address: Budapest downtown 5th district Szent Istvan square (ter)
Tel: +36 1 317-2859
Open: daily 9am- 5pm (no visitors from noon on Saturdays due to weddings, and until 1pm on Sundays due to mass) No charge to visit the Basilica Budapest.

Hungary Card – Magyar Turizmus Kartya
You can buy the Hungary Card at Tourinform officies, the price of the card is HUF 5.520,-

The discount card is valid for 31 of January 2007.

Budapest Subway reconstruction in Autumn on metro line 2 (red line). From Deli Railway Station (Deli Palyaudvar) to Ors Vezer tere.
From 5 to 15 of October 2006 and from 3 to 19 of November.
You need to take buses at evening and at the whole weekends.

Budapest Card is a discount card for tourists. First launched in 1997. Valid for 2 or 3 days and it is good for Budapest sightseeing tours and free public transport.

The card available for buying over 250 places in Budapest like hotels, Ferihegy International Airport, travel agencies, tourist officies and main subway stations just to mention some.

Free entry to 60 museums, Zoo Budapest, Matthias Church. -10% on baths and SPA, -20% on some restaurants -50% on sightseeing.

The price of the Budapest Card for 48 hours is HUF 5200 and for 72 hours is HUF 6500.