Budapest Hungary Travel

I see a lot of people are find my site because of  looking for a  website with a webcamera, webcam about the Hungarian Parliament and Kossuth Square (Kossuth ter) and such a things. They’d like to watch real time the Budapest Demonstrations in 2006 November or earlier in October or September. Sorry I have to say I do not know any public webcam about the Parliament and Kossuth Square.

There are a few web cameras in Budapest like one on the Oktogon and you can see the Heroes’ Square and the Andrassy street, Jokai square, Liszt Ferenc square.
www.citylive.hu/citylive.php

There is another site with many web cameras not only about Budapest but other Hungarian cities and places. This site is a meteorology site only available in
Hungarian
www.viharvadasz.hu

Another Budapest live webcam page. You’ll see the Danube river from the Buda side This live webcam is based at the Center of Information Systems of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics on R building third floor.

http://speed.eik.bme.hu/livecam/webcam3.html

The Raiffeisen Bank Webkamera about the Buda side and the Buda Castle with the view of Matthias Church, Fisherman’s Bastion and Budapest Hilton Hotel.

Long URL:

http://www.raiffeisen.hu/rai/raiportal/ep/programView.do?pageTypeId=8649&programPage=/ep/program/editorial.jsp&programId=8704&channelId=-8365

If you want some more  webcameras in Budapest or Hungary visit this Hungarian site:

http://webkamera.lap.hu

Webcamera Budapest Hungary

Internet cafes are highly fashionable in Budapest. The following list details just some of the most locations offering Internet access:

AMI Cafe
district V. Vaci street 40 close to the Elizabeth Bridge
Tel: +36 1 267-1644
Open: 9 am – midnight

CEU NetPoint
district V Oktober 6 street 14. Close to the Chain Bridge
Tel: +36 1 328-3506
Open: 11 am – 10 pm

Internet Cafe
district V Kecskemeti street 5.
Tel: + 36 1 328-0292
Open: Mon-Fri 10 am- 10 pm

Internet Studio
District VI. Dessewffy street 45
Cellular: + 36 20 481-8688
10 am – midnight

Libri Konyvpalota (big bookstore close to the Astoria)
District VII Rakoczi street 12
Tel: +36 1 2674484
Open: Mon-Fri 10 am – 7:30 pm Sat: 10 am 3 pm

T-Com T-pont (Matav Telepont)
District V Petofi Sandor street 17-19
Tel: +36 1 485-6612
Open: Mon – Fri: 9 am- 8 pm, Sat: 10 am – 3 pm

Private Link Net cafe
District VIII Jozsef boulevard 52
Tel: + 36 1 334-2057
Open: NON STOP

Business centers in the major hotels and shopping centers, malls also offer Internet access facilities.
If you have notebook you can find a lot of free or paying wireless hotspots in Budapest like in bars, restaurants, cafes and even in most of the Mc Donalds.

If you have a cell phone or a card in your computer you can use 3 different mobile network T-Mobile, Vodafone, Pannon all three provider grant Internet access in GPRS, EDGE, 3G, and T-Mobile 3,5G service in downtown of Budapest.

The prices are vary from $1-4 in a netcafe for an hour access, hotspots many are free.

You won’t have any problem to get an netcafe or a hotspot if you come to Budapest.

Budapest Synagogue and the Jewish Museum

The glorious building of Budapest Synagogue in Byzantine Moorish style is the largest synagogue of Europe. It was built by Viennese architect Ludwig Forstner in the middle of 19th century. One of Budapest’s most imposing historical monuments it is faced in white and red brick with a wealth of ceramic decorative elements and two onion dome towers. The Jewish museum has an unequalled collection of Jewish related items from Roman period to the 20th century.

The Budapest Synagogue is situated in the Dohany Street and it is between the Astoria and the Deak Ferenc (ter) square closer to Astoria. Easy to get there by public transport: bus, tram, trolley bus, subway (metro) because it is in the city center of Budapest.

The Jewish Museum built in fitting style and attached to the uniquely beautiful Dohany Street Synagogue has an unparalleled collection of Judaica.

Permanent exhibitions: devotional objects for Jewish celebrations, everyday objects, history of the Hungarian Holocaust.

Opening hours of the Budapest Synagogue and the Jewish Museum:

Mon-Thur: 10 am.-5pm. (10 am-3pm between 1 of November and 14 of April)
Fri, Sun: 10am-2pm.
The price of admission (HUF 500-2000) includes entry to the Jewish Museum and the Budapest Synagogue.

Dohany street 2.
Tel: +36 (1) 342-9849

Danubius Thermal Hotel Budapest Margaret Island. The new name of the hotel: Danubius Health Spa Resort Margitsziget.

This hotel was the first metropolitan SPA Hotel in the world offering a wide range of SPA and health services in a beautiful woodland setting on the Margaret Island Budapest.

In combination with the facilities of the neighboring Danubius Grand Hotel Budapest, the Thermal Hotel Margitsziget offers banquet and conference facilities for 300 guests and can cater for up to 1,200 delegated in eight function rooms.

The Danubius Thermal Hotel Budapest has:

• 259 rooms
• 8 suites
• 1 restaurant
• 3 bars
• Business Center
• WiFi Internet access
• Adventure pool
• Sauna
• Pets are allowed
• Gym
• Car rental
• 24 hours room service
• Fitness, wellness, massage

The lobby of the Thermal Hotel

Hotel location:

On the Margaret Island northern end close to the Arpad Bridge. Distance from Ferihegy International Airport Budapest 28 Km, Eastern Railway Station (Keleti Palyaudvar) 9 Km, Budapest city center 5 Km. You can get there by cab (taxi) or public transport Number 26 bus from the Western Railway Station Budapest (Nyugati Palyaudvar) or Arpad Bridge (hid) Subway station (this is the other end of the number 26 bus).
Hotel information

Category: four star superior
H – 1138 Budapest, Margitsziget
Phone: +36 (1) 889-4700, Fax: +36 (1) 889-4988
Booking: +36 (1) 889-4752
E-mail: resind@margitsziget.danubiusgroup.com
Web: www.danubiushotels.com/margitsziget

East West Business Center Budapest

The business center is situated in Budapest downtown at the crossing of the Rakoczi street, Kossuth Lajos street and the Museum boulevard (kiskorut). This place is the Astoria got the name from the Astoria Hotel Budapest opposite to the East West Business Center.

The business center was the first one – after the communist era has gone – in Budapest and in Hungary too. It has built in 1991.

H-1088 Budapest, Rakoczi street 1-3.

Statue Park Budapest is a special historical museum outside of Budapest downtown and close to the city of Erd.
You can see communist statues form the past of the history of Hungary and the Hungarian communist era, dictatorship.
You’ll sell communist statues like Marx, Engels, Lenin and other Soviet “heroes”, soldiers, dictators.
The museum is open every day from 10 am to sunset.
For more info you can visit the official site of the Statue Park Budapest here: www.szoborpark.hu

The main entrance of the Statue Park Budapest.
How to get to the Statue Park Budapest?

By car if you have a rental one just find the road number 7 on the Buda side of the Capital City the direction is Lake Balaton. When you pass the border of Budapest you’ll find the Statue Park on the right side of the road about 5 miles. (South Buda cornef of Balatoni street and Szabadka street)

By Volanbus (autobus) from the Etele Square bus station with a yellow bus the direction is Erd city through Diosd (village).
Important you can go to Erd on a different way with another yellow bus from Etele square do not take the bus to Erd on the M7 highway, that is wrong if you wanna go to the Statue Park Hungary, take the Diosd way only!
The trip takes about 10-15 minutes long, possibly the bus driver will help you and remind you at the right stop. Ask him to say something, maybe he speaks some English.

The easiest way to get to the Statue Park by cab (not only yellow cab) in Hungary only some of the are yellow.

This is the most expensive way. There is a lot of cabs in the city of Budapest. An advice if you want to pay less do not catch a cab on the street call one from the cab (taxi) company like www.fotaxi.hu If you get a cab on the street in Budapest better before he starts to go there arrange the exact price this way he won’t cheat on you!

Direct bus from Budapest downtown Deak Ferenc square subway station every day 11 am (in July and August even 3 pm).

Prices for the entrance ticket only HUF 600, direct bus plus entrance ticket is HUF 2400. If you have Budapest Card you have the discounted HUF 1950 price.
If you need the direct bus and the ticket and English guiding it’ll cost HUF 4450.
If you do not know anything or just something about communism how bad it was this excursion is a good way to find something out it. Visit the Statue Park Budapest.

For more info about the Hungarian railway lines and timetabe there is a good Hungarian English and German site with up to date railway timetable. You can easily select from any Hungarian destination and you’ll get all the data you need for your travel inside Hungary.

On the Elvira site you’ll find railway station information, fare info and European timetable for railways.
MAV (Magyar Allam Vasutak) Hungaian State Railways

The site name is: www.elvira.hu

You can find Volanbus or short Volan autobus timetable for Hungarian destinations here: http://www.menetrendek.hu/cgi-bin/menetrend/html.cgi

If you are looking for international Volanbus lines, destinations and timetable check out here: http://www.volan.hu/nemzetkozibusz.html

The only problem the information available in Hungarian only.

The building of the Western Railway Station Budapest (Nyugati Palyaudvar) at the Nyugati square (ter) Budapest. The old name of the square was Marx square.

Budapest City Guide is a free English brochure for tourists with color 55 pages.

The guide is from the Tourism Office of Budapest. For more info about it you can visit the official site at www.budapestinfo.hu
Budapest City Guide contains a lot of information about Budapest transportation, museums, churches, sights, sightseeing, music, theatre, events, medical, bath, caves, restaurants, entertainment, hotels, maps and beyond Budapest. I use information out of the Budapest City Guide time to time.