Budapest

The capital of Hungary, this page was created after my second visit which was with some friends. ( A stag night in fact). The first was a business visit in 2009, and the picture above was taken then, all my Budapest pictures on flickr are in this set.

 

 

April 2010

I blogged about the stag weekend in a series of articles,

• Back Home in London which talks about the journey home, getting to Budapest Ferihegy Airport, where there are now 4 lounges, and dealing with a schengen-nonschengen journey at Zurich. Ferihegy is a small airport and only those airlines with a lot of flights Malev & Lufthansa have automated machines and permanently manned kiosks. SWISS opened theirs two hours before take off and so you can’t get airside ’till then.
• Memento Park, they’ve moved many of the public statues from the Communist era to this park. See also my pictures @ flickr
• A not so long way home talks about what we did.
• A place to lay my head, which is mainly about the journey, talks about the three airports, see LCY, where AMEX don’t do HUFs, at Zurich, SWISS then let Priority Pass members use their business lounge with an hour’s free Wifi and wired connected machines as well. At Budapest, it talks about money exchange and ground transport.

Money

They use the Hungarian Forint (HUF). Yahoo converts CHF:GBP here…. They take Euros nearly everywhere, not sure about the exchange rate you get.

Things to do

• Shooting
• Sightseeing
• Eating and Drinking
• Bathing

This is appallingly incomplete, I’ll update it next time I plan a trip.

Hotels

The Bristol that we used had european plugs and free public wifi. Le Meridien is very central and has an interesting history, but is usually more expensive than I want to pay. I wonder what a bit of notice does.

My Map

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This is meant to have the icons on, I’ll fix this some time, but not now, not even 12 years later.