Budapest City Central

“Budapest is overall a wonderful tourist city — full of history, culture, and beautiful sights. However, one frustrating aspect during our 4‑day stay was the frequent ticket checking on local transport — bus, tram, and metro. Our passes were checked 8–9 times, which felt excessive and gave the impression that authorities either do not trust tourists and locals, or that too many ticket inspectors are employed. What made it worse was hearing other travelers complain that even when they had valid tickets, if they forgot to punch them in the machine, inspectors showed no cooperation and were more interested in issuing fines than helping tourists. This left a negative impression compared to neighboring countries. In Austria, we visited four cities over 10 days and our passes were never checked. In Prague, we stayed for 3 days and tickets were checked only once. While Budapest is a great city to visit, travelers should be aware of this issue and exercise caution when using public transport. Always ensure your ticket or pass is validated properly to avoid unnecessary fines.”

Beautiful relaxing city . Tranquil atmosphere. Quality bars restaurants good natured locals architecture amazing quality choice of public transport sunny weather clean tidy streets/ pavements cheap price tkts bus, train ect just what the DR ordered

I don’t know what to really say. It is a big city you need more that 4 days to see the important buildings and monuments. Not so clean, the metro and the buses are so complicated, so easy to lost. The coffee shops and restaurants are far away the one of the other. The Main Street looks like it’s abandoned. You really need to download bolt taxi app if you want to find your hotel. The ferry boat to Margaret’s Island really bad. The told us they transfers us to island and there’s so many places to visit, but in January everything was closed and it was a rainy day, we didn’t have anywhere to go there for coffee or get warm. The drinks are cheap but the souvenirs, the restaurants and ticket for metro tram and buses costs much. In restaurants they keep 15% for tips. Nice buildings though. Some bridges are not open for people but only for cars and buses.