Month: April 2008

As you arrive to a new city one of the best things you can do is to go an a guided tour as soon as possible. Why? If you do so, you will save lots of time that you in other situations would use trying to find out whats where, and how to get there. With a local guide you get all of time.

That is why we offer our visitors cheap prices on licenced local guides, which will give you the introduction to the city that you want, and they will also let you see important places as the Parlament, the Castle, the Heroes Square and so on.

Go to our Guided Tour page for more information.

2008 is the year of Renaissance in Budapest, and several museums have special exhibitions because of that. Currently there are some temporary exhibitions in the Museum of Fine Arts, next to the Heroes Square. Below you can see the information:

The Splendour of the Medici
Art and Life in Renaissance Florence
24 January 2008 – 18 May 2008

Lines of Beauty
French Master Drawings from the Louvre
21 February 2008 – 12 May 2008

The museum in itself has free entrance, but you will have to pay for the temporary exhibitions. For more information on these exhibitions, go to the webpage for the Museum of Fine Arts.

If you check out the weatherpage you can notice that the temperature in Budapest is increasing. As I am writing this it is currently telling me that it is 19 celsius, and it will probably get even warmer in a couple of hours.

Earlier this week (Monday) the public transportation company and the train company MAV arranged a strike at the same time. It started in the morning, and around lunchtime traffic went back to the normal. But, now the public transportation company, BKV, is threatening with hitting the city with a new strike, next Friday. This time they say it will be a full day strike, which means no metro, tram, bus or trolley for an entire day. If so, the city will be in chaos during the entire day, and prepare to walk a lot. The taxies are also overbooked on such strikedays, so that is not recommended either.

If anyway would like to enjoy a guided tour during the next week, just send us an email and we will arrange a nice “get-to-know” Budapest trip for you!

Budapest has a very interesting phenomena going on in the different districts every year. It is called “Lomtalanitás” and the purpose is to get rid of all stuff you dont want to keep in your flat. So when a district is arranging this the people are allowed to throw all their unwanted furniture, electrical devices, magazines, books, records and whatever out on the street. At the street you can see different vultures (people) attacking the nice objects and placing them into big vans and taking them somewhere. Sometimes for use in their own houses, other times they repair them and use them at other places. Anyway, it is very interesting and currently you can see this happening in the seventh district of Budapest.

Also be aware all people. Tomorrow BKV, the public transport company of Budapest will probably strike, which means no trams, buses, metroes will run between 06.00 and 12.00! If the parts will not agree it might even last longer!

In 124 days the Formula One Grand Prix Hungary 2008 will take place in Budapest, Hungary. At the Hungaroring close to Budapest the worlds best racers will give it all to win the race. The program starts Thursday, July 31st and lasts until Sunday, August 3rd when the big race will be. Tickets can be ordered already, and if you want to come for those days you should book your hotel early as prices are much higher for those days, and since lots of people come to see the stars drive.

For more information we recommend the official Formula One Grand Prix Hungary 2008 page, where you can order your tickets as well.

For information on how to get to the Hungaroring, click here!

As the spring arrives to Budapest another good thing has happened as well. Our blog has been opened, and here we will inform you of big events and small events coming up in Budapest. If anyone has comments or questions you can post them here as well!

Enjoy yourself, have a nice day and see you someday in Budapest