February 20, 2009 - Budapest Guide

AC/DC tour in Europe has started

Posted on February 20, 2009January 2, 2014 by Budapest Guide

AC/DC has started their tour in 2009, and the opening city was Oslo, Norway. The tickets for that concert were sold out within one hour. Some Norwegian papers commented that the concert looked very similar to the one they had a couple of years ago, but that it still was a great show!

All around Europe the tickets has been sold out very fast, and so also for the Budapest concert. AC/DC will come to Budapest 23 March, and TicketPro has no more tickets left (they were sold out in approximately two weeks). Still WorldTicketShop claim to have tickets for the concert, so if you need some, just visit WorldTicketShop. The tickets there are of course very expensive, but if you really need those tickets, you might pay the price anyway.

While waiting you can watch this Youtube video showing some scenes from the opening concert of the Black Ice tour (video posted in 2008).

AC/DC in Budapest

What a surprise! :)

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Budapest Guide

It is February 20 and the time is 10.05 as I write this. For those informed they know that the ticketsale for the Madonna concert in Budapest started five minutes ago. So, I thought I would visit TicketPro just for fun, to see if what I predicted yesterday turned out to be true (overloaded servers and delays). First I got an error page coming up trying to enter the TicketPro homepage. Second time I entered a temporary page that said:

“Dear Customers! Our website is under heavy demand at the moment. In order to serve you with tickets with the highest possible standards we temporary stopped providing content on this site. If you are here to buy your Madonna ticket, please follow this link.”

Then I tried clicking the link, but I received a new error page. Then I tried again… a new error page. And now I am writing this article. But, it is just to try for everyone, and then it will probably become better within some hours, hopefully!

People come to shop in Hungary

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Budapest Guide

People from Slovakia are packing their bags together and every weekend they cross the border to Hungary to go shopping. Due to the week forint and strong Euro the prices has made it worth for them to come to Hungary shopping. The prices are around 20 % lower than back home in Slovakia, so therefore they come to shop clothes and groceries.

In a shoppingcenter in Györ one of the leaders said that around 20 % of the customers in the weekend come from Slovakia. On the other side of the border the shops are though complaining. Until now the Hungarians went there to shop, but now the Hungarians do not come, and the Slovakians come to Hungary… double miss!

We wrote an article about this earlier, what these price differences mean… you can read that article here (it has several interesting examples showing how much money you can save).

Weak forint and strong Euro
Currency in Hungary