January 2012 - Budapest Guide

Winter hotel recommendations

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Budapest Guide

If you are coming to Budapest in the end of January or in February, we have some good hotel recommendations for you. When it is cold it is useful to be in the centre, so you do not have to walk for a long time to reach Vaci Utca and the centre of Budapest.

Here comes some very central hotels with great prices currently. If you click the links you will be sent to booking.com where you can book cheap hotel rooms.

Recommended Budapest hotels

Five stars
Le Meridien
Kempinski (our favorite)

Four stars
La Prima Fashion Hotel
Mercure Budapest City Center
Eurostars Budapest Center

Three stars
Hotel Central Basilica
Promenade City Hotel
City Hotel Matyas (cheapest option)

Apartment
7Seasons Apartments

Ryan Air returns to Budapest

Posted on January 25, 2012June 4, 2021 by Budapest Guide

After a break since 2010 RyanAir is about to return to Budapest again. As of March 12th they will start with five routes from Budapest. The destinations are: Dublin, London, Bologna, Birmingham and Bristol. Visit the RyanAir webpage.

In addition to this Wizz Air launches a new flight to Dortmund, flying 2-3 times a week. Visit the WizzAir webpage.

So this makes it easier to visit Budapest, and easier for us in Budapest to visit other places!

Five new destinations available from Budapest with RyanAir

A good recommendation

Posted on January 14, 2012June 4, 2021 by Budapest Guide

A good restaurant in Budapest with good food

Earlier this week I was out guiding four Norwegian ladies. During the guided tour we spoke about restaurants and they wanted a recommendation for the evening. I ended up suggesting Comme Chez Soi, a small, cosy, intimate restaurant in the centre of Budapest, with amazing service.

The day after the guided tour we met again for an excursion to Szentendre and I was very curious whether they had enjoyed the restaurant the day before, or if they did not like it. After all I recommended it, and it is always nice to recommend good restaurants.

Well, they said – we liked it so much, that we arranged with a new table reservation on another evening. Pleased and happy I therefore understood that they had liked the restaurant, and that is always a nice thing to hear after making a recommendation.

Why not join us on a guided tour yourself, and maybe we have some good recommendations for you as well? Or if you have found a good restaurant, let us arrange with your table reservation (free service).

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Lunch in Hard Rock Cafe

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Budapest Guide

Yesterday we finally had the chance of visiting the newly opened Hard Rock Cafe in Budapest. So, Hard Rock Cafe was the location for our Saturday lunch, and we were not disappointed. The dishes on the menu are quite similar to the ones you can find in a Friday’s restaurant, and the price level is very much the same. But, the quality is far, far better!

We ended up eating a big hamburger and a fajita with beef and chicken. For dessert we had a brownie with chocolate sauce, ice cream and whipped cream.

The quality of the meat served in the hamburger was great and tasty. Almost felt like a good beef, very juicy and delicious! The fries served to the hamburger was just perfect. To the fajita we got 4 tortillas and lots of snack to fill the tortillas with. No complains at all!

For dessert we had the brownie which followed the quality of the rest of the meal, great stuff. In addition to this we had one drink each and the final price was 11,000 HUF (35 Euro). A bit more expensive than most restaurants in Budapest, a little bit more expensive than Fridays, but much, much better… so we are already planning our return to Hard Rock Cafe.

Good Brownie with ice cream and whipped cream

Happy New Year!

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Budapest Guide

We are a bit late with this, but we wish all our readers and visitors a very happy new year. May 2012 be a wonderful year for all of you, and we hope to see and help you all as you come visit Budapest in 2012. There are plenty of concerts coming up this year, we have the Danube Cruises, winedinners, excursions, guided tours and lots of fun waiting for you, so look around and contact us at you find something that looks interesting!

Again, Happy New Year – and see you soon in Budapest!

Sherlock Holmes in Budapest cinemas from today

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Budapest Guide

Sherlock Holmes in Budapest

Since the first Sherlock Holmes film with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law many has been waiting for the successor. Here it is, and as of today you can see it in Budapest cinemas. The film has arrived in Hungary a bit later than many other nations in Europe and in the world, but now it is finally here. For a foretaste, take a look at the Sherlock Holmes trailer. It doesn’t seem to be as good as the first one, but hopefully we are wrong. Anyone see it? What do you think?

The Sherlock Holmes film has received good critics on for example IMDB, but in the end it is all about whether I like it or not.

Sherlock Holmes trailer

Budapest cinemas