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Europeum – New shopping centre in Budapest

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Budapest Guide

Did you know that the name of the newest shopping centre in Budapest is Europeum? It isn’t a big one, but the location is better than most other centres in Budapest. Europeum is located at Blaha Lujza Tér, at the same spot as the old Népszabadság building was located. The grand opening was on April 14th, and it is a nice place to drop buy if you need to do some shopping, or just to check out what it’s like.

There are not many shops inside Europeum, but there is one giga-Müller store, H&M and some other nice shops, cafes and a hairdresser.

More information and from Europeum – Shopping in Budapest

Easter in the light of 1001 candles

Posted on April 22, 2011June 4, 2021 by Budapest Guide

Beneath you can find information given from the Labyrinth of the Buda Castle concerning their special easter program:

Wandering in the maze lined with candles has become a tradition in the Labyrinth of Buda Castle on holidays. There are 1000 candles burning on the second day of Christmas, and 1001 candles on Easter Monday. One for a thousand.

Every year on Easter Monday between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. the mysterious halls and passages of the Labyrinth of Buda Castle can be wandered in the light of 1001 candles. There are little surprises hidden in the cave grottos: the Easter treasures of the Labyrinth.

The entrance fee is 600 HUF (children ticket) to everyone.

Labyrinth homepage – Buda Castle Labyrinth

Budapest Easter advices

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Budapest Guide

Easter services in Saint Stephens Basilica

Easter is here and larger and smaller groups use this holiday to visit Budapest. We have written a few advices to help you get the most out of your Easter here in Budapest.

1) Our guides still have spare time, so do not hesitate to contact us for a private guided tour
2) The Szechenyi Thermal Bath in the City park is open every day throughout Easter
3) Normal shops are closed Sunday and Monday, but open every other day.
4) Restaurants have normal opening times and our wineprograms are available every day
5) The nicest church in Budapest, Saint Stephens Basilica, has services Friday at 18.00, Saturday at 18.00, Sunday at 10.00, 12.00, 18.00, 19.30 and Monday at 8.00, 10.00, 12.00 and 18.00.

These were just some advices. We hope you found them useful and wish you some great days in Budapest. If you should need any help, just write us an email!

Half-price ticket to Budapest Palinka Festival

Posted on April 15, 2011May 19, 2015 by Budapest Guide

The annual festival named Budapest Palinka Festival is closing up, and if you hurry up you can actually buy a pass valid for the entire festival for the price of the one-day pass. This offer is valid for 16 more days, and can be bought from Bónusz Brigád, a Hungarian page offering great discounts on different programs, restaurants, spa-treatments and so on. You can read more about the Palinka Festival here, and if you would like to buy the cheaper ticket for the festival you can visit Bonusz Brigad here.

There is though one thing making this hard… it is only in Hungarian. You might want to try out using Google Translate and use some patience. But, try it out… push the red button the right side of the page titled “Megveszem”, meaning “I’ll buy it”, and keep on going from there. You will though need to register yourself and so on, so it will take some time and a whole lot of patience.

If you need some help with translations or other stuff, just write a comment and we will do our best to help you within shortly!

Budapest Palinka Festival

Budapest Palinka Festival 2011

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Budapest Guide

Palinka

The annual Budapest Palinka Festival will be arranged between May 5th and May 8th in 2011. This year the focus will be on Plum-palinka, but you can of course taste a whole lot of other Palinka’s as well if you visit the festival. The Palinka Festival will this year be arranged for the sixth time at the Hunyadi Court, in the Buda Castle area. This festival should not be confused with the annual Palinka and Sausage festival arranged every autumn, also in the area next to the Buda Castle.

More information about the Palinka festival can be found here.

Budapest events

Let us book your dinner and get 50% discount on the taxi

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Budapest Guide

Budapest is a large city and it can be quite nice to have a taxi bringing you to the restaurant as you go out for dinner. To help our visitors arrange with this, we have made the following offer:

Let us book a dinner for you in any of the restaurants below, and we will give you 50% discount on the taxi. This means that from 2-4 persons the taxi price is max 2500 HUF (in most cases 1500 HUF), while for groups between 5-8 persons the price will be max 3500 HUF (in most cases 2500 HUF). The price is calculated based on the location of your hotel, so if it is far outside the citycenter the higher price should be expected.

If you would like to arrange with the transportation to the restaurant, just write it in the comment field the name of your hotel and that you request a transfer as you reserve your table, and we will write pick-up time and final price of the transfer in the confirmation that we normally send within 24-48 hours.

This offer is valid for the following restaurants, and only for dinner reservations (where the meal starts after 18.00):
– Pampas Steakhouse
– Gundel
– Belcanto
– Karpatia
– Matyas Pince
– Sir Lancelot

Check out our Table Reservation page.

Based on the curencies of today the prices mentioned in Forints are:
1500 HUF = 5,60 EURO
2500 HUF = 9,40 EURO
3500 HUF = 13,15 EURO

Large group in Budapest? We can help!

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Budapest Guide

It has become quite normal, even for large groups, to do most of the arrangements of their stay in Budapest in their own hands. Doing so they save money and save time… as a local travel agency somewhere requires both money and time! We have also experienced this, and in quite some cases we have helped larges groups with different arrangements in Budapest.

For example earlier this month we helped a large Danish company with 150 employees visiting Budapest. During their stay they lived in Hotel Gellért, and our job was to arrange all their activities and spare time programs! This meant everything from wine excursion to Etyek, Danube Cruise with guide, Szentendre excursion, drinking programs, transportation and so on.

Another group with students had their airport transfers arranged and of course we helped them out with dinner reservations and pre-arranged menus in some restaurants.

These are just some of the things we can do and arrange. If you come with a larger (or smaller) group, do not hesitate to contact us and we will do our best to help you!

Groups in Budapest

The Christ Trilogy seen by more than 100,000 people

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Budapest Guide

The Christ Trilogy, the name of the exhibition in the Hungarian National Gallery featuring the Christ pictures painted by the Hungarian painter Mihály Munkácsy has now been seen by more than 100,000 people. If you would like to see it as well you better hurry up, as the exhibition is available until April 30th. These pictures are the most famous creations by Munkácsy, and some of the finest work made by any Hungarian painter, so this could be a good place to visit when in Budapest in the coming days and weeks.

More information about the exhibition.
More information about the museum.

Recommended Budapest hotels in April

Posted on April 1, 2011September 21, 2023 by Budapest Guide

April is a great month to visit Budapest. More and more tourists are coming and the hotels enjoy more visitors after a quiet winter. Below you can find some hotel recommendations for April. The hotels described below have good prices and good locations in the centre of Budapest.

Recommended Budapest hotels in April

– Kempinski

– Continental Zara
– Mercure City Center
– Bohem Art Hotel

– Promenade City Hotel
– Star Inn Budapest Centrum (cheapest)

Budapest hotels

Onyx second Hungarian restaurant with Via Michelin star

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Budapest Guide

In 2010 one of the greatest news in Hungary (seen from a gastronomical point of view) was when Costes became the first Hungarian restaurant to receive a Via Michelin star. The restaurant located in Raday Utca has since then kept its star and as always it is highly recommended to reserve a table there if you plan to visit the restaurant near Kalvin Square.

In 2011 a new Hungarian restaurant became the second Hungarian restaurant with a Via Michelin star. This time the restaurant is even more centrally located in Budapest, in fact on the main square of the inner city of Budapest, at Vörösmarty Square. Onyx is the name of the restaurant, and it is located in the same building as the famous Gerbeaud confectionary.

The pricelevel at Onyx might be a bit lower than at Costes, but the quality is the same high quality. If you would like a taste of the quality we can highly recommend the daily lunch menus available between 12.00 and 15.00 at quite reasonable prices.

We congratule Onyx and wish them all luck in pleasing their guests and keeping the quality high!

Budapest restaurants