Beneath you can find information given from the Labyrinth of the Buda Castle concerning their special easter program:
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
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!
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!
The sun is shining, it’s 15-20 degrees and you are in Budapest. It is a normal spring day in the capital of Hungary. Here follows some advices on how to spend such a day in Budapest. This might be a real top 10 list of activities, but rather a list with ideas for different nice activities that can be done on a sunny spring day in Budapest.
Ten nice spring activities in Budapest
1) Cross the Elisabeth Bridge and walk to the top of the Gellert Hill. Make some marvelous pictures!
2) Go to Raday Utca or Liszt Ferenc Tér and buy something to drink in one of the outdoor cafes/restaurants
3) Budapest Zoo! Great place to be when the sun is shining.
4) Travel with the Libegő (chairlift) between Zugliget and John Hill (János hegy). Get there using bus 291 from Nyugati Pályaudvar. Afterwards enjoy the fresh air and the view from the Elisabeth tower.
5) Buy some sun lotion and swim in the outdoor pools of the Szechényi Thermal Bath
6) Do a half-day trip to Szentendre with shopping, wine, marcipan and food
7) See Budapest from the Danube while on a dinner cruise
8) Sit down somewhere and try to learn some useful Hungarian phrases. Below you can find some suggestions.
9) Get more knowledge about the different special drinks from Hungary in our „Drinks of Hungary” program
10) Smile to the people around you, simply because life is good and Budapest is beautiful!
Some useful and some useless Hungarian phrases:
– Süt a nap (the sun is shining)
– Kérek egy hosszú kávét (a long coffee please)
– Hol van McDonalds? (where is McDonalds)
– A nevem Bill Clinton (my name is Bill Clinton)
– Nagyon szépek a jegesmedvek (the polar bears are really nice)
It can get quite cold in the winter in Budapest. What to do if you visit Budapest on such a day? Beneath you can find ten advices:
1.) Go to Széchenyi Thermal Bath and swim in the 38 degree outdoor pool
2.) Go on a wine dinner with 5 courses and 6 wines
3.) Visit one of the many shopping malls in Budapest
4.) Get hold of some tickets for a performance in the State Opera
5.) Do not forget the private guided tour (with car)
6.) Go from confectionary to confectionary and taste Hungarian cakes
7.) Visit a private spa for relaxing massages and treatments
8.) Let a Hungarian dentist fix your teeth
9.) Plan your next stay in Budapest during summertime
10.) Join a Danube Cruise with dinner at 19.00 in the evening
We wish you a pleasant stay in Budapest!
All Christmas markets in Vienna have opened now, and we were in Vienna last weekend to check out that everything is okay. It is! If you come to Budapest before Christmas and would like bigger Christmas markets and better Christmas atmosphere than in Budapest, then a daytrip to Vienna might be the thing.
You can read more about this possibility and offer at our page: Daytrip to Vienna Christmas markets.
Below you can see some pictures from the Vienna Christmas markets.
More information about Vienna Christmas markets from Vienna Guide
Vienna Christmas market pictures
For those who have been to Budapest several times, and for us who live here, the two clown balloons outside the Hungarian State Circus has served as a symbol of the circus itself. A month ago or something as I drove past the circus during a guided tour I though noticed that big changes were about to take place… First the air was taken out of the clowns, and then they were removed (for good)!
It can not be considered a tragedy as the clowns did not look to nice (the building doesn’t look to nice either), but still our dear and belowed clown balloon friends has been removed. Would you like to see the before – during – after pictures? Here you go!
Hungarian State Circus with clowns
Hungarian State Circus with clowns going down
Hungarian State Circus with one airless clown
Hungarian State Circus in Post Clown Age
For shopping freaks who like H&M it is for sure good news that H&M now can be found in WestEnd Citycenter as well. For a long time WestEnd has been lacking this popular fashion shop but not along they opened up their new shop in WestEnd, so you do not have to go to centers such as Allee or Arena Plaza anymore to buy clothes from the swedish clothing company!
The new H&M shop is located next to Media Markt, beneath the floor where you can find Palace Cinemas and above the floor where you can find C&A.
The Christmas Market in Vienna has already opened and we were there this weekend. It was packed with people and everyone enjoyed the glühwein and all the small shops located outside the “Rathaus” in Vienna. I am said to say so, but the Christmas Market in Vienna looks quite a lot better than the one in Budapest, but that probably has to do with the fact that the square in front of the Rathaus (City Hall) is better for such a market than Vörösmarty Square in Budapest. Some more markets will open in Vienna by Schönbrunn and Belvedere in a couple of days.
If you come to Budapest, you should for sure consider a day trip to the Christmas Market in Vienna.
Christmas Market Vienna slideshow
Today at 11:11, November 11 in the 11th district was the official opening of the new shopping center in Budapest, Allee! Many people had met up to join in and rush to Electro World which had many great offer to their visitors today. I arrived to Allee around 16.00, walked around the entire mall, made some pictures and had a good time. There were some techinal problems as many shops were working in the dark (some electrical problem occured probably), but except from that everything seemed in order. The cinema will only open tomorrow!
I liked the look of Allee myself. It reminds me much of Arena Plaza in style, only that Allee feels much smaller.
I made quite some pictures, so enjoy them, and if you have visited Allee, please share your comments as well!
Allee pictures
