Szentendre is a fascinating little town north of Budapest. It has a very different atmosphere than the capital, and it draws lots of tourists every year. In itself Szentendre is not big, but it still has loads of galleries, museums and churches. Below you can see some pictures from Szentendre, and maybe you find out that you want to go there yourself?
Many tourists ask us concerning boattrips on the Danube and Folklore shows, and now we are able to give more help than earlier. We can help our visitors reserve tickets for both events, and if they decide to combine both they will even get a discount. Below you can see some pictures from a Folklore show in Budapest.
The National Gallop 2009 will be this weekend in Budapest at the Heroes Square, so if you likes horses, gallops and fun, that is the place to be. There will be several other programs as well in addition to the gallop and lots of Hungarian celebritites will participate in the different events.
The following documents can be downloaded which contains more information about the event:
Information map (.pdf)
Events (.pdf)
It is possible to go there without tickets, but for the best places you can go to Eventim for tickets.
It can be seen and felt that Budapest is on the move in the coffee market. There are more and more cafes opening, but at the same time some of them close down as well. Gloria Jeans had three coffee shops around in Budapest and lots of people enjoyed their coffee, but in March they were all closed down.
Costa Coffee opened a cafe in Nador Utca, but that was closed down as well. Now they have opened one in the start of Andrassy Avenue, a far better location, and for their sake it will hopefully bring far more customers.
Coffee Heaven is also on the move and not long ago they opened their 80th cafe around the world in Budapest. It is in the start of the Fashion Street, just by the Deák Square. They have my favorite triple chocolate muffin there and a very nice outdoor area where you can sit and enjoy your coffee.
Starbucks is not on the move, and some americans told me last week during a guided tour that some areas in America they rather close down some shops due to the financial crisis. I guess that means their entrance into the Hungary will be delayed as well!
What can be said for sure is that it is coffee time and there are plenty of places to choose between in Budapest currently!
The best place in Budapest for fresh fish and seafood is about to close. Ocean Bar & Grill wrote in an email that:
“After more than 6 years of bringing the best seafood to Budapest, Ocean bar & grill will be closing down permanently sometime between the end of May and mid June. The reason is simple really. While our many regular customers will be saddened to see the end to Ocean, unfortunately this city is still not quite ready for a quality seafood restaurant.”
For those very sad it is though said that Nobu is coming to Budapest, a luxury sushi chain. They will have their restaurant in Kempinski, and the only question is; if Oceans Bar & Grill had to few customers to stay alive, will there be a market for a much more expensive seafood restaurant?
Time will show 🙂
Our Budapest slideshow has now been seen by more than 3000 people. If you have not seen it, go to YouTube or check it out on this page.
In the slideshow you can see pictures of the castle, the Parliament, the bridges, shopping street and other important places in Budapest.
May 17. is the Norwegian national day, celebrating the constitution they made in 1814. In Norway all children parade through their cities, and everyone eat ice cream and hot dogs. For the Norwegian students in Budapest that is something they would not want to miss, but since they live in Budapest they arrange something similar to that here. So last Sunday they marched around at Margaret Island singing norwegian songs, eating Hot Dogs and then having a longlasting celebration at Hold Udvar.
What made the celebration even bigger was the fact that Norway won the Eurovision Song Contest the night before!
Below you can see some pictures from the celebration, the Norwegian winner song from the Eurovision Song Contest and the participants at the May 17. celebration singing the Norwegian national song.
The Depeche Mode concert this summer has not yet been held, and a new Depeche Mode concert has already been announced in Budapest. Depeche Mode is coming back in 2010, January 11. This summer they will perform at the Puskas Ferenc Stadium, but in January that will probably be quite cold and uncomfortable, so they will move a few meters and perform in the Papp Laszlo Budapest Sportarena instead. This is much smaller, so the tickets will probably fly away for this concert as well.
For more information about the summer concert, go to Depeche Mode Budapest summer 2009.
For tickets to the Depeche Mode concert January 11, 2010, visit WorldTicketShop. The press release tells us that they will not perform the same concert during both Budapest concerts. The stage will be made differently and different songs will be played, so for the biggest fans it might be worth visiting both the concerts.
The concert will start at 20:00.
The trees are green and the sun is shining! The tourists are coming and they have added new pictures at the wall of the Citadella at the Gellert Hill! The temperatures are between 25-30 Celsius during daytime and life is wonderful. Some days ago it was full moon as well, and we happened to be on the Buda side looking towards the Parliament that evening, so we stopped the car and jumped out and tried to make a nice picture. We are not totally satisfied, but at least we managed to make some pictures 🙂
If you are coming to Budapest be sure to grab hold of one of our guides and join in on an unforgetable guided tour. While you wait and prepare check out the pictures below and the current temperature in Budapest!
Every month we publish what we call the „Most popular restaurants” list, based on the amount of table reservation we do. More and more people ask us for help with table reservations, and a new thing is that a map showing the location of the restaurant is also included on the confirmation letter you receive from us!
Based on table reservations in April we can publish the following list:
Most popular Budapest restaurants in April
1) Sir Lancelot
2) Matyas Pince
3) Trofea Grill
It was a close race, and both Belcanto and Karpatia fought for the third place, but Trofea Grill still managed to grab hold of it! New list will be published in the start of June
