Palinka Festival 2011The 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!
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.
This is old news for some of you, but it is now decided that the new name of Budapest Ferihegy Airport will be: Budapest Liszt Ferenc Nemzetközi Repülőtér, or Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport. Not to big of a difference, except that it is no longer named by “Ferihegy”, the area on which it was located, but by the famous Hungarian composer Liszt Ferenc.
Just recently the new Sky Court was opened at Terminal 2. Here you can find KFC, Burger King, shopping opportunities and so on, so this should bring some more life to the main terminal of Budapest Airport.
We earlier wrote about the chance for Hungarian between 12 squares, deciding which was to be named after Elvis Presley. As all votes had arrived the winner was the square located on the Buda side of the Margaret Bridge. But, due to the fact that this location has strong connections to Poland they decided to let another place receive the name instead. Therefore the square that will be renamed after Elvis Presley is located where Ferenc Körút meets Üllői út, just in front of the Museum of Applied Arts.
That means that most people coming to Budapest from the airport will meet this square on the way to town!
It might be that Budapest Ferihegy Airport will be renamed in the near future. The government want to rename the airport to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport. A decision needs to be made in the case within quite shortly, so it might be that you will land on Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport next time you come to Budapest.
We also read somewhere that Lágymányosi Bridge might be renamed to Szént László Bridge after a suggestion from the Mayor of Budapest.
Last week we reported that Hungarians could vote for a square to be named Elvis Presley Square in Budapest, and that poll will be closing up tomorrow. Unfortunately they have not let the inhabitants influence the upcoming name of the airport or the Lágymányosi Bridge, but it might be better that way. Still, we have some sort of sorrow in our hearts every time we travel to Szentendre. Just outside the border of Budapest we drive next to the Meggyeri Híd, though the name +Chuck Norris Bridge+ (which was a very popular candidate during the poll) would have been even cooler, at least for tourists!
Soon Elvis Presley will give name to a new square in Budapest. In 1957 Elvis supported the uprising of the Hungarians against the Communists, and due to this the local government of Budapest has decided to dedicate a square to Elvis Presley. There are 12 different squares participating for the title, and at www.budapest.hu you can vote for your own favorite (as far as we can see it is only possible to vote at the Hungarian version of the page).
Who knows, maybe next time you visit Budapest you can visit the Elvis Presley square as well?
Gluttonous Thursday is a great habit in Budapest and Hungary, so if you don’t know what it is yet, you have something to look forward to. Once a year in Hungary most restaurants join into this event and on Gluttonous Thursday they offer all drinks and food from the menu for half price.
If there is a restaurant you normally find expensive, then you might consider visiting it on Gluttonous Thursday when everything is at half price. There are quite some rules concerning Gluttonous Thursday, to protect the visitors, still there are normally complaints coming every year from visitors somehow tricked by different restaurants. Last year they even charged us full price for a brownie with ice Gluttonous Thursday, though the restaurant made up for that mistake later.
The date for the Gluttonous Thursday in 2011: March 10
Below you can find a list presenting good hotels with great prices in Budapest in February. They are all centrally located, and have good prices currently. Not all hotels include breakfast in their prices, so make sure to check this out if it is important to you. Good luck and see you soon in Budapest!
If you want more information about some of the above mentioned hotels, and maybe read more about other Budapest hotels as well, check out our Budapest hotels-page.
Since the end of 2010 Mátyás Pince has introduced a new program for their Friday evenings, Operetta evenings. The program starts around 20.30 and lasts for 45-60 minutes. Both before and after the visitors can enjoy traditional Hungarian gipsy music. The songs played are not famous international songs, but traditional Hungarian operetta songs.
If it sounds interesting, check out our page about Mátyás Pince, and if it sounds very interesting we can of course help you with a table reservation.
The other exhibition named Fernando Botero’s paintings opened September 30th, and the last day of the exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts is January 23rd. So, if these exhibtions sounds interesting, you better hurry up and visit the Museum of Fine Arts before the paintings are transported to their next exhibition venue.
