Useful Budapest travel resources
Useful information about Hungary.
Towering 235m (770 ft.) above the Danube, Gellért Hill offers the city’s best panorama on a clear day (bus: 27 from Móricz Zsigmond körtér). It’s named after the Italian Bishop Gellért, who assisted Hungary’s first Christian king, Stephen I, in converting the Magyars.… Read the rest here →
Budapest has an extensive and efficient transportation system. If you have some patience and minimal skills with reading maps, you can easily learn the system. The biggest disadvantage, however, is that metros and tram routes shut down for the night at around 11:30pm.… Read the rest here →
Budapest facts and figures
Area: 525 square kilometres (in a north–south direction approx. 25 km, east–west approx. 29 km)
Population: 1.815.000
Population density: 3456 persons/ square kilometre
Administrative structure: 23 districts
Buda: comprising one-third of the area of the city on the hilly, right bank of the Danube
Pest: comprising two-thirds of the area of the city on the flat, left bank of the Danube
Islands (from north to south): Óbuda Island, Margaret Island, Csepel Island
Bridges: nine bridges, of which two are rail bridges
Accommodation
Budapest, the capital of Hungary has every category of accommodation from luxury hotel to paying guest rooms.… Read the rest here →
Most restauarants in Budapest now have English-language menus but this list is useful in the more basic places, and for translating the daily specials list which is often Hungarian only.… Read the rest here →
The Hungarians like to boast that their language ranks with Japanese and Arabic as among the world’s most difficult tongues to learn. All languages are hard for non-native speakers to master, but it is true: Hungarian is very-very hard to learn to speak well.… Read the rest here →