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A Weekend In Budapest

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Budapest has been on my wishlist of places to visit for a long time and after reading Karen over at Well I Guess This Is Growing Up’s blog where she shared a great post about her and Joe’s Budapest travels we finally took the plunge and booked ourselves a long weekend away.

A Weekend In Budapest

For the last few years we’ve been making an effort to travel more and although February doesn’t necessarily seem like a typical time to travel, we try to take a short break around this time of year as it’s our anniversary. This year we’ve been together for 13 years – yikes!. (You can read about our previous February travels to Paris here and to Hamburg here).

We already know we’ll be travelling much less after moving into our new home (for both financial and time constraint reasons) so this was a perfect quick getaway – after the last stressful home buying weeks but before the DIY chaos kicks in again!

Budapest Street

We’d heard amazing things about Budapest and had high expectations. Luckily we weren’t disappointed! It’s such a gorgeous city with breathtaking architecture, amazing street art and loads of fun places and bars to visit. None of our photos even begin to do it justice!

Mazel Tov Entrance Budapest

I was a bit worried about the weather. Yes, it gets a bit nippy here in Berlin during the winter say the least but Budapest can still be quite a bit colder! We were really lucky though and it was lovely and warm (if you can call around 5°C warm) and super sunny for the whole trip.

Budapest 2

By total coincidence, we met a couple of Hungarian guys the week before we flew over and got some amazing insider tips, recommendations of places to visit and typical Hungarian food to try. And try we did!

Budapest Food

We tried everything from Goulash soup to chimney cake and Hungarian trifle. Oh and lots of Hungarian beer and wine, too. ;)

We spent a lot of time relaxing and didn’t do quite as much exploring as we usually would as Jan had a bit of an accident earlier that week while playing football (he ruptured a muscle fibre in his leg) which meant that he was limping for the whole time. At least he was able to ditch the crutches for the trip!

Szechenyi Bridge

There are lots of thermal baths in Budapest and we spent a few hours relaxing in the Szechenyi baths. Apparently, the water has some kind of medicinal quality although I honestly just thought the water smelt a bit funky and metallic. It was fun lying outside in the hot water while it was barely above freezing, though. Weirdly, Jan is convinced that his that leg felt better after a soak in the water, so maybe there is some truth in it.

Szechenyi Baths

The hotel we stayed in was on the top of the hill in the castle district and we had the most amazing view of the river and parliament from our room.

View From Our Room

The Fisherman’s Bastion and Matthias church were directly next to the hotel and while having breakfast you could look out of the window and see the hoards of tourists climbing to the top of the structure to take pictures of the amazing Budapest skyline.

Church and Bastion

Isn’t the roof of the church spectacular?

Matthias Church Roof

We also visited the Parliament and the Basilica bought paprika at the Great Market Hall and climbed to the top of Gellert Hill for a great view over the whole city. And we always made sure we were back for the cocktail hour at the hotel ;).

Mazel Tov Budapest

A must visit in Budapest are the ruin bars. We visited Instant and Mazel Tov which we both loved. Mazel Tov, in particular, had such a relaxed and funky vibe, good food and live music. Instant is definitely also worth a visit – where else in the world would you find rabbits flying through a courtyard directly above your head?!

Instant Budapest

These are our Budapest Travel tips:

  • Book yourself a minibus from the airport. You can book it at the airport when you arrive and it only costs 9900 Forint (which is roughly £30) for a return trip to the city centre for two people. It’s only slightly less flexible than getting a direct taxi but works out at about the quarter of the price. You’ll have to be a bit flexible in terms of pick up time on your return journey (we got picked up half an hour earlier than we would have ideally liked).
  • Buy yourself a 72 hour (obviously depending on how long you’re there) travel ticket. You can get it at the ticket machines at the metro stations for 4150 Forint per ticket (roughly £10) and is really worth it even if you only to save time having to purchase a new ticket every time you travel and allows you to travel on all transport modes.
  • Try more than one ruin bar. They’re so much fun and vary so much – no two are the same and you’ll definitely get to see some weird and wonderful things.
  • Visit one of the thermal baths. They’re a great place to relax and even if you just have a few hours spare they’re still well worth a visit.

We’ll definitely visit Budapest again in the future! It was such a great city to visit and there’s still so much more to discover. Have you visited Budapest? What’s your favourite city for a weekend break? Do you have any sightseeing tips to share?

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  1. enc says

    15/02/2017 at 10:10

    Budapest wasn’t a place on my places to visit but it is now. … thanks fir the heads up.
    We had s long weekend break for my birthday last year. ..An amazing place!

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    • Christine says

      16/02/2017 at 06:52

      It’s an amazing city! Definitely worth including on your list of places to visit!
      Cx

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      • enc says

        16/02/2017 at 09:29

        Oops !! Just read read my comment … should have read, had a long weekend break in Prague !!

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        • Christine says

          16/02/2017 at 14:48

          Haha, I had wondered what you meant! ;)
          Prague is definitely a great place to visit, too! The fist time I was there was almost 20 years ago (yikes) I bet a lot has changed.
          Cx

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  2. Lucy says

    12/02/2017 at 16:49

    Budapest is still on my list! It looks just like my cup of tea – the food sounds bloody delicious and the architecture in your photos is just amazing. I also love the detail in the lamps on the bridge! The street art culture is really interesting as it’s something we have here in Bristol too. It sounds like a city where there’s always something to grab your eye, be it old or new, at eye level or something to draw the eye upwards. Very inspiring :). If you haven’t been to Lisbon I’d really recommend it. Good luck for the move and impending DIY! x

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    • Christine says

      13/02/2017 at 07:01

      It really is an amazing city to visit and still very reasonably priced (although we did already find things more expensive than it said in our fairly current guide book). The architecture was stunning and non of our photos really do it any justice.
      We’ve not been to Portugal yet. It sounds like we’ll have to add Lisbon to the list! ;)
      Cx

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  3. Jessica@CapeofDreams says

    10/02/2017 at 11:32

    Stunning architecture! Your pictures make it look particularly delightful. That horrible smell in the baths is sulphur. It reeks, but is great for your skin.ni would love to go to Budapest, but it’s a bit far for us for a weekend. We just booked a trip to Norway in March to visit our niece and see the northern lights. I’m excited even though it’s going to be cold.

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    • Christine says

      11/02/2017 at 17:23

      Oh thanks, Jessica! The photos really don’t do it justice – everywhere was so beautiful! You’re right about the sulphur. Apparently, the water in each of the thermal baths has a different mixture which is then meant to have specific benefits. I’m so jealous of you seeing the northern lights! I’ve wanted to see them forever!
      Cx

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