Any Budapest gems?

I am going to Budapest with two of my lads in a few days, any suggestions? We will be there for a couple of days.

We have heard the thermal baths are supposed to be epic, but other than that we have not really planned anything besides sightseeing and stuff.

Not interested in sex or drugs, but other than that, all recommendations are appreciated!

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Go find the night club that's at the top of some soviet office block, can't remember the name but it was super fun

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nice, do you remember what part of the city it was in?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      corvin club is kill

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    1/2
    Been several times, most recently in 2018 and summer 2022. Great city and quite cheap overall, here are some basic recommendations if you have a couple of days:

    -Buda Castle, free and provides nice views of the city. You can often see the ceremonial Horse Guards do their rounds, which is fun. There is also a museum of Hungarian art within the castle grounds which is quite cheap and well worth seeing.
    -Thermal Baths: if you can only do one, do Széchenyi. Its the biggest and has a nice variety of hot pools, cold/medium pools and sauna/steam rooms. When you arrive, don't get confused and think that its only an outdoor pool- you have to go indoors and look around to find all the pools. If you have time to do two, do Gellert as well, it is smaller but less crowded and in a prettier setting.
    -Ruin Bars: there are several, the most famous is Szimpla, which will pretty much always be busy during drinking hours. Stroll around its area and you'll find others each with their own quirks, as well as a kind of Hungarian food court/area that tends to be around there.
    -Orsokahz: Hungarian parliament, a really magnificent building. Even if you aren't interested in architecture or history this is well worth checking out, it dominates the skyline of the city and is just breathtakingly beautiful and magnificient, especially as you cross into the city at night and see it for the first time. You can only go in with a guided crowd tour, but its worth doing. Slightly expensive by Hungarian standards but not too bad, but be sure to book well in advance because English tours fill up.

    Whatever you do, be sure to walk the banks of the Danube by Parliament and cross the Chain Bridge and Princess Margaret Bridge.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      2/2

      Other good stuff:

      -Go the the Zwach distillery and get a tour, its cheap and they can get you pretty hammered if your guide is feeling like it. Zwach is also a very uniquely Hungarian beverage and there's rarely even anyone at the distillery. Fair warning: most people find regular Zwach pretty fricking foul, but the plum and coffee varieties are good shit. On the topic of food and drink, be sure to try the following: Tokay, which is Hungarian sweet wine, Langos fried flatbreads with toppings (go to Retro Langos for these), goulash, and Palinka (pear brandy which I personally think is foul but they like it).
      -Gul Baba street, one of the steepest streets in major European cities, which ends with the tomb of an old Muslim theologian/scholar, also a pilgrimage site and rose garden.
      -Citadela, where you'll see the big soviet statue, old fort that has the best views of the city and a nice hike to get up there
      -Margaret Island, which is a cool island in the Danube with gardens and an assortment of stuff, good spot for picnics
      -Fisherman's Bastion, which are the white fortifications you'll see, you can enter for free and if a turret/tower tries to charge for entry you can generally just come back at sundown and they won't be charging any more.

      I think you can get to Bratislava by boat very easily from Budapest, but I've never been.
      Don't take taxis, they are a literal cartel designed to scam people.
      Also get some turkish food while you are there and use trams instead of the subway. The trams are great, run everywhere and are cheap, the subway fricking sucks, everything is ancient and last time I took it a train caught fire. Anyway I fricking love Budapest, I wish the Hungarian government could pay me to shill it on Tanzanian Hand-Looming Forums.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        1/2
        Been several times, most recently in 2018 and summer 2022. Great city and quite cheap overall, here are some basic recommendations if you have a couple of days:

        -Buda Castle, free and provides nice views of the city. You can often see the ceremonial Horse Guards do their rounds, which is fun. There is also a museum of Hungarian art within the castle grounds which is quite cheap and well worth seeing.
        -Thermal Baths: if you can only do one, do Széchenyi. Its the biggest and has a nice variety of hot pools, cold/medium pools and sauna/steam rooms. When you arrive, don't get confused and think that its only an outdoor pool- you have to go indoors and look around to find all the pools. If you have time to do two, do Gellert as well, it is smaller but less crowded and in a prettier setting.
        -Ruin Bars: there are several, the most famous is Szimpla, which will pretty much always be busy during drinking hours. Stroll around its area and you'll find others each with their own quirks, as well as a kind of Hungarian food court/area that tends to be around there.
        -Orsokahz: Hungarian parliament, a really magnificent building. Even if you aren't interested in architecture or history this is well worth checking out, it dominates the skyline of the city and is just breathtakingly beautiful and magnificient, especially as you cross into the city at night and see it for the first time. You can only go in with a guided crowd tour, but its worth doing. Slightly expensive by Hungarian standards but not too bad, but be sure to book well in advance because English tours fill up.

        Whatever you do, be sure to walk the banks of the Danube by Parliament and cross the Chain Bridge and Princess Margaret Bridge.

        So based, thanks a lot man!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      2/2

      Other good stuff:

      -Go the the Zwach distillery and get a tour, its cheap and they can get you pretty hammered if your guide is feeling like it. Zwach is also a very uniquely Hungarian beverage and there's rarely even anyone at the distillery. Fair warning: most people find regular Zwach pretty fricking foul, but the plum and coffee varieties are good shit. On the topic of food and drink, be sure to try the following: Tokay, which is Hungarian sweet wine, Langos fried flatbreads with toppings (go to Retro Langos for these), goulash, and Palinka (pear brandy which I personally think is foul but they like it).
      -Gul Baba street, one of the steepest streets in major European cities, which ends with the tomb of an old Muslim theologian/scholar, also a pilgrimage site and rose garden.
      -Citadela, where you'll see the big soviet statue, old fort that has the best views of the city and a nice hike to get up there
      -Margaret Island, which is a cool island in the Danube with gardens and an assortment of stuff, good spot for picnics
      -Fisherman's Bastion, which are the white fortifications you'll see, you can enter for free and if a turret/tower tries to charge for entry you can generally just come back at sundown and they won't be charging any more.

      I think you can get to Bratislava by boat very easily from Budapest, but I've never been.
      Don't take taxis, they are a literal cartel designed to scam people.
      Also get some turkish food while you are there and use trams instead of the subway. The trams are great, run everywhere and are cheap, the subway fricking sucks, everything is ancient and last time I took it a train caught fire. Anyway I fricking love Budapest, I wish the Hungarian government could pay me to shill it on Tanzanian Hand-Looming Forums.

      I'm an expat living in Hungary, and while I don't particularly care for Budapest or the people in it, I do support people coming here and spending money. So, I offer a few corrections/elaborations--

      >Ruin Bars ... Szimpla ... Hungarian food court/area
      Szimpla is the most famous. It's going to be full or tourists, but I can imagine it's fun for young people. The "food court" is called "Street Food Karavan"-- it's at the end of the street that Szimpla is on. If you're at one end of the block, and there's no food court, it's on the other end. From Szimpla, if you keep going in the same direction, then turn left when the road ends, you'll pass by a nice brunch place called Cirkusz that is sadly crowded all the time, and then if you turn right you'll end up a Gozsdu udvar, which could also be described as a kind of food court area. If you put the names into a search engine, you should be able to see the locations.
      >Orsokahz
      Orszaghaz. Book the tour online and print out the tickets. I've heard it's great. If you're there, you might as well walk across Szabadsag ter. Check out the monument to the Soviet liberators of Budapest, the statues of Reagan and H.W. Bush, the old stock exchange (on your right), and the fortress-like US embassy (on your left). At the opposite end of the square, there's a memorial to the German occupation of Hungary. You can then continue ~200 meters along Oktober 6 street, pass by George Soros's university, and you'll soon be able to see the square in front of Saint Steven's Basilica. The basilica is pretty cool, but it's expensive to tour. There are a bunch of tourist trap restaurants in that area, but, if you're there around lunch time, I recommend hummusbar on Oktober 6.
      >Zwach
      Zwack is the distillery. The beverage is called Unicum. I don't drink it, but the closest commonly known drink similar to it would be Jaegermeister.
      >Palinka
      Palinka can be made from many fruits. It can vary in strength from ~20% to ~80%.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I went there last december and had fun. Try the Hospital in the Rocks. Pretty interesting museum

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I wanna go to the former eastern bloc countries someday...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it's the best shit ever, i tell you. low prices, friendly people

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I am interested in sex . Can anyone tell me the rules for prostitution in Budampest?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's allowed, but brothels aren't. Just use rosszlanyok.hu to find one you like and contact him/her.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Most of the important things have already been said, I'll just add that the Blue Rose Restaurant is great for proper local food. Depending on your interests you could also check Napozoret park, they have a few cool museums and coffee houses + a big skating ring this time of year.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Club Cross is the coolest club I ever been to. The entire thing is made out of car parts and shit turns around and stuff. Been there twice and there are multiple floors with ska/folk music and dubstep/drum n bass. Alternative folks (no 'bro' tourists). Beer is cheap since it's not in the tourist trap. I think mostly locals. It's in the outskirts of the city but you pay like 5$ for a cab.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's Prague not Budapest

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    this is OP btw, I'm back from the trip. will make a post about it. was very epic but I didn't have the chance to do a lot of what was suggested here due to time constraints and my travel mates

    regrettably i didn't find the poster though, maybe orban isn't based enough to let it stay up

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    in addition to what everyone else has mentioned, I will say that Budapest is quite cheap, and if anyone reading this is considering travelling there, you should also go to Prague, Vienna and Krakow. all Cities in different countries, with different cultures, but all within s couple of hours train ride from each other, and all quite affordable, except Vienna.

    City Park and Heroes Square are also well worth visiting. There are actually lots of statues in Budapest, and a bunch of them are of the Huns, which look awesome, warriors holding their weapons etc.

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