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Tommy
Guest
You lucky sod!
Tips...
1. Buy a weekly public transport card when you arrive. Use the trams and metro as much as possible - they're excellent value and give you great flexibility in seeing the place.
2. Best nightlife, coffee bars, restaurants generally seem to be clustered in the area between Nyugati (spell??) Station and the Danube, along the inner ring road.
3. The big market (Lehel Market) is worth seeing.
4. Use the baths.
5. Hotels etc appear to be teeming with free city maps and pocket guidebooks. Don't bother spending money on Lonely Planets or Rough Guides before you go - the free guidebooks are every bit as good.
6. The beer isn't great - coffee and wine are though.
7. Unless the city is too hot or you're bored or something, don't bother going up the Danube Bend. Szentendre is a pretty village turned into tourist trap. Esztergom has a fine cathedral, a lovely Danube view and little else. Much more to see in Budapest.
Tips...
1. Buy a weekly public transport card when you arrive. Use the trams and metro as much as possible - they're excellent value and give you great flexibility in seeing the place.
2. Best nightlife, coffee bars, restaurants generally seem to be clustered in the area between Nyugati (spell??) Station and the Danube, along the inner ring road.
3. The big market (Lehel Market) is worth seeing.
4. Use the baths.
5. Hotels etc appear to be teeming with free city maps and pocket guidebooks. Don't bother spending money on Lonely Planets or Rough Guides before you go - the free guidebooks are every bit as good.
6. The beer isn't great - coffee and wine are though.
7. Unless the city is too hot or you're bored or something, don't bother going up the Danube Bend. Szentendre is a pretty village turned into tourist trap. Esztergom has a fine cathedral, a lovely Danube view and little else. Much more to see in Budapest.