Budapest Travel Guide 2008
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Our top-ranked guide to Budapest contains detailed coverage of local attractions,
transport to the city, critical restaurant reviews, a detailed shopping directory, up-to-date entertainment pages, interactive Budapest maps and lots, lots
more! To begin exploring our Budapest pages, choose from our main options (top left)
or read about each section in more detail below:
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Budapest Hotels
 If you're after
unbiased reviews on booking Budapest hotels,
then look no
further. Along with listings for over 100 properties, you'll
find separate pages covering budget offerings, spa
hotels, romantic
breaks, city breaks, extended
stays, business hotels, family
holidays and stag parties in Budapest. In
addition, detailed listings for 5-star,
4-star and 3-star Budapest Hotels
provide location and public transport details
for each property.
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Budapest Maps
 While geographically, it's
arguably more straightforward to become acquainted with
Budapest's layout than Prague or Vienna, it's nonetheless advisable to learn about where its main
sights are located, as well as finding out about transport options for navigating around
the city. On our site, you'll not only find a useful Budapest
metro map, but also a street
finder and hotel
locator. Perfect for planning your Budapest city break or holiday in advance!
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Budapest Attractions
 With over 100
museum, gallery and historic building reviews,
three useful maps, a guided walks section and a hyperlink for downloading an exclusive
seventeen page
'Instant Guide', our Budapest sightseeing pages give a comprehensive listing of
the city's most beautiful and interesting
attractions.
What's more, for 2008 we've again teamed up with
Viator to bring you a great selection of ready-to-book Budapest sightseeing tours,
river cruises and folklore evenings.
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Travelling to Budapest
 In getting to Budapest, we provide
all the information that you'll need to plan a successful trip to Budapest from the
UK, US,
European Union, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Along with tips on how to find the best Budapest flights, we have pages
covering rail, coach and
driving holidays in Budapest, together with details about
hydrofoil
cruises along the Danube. With online booking and useful links to travel agents/major airlines,
there's no reason why you shouldn't book your holiday online right now!
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Travel Tips/Tourist Information
 As well as facts, figures and tips on topics such as Budapest public transport, customs
regulations, car rental, currency,
Internet usage and
weather, there's also a dedicated
links page to other great sites geared towards tourism in Hungary.
With over fifty different categories of information to
choose from, our Budapest essentials section is a must read for anyone
wanting to plan a successful trip to Budapest.
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Budapest Business Directory
 Here, we provide listings and recommendations for those
relocating to, or doing business in Hungary. First and foremost, we've given a
run-down of websites and information sources relating to Hungary's
accession to the EU. In addition, you'll find listings for hotels, banks,
business/convention
centres, chambers
of commerce, courier
services, law firms,
real estate
agents, translators
and, if you're planning to live and work in Budapest, details of relocation
specialists, Hungarian language schools and dentists,
doctors and medical services.
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Shopping in Budapest
 A listing of the very best Budapest shops, malls and
department stores downtown, with sections devoted to gift,
souvenir, health
& beauty, antique,
fashion and food shopping.
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Eating and Drinking in Budapest
 An easy
to follow bar, café and restaurant guide which gives
the low-down on the very best places to eat, drink and be merry. Now with over 55 bar, café
and restaurant reviews!
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Entertainment in Budapest
 Find out what's happening in Budapest with our six page entertainment guide. Along with club,
cinema and theatre
listings, there's also information on opera, classical music
and
sporting venues.
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Budapest News
 For Budapest headlines, breaking news stories, sports, arts, entertainment and
travel coverage from the Budapest Sun, MTI, BBC, Guardian, Times, Telegraph and other sources click here.
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Introducing Budapest - A Foreword from Editor Julian Takács
 As one of Europe's truly great capital cities, first time visitors
are usually overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of the city.
Divided in two by the Danube, the numerous
vantage points from hilly Buda and Óbuda offer spectacular views of a flat, busy, sprawling
Pest on the river's eastern bank.
A city that manages to surprise and enthral in equal measure, reminders of
Budapest's rich and often tragic history are ever present. Indeed, the scars of the nation's crushed 1956 uprising
(which have yet to fade from the nation's psyche) are still evident from
the many bullet hole ridden buildings around the city. Of course, one hopes that
now, following Hungary's accession to the EU on 1 May 2004, its younger citizens can
take advantage of the opportunity and stability that lie ahead in a united
Europe.
 Certainly, since the
move to parliamentary democracy in 1990, Budapest has witnessed rapid change.
Sizeable investment from the west, coupled with a greater choice of goods and
services means that, for many, daily life is now little different to any other major city
in Europe. Of course, this leap into a "brave new world" has also
brought problems too. A widening gap between rich and poor, rising house prices,
organised crime and graffiti arguably being of most concern.
That said, a renewed sense of vibrancy and pride has taken
hold, with many of the fine apartment
blocks that turned Vienna and Budapest into two of Europe's most beautiful cities
(during the early
1900s) now being restored to their former glory. And, most importantly, the city has retained its unique character, while the locals remain just as polite, stubborn and individualistic
as ever!
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