Budapest, Hungary

Trip Details

  • Total time: 2.5 days in June 2015
  • Part of a 10 day family trip to Budapest, Vienna, and Prague

Itinerary

  • Day 1: Just spent the late afternoon walking around and then dinner
  • Day 2: Private city tour for 4 hours in the morning and then did some sightseeing on our own
  • Day 3: Jewish tour of the city for 4 hours in the morning and afternoon sightseeing on our own

Airbnb

  • 4 people
  • On Bank U./Podmaniczky Frigyes ter and Vadasz u. (near St. Stephen’s Basilica)
  • Very good location

To See

  • St. Stephen’s Basilica
  • Hero’s Square
  • Opera House
  • Parliament building (You can go in but the line is often very long- we saw it at night and during the day. I highly recommend going around that area at night and walking around near the Danube River)
  • House of Terror
  • Buda castle (and changing of the guard)
  • Liberty Square (Szabadsag Square)/Soviet War Memorial and controversial holocaust memorial statue

To Do

  • Szechenyi thermal baths (Must do!) – we just did the main outdoor baths, not the special indoor ones
  • Go to the top of Gellert Hill (to the Statue of Liberty)- you get an amazing view of both Buda and Pest
  • Pinball museum- 140 pinball machines to play (a little bit outside the city)

Jewish things to see

  • Dohany synagogue
  • Kazinczy synagogue
  • Rumbach synagogue
  • Shoes on the Danube
  • Glass House (safe house for Jews during the Holocaust)

Eats

  • Make sure you try chicken paprikash while you are there
  • Gelarto Rosa- gelato in the shape of a rose! (near St. Stephen’s Basilica)

Bars

  • Szimpla Kert- original ruin bar- MUST SEE/DO

Blog

See all my Hungary blog posts here!

See all my blog posts from our Vienna, Budapest, and Prague trip here!