Trips To Budapest is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin and Prague.
What this site is trying to be
Most writing about Budapest stops at the Parliament and the baths. This site is more interested in the fact that the Fisherman’s Bastion is free before the ticket booths open and charges after, that the same paprika in the Great Market Hall costs a third less thirty metres deeper into the building, and that an unvalidated tram ticket will cost you more than a day’s sightseeing.
That specificity is the point: not that somewhere is beautiful, but when to go, what it costs, what to book, and where the city stops performing.
How it is researched
Opening times, ticket structures and access rules come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it is because it has not been checked recently enough to print.
The forint moves, and Budapest’s attractions reprice with it — the Parliament’s tiered pricing for EU and non-EU visitors in particular. Treat anything quoted here as an indication and check before you budget around it.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, bath, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the House of Terror entry sets out that the museum is a partisan account of the period it covers, and why the Szimpla Kert entry says plainly that it is full of visitors and suggests going on a Sunday morning instead.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date — a tram route, a ticket rule, a closure — please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
The contact form goes to a person, or write to [email protected].