Budapest
Budapest is a city with an impressive architecture and beautiful bridges, yet, it is not a "tourist" place like Prague for instance. Walking, walking, walking...to feel the athmosphere you have to spend some time for walking
Eotvos utca 41, Budapest, 1121, Hungary
Entrance In Daylight (Jan 2011)
Sunset over the flooded Danube.
Bronzino's "Portrait of a Lady"
Castle Hill, Szentendre
Dear pals and travelers!
I went by Volanbusz open dates ticket from Budapest to Vienna on the 5.10.09 and now i want to go by volanbusz back to Budapest on 24.12 noon(using the return "opened" option),
I tried sending them emails but with no success...And I need your help please if someone knows..
whom i can to contact in Vienna for that?how/when i reserve myself tickets for the 24 bus? Anybody knows/has experience?
Thank you very much!!
Anatoly
Contact Blaguss at:
Erdbergstrasse 202
Phone: (01)-798-2900, calling from outside Austria, include +(country code) as well!
info@eurolines.at
It's very important to do the reservation as there still might be people travelling back home to their families to celebrate Christmas in the evening - probably you're one of them too.
Sending Volanbusz urgent e-mails is not a good idea, their Customer Services personnel react quite slowly, their deadline for response is some 30 days or so... Phoning them would be much quicker in such cases.
By the way, that bus is not at noon but at 11 AM and that's the last bus of the day. If that's too early for you, trains are running at least every two hours until 19:50 - but in that case, of course, you can throw your bus ticket away or keep it for next time.
Please note that metro services in Budapest shut down at 15:30 with connecting surface services finishing at around 16:00 (or later if metro connections make it neccessary). After 15:30, night services are operating. Your bus from Vienna arrives at 13:55, so you're fine, this info is for planning the rest of your day.
Thank you so much!!!!! its so helpful!! I really know what to expect now on christmas Eve.....!!!!
Thanks !!!!! merry christmas!
Budapest is a city with an impressive architecture and beautiful bridges, yet, it is not a "tourist" place like Prague for instance. Walking, walking, walking...to feel the athmosphere you have to spend some time for walking
see the Castle (marvellous view from the Danube)and its surrounding... Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque styles are present in the whole Castle district.
visit the Fishermen's Bastion and the Wholy Trinity square...
'stare' for hours at the beautiful Parlaiment building...
Have acup of coffee or whatever on VACI...
Once upon a time (more than 10 years ago) , the rock band, Bon Jovi gave a fantastic concert in Budapest (I was there:) ). On the way towards the Airport, the musicians were passing through the Heroes square, and the city Park. Jon Bon Jovi said later that he would never forget the view that he saw from the little bridge that connects the Heroes square with the City Park, where 1000`s of skaters were having fun in the Ice skating rink with loud music and with the illuminated silouette of the Vajdahunyad Castle at their back. In fact, this is a typical local costom coming here during the winter. In this time the rink is almost allways crawded, while in summer it becomes an artificial lake, and You can hire boats. As since all the place will be under renovation in these years, I`m not sure if these possibilities will still be available, but surely the whole facility will be even more attractive after the renovation.
The castle was first built in wood for the Millenary Celebration in 1894, but was such a popular success that it was later constructed in the durable stone and bricks.
The whole complex, made up of authentic copies of historic monuments in Hungary, has become a symbol of the City Park.
Today the building houses the Agricultural Museum and the Botanical Collection of the Museum of Natural Science.
Although London constructed the first underground railway in the world, the inhabitents of Budapest are very proud that they had the first one in Mainland Europe.
Line M1 is thus an historic ride with only the last station on the line being a later addition in the 1970's.
The line is not run as a museum piece, even if the trains themselves still have a strong whiff of soviet-era Moscow about them. Many of the stations have however been restored, and there is also a Metro Museum which the transport authority runs in an abandoned station (see website)
It may be called a subway, but you travel only a few feet below the road along the length of this historic line.
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