other guides:
Check out Time Out's Budapest guide.
In Your Pocket makes more down-to-earth and probably the most current city guides. They now also have free, abbreviated, acrobat/pdf guides to Budapest  and other cities.
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map of Budapest (not done)
Hungarian phrase guide
Budapest Subway map (in Hungarian)
Note: The roman numeral at the beginning of an address indicates the section of Budapest. The middle two digits of the zip code also indicate the city section.
I saw two companies that did walking tours of Budapest
Walks of Budapest
www.budapestours.com
The second seemed to be more crative and fun-filled, the first more serious.
Yellow Zebra Bikes at 8 Hercegprimas Street rents bicycles. To make a reservation, call 06-30-399-7093 (outside Hungary, call 36--30-399-7093).
 Chance and Aniko have been talking about a really great T-shirt shop called Vakondgyár in town, and they finally showed me where it was. The shirts are high quality and nice bright colors, with small, simple designs from eastern European cartoons and shows centered on the shirts.
The two locations are:
VI. Teréz Krt. 54
V. Magyar u. 52
Both have the same shirts, but the top address has a slightly larger selection.
The PostBank building is a beautiful piece of Art Neuveu architechture. I couldn't wait to see it after having seen it in books. I was a little dissapointed, just because it isn't in the best condition, and is a little difficult to see, as it is several stories high, and almost surrounded by building of the same height. |
Here are the internet cafe's that i saw in Budapest:
Copy Internet Cafe
Curia utca 4
Boulevard Cafe
Bajcsy Zilinszky 37
There are several Hostels in town. I have a list from a book somewhere. The only one that we saw in our wanderings was the Universum Hostel. It was in a great location, close to a lot of restaurants and not far from the pedestrian street. The prices weren't that great (three thousand something Forint for a bed in a barracks/dormitory styled room, or four thousand something Forint for a bed in a double room) but I didn't compare it to other hostels.
Universum Hostel
V. Papnö Velde utca 4-6
Here are some map/book stores that I saw:
Terkepkiraly (Mapking)
Map shop in downtown Budapest
Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 23.
Budapest 1065
www.mapking.hu
Földgömb-Térkép
Bajcsy Zilinszky 37
Helikon
Bajcsy Zilinszky 38
The first two are smaller map-oriented stores, Helikon is a larger book store with a larger selection. Check them all out, they're all within a block of each other. For English books, try Bestsellers
The most fun parts of town to get something to eat seemed to be Ráday street and Liszt Ferenc tér, right off Oktagon.
Red Cafe
Ráday utca
Old Man's Music Pub
VII. Akácfa u. 13
Felafel Faloda
VI. Paulay Ede u. 53
www.felafel.hu
closed Sundays
Dagmar and I have wanted to eat at Vegetarium for some time now, but something has always prevented us. Last time we were quite hungry and there were no available tables, plus we had just read a somewhat negative review, so, rather than wait, we decided to eat just around the corner at ???. While over at James', I saw this picture that he took of Julie there. He said that they ate there almost every night that they were in Budapest. Now I really want to go back and check it out.
Vegetarium
V. Cukor u. 3
Tel: (+36-1) 484 08 48
I saw this little restaurant and will check it out on my next visit:
Marquis de Salade
1065 Budapest
Hajós utca 43
Right around the corner from the book/map store Helikon (above).
It had food with a wide variety of world influences on the menu. My friends also have heard good reviews for it.
Iguana is the Mexican restaurant, and the place to meet English speakers.
Downtown Hotels in Budapest on special rates, or so they say, I haven't tested it.
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