{"id":1302334,"date":"2026-09-26T18:23:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/?page_id=1302334"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:33:39","slug":"hungary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/blog\/europe\/hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"parent":1301190,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"hw-hub-country","meta":{"footnotes":"","hw_hub_hero_eyebrow":"","hw_hub_hero_h1":"","hw_hub_hero_intro":"","hw_hub_hero_image":"","hw_hub_hero_overlay":"","hw_hub_hero_cta":"","hw_hub_why_title":"","hw_hub_why_body":"","hw_hub_why_link_label":"","hw_hub_why_link_url":"","hw_hub_why_cards":"","hw_hub_stats":"","hw_hub_countries_title":"","hw_hub_countries_intro":"","hw_hub_featured":"","hw_hub_regions":"","hw_hub_hostels_title":"","hw_hub_hostels_intro":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_label":"","hw_hub_hostels_cta_url":"","hw_hub_hostels_source":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_type":"","hw_hub_hostels_location_id":"","hw_hub_hostels_currency":"","hw_hub_hostels_count":"","hw_hub_hostels_cache":"","hw_hub_hostels":"","hw_hub_when_title":"","hw_hub_when_intro":"","hw_hub_seasons":"","hw_hub_costs_title":"","hw_hub_costs_body":"","hw_hub_cost_rows":"","hw_hub_cost_note":"","hw_hub_money_reads":"","hw_hub_rail_title":"","hw_hub_rail_body":"","hw_hub_rail_link_label":"","hw_hub_rail_link_url":"","hw_hub_rail_image":"","hw_hub_routes":"","hw_hub_events_title":"","hw_hub_events_intro":"","hw_hub_events_source":"","hw_hub_events_continent":"","hw_hub_events_count":"","hw_hub_events_cache":"","hw_hub_events_cta_label":"","hw_hub_events_cta_url":"","hw_hub_events":"","hw_hub_events_pills":"","hw_hub_reads_intro":"","hw_hub_article_rows":"","hw_hub_show_read_time":"","hw_hub_all_title":"","hw_hub_all_body":"","hw_hub_all_cta":"","hw_hub_trips_title":"","hw_hub_trips_note":"","hw_hub_trips":"","hw_hub_faq_title":"","hw_hub_faq_note":"","hw_hub_faqs":"","hw_hub_cta_title":"","hw_hub_cta_body":"","hw_hub_cta_buttons":"","hw_hub_newsletter_title":"","hw_hub_newsletter_body":"","hw_hub_newsletter_shortcode":"","hw_hub_hub_term":"","hw_hub_scope_rows":"","hw_hub_country_hero_eyebrow":"Hungary country guide","hw_hub_country_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Hungary","hw_hub_country_hero_intro":"One of Europe's great cities and a country most people never leave it to see. Thermal baths, ruin bars, and prices that still undercut everywhere west of Vienna.","hw_hub_country_hero_image":"1302336","hw_hub_country_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_country_hero_cta":"Pick a city | #cities\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_country_stats":"\u20ac14 | Dorm bed, from\r\n1,300 | Thermal springs nationwide\r\n\u20ac4 | A pint in a ruin bar\r\n2.5h | Vienna to Budapest by train","hw_hub_country_intro_title":"Budapest, and what else","hw_hub_country_intro_body":"Budapest is three towns \u2014 Buda, \u00d3buda and Pest \u2014 that merged in 1873: hilly, quiet Buda on one bank and flat, busy Pest on the other, with the Danube and a set of nineteenth-century bridges between them. It is one of the most striking capitals in Europe and among the cheapest, which is why it has become a fixture on every central European route.\r\n\r\nThree days does the city properly: the baths, the parliament, the Jewish quarter and its ruin bars, and a walk up to the castle at dusk. Five days lets you slow down, which is how the city is best enjoyed.\r\n\r\nOutside the capital, Hungary empties out fast. Lake Balaton is where the country goes in summer, Eger and Tokaj make wine that deserves more attention abroad, and P\u00e9cs in the south has a Turkish-influenced old town. None have much hostel infrastructure, so most travellers base themselves in Budapest and take day trips.","hw_hub_country_facts":"Language | Hungarian, related to nothing you know. English is common in Budapest\r\nCurrency | Forint (HUF), not the euro\r\nEmergency | 112\r\nTap water | Safe throughout\r\nTipping | 10% is standard and sometimes added to the bill \u2014 check before adding more\r\nCards | Accepted almost everywhere, including small bars\r\nHow long to stay | Three days for Budapest, five to do it slowly\r\nBest months | April to June and September","hw_hub_country_cities_title":"Where to go","hw_hub_country_cities_intro":"Budapest is most of Hungarian tourism. The rest is a few real cities, reachable by cheap train.","hw_hub_country_cities_live":"1","hw_hub_country_cities":"Budapest | Thermal baths, ruin bars, and the most dramatic parliament building in Europe. |  | 1302562 | This city has it all!!! Budget to high end. History to night clubs. Amazing food and very walkable! Very impressed and I will come back! | \nEger | Baroque town, a castle that held off the Ottomans, and the Valley of the Beautiful Women for wine. |  | 1302563 |  | \nP\u00e9cs | Southern, sunny and Ottoman-influenced, with a mosque converted into a church on the main square. |  | 1302564 |  | \nSzeged | A planned city of boulevards rebuilt after an 1879 flood, with a big student population and paprika. |  | 1302565 |  | ","hw_hub_country_trips_title":"What kind of trip is this?","hw_hub_country_trips_intro":"Budapest covers most of these on its own, which is unusual for a capital.","hw_hub_country_trip_types":"City break | blue | city | Three or four days, one city, everything walkable or one metro stop away. | Sz\u00e9chenyi baths in the morning; Parliament tour, booked ahead; Walk across the Chain Bridge at night | District VII; Castle Hill; The Danube embankment | Budapest | city-break\nNightlife | pink | nightclub | Ruin bars, which no other city has managed to copy properly. | Szimpla Kert on a weeknight; A Danube boat party; Wine bar in District VII | Szimpla Kert; Instant-Fogas; Gozsdu Udvar | Budapest | nightlife\nCulture | purple | culture | Habsburg grandeur and twentieth-century history side by side. | The House of Terror; Hungarian National Museum; Doh\u00e1ny Street Synagogue | Parliament; House of Terror; Fisherman's Bastion | Budapest; P\u00e9cs | culture\nBudget | teal | coin | One of the cheapest capitals in the EU. | A \u20ac6 lunch menu; Baths on a weekday ticket; Free walking tour | District VII; Great Market Hall; Margaret Island | Budapest; Eger | budget-travel\nFood | sunset | local-markets | Paprika, goulash and a wine industry nobody outside Hungary talks about. | L\u00e1ngos at the Great Market Hall; A proper goulash, which is a soup; Tokaji tasting | Great Market Hall; Hold Street Market; Tokaj cellars | Budapest; Eger; Tokaj | food\nAdventure | green | backpack | Caves under the city and cycling around the lake. | Caving under Buda; Cycle the Balaton loop; Hike the Buda hills | P\u00e1lv\u00f6lgyi caves; Lake Balaton; B\u00fckk hills | Budapest; Lake Balaton | adventure","hw_hub_country_do_title":"Things to do in Hungary","hw_hub_country_do_body":"The baths are the thing to do first, not last. Sz\u00e9chenyi is the grand outdoor one with the chess players, Rudas the sixteenth-century Ottoman bath with a rooftop pool over the Danube, and Luk\u00e1cs the quieter local favourite. Gell\u00e9rt, the art nouveau one, is closed for renovation until 2028. Weekday mornings are calm; weekends are a crowd.\r\n\r\nThe Parliament needs booking ahead and is the best interior in the city. The House of Terror, in the former secret police headquarters, is the hardest and most important museum. The Doh\u00e1ny Street Synagogue is the largest in Europe.\r\n\r\nFor free, walk. Castle Hill at dusk, Margaret Island in the middle of the Danube, and the Jewish quarter's courtyards, which run between streets and contain half the city's bars.","hw_hub_country_do_points":"Baths | Sz\u00e9chenyi, Rudas or Luk\u00e1cs. Gell\u00e9rt is closed until 2028\r\nParliament | Book ahead. Tours in English sell out\r\nHouse of Terror | The most affecting museum in the city\r\nFree | Castle Hill at dusk, Margaret Island, the courtyards of District VII","hw_hub_country_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_country_do_more":"All things to do in Hungary","hw_hub_country_food_title":"Eating in Hungary","hw_hub_country_food_body":"Hungarian food is heavier than its neighbours' and built on paprika, pork and sour cream. Goulash is a soup rather than a stew, and anyone serving it as a stew is cooking for tourists. P\u00f6rk\u00f6lt is the stew you actually want.\r\n\r\nLunch menus \u2014 napi men\u00fc \u2014 are the value play: two courses for around \u20ac6 to \u20ac8 in a neighbourhood restaurant, which is what office workers eat. L\u00e1ngos, a deep-fried dough disc with sour cream and cheese, costs \u20ac3 at the Great Market Hall and is the classic hangover food.\r\n\r\nHungarian wine is genuinely good and barely exported. Egri Bikav\u00e9r from Eger, dry whites from Soml\u00f3, and Tokaji, which is one of the great sweet wines of the world and costs a fraction of Sauternes.","hw_hub_country_food_points":"Napi men\u00fc | \u20ac6\u20138 for two courses at lunch, in neighbourhood places\r\nGoulash | It is a soup. P\u00f6rk\u00f6lt is the stew\r\nL\u00e1ngos | \u20ac3 and enormous. Great Market Hall upstairs\r\nWine | Excellent and cheap. Tokaji, Eger reds, Soml\u00f3 whites","hw_hub_country_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_country_food_more":"All food guides for Hungary","hw_hub_country_nightlife_title":"Going out in Hungary","hw_hub_country_nightlife_body":"Ruin bars are Budapest's invention: derelict buildings in the old Jewish quarter filled with mismatched furniture, art and several hundred people. Szimpla Kert is the original and now firmly on the tourist trail, which does not stop it being good \u2014 go on a weeknight rather than a Saturday.\r\n\r\nThe whole of District VII is bars, and prices are low enough that a night out costs what two drinks cost in Vienna, two and a half hours up the line. A pint is around \u20ac4, less outside the centre.\r\n\r\nSummer moves onto the water and the islands: Danube boat parties, outdoor clubs on Margaret Island, and Sziget, which is one of the largest festivals in Europe and turns the city upside down for a week in August.","hw_hub_country_nightlife_points":"Ruin bars | District VII. Szimpla Kert on a weeknight, not a Saturday\r\nPrices | A pint \u20ac4 in the centre, less further out\r\nTiming | Bars fill from 22:00, clubs from midnight\r\nWatch for | Overcharging in a few tourist-strip bars. Check prices before ordering","hw_hub_country_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_country_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Hungary","hw_hub_country_transport_title":"Getting around Hungary","hw_hub_country_transport_body":"Budapest has four metro lines, including the M1, which is the oldest underground line in continental Europe and a monument in its own right. Trams 4 and 6 run all night, and a 24-hour travel card costs a few euros and covers everything.\r\n\r\nBetween cities, M\u00c1V trains are cheap and slow, and the network radiates from Budapest, so travelling between two provincial towns usually means going back through the capital. Buses fill the gaps.\r\n\r\nInternationally, Budapest is well placed: Vienna in two and a half hours, Bratislava in two, Belgrade and Zagreb in six or seven. It is the natural hinge of any central European route.","hw_hub_country_transport_points":"Budapest transport | 24-hour travel card covers metro, trams and buses\r\nM1 line | The oldest underground in continental Europe, still running\r\nTrains | Cheap and slow. Everything routes through Budapest\r\nVienna | 2.5 hours by train, and often under \u20ac20 booked ahead","hw_hub_country_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_country_transport_more":"All transport guides for Hungary","hw_hub_country_money_title":"What Hungary costs","hw_hub_country_money_body":"Hungary is among the cheapest countries in the EU and Budapest is the cheapest capital that feels like a major European city. Dorms start around \u20ac14, a lunch menu is \u20ac6 to \u20ac8, a pint is \u20ac4, and the baths \u2014 the single biggest expense most days \u2014 run from about \u20ac15 at Rudas or Luk\u00e1cs to \u20ac35\u201340 at Sz\u00e9chenyi, depending on the day and whether you want a cabin.\r\n\r\nThe forint, not the euro, is the currency, and exchange rates at airport and tourist-strip booths are poor. Withdraw from a bank ATM and always decline the machine's own currency conversion.\r\n\r\nSziget week in August is the exception to every figure here, when beds can double.","hw_hub_country_money_points":"Dorm bed | From \u20ac14, and double during Sziget\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac40\u201355\r\nBaths | \u20ac15\u201340, the biggest single cost of most days. Sz\u00e9chenyi is the priciest\r\nMoney | Forint, not euros. Use bank ATMs and decline conversion","hw_hub_country_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_country_money_more":"All budget guides for Hungary","hw_hub_country_safety_title":"Staying safe in Hungary","hw_hub_country_safety_body":"Budapest is a safe city and walking home at night in the central districts is unremarkable. The problems visitors have are financial rather than physical.\r\n\r\nThe standard scam is the bar bill: a handful of venues on the tourist strips, and anyone who approaches you on the street offering to take you to a bar, will charge extraordinary amounts. Look at prices before ordering, and never follow someone from the street to a venue.\r\n\r\nTaxis are the other one. Use Bolt or a dispatched F\u0151taxi rather than hailing on the street, especially outside clubs. Pickpocketing exists on trams 4 and 6 and around the main stations, at the usual level for a European capital.","hw_hub_country_safety_points":"Emergency | 112\r\nBar bills | Check prices before ordering. Never follow a street tout to a bar\r\nTaxis | Bolt or F\u0151taxi. Do not hail on the street\r\nExchange | Avoid airport and tourist-strip booths entirely","hw_hub_country_safety_tag":"","hw_hub_country_safety_more":"","hw_hub_country_entry_title":"Entry and documents","hw_hub_country_entry_body":"Hungary is in the Schengen area but not the eurozone. EU citizens need an ID card; UK, US, Canadian and Australian passport holders get 90 days in any 180 across the whole Schengen zone.\r\n\r\nPassports need three months' validity beyond departure and to have been issued within the last ten years. ETIAS has been delayed repeatedly, so check the official EU site.\r\n\r\nThe currency catches people out more than the paperwork. Prices are in forint, one euro is worth several hundred of them, and mentally dropping two zeros is the quickest way to sanity-check a bill.","hw_hub_country_entry_points":"Schengen | 90 days in any 180 across the whole zone\r\nNot the euro | Forint only. Cards work almost everywhere\r\nPassport validity | Three months beyond departure, issued within ten years\r\nETIAS | Repeatedly delayed \u2014 check the official EU site","hw_hub_country_entry_tag":"","hw_hub_country_entry_more":"","hw_hub_country_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_country_season_intro":"Budapest works all year, which not every capital does. Summer is hot and busy, winter is cold and atmospheric, and the baths make February genuinely appealing.","hw_hub_country_season_note":"Average highs for Budapest. The city is continental \u2014 properly cold in winter and hot in July \u2014 with little coastal moderation.","hw_hub_country_season_rows":"January | 2 | 1 | Cold and cheap. Outdoor baths in the snow are the point\r\nFebruary | 5 | 1 | Still winter, still empty, still lovely at Sz\u00e9chenyi\r\nMarch | 11 | 2 | Spring arrives. Prices low, days lengthening\r\nApril | 17 | 3 | Excellent. Terraces open, city green\r\nMay | 22 | 3 | The best month. Warm, long evenings, not yet busy\r\nJune | 25 | 4 | Warm and busy. Danube boat season starts\r\nJuly | 28 | 4 | Hot. The city empties for Balaton at weekends\r\nAugust | 28 | 5 | Sziget week doubles prices and fills every bed\r\nSeptember | 23 | 3 | Excellent again. Wine harvest in Eger and Tokaj\r\nOctober | 17 | 2 | Cool and quiet. Best value of the year\r\nNovember | 9 | 1 | Grey, cheap, and bath weather\r\nDecember | 4 | 3 | Christmas markets and mulled wine, then a New Year spike","hw_hub_country_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_country_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel and how long for. Per night, for one person, outside Sziget week.","hw_hub_country_budget_note":"Prices are in forint locally; these are euro equivalents. A bath visit at \u20ac15\u201340 is the main variable, and worth budgeting separately.","hw_hub_country_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 14 | 12 | 3 | 6\r\nMiddle of the road | 22 | 24 | 5 | 14\r\nComfortable | 36 | 38 | 8 | 22","hw_hub_country_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_country_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_country_events_intro":"One of these fills the city entirely. The rest are worth planning around in a good way.","hw_hub_country_events_source":"api","hw_hub_country_events_country":"hungary","hw_hub_country_events_count":"8","hw_hub_country_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_country_events_cta_label":"All events in Hungary","hw_hub_country_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/hungary\/","hw_hub_country_events":"Bus\u00f3 Festival | February | Moh\u00e1cs | Masked winter-chasing processions on the Danube, and a UNESCO-listed tradition. |  | \nBudapest Spring Festival | April | Budapest | Two weeks of classical music, opera and theatre across the city. |  | \nNight of the Museums | June | Nationwide | One ticket, every museum open until the early hours. |  | \nBalaton Sound | July | Zam\u00e1rdi | Four days of electronic music on the lake shore. |  | \nSziget Festival | August | Budapest | A week on an island in the Danube, one of Europe's biggest. Beds double and sell out. |  | \nChristmas markets | Late November to December | Budapest | V\u00f6r\u00f6smarty Square and St Stephen's, with a light show on the basilica. |  | ","hw_hub_country_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Hungary","hw_hub_country_hostels_intro":"The highest-rated hostels in the country, live from Hostelworld. Almost all of them are in Budapest, mostly in the party-central District VII.","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Hungary","hw_hub_country_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/hungary\/","hw_hub_country_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_type":"country","hw_hub_country_hostels_location_id":"97","hw_hub_country_hostels_currency":"EUR","hw_hub_country_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_country_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_country_hostels":"","hw_hub_country_faq_title":"Hungary travel questions","hw_hub_country_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_country_faqs":"How many days do you need in Budapest? | Three as a minimum \u2014 the baths, the Parliament, the Jewish quarter and Castle Hill. Five lets you take it slowly and add a day trip to Szentendre or the Danube Bend, which is how the city is best enjoyed.\r\nIs Budapest cheap? | It is the cheapest capital in Europe that feels like a major city. Dorms from \u20ac14, a lunch menu at \u20ac6 to \u20ac8, a pint at \u20ac4. The baths are the one real expense, from about \u20ac15 at Rudas to \u20ac35\u201340 at Sz\u00e9chenyi.\r\nWhich thermal bath should I go to? | Sz\u00e9chenyi for the grand outdoor pools and the chess players, Rudas for the 16th-century Ottoman bath and a rooftop pool over the Danube, and Luk\u00e1cs for a quieter local bath. Gell\u00e9rt, the art nouveau one, is closed for renovation until 2028. Weekday mornings are much quieter than weekends.\r\nDoes Hungary use the euro? | No. The currency is the forint, and the exchange rate means prices look alarming until you drop two zeros. Cards are accepted almost everywhere; avoid airport and tourist-strip exchange booths.\r\nWhat are ruin bars? | Bars built inside derelict buildings in the old Jewish quarter, filled with salvaged furniture and art. Szimpla Kert is the original. They are busiest at weekends and much better on a weeknight.\r\nIs Budapest safe? | Yes, with a specific caution: a few bars on the tourist strips overcharge dramatically, and anyone approaching you in the street offering to take you somewhere is running that scam. Check prices, and use Bolt rather than street taxis.\r\nIs there anything to see outside Budapest? | Eger for wine and a castle, Lake Balaton in summer, Tokaj for the sweet wine, P\u00e9cs in the south for an Ottoman-influenced old town. Hostel infrastructure is thin outside the capital, so most people use Budapest as a base.","hw_hub_country_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_country_cta_body":"Compare hostels across Hungary \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. 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