Getting to Budapest
By plane:
Flights of
Malév Hungarian Airlines depart for Budapest from: Amman, Amsterdam,
Athens, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin, Brussels, Bucharest, Chisinau, Cluj
Napoca, Copenhagen, Corfu, Damascus, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Gothenburg,
Hamburg, Helsinki, Heraklion, Istanbul, Kiev, Kosice, Larnaca, London,
Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Odessa, Paris, Podgorica,
Prague, Pristina, Rome, Saintpetersburg, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Split,
Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Tirana, Tirgu Mures, Varna,
Venice, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zurich.
In the last few years, Budapest has developed into a popular destination of low-cost carriers as well.
Air Lingus flies to Budapest from: Dublin.
EasyJet flies to Budapest from: Berlin, Dortmund, Geneva, London, Paris.
Germanwings flies to Budapest from: Athens, Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dresden, Faro, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Ibiza, Krakow, Lamezia, Leipzig, Lisbon, London, Marseille, Moscow, Munich, Nice, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Rome, Rostock, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Verona, Warsaw, Zurich
Jet2.com flies to Budapest from: Edinburgh, Manchester.
Norwegian flies to Budapest from: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm
Ryanair flies to Budapest from: Bristol, Dublin, East Midlands, Glasgow.
Vueling flies to Budapest from: Barcelona.
Wizz Air
flies to Budapest from: Antalya, Barcelona, Bari, Bourgas, Brussels,
Catania, Corfu, Eindhoven, Forli/Bologna, Frankfurt-Hahn, Gothenburg,
Istanbul, London, Madrid, Malmo, Milan, Naples, Pise, Rome, Stockholm,
Tirgu Mures, Turku, Venice, Weeze/Düsseldorf.
To get from
Budapest Airport at Ferihegy to the city centre, you can either take
public transport means, or the Airport Minibus, or a taxi.
Public transport
Bus No. 200 travels from Ferihegy Terminal 2 to the metro terminus in Kőbánya-Kispest and back, with a stop at Ferihegy Terminal 1. Duration: 20-25 minutes; every day from about 5:00 a.m. to midnight.
Bus No. 93 (black numerals) runs from Ferihegy Terminal 1 to the underground terminus in Kőbánya-Kispest. Duration: 30-35 minutes; every day from about 5:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Tickets can
be purchased at the BKV (Budapest Transport Limited) ticket sales points
(ticket kiosks and newsstands) as well as from the bus drivers. (Single
ticket: 320 HUF, from the drivers: 400 HUF)
Trains
run on schedule between Ferihegy Terminal 1 and Nyugati (Western) railway
station. Tickets are available at the office of Tourinform in the hall
of Ferihegy Terminal 1 from 9.00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. After office hours,
tickets are available on the train. Duration: 20-25 minutes; every day
from about 4:00 a.m. to midnight. (Single ticket: 365 HUF)
Minibus
The Airport
Minibus takes travellers to any point in Budapest upon demand. The service
can be ordered at the counters in the arrivals sections of the airports.
Departing passengers can order by phone or web. For further information
and price list, see http://www.bud.hu/english Phone: (+36-1) 296-8555.
On-line reservation system: www.airportshuttle.hu/en
Taxi
Főtaxi is
the official partner of Budapest Airport for passenger transport. Phone:
(+36-1) 222-2222. Internet: http://www.fotaxi.hu/taxi-
By train:
Budapest is
easily accessible by train from all destinations in Europe. Check http://www.mav-start.hu/
Budapest has
three main stations: Nyugati (Western) railway station, Keleti (Eastern)
railway station and Déli (Southern) railway station. All these train
stations are also underground stations. Nyugati connects to M3, Keleti
and Déli connect to M2.
By car:
Not really
recommended. Highway fees, parking problems and a 130 km/h speed limit
on highways should deter drivers.
If you insist,
here is how you get there by car: M1 connects Budapest to Vienna, M3
leads from Budapest to Slovakia and Ukraine, M5 leads to Serbia, M7
to Slovenia.
How to move
around in Budapest:
Budapest has
a comprehensive public transport system operated by Budapest Transport
Limited (http://www.bkv.hu/en/). Services include underground, buses,
trams, trolley buses and suburban railways. There are three metro lines
(the yellow M1, the red M2 and the blue M3), which
intersect each other at the Deák tér
station. Buses and trains run from 5:00 a.m. to ca. midnight. After
midnight, night services take over.
A single ticket costs 320 HUF, a 10-piece discount coupon book costs 2800 HUF. Failure to produce a valid ticket upon request leads to a 6000 HUF fine paid on the spot (12000 HUF if paid afterwards on postal cheque). 24-hour, 72-hour and 7-day travel cards for the entire public transportation system cost 1550 HUF, 3850 HUF and 4600 HUF respectively.