Hungary travel guide
Before you go to Hungary
- Currency
- HUF Ft
- Bargaining
- Not expected
- Card networks
- Visa, Mastercard
- ATM fees
- Usually free at bank ATMs; avoid Euronet
Cities in Hungary
- Eger Baroque town in northern Hungary famed for its hilltop castle, Ottoman minaret, thermal baths and the Bull's Blood (Egri Bikavér) red wine…
- Siófok The largest resort town on Lake Balaton's south shore, capital of summer beach life with the Gold Coast strand, promenades and nightlife.
- Budapest Capital of Hungary, split by the Danube into hilly Buda and flat Pest, famed for thermal baths.
- Pécs Southern Transdanubian city with a UNESCO-listed early-Christian necropolis, the largest Ottoman mosque in Hungary (now a church) and the…
- Debrecen Hungary's second city on the Great Plain, seat of Hungarian Calvinism with the landmark Reformed Great Church, the Nagyerdő forest-spa and…
- Szentendre Artists' riverside town on the Danube Bend just north of Budapest, known for Serbian Orthodox churches, cobbled lanes, galleries and the…
- Győr Baroque old town at the meeting of three rivers between Budapest and Vienna, with a hilltop basilica, riverside squares and thermal spa;…