News of October 2021

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News of the Free Budapest Walking Tours Team

We are very glad to see that the mood for travelling has not been declining and so we can keep running our free tours in Budapest! 🙂 You are very welcome to join us every week from Thursday to Monday with or without a booking, we are offering the following walking tours in Budapest at the moment:

  • Free General Budapest Walking Tour (Pest side, meeting point is Elisabeth square)
  • Free Buda Castle Walk (Buda side)
  • Free Jewish Quarter Tour (Pest side, meeting point is Elisabeth square)
  • Free Communism Walking Tour (Pest side, meeting point is Elisabeth square)
  • Free Evening Walk (Pest side, meeting point is Elisabeth square)

For the exact times please have a look at our Daily Tour Schedule HERE!

Programmes in Budapest for the second half of October 2021

  • Celebration of Franz Liszt: Musical rarities, premieres, legendary ensembles, young talents, form-breaking productions, exciting programs – the first International Cultural Liszt Festival starts on October 8 and lasts until October 24, with classical music concerts, opera and dance performances, contemporary music evenings, jazz, world music as well as special literary and fine arts programs await the festival – goers for 17 days. Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, and organist of the Romantic era (1811-1886). He got famous in the early nineteenth century for his prodigious virtuosic skill as a pianist. Liszt was a friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Alexander Borodin and so on…
  • Pilinszky János photo exhibition in the Kunsthalle on the Heroes’ square: Exhibition of János Pilinszky’s photographs of more than half a century in the Műcsarnok Chamber Hall. The 66 photos are mainly selected from photographs taken on Pilinszky’s foreign trips: he often photographed sacred buildings, objects, monuments, but on his 1967 trip to London, when the album of the Beatles called Sgt. Pepper was a novelty, he captured young people on the streets. He found their thinking sincere and hopeful then. Pilinszky was one of the greatest Hungarian poets of the 20th century. He is known for his vast influence on postwar Hungarian poetry, his style includes a juxtaposition of Roman Catholic faith and intellectual disenchantment. His poetry often focuses on the underlying sensations of life and death; what furthered his isolation and estrangement was his time as a prisoner of war during World War II and later his life under the communist dictatorship.
  • BUSH (Budapest Showcase Hub) – Music Festival of the Eastern Block: on the evenings of the 21st and 22nd of October you can enjoy showcase concerts by the most exciting Hungarian and foreign, Eastern-European bands in Budapest’s well-known clubs and special venues.

Hope you will enjoy this October with us in Budapest, see you on our Free Budapest Walking Tours and Private Tours! 🙂

 

Autumn News

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The arrival of autumn does not mean summer is over. Sure, the leaves might be turning crunchy and the kids are going back to school, but Budapest comes alive in September and October with city-wide celebrations, free sightseeing walking tours and exciting exhibitions.
Besides taking our Free Budapest Walking Tours here are a few tips to get you started…
  • Budapest Wine Festival in September 23-26,  at the Buda Castle area. Hungary’s  winemaking history and traditions are fascinating. The wine is part of our life, plays a huge role in the folklore and traditions of the Hungarians. We are sure that you will leave Budapest with bottles in your suitcase and a newfound love for Hungarian varieties. https://aborfesztival.hu/en
  • There is also a beer festival going in the Corvin area of Budapest: https://fb.me/e/1ebkJyxEO
  • The World of Hunting and Nature Exhibition is an important and influental event that will be held in September 25-October 14. There is so much for the whole family to enjoy! https://onewithnature2021.org/en
Hope to see you soon on our free tours in Budapest on the Elisabeth square or on the Batthyany square! Look for our blue free tour flag and our guides in our blue uniforms at the meeting points!
(Booking is not mandatory, but can be made at each tour’s subpage.)

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News of the Free Budapest Walking Tours Team at the end of August 2021

Dear Travellers, as you can see on our Home page, we are very happy about the fact that we could restart our free tours in Budapest and many of you have joined us recently! We happily opened more walking tours in Budapest as this month has been passing by.

At the moment we run the following free Budapest walking tours:

Thursdays:

Fridays:

  • 10:30 Free Budapest Tour
  • 14:30 Free Buda Castle Tour
  • 15:30 Free Jewish Quarter Tour & Free Communism Tour
  • 18:30 Free Evening Tour

Saturdays

  • 10:30 Free Budapest Tour
  • 14:30 Free Buda Castle Tour
  • 15:30 Free Communism Tour
  • 18:30 Free Evening Tour

Sundays

  • 10:30 Free Budapest Tour
  • 14:30 Free Buda Castle Tour
  • 15:30 Free Jewish Quarter Tour
  • 18:30 Free Evening Tour

Mondays

  • 10:30 Free Budapest Tour
  • 14:30 Free Buda Castle Tour

Please feel free to join us with or without a booking on the Elisabeth square on the Pest side of the capital and on the Batthyany square on the Buda side (all the free tours meet on the Elisabeth square except for the Buda Castle Tour)

Some other program reccomendation for the second half of this week

From the 31st of August until the 5th of September there is a free beer festival going on with 250 different kinds of beer and some food trucks  on the Liberty square (Szabadsag ter in Hungarian) on the Pest side of the city, close to the Parliament. We visit this square on our Free Communism Walking Tours as well, and we reccommend you to visit this program on your own, too! 🙂 Here is the Facebook link of the event: https://fb.me/e/2vs8C8zFE

Hungary in general is a wine producing country with 22 wine regions, but in recent year there has been a craft beer revolution going on as well, so it is worth trying some of our beers as well!

See you soon on our free Budapest walking tours! 🙂 

20th August – National Holiday

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Dear Travelers!

Please note that the 20th of August is a National and bank holiday every year in Hungary. Shopping malls, banks, shop are closed except for some non-stop supermarkets in the city centre.

On this day we celebrate the foundation of the Hungarian state by our first king, Saint Stephen (or Stephen the 1st, who was canonised later).  If you would like to learn more about this, please feel free to join any of our free walking tours in Budapest. We do not run all our free tours as usual, but

we run the following free tours on the 20th of August

  • 10:30 Free Budapest Tours
  • 15:30 Free Jewish quarter Tour

You can join without a booking as well, but if you would like to make sure, you can book your walk on the subpage of each of our free tours by clicking on the “Book now” button.

On the rest of the weekend all our tours run as usual, please see the Daily tour schedule HERE.

Free programs on the 20th of August

Every year (except for last year 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic…) the state organizes huge fireworks in the city centre on the banks of the Danube which is free to join. Please note that there probably will be a crowd, but You can watch the fireworks from the banks of the Danube between Rakoczi bridge and Arpad bridge on both sides of the river. You can also go up to the top of the Gellert hill and the Castle hill.

Some of our museums are also free to visit on the 20th of August!

These museums are: The National Gallery, the National Museum, the Natural History Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, the Aquicum Museum (Roman ruins) and the Hungarian Museum of Agriculture.

Hope to see a lot of you on our Free Budapest Walking Tours soon! 🙂

 

 

 

News 8th of August 2021

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The Free Budapest Walking Tours Team in back! 🙂

As we have shared in our previous blog posts, we have been back operating free tours in Budapest since the 23rd of July, and it has been great to see your smiling faces again on our walking tours!

HERE we have shared some practical information in connection with booking our free tours, our two meeting points (one meeting point for our Free Budapest tour, Communism tour, Jewish district tour and Evening tour in Pest, AND a different meeting point for the Free Buda Castle tour in Buda) and the closure and renovation works of the famous Chain bridge. Please note these things if you would like to join us any time!

20th of August – a National and Bank holiday in Hungary

Please also keep it in mind that Friday, the 20th of August,  is a National and Bank holiday in Hungary every year. We celebrate our first King, Saint Stephen (Szent István in Hungarian) and the foundation of the Christian Hungarian state around the year 1000 after Christ. You can learn more about this on our free tours in Budapest.

We do have the Free Budapest Tour at 10:30 and the Free Jewish District Tour at 15:30 on this day starting on the Elisabeth square in Pest, but none of our other walking tours are running on this day!

Everything will be closed on the 20th of August: shops, shopping malls, grocery stores (some non stop supermarkets will be open in the city center), banks…

In the afternoon there are always several open air programs in Pest and Buda as well and then in the evening there are huge fireworks. Last year they were cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but this year you will have the chance to enjoy them again. The best spot to watch the fireworks is somewhere next to the river Danube in the city center!

See you soon on some of our free tours in Budapest! 🙂

We are back! Here is some practical info…

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Restarted our Free Budapest Walking Tours !

Dear Travelers, as you can see on our website and Facebook page, too, we have reopened our free tours in Budapest on the 23rd of July! It has been great to see and guide you again in our capital city! 🙂
Let us share some practical information with you that is good to keep in mind!

Closure of the Chain bridge

Due to the renovation of the Chain bridge they have closed it until about the end of 2023… NO cars and NO pedestrians can cross the bridge. Please be careful when you are approaching the meeting point (Batthyány square metro station on the Buda side) of our Free Buda Castle Tour! You will NOT be able to cross the Chain bridge. You have to cross either the white Elisabeth bridge or the Margaret bridge (this one is closer to the meeting point of the Free Buda Castle Tour). OR you can take the metro line nr.2 from the Parliament on the Pest side to the Batthyány square on the Buda side (it is only 1 stop).

All our other free walking tours (Free Budapest Tour, Free Communism Tour, Free Jewish district tour, Free Evening Tour) meet on the Pest side, on the Elisabeth square, about 20 meters away from the big white Ferris wheel.

Please see the Daily tour schedule HERE or click the button on our Home page.

About booking our free tours

Please keep in mind that booking our free walking tours in Budapest is NOT mandatory. We have a booking system to show you that we are operating and you can come join us on the days which are active in the calendar of the booking system, but you can arrive to our meeting points without a registration as well, our guides are always there at the time advertised.

If you have any further questions do not hesitate to message us or call us at +36203409217 (between 9am and 6 pm every day).

4 days left till our Reopening!

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Reopening our Free Budapest Walking Tours

Dear Travelers, as we have shared in our previous blog post, we are going to reopen our free tours in Budapest, the Hungarian capital city, on Friday the 23rd of July after a looong break because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

We are going to operate the following walking tours in Budapest:

Free Budapest Tour: Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun at 10:30

Free Buda Castle Tour: Fri, Sat, Sun at 14:30

Free Jewish Quarter Tour: Thu, Fri, Sun at 15:30

Free Communism Tour: Fri, Sat at 15:30

Free Evening Tour: Fri, Sat, Sun at 18:30

All tours meet on Elisabeth square on the Pest side close to the big white ferris wheel.

It is only our Free Buda Castle Tour that has a different meeting point: the Batthyany square on the Buda side.

You are very welcome to join us without a booking, too, but if you would like to secure your spot at our free Budapest walking tours, then you can make a reservation on our website, on the subpage of each of our free walks. /Selection of our free tours

You can also book a private paid tour with us if you would like to have a more detailed and more personalized walk in Budapest bu local guides!

Hope to see you soon! 🙂

 

REOPENING ON 23rd JULY 2021

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Reopening our Free Budapest Walking Tours

Dear Travelers,

We announce it with an extremely happy heart that our Free Budapest Walking Tours are operating again from Friday, the 23rd of July 2021 🙂

We have been waiting for this moment for such a long time and we are very excited about being able to guide you again in our city, Budapest.

To join our free tours, it is not mandatory to have a booking, but if you would like to secure your spot, you can place a booking on our website by clicking on the ‘Book now’ now button on each free walking tours’ subpage. See our daily free tour schedule HERE!

You are also welcome to book a Private Budapest Walking Tour with us HERE!

See you very soooon!

Latest News

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Dear Travelers!

We hope that a lot of you are dusting off your suitcases and getting ready to travel somewhere, maybe to Budapest! 😉

Here are the latest news, you can read our Previous blog article here , too!

The Covid-19 situation in Hungary has not gotten any worse during these last weeks, so hopefully more openings will be possible in the near future and you can start travelling to Hungary without too much hussle. We are planning to reopen our daily free walking tours im Budapest in the middle of July, possible on the 16th!
So, hope to see you soon! Until that take care!

Latest News

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Dear Travelers,

We, the Free Budapest Walking Tours Team regularly write about the latest Covid-19 pandemic related news of Hungary and our Team, so here is our latest update:

Firstly, let us share that we are still not running our daily Free Budapest Walking Tours, we are planning to reopen in the middle of July, thank you for your understanding. Until that, if you are interested in a private walking tour in Budapest with us, do not hesitate to contact us at booking@triptobudapest.hu or info@triptobudapest.hu or via the contact form on the subpage of our Private Budapest Walking Tours.

Regarding the Coronavirus pandemic situation of Hungary

Things are pretty okay now, about 5.4 million Hungarians got their first dose of the 5 vaccines that we are using in our country and about 4.5 million got their second jab, too. The population of Hungary is about 10 million.

Hungary has opened its inner Schengen borders and has mutual agreements with some countries, where Hungarians can travel freely and people from these countries can travel to Hungary with their immunity certificates, too. These countries are: Slovenia, Croatia, Bahrain, Romania, Turkey, Czech Republic, Mongolia, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Cyprus, Ukraine, Slovakia, Netherlands, Morocco, Albania. Other than these, hopefully soon the European Union’s vaccine passport will be accepted as well.

Other Budapest related News

A resting area has been be set up on the closed section of the lower quay of the Pest side of the river Danube between the Chain Bridge and the Parliament for two months between the 18th of June and the 15th of August. No cars are allowed but pedestrians and cyclists can occupy the road. The quay between the Chain Bridge and the Margaret Bridge is closed due to renovation, which gave rise to the possibility of setting up a resting beach on the said vacant section on a temporary, experimental basis.

We have tried this resting area and it is cool, hopefully you can see it soon, too! 🙂