Please note that the Police has just closed our meeting point area (24th July morning) the Elisabeth square for indefinite time. The closure is because they found a WW2 bomb under the ground during the renovation of the square. This happens in Budapest time to time, professionals normally dig the bombs out and deactivate them in a few hours.
We will keep you updated, but for now we meet at one of the corners of the Elisabeth square, more precisely at the corner of Jozsef Attila street and October 6. street. Here are some pics of that corner and our guides. You can also call us for help on this number: +36 20 340 9217

Between the 7th and 9th of June there will be an event happening at our meeting point, the Elisabeth square, close to the Budapest Eye Ferris wheel. All our free walking tours will run as usual and You can still find us a few meters away from the wheel in our blue uniforms and with our blue free tour flag. Someone will always go around the meeting point with the flag to help you find us!  🙂

The event is part of the “Week of Chinese Tourism and Culture” and is commemorating that Hungary and China got into a diplomatic relationship 70 years ago.

For the first time in June this year, the Chinese Office of Culture and Tourism of the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism will organize a series of programs called the Week of Chinese Tourism and Culture with the joint support of the Hungarian and Chinese governments.The event will focus on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Hungary. The three-day celebration program, which has the motto “Wonderful China”, aims to bring Chinese history and culture closer to the Hungarian public through tourism, calligraphy, painting, music, dance, martial arts, aviation and other areas.
On the afternoon of June 7th, the opening ceremony of the China Eastern Airline’s direct flight between Budapest and Shanghai will take place. As part of the colorful program of the Chinese Tourist and Cultural Week guests can also taste Chinese gastronomy, while children can meet the symbolic animal figure of China, the pandas. Also,during the previous days, June 3-5th, Shandong, one of China’s most exciting provinces, will introduce itself on the “Confucius’ Birthplace – Shandong Cultural Fair 2019” in Budapest.

Enjoy your weekend in our lovely capital, and see you soon on our free tours on the Elisabeth square (Erzsébet tér)!  🙂

This post was born to inform you about the changes regarding the maintenance works of one of the three major train stations of Budapest, Keleti pályaudvar (Eastern railway station), and to tell you the history of this nice-looking terminal.

First, the practical info: Keleti will be closed for scheduled maintenance works from Monday, May 13, to Sunday, May 26, told the Hungarian railways company, MÁV. All trains will be redirected to other stations in Budapest. International trains leave from and arrive to Déli pályaudvar (Southern railway station), on the Buda side of the city during the works of Keleti. You can reach this terminal by taking metro line 2 until the final stop, which is the Southern railway station itself. Some of these international lines are going to: Vienna, Münich, Zagreb, Salzburg, Graz, Zürich, Bucarest. (The domestic lines impacted include major transport lines such as from Budapest to Győr and Hegyeshalom in Western Hungary, to Miskolc and Sátoraljaújhely in the Rast, to Pécs and to Békéscsaba in the South and to Debrecen, Nyíregyháza and Záhony in the East of the country.)

And now let’s see some additional info about the terminal itself: The station sits where one of the main Avenues of Pest, the Rákóczi Avenue splits and becomes Kerepesi Avenue and Thököly Avenue. Its name in 1891 originates not only for its position as the easternmost of the city’s rail stations, but for its original role as a terminus of the lines from eastern Hungary including Transylvania, and the Balkans. In contrast, the Nyugati (Western) railway station used to serve lines toward West, like Vienna and Paris.

The style of the beautiful building of the station is eclectic, designed by Gyula Rochlitz and János Feketeházy and was constructed between 1881 and 1884. The main facade is decorated with two statues depicting James Watt and George Stephenson. Inside of the station you can see frescos by Karoly Lotz, a famous Hungarian-German painter who also painted some of the frescos of the Parliament and the Opera house.

Keleti pályaudvar has been a station on the M2 (East-West) line of the Budapest Metro since the line opened in 1970. In March 2014, Line 4 opened making Keleti a transfer point between the two Metro lines. On our free tours you can also get a useful orientation about public transport to make your Budapest sightseeing even easier.

You can also adore one of the other two gorgeous railway stations of Budapest, the Nyugati railway station on the Great ringroad of Pest, at the section which is called Teréz ringroad. This building was designed by the Eiffel brothers in the 1870s.