Tips for wintertime in Budapest

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Things to do during wintertime in Budapest

In this blog article, The Free Budapest Walking Tours Team would like to recommend you a few things that you can do before or after taking a free tour with us during these cold days in the Hungarian capital city!

  • Try some Hungarian Wine in a wine bar! Hungary is traditionally a wine making country. Our wines are not very well known world-wide (except for the Tokaj wine which is a sweet white wine), but believe us, you can find some pretty nice ones for not too expensive. Alcohol can heat you up as well after spending some time wondering around the streets of Budapest in the cold 😉 Let us mention a few wine bars for you: Eazy Wine Bar on Hold street, Drop Shop on on Balassi Bálint street, Di Vino next to the Saint Stephen’s Basilica.
  • Have a hot coffee/drink or brunch/breakfast! Take a walk on Bartók Béla road on the Buda side from the green Liberty bridge and from the Gellért bath and discover its many cafés, there are pretty cool places over there, for example Szatyor, Mitzi, Kelet. A couple of brunch spots: Mindenem on Múzeum ringroad, Á la Maison on Szervita square, Czakó kert on the Buda side, on Czakó street.
  • Go Ice-skating! Europes largest open-air ice-skating rink is waiting for you next to the iconic Heroes’ square in the City Park. You can rent ice-skates in case you left yours at home… 🙂 Here are their opening hours! You can also find a few smaller ice-skating rinks for example next to the Bálna market hall (Fővám square 11-12.) with great views to the Gellért hill on the Buda side of the city until the end of February (if the weather allows).

Hope we can keep you warm during these freezing winter days with these recommendations, see you soon on our Free Tours in Budapest!

Closures/Renovation works in Budapest

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Ongoing renovation works in Budapest 2022

Dear Travelers, in this blog post we would like to inform you about some ongoing renovation works and closures in Budapest, we hope that we can make it easier for you to orient yourselves in the Hungarian capital city this way and see everything you would like in a less stressful way! 🙂

  1. Chain Bridge: The most iconic bridge of Budapest, also the first permanent suspension bridge connecting the two sides of the river Danube ready by the 1850’s. There is a long renovation project going on at the moment, supposedly it is going to be ready by the end of 2023. Until that you can choose the closest 2 bridges (white Elisabeth bridge and yellow Margaret bridge) to cross or there is a ferry boat crossing between Pest and Buda right next to the Chain bridge, but there are some phases of the renovation when the boat is not running, please check on THIS website)
  2. Liberty Statue and Citadel on Gellért hill: The highest point of the city center of Budapest, with the altitude of about 235 meters, it has one of the nicest views as well. On the top you can find the Liberty statue and the Citadel, a Fortress built in the 1800’s. The renovation works will last supposedly until the end of 2023. They are building new paths/stairs leading up to the top, new lookout terraces, new green areas and a huge park, a new lake and café. Do not be fooled by the closures around the Liberty Statue while the renovation is going on, you can still go up to the top of the hill to see the views, just follow any paths going upstairs!
  3. Blaha Lujza sqaure: one of the most important traffic junctions in the city center of Budapest (more precisely on the Pest side), it is a metro station as well, metro line nr.2 runs through it. The renovation works are planned to be finished in the first half of the year 2023.
  4. Metro line nr. 3: they are planning to finish the renovations works by the beginning of the year 2023, until that at some sections of the metro line nr.3 replacement buses are running. There are informative boards at the stops/sections where there are works going and replacement buses are running.

We hope you found it useful to read about these ongoing renovations works in our city and see you soon on our Free Budapest Walking Tours, you can find our daily free tour schedule HERE.