About the opening of more free tours & the upcoming national holiday

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The Free Budapest Walking Tours Team is happy to announce that as spring is arriving, we are opening more and more starting times for our free tours in Budapest! 🙂

Let’s see some of the changes:

  • The Free Budapest Tour (about and on the Pest side of the river, meeting point: Elisabeth square) will run every day at 10:30 am, from the week that starts with the 28th of March 2022
  • The Free Buda Castle Tour (about and on the Buda side, meeting point: Batthyány square) will also run every day at 2:30 pm, from the week that starts with the 28th of March 2022
  • The Free Jewish Quarter Tour (about the Jewish history and Jewish quarter of Budapest, meeting point: Elisabeth square) will run at 3:30 pm on the 17th & 19th of March 2022 (because there will be a Jewish holiday called Purim). From the 19th of March, every Saturday at 3:30 pm we will have a Jewish Tour in Budapest. From the 31st of March at 3:30pm , there will be a Free Jewish District Tour every Thursdays as well. On the 18th and 25th of April we will also run this free walking tour in Budapest.
  • The Free Communism Tour (on the Pest side, about the Communist dictatorship in Hungary after World War 2, meeting point: Elisabeth square) will run on Fridays at 3:30 pm from the 25th of March. There will be a Free Communism Walk on the 17th of April as well (Easter Sunday)
  • The Free Evening Tour (on and about the Pest side, meeting point: Elisabeth square) will run on the 2nd and 9th of April at 6:30 pm, and then from the 15th of April we will have it every Fridays and Saturdays at 6:30 pm
  • The Free Street Art Tour will also start running soon, stay tuned for more info here and on our Facebook page as well!

Hungarian National Holiday on the 15th of March

Every year on the 15th of March we remember the 1848-49 revolution against the Austrian Empire. There will be celebrations in the city center; it is a bank holiday, shops, shopping malls (except for some non-stop grocery stores) will be closed, but museums, bathhouses for example will be open.

See you soon on our free tours in Budapest! 🙂

 

Useful info of Budapest public transport & Newest ease of Covid-19 regulations

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Useful technical information from the Free Budapest Walking Tours Team

Dear Travelers, in this blog post we would like to share some information about new kinds of ticket types from the Budapest Public Transportation Company (shortly BKK) and some of the newest ease of Covid-19 regulations in Hungary and Budapest.

Public transportation in Budapest

The BKK has just introduced some new kind of tickets in Budapest public transportation. These new kind of tickets are only available digitally, in the BudapestGO application which is available in the Google Play store and the App Store as well. (They do not sell these tickets in a printed, paper form at the ticket machines at metro stations and bus/tram stops!)

  • You can now buy a ticket that is valid for 30 minutes for as many changes as you like for 530 Hungarian Forints (HUF) which is roughly 1.4 euros at the moment.
  • Also, there is a ticket for 750 HUF and it is valid for 90 minutes during which you can change buses, trams, metros, trolley buses as many times as you wish.

These tickets must be validated when you get on a bus/tram or when you enter any metro stations. There are QR code vignettes on buses/trams and metro stations that you have to scan when getting on.

These tickets can be used for 2 years from the date of purchase.

We still have the “classic” singe tickets as well (sold from ticket machines at metro stations and bus/tram stops and in the BudapestGO app) which cost 350 HUF/piece (approximately 0.9 EUR) and valid for one single ride on any kinds of public transportation vehicles in Budapest.

When taking our free tours in Budapest, we only walk, you do not need any tickets for public transportation! 🙂

Newest ease of Covid-19 regulations in Hungary and Budapest

The government of Hungary has just eased some coronavirus restrictions in our country from today, the 7th of March 2022. People do NOT have to wear face masks on public transportation or anywhere indoors any more, and no vaccinations certificates are required when entering shops, bathhouses, clubs, cinemas, museums etc.

Stay safe and hope to see you soon on our Free Budapest Walking Tours and Private tours! 🙂