Sudoxe

Yep. Its quite nice in Budapest if you get the weather. If not, its bloody cold!

As you might already know there are 2 parts to the City Buda and Pest on opposite sides of the river.

The castle district is nice, i stayed in the Hilton there but it was very expensive (business trip). A few historic attractions on the doorstep and a nice walk down to the main town too.

I was in Budapest last week too, and stayed in a different district (Arpad Fejedelem utja 94) and there wasn't a whole lot arround other than the hotel and a couple of empty resturants. However a meal for 2 in the resutant was about 5000F (about 20quid).

The roads, as far as I can make out in the city are huge, think motorway sized roads crossing through town and the bridges. Traffic tends to build up at peak times though. They also have electric trams and buses to get around as well as a metro.

Watch out for the taxis, are you can get stung for high costs if your not a local. However they should operate on a meter or fixed fare system to major places (airport was 5,000F i seem to recall).

The currency is Hungarian Forints and not Euros, although euros are accepted in quite a few places forints are where its at.

Also, get a map from the airport taxi rank and watch out for the dodgy advertising on it! That was a complete shock to us!

Dan