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Last update
2008, 14th of May
 First created 1998, 1st of January |
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Welcome to Budapest.GayGuide.Net, Hungary |
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This gay & travel guide website is made and permanently updated since 1998
in Budapest, Hungary, in Central or Eastern Europe. At least twice per year we
visit every place listed on this page and search for new places; we call every
phone number and double check every detail. We hope it assists you to you in
discovering this town. We enjoy to go everywhere and we are happy to share all
the information with you to help you having a pleasant, uncomplicated and safe
time without the hassle to figure out everything on your own. Where to go when?
Do you need to bring towels to the bath house or not? If you find anything that
is not up2date please contact us rightaway. Tell us everything
you know and we will go there and include it to this page. If you take pictures
in Budapest contact us as well. We may use them for this page. We try to describe
every place as detailed as possible because we want you to know what to expect
before you go to a venue where you have never been before. Also we list entrance
fees and other prices. We also have a list of places and groups that do not exist
or are not gay anymore (You may find them still listed in other guides).
Budapest is the capital of Hungary with appr. 2 million people living here. Best
time to visit is from early April to middle of November. During the past few
years, an interesting and lively gay scene has emerged in Eastern Europe, especially
in Hungary. Budapest ("Paris of the East") has always been known as a gay metropolis
in Eastern Europe. However, you will not find gay bars and dance clubs or cafés
for a specific audience (like a leather bar, a rent boy bar, a bar for chubbies,
etc.). Everyone goes to the same places (age or preference doesn't matter). All
of the bars (except some baths) are in the center of Budapest's Pest side, in
the 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th district. Buda is hilly and residential, Pest is flat and
the lively part of the city.
All gay accommodations listed in our guide are
in the center of Budapest's Pest side and we believe staying at gay accommodations
makes it a lot easier to get access to Budapest's gay life than if you stay islated
at regular hotels. At check in the staff will take the time to give you all
the infos that you need to get started. Our Budapest Gay Guide has also info
about baths and saunas, restaurants, media, groups and associations, condoms and
lubricant, AIDS, events and gay pride, cruising, sex shops, escorts, laws plus
gay listings for Hungarys countryside and links.
Since low cost airlines started flying into and from Budapest there is no low season anymore and if you like to have a chance to choose your accommodation we recommend to book early. Low cost airlines operating in Budapest are Click4Sky www.click4sky.com (Flights from/to Prague); Meridiana www.meridiana.it (Flights from/to Floence and Catania); Smartwings, www.smartwings.net (Flights from/to Madrid, Prague); Wizzair www.wizzair.com (Flights
from/to Brussels-Charleroi, Cluj, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Gothenburg, London, Malmö, Milan, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Transylvania, Warsaw); Easyjet www.easyjet.com (Flights from/to Berlin, Dortmund, Geneva, London); Ryanair www.ryanair.com (Flights from/to Bremen, Bristol, Dublin, East Midlands, Glasgow, Frankfurt Hahn, Liverpool); Air Berlin www.airberlin.com (Flights from/to Berlin, Cologne, Dortmund, Dresden, Duesseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Moscow,
Munster, Nuremberg, Paderborn, Rostock, Salzburg); Skyeurope, www.skyeurope.com (Flights from/to Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Burgas, Bucharest, Catania, Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Innsbruck, Malaga, Milan, Naples, Nice, Paris, Rimini, Rome, Split, Thessaloniko, Varna, Venice); Germanwings, www.germanwings.com (Flights from/to London, Cologne, Berlin, Stuttgart); Openjet, www.openjet.com (Flights please check at website); Norwegian Airlines, www.norwegian.no (Flights from/to Bergen, Bodo, Oslo, Stavanger, Tromso, Trondheim); Jet2com Airlines, www.jet2.com (Flights from/to Manchester); Air Lingus, www.aerlingus.com (Flights from/to Belfast, Dublin); Air Baltic, www.airbaltic.com (Flights none); , Arkia (Flights from/to Tel Aviv); Blue One, www.blue1.com/ (Flights from/to Helsinki); Brussels Airlines, www.brusselsairlines.com (Flights from/to See webpage); Click Air, www.clickair.com (Flights from/to Barcelona); Baboo Airways, www.babooairways.com (Flights from/to Geneve); Globespan , www.flyglobespan.com (Flights from/to Edinburgh Glasgow); Germania Express, www.gexx.de (Flights from/to Moscow Nuremberg); Meridiana, www.meridiana.it (Flights from/to Catania Florence); Isr Air Airlines, www.israirairlines.com (Flights from/to See webpage); Thomson Fly, www.thomsonfly.com (Flights from/to Bournemouth, Doncaster Sheffield, London); Sterling, www.sterling.dk (Flights from/to Copenhagen, Stockholm).
The chapter general
tourist info gives you country
facts (climate, time, money,
national holidays); Info needed to travel
to Hungary (visa, airlines, trains, busses, ships and
cars); travel
in Budapest (map, public transport, taxis, rent a car, lost and
found); and about communication (telecom,
internet, dictionary, translations, interpreter, radio, TV) plus useful
addresses (embassies, health, shopping, postal service, laundry, museums,
galleries, tourist info) plus general
links.
There is more we can do for you. First you should download and print the
pdf file that we prepared and that includes all the info. Then you should subscribe
to our newsletter. Don't worry, we send newsletters no more than four times per
year. Next subscribe to the Gay Budapest Yahoo Group. Use the mailing list to
introduce yourself to other users of this site and let others introduce themselves
to you. Share info and experiences, and meet online before you maybe meet in Budapest.
You may oder books and maps online. You may also get latest event info for the
period you stay in Budapest, and we can email you info about the next gay pride. We have a great fluent English and German speaking gay tour guides who
can take you around. They can make it easier for you to discover the city and
the gay places and can answer all your questions. And we offer translations of
texts and interpreter for meetings. If you like this website you may donate for
this website. Every (also small) donation will help to keep this site alive and
to add more content in the future.
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