You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Budapest.In this guide, you'll find a thorough exploration of Europe's most underrated city. Soak with Hungarians in a thermal bath, sample paprika at the Great Market Hall, and take a romantic twilight cruise on the Danube. Wander through the opulence of Budapest's late-19-century Golden Age: the Parliament, Opera House, Great Synagogue, and Heroes' Square. For a break from the big city, head into the countryside—to Habsburg palaces, Hungarian folk villages, the historic wine-making capital of Eger, and colorully tiled Pécs.Rick’s candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. He’ll help you plan where to go and what to see, depending on the length of your trip. You’ll get up-to-date recommendations about what is worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.

Streetwise Budapest Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Budapest, Hungary - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro map including lines&stationsThis map covers the following areas:Main Budapest Map Front 1: 17,000Main Budapest Map Back 1:11,000Budapest City Center Map 1:11,000Millennium City Center Map 1:17,000Budapest Metro MapPeople say Budapest is the Paris of Central Europe. Maybe that statement is true because it combines a combination of western luxuries, architectural beauty, and cosmopolitan European traditions. But this baroque city is still connected to its Eastern European heritage with the steaming baths, incredibly complex language and lusty cuisine.Budapest straddles a curve in the river Danube which bisects two distinct parts. The east side is known as Pest and the west side is known as Buda, hence Budapest. It s a very logical, well laid out city.Castle Hill is the premier destination for visitors and contains many of Budapest’s most important monuments and museums, and great views of Pest across the blue Danube. Pastel houses lining cobbled streets and stone balustrade overlooks give this citadel a fairy tale quality, while bullet holes from the unsuccessful 1956 uprising pockmark many buildings.The main map of Budapest covers a large part of the central city in detail and is fully indexed with hotels, sites, architecture, metro stations and parks. The City Center inset map expands the old city grid and enables you to stroll the warren of old streets and absorb Hungarian history and culture at your leisure. The inset map of Budapest Metro facilitates your travel throughout the city.One example of the importance of on site research: when this Budapest map was first conceived in the early 1990’s we ran into a unique problem with sudden unannounced street name changes. Streets named after heroic Socialist revolutionaries were changed without notice. The streets were renamed after heroes of the Hungarian National Liberation. Other maps who rely on out of date documents for updating still reflect the old street names. Imagine publishing a map and unknowingly using names like Karl Marx Ave. and Lenin Square. Whoops! Fortunately, with our STREETWISE® Budapest Map, we adhered to a policy of physically researching and updating the city, thereby avoiding these sorts of mistakes.Our pocket size map of Budapest is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Budapest map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Budapest map today and you too can navigate Budapest, Hungary like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, The DK Top 10 Guides use exciting colorful photography and excellent cartography to provide a reliable and useful pocket-sized travel. Dozens of Top 10 lists provide vital information on each destination, as well as insider tips, from avoiding the crowds to finding out the freebies, The DK Top 10 Guides take the work out of planning any trip.

DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip. All DK Eyewitness Travel Guides to cities now include a new durable, oversized pull-out map with useful transportation information, a distance chart, a street and sight index, and practical information for getting around the city.

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Frommer's Budapest Day by Day gives you the perfect pocket guide book to experience and enjoy this culturally and historically rich city in the simplest, smartest and most time-efficient way, letting you decide where to go and what to see according to your timeframe.With extensive insider knowledge and advice and honest reviews, this guide helps you to avoid time wasting and tourist traps; getting straight to the best of Hungary's capital with dozens of local and thematic tours alongside hundreds of photos and bulleted maps leading the way from sight to sight.Pinpointing where to stay, eat and shop in each location, as well as where to find the city's best sights and hidden gems from Heroes Square to the Castle District, discovering Budapest's Jewsish quarter, boat trips on the River Danube, or a day out on Lake Balaton, this full-colour Day by Day guide covers everything you might want to see and more in this vibrant Hungarian city.Frommer's Budapest  Day by Day includes:The Best Full-day Tours give mapped stop-by-stop instructions on the best sights to explore around the city, with different day-length tours to suit all travellers' timeframes, around the main sites of the Castle District, Andrassy ut, The Opera House, Heroes Square and all the best places to stop for coffee while you're wandering around, with the odd baths to rest weary muscles.The Best Special-Interest Tours gives unique experiences the city has on offer, with a section devoted to Kids, Coffee Houses, Baths, as well as tours of the Jewish quarter and the Castle District, tours for those interested in the city's Communist past, and its Revolutionary history, and Art Nouveau lovers.Details the Best Neighborhood Walks around the UNESCO Castle District, around the Royal district and the Jewish area.Features outdoor visits to Margaret Island, the. City Park with its Ice Rink, Zoo, Circus and Time Wheel, to Tabány and Gellért Hill.Lists the Best Shopping around markets and malls and little Hungarian stores.Recommends The Best Dining experiences from Magyar cuisine to sushi; the Best Nightlife, the Best Arts and Entertainment including Opera, and the Best Places to StayIncludes Day Trips to some of the best surrounding wine areas, to Lake Balaton, Eger, Pécs, and the Danube Bend.Invaluable up-to-date and need-to-know information is also provided in the "Savvy Traveller" chapter with contacts, websites and references for smarter travelling.Features dozens of full-colour maps inside, including fold out metro and road maps on the inside front cover as well as a detachable tear-resistant map in a waterproof resealing wallet at the back.

The Danube Cycle Way has become the most popular holiday cycling route in mainland Europe. It has magnificent scenery, fascinating places to visit throughout its length and a wide cultural diversity. It is not unusual to sit in a wayside bar and hear seven different languages being spoken at the same time but not one of them is likely to be English. It is high time, this changed. This guide aims to introduce the Danube Cycle Way not only to keen, long-distance cyclists but also to people who have never experienced the joys of this kind of journey. The fact that the majority of the route is on dedicated, clearly signed cycle tracks means that it is perfect for whole families to enjoy. Although the length of the cycle way has been divided into twenty suggested days, a plentiful amount of low priced accommodation throughout the entire length of the route means that each day's journey can be tailored to cyclists' needs. The way is almost free of hills, includes visits to monasteries, castles, museums, and ancient cities as well as picturesque villages, and provides adventurous cyclists with a month's sheer pleasure. It is there, waiting to be enjoyed.

If you thought a Rubik's cube was difficult, imagine traveling in Hungary without this phrasebook! Take the confusion out of your travels and invent your own Hungarian experience. Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.

Budapest, awakened in 1989 after its long slumber behind the Iron Curtain, is now one of Europe's hottest destinations. It stands proudly at the center of Eastern Europe's cultural rebirth, and best of all, it still ranks as one of the continent's best bargains.Frommer's Budapest & the Best of Hungary is meticulously updated and revamped every 2 years (more frequently than the competition).Our author, a longtime resident of Budapest, is a professor of Education and co-owner of a B&B on the Pest side of the city--and he loves nothing more than to chat up his guests and give them recommendations for their trip. In this guide, he collects all of his insider tips and points you to the attractions, hotels, and restaurants to suit your tastes and budget, as if you were one of his guests. Explore the city's highlights on detailed walking tours and learn about the gorgeous architecture of both the city's famous buildings and hidden treasures. And of course, we've got all the details on Budapest's exciting nightlife (and hidden parties), its vibrant arts scene, and its fabulous thermal baths and spas.Frommer's Budapest&the Best of Hungary  also covers the Danube Bend, the Lake Balaton Region, Tokaji and the caves of Northeastern Hungary, and Pécs and the Mecsek Hills of Southern Hungary.