Stopped here for a few drinks. Good prices and excellent atmosphere. Totally different place. Toilets not clean though.
My wife and I spent a wonderful Sunday touring Budapest with Kinga. This was one of the best private tours we have ever taken. Kinga was very pleasant and incredibly knowledgable. She had previously worked in the visitor's center at the Hungarian Parliament. The seven hours with her flew by.
We had taken the Budapest Urban Walks Budapest Tour (see separate review) two days before. The first thing that Kinga did was sit down with us in the hotel lobby with a map to understand what we had already seen and to plan out our day.
The pace of the tour was relaxed and Kinga made us feel very comfortable.We felt like we were walking around town with a long-time friend. We were provided with a mass transit day pass and we made use of buses, trams, and the metro.
Our tour was very inclusive and included Heroes Square, Liberty Square, the Vajdahunyad Castle, the Szechenyi Baths, and St Stephen's Basilica on the Pest Side and Fisherman's Bastion and Matthias Church on the Buda side.
Kinga was very accommodating. We requested that we have Langos for lunch and she made reservations at a place on Andrassy Avenue which was great. I appreciated her patience while I took a myriad of pictures.
Later we were offered coffee and pastries at the Cafe de Paris.
We also watched strudel being made at the Strudel Houset where Kinga ordered a delicious sample of of strudels.
Our tour was very memorable and a highlight of our trip. I highly recommend Budapest Urban Walks and send a big thank you to Kinga.
My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed our tour of the Jewish Quarter with Adrienn, an excellent guide.. She was very pleasant and extremely knowledgable. The pace of our tour was relaxed and we felt that we were spending time with a friend.
Adrienn picked us up at our river cruise ship and we made our way to the Shoes on the Danube Memorial which was incredibly moving. We had planned to return for a tour of Parliament on our own that afternoon. Adrienn was kind enough to help us purchase tram tickets and show us the appropriate tram stops.
We then made our way to the Dohany Street Synagogue. Adrienn purchased the tickets and escorted us through the amazingly beautiful Synagogue, pointed out highlights at the adjacent museum and then showed us the memorials in the garden.
I appreciated Adrienn's patience throughout the tour as I like to take many photographs. She was also kind enough to take pictures of my wife and me.
Our tour continued with a stop at Noe to sample Flodni, a delicious multilayered Jewish Cake. We also visited a Jewish Butcher Shop, walked past the Orthodox Synagogue and saw the New-Old Synagogue.
I was pleasantly surprised that we also visited the Ruin Bars which were a lot of fun.
The tour was very memorable and we learned a lot. I would highly recommend this experience.
I took a spontaneous solo trip to Budapest in late April and contacted Budapest Urban Walks, literally, last minute. Réka promptly responded to my emails and really went out of her way to organize two full-day private tours for me: the "Budapest Greatest Hits Tour" and the "Danube Bend Tour", both thoroughly described on their website. My guide, Ildikó, a truly remarkable and professional tour guide, allowed me to customize which attractions I wanted to see and how long I wanted to stop. Ildikó never rushed me and gladly stopped whenever I wanted to take pictures. She is full of knowledge about Hungary and it's history and offered much more insight than a commercial tour could. The team of Budapest Urban Walks know the country really well and want you to walk away with a complete experience of Hungary.
Our lovely private guide Adrienn met us at our hotel on time and off we went to explore the history and culture of Jewish life in Budapest. The kosher confectionery was our first stop, as per our request, since we were a bit hungry. it was a charming place owned by an Hungarian woman named Rachel Ray - not OUR Rachel Ray, however. We then visited all the synagogues and sights included in the tour description. The Great Synagogue was stunning. The Shoe Memorial was deeply moving. Adrienn was an excellent guide! Her expertise and knowledge of the Jewish community past and present were impressive and added so much to our experience. We greatly appreciated Adrienn's insights into the struggles of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust and history as well as current Jewish life in Budapest. Highly recommend.
