Hungary

Pros: Food superb, Booze superb, decor superb, ambience superb.
Cons: Violinists, Have to wear a jacket and tie, cost.

http://www.gundel.hu/angol/ Epinions has a rather Yanko-centric view when it comes to restaurants, if its food and it ain't in the States, it doesn't get a page all to itself. So I'm afraid that I'll have to put my restaurant review under the only ...

Pros: Well preserved and beautiful Old Town
Cons: Outskirts are a bit dismal

After leaving Slovakia, we drove through a corner of Austria on our way to Sopron in Hungary. Sopron, and the area around it, is surrounded almost completely by Austria. In fact a referendum was held there after WW1 - the break-up of the ...

Pros: You get to see more of the "slightly less touristy" Hungary
Cons: Can be difficult to get around, but that is half the fun!

During our short trip to Hungary, we found time to visit the "Wine Capital" Eger, and also to visit Visegrad, a short distance up the Danube Bend.
Both of these trips were undertaken as day trips from Budapest, taking a couple of hours to reach our...

Pros: Many great buys, and your $$$$$ goes a long way
Cons: You might get your salami seized by customs

Hungary has some very special things to bring home. Unlike many destinations where you may pick up a few trinkets, not only are there some great purchases, so are most of the prices. More and more travelers are making Hungary a destination, as we did in...

Pros: Friendly people; great prices; good food; interesting scenery
Cons: Language barrier; Soviet-era buildings and trains; graffiti

My father was born in the US but raised in Varoslod, Hungary, a sleepy little town between Lake Bala ...

Pros: Reasonable cost, great people, gorgeous country
Cons: No intracountry air service, language impossible to learn (grin)

I consider myself a veteran of trips to Hungary, having completed six adoptions of small children from there. We've spent many months here, both in rural parts of Hungary and in Budapest, "Paris of the East."

This country, which became free...

Pros: To many to list
Cons: Budapest can be dirty

If you're one of those people who can be moved to tears by the sheer beauty of a place,
Than this is what Budapest will do to you. First off, I hate to brag but I feel as an American
I was able to experience Hungary as no...

Pros: Great food, low costs
Cons: difficult language, not so friendly people

Review Topic:  Practical Information

My most recent journey to Hungary was in September, 2000 when I traveled to Budapest for a few days from Zagreb.

Driving through the countryside, you notice large fields for...

Pros: Interesting area, acrobatic horsemen, cheap but quality souvenirs
Cons: Annoying German tourists everywhere

I visited the Hortobágy National Park, also referred to as the Puszta, during my trip to Hungary in July of 1996. I was accompanied by the Hungarian family I was staying with, and was told shortly after my arrival,

"During the Communist...

Pros: shopping
Cons: roadways

Review Topic:  Sights & Attractions

Hungary was so wonderful : beautiful views, nice people, interesting
facts, good and cheap wine, reasonable prices and so on. I went there
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Pros: folk art, elegant architecture, room with a view
Cons: food, cold weather, difficulty meeting people

Talking with other travelers, I've heard Budapest frequently compared with Prague, but aside from the fact that they are both Eastern European cities, I don't find the comparison especially salient. Indeed, I may have enjoyed Budapest less for being a...

Pros: Small charming and easy to get to city
Cons: Not for those who like entertainment

Review Topic:  Overview

Visegrad, a small village past the Danube bend, not far from Budapest, Hungary.
If you're on a trip to Hungary, please take my advice - don't stay in Budapest all the time. Many people do so and they...

Pros: Food, People, Prices
Cons: Cost to fly in, Time it takes to get there by train

Hungary has got to be one of my favorite destinations, and I've been to over 20 countries... It's very reasonably priced, extremely student- and American-friendly, and has got everything that more popular Western European tourist destinations have too:...

Pros: not tourist-filled; architectural beauty; authenticity
Cons: takes a full day to go, visit, return to Budapest

The town of Szeged in southern Hungary--just 20 miles from the Serbian border (is THAT why there were no tourists!)--is a beautiful, relatively undiscovered spot, about two hours by car from Budapest, just right for a day trip. You can walk around the...

Pros: Some things are the same 16 years later
Cons: Some unfriendly people, spoiled food, hotel dispute

We were 16 years ago in Budapest at the Novotel Congress and my daughter wanted to go back there because of their warm and nice indoor pool so I booked rooms again at Expedia.com. 16 years ago we tried the hotel Gellért's pool which was icy cold and the ...