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Budapest is a city with many hidden treasures. As a tourist you might never run into them. We collected some necessary information, like accomodation, and some interesting stuff, like places to eat, places to see and places we like. Check out the text under the pictures! You'll find all of these locations on this map. Hotels, Hostels (B&Bs)
Hotel Regnum Residence is 23 km from Budapest’s Ferihegy International Airport, 100 metres from the stop for bus #160 and 86, a few minutes’ walk from Europe’s longest tram’s line (no. 4 and 6) and also from the rail service to Szentendre, five blocks from ‘Batthyány tér’ M2 metro station, which means you get to the heart of the city in just a few minutes.
The hotel's location makes an excellent departure point for any trip into town. The Buda Castle District, a World Heritage site, is 15 minutes away on foot, and it only takes a short journey to get to the Chain Bridge, the House of Parliament and the financial, tourist and shopping centres.
The hotel building is located at the corner of Ganz and Királyfürdő Streets just two blocks from the western bank of the Danube.Hotel Regnum Residence Address: 1027 Budapest, Ganz str. 8 Web: Click on the photo! Phone: (+36 1) 265-5090 
Unique, modern design in the heart of the Hungarian capital - pleasure is guaranteed! The 45 comfortable and well-equipped deluxe rooms of Promenade City Hotel provide the most up-to-date facilities for both business and leisure travel. This trendy hotel can be found in the business and touristic centre of Budapest.
The hotel represents a unique style and is perfect for all ages wishing to „Feel the rhythm of the city” at their doorstep. The calmness of the hotel rooms are guaranteed by the soundproof windows. For the health and comfort of our guests, Promenade City Hotel is a non-smoking hotel, including all rooms and public areas.
Location:Promenade City Hotel is ideally located on the famous Váci pedestrian street (~Calle Florida), in the neighbourhood of fashionable restaurants and shops, very close to the elegant Vörösmarty square and the Danube bank. The location provides easy access to all 3 metro lines and the main buses and trams.
Promenade City Hotel Budapest Address: Budapest 1052, Váci utca 22. Web: Click on the photo! Phone: +36 1 799 4444 
The upscale Mamaison Residence Izabella is literally steps away from Andrássy Avenue, a classified UNESCO World Heritage Site. Contemporary and unique, the hotel is both charming and convenient, and the prefect choice if you want to be in the middle of tradition and keep convenience at the same time.
Recently renovated, Mamaison Residence Izabella is in close proximity to the Budapest business centre, West End commercial district, therefore it is a perfect business hotel in Budapest. At the same time, with a vast range of specialised facilities and services, it offers 38 fully-equipped suites with a welcoming atmosphere and refined design in the heart of Budapest, where small groups or families will feel at home, for short and long stays.
Mamaison Residence Izabella Budapest - Apartment HotelAddress: 1064 Budapest, Izabella u. 61. Web: Click on the photo! Phone: (+36-1) 225-3384 
One of the most exclusive Budapest boutique hotels, the upscale deluxe Mamaison Hotel Andrassy is conveniently close to the city’s business, governmental and tourist districts. Uniquely designed in Bauhaus style, it offers superior accommodation in Budapest and genuine service.
Located in the exclusive Embassy neighbourhood, just off Budapest‘s Andrássy Avenue, the city hotel was originally built in 1937 and renovated in 2007. Boasting contemporary interior design, excellent in-house dining and top-class hospitality, it provides the perfect Budapest city base.
Mamaison Hotel Andrássy Budapest - HotelAddress: 1063 Budapest, Andrássy út 111. Web: Click on the photo! Phone: +36 1 462-2100 
Casa de la Música Hostel and Cultural Center
Colorful and affordable accomodation in the heart of Budapest. They offer bright, spacious and clean non-smoking 4-6-8-10-12-bed dormitories and private rooms up to 90 guests, along with several free services and activities inside and out!
Enjoy the terrace bar, ground floor café, basement concert hall - there is always something to do in the Casa! And if you feel like going out: just ask their staff members about organized tours all around the capital and the countryside - you will leave with the best memories of Hungary!
Casa de la Música HostelAddress: 1088 Budapest, Vas utca 16. Web: Click on the photo! Phone: +36 70 373 733 
A Marco Polo Top Ho(s)tel Budapest – with a great location in downtown Budapest center - is the perfect HI (Hostelling International) youth hostel with ample bedrooms and bathroom facilities. We have a wide range of twins , triples, and quad hotel-style rooms, all clean with modern decoration and large private lockers and have phone, TV and en-suite bathrooms.
Each 12-bedded dorm room has its own bathroom. The dorms are divided into 2-bunk areas with large individual lockers. They are open all year round and you can always find somebody at the reception to help you!
Wherever you are in Budapest, you can easily get to the hostel by bus, metro or tram.
Marco Polo Top Hostel Address: 1072 Budapest, Nyár utca 6. Web: Click on the photo! Phone: +36 1 413 2555 Food & Drinks
We, Hungarians eat a lot of meat. That can be a reason why they serve fried or grilled meat at lunch time in butcher's shops ('Hentes' in Hungarian).
Our favorite Hentes is located near the Opera House, in Hajós street near the Metro station with the same name.
If you are in the city center around lunch time, which means between 11 am and 3 pm in Hungary, you can eat fresh roast meats, sausages with home made pickled vegetables there. They make everything themselves, the quality is excellent and it's extremely cheap.Hentes Address: 1065 Budapest, Hajós str. 21. 
Kiadó Kocsma is our absolute favorite place for the first coffee in the morning to the late dinner after 10 pm. It's located downtown at Jókai square.
Kiadó is a regular place for artists, actors, directors, dancers, journalists and people who like familiar pubs. It has two levels with two entrances side by side from the street. Both parts are smoking!
They offer breakfast, a daily special on weekdays and dinner until 11 pm. The menu is international with vegetarian dishes, pastas, soups, roast meats, tapas. (You sould try their eggplant paté. It's WOW!) Kiadó Kocsma Address: 1061 Budapest, Jókai squere 3. Web: Click on the photo! 
The Passion restaurant has been our partner from the beginning. It is located on Liszt Ferenc square just opposite of Jókai square (looks pretty much like the same square, sliced into two parts by Andrássy Boulevard). You can find really nice restaurants on the square with hundreds of tables outside.
Passion also has cheap daily special on every weekday between 11 am to 3 pm but it's also perfect for a fast coffee in the afternoon outside.
Passion Tapas & Steak has Hungarian style dishes and all other kinds of steaks, pastas and tapas. The roast salmon fillet with spinach tortilla tart is delicious and you should order more than one portion of the honey and sesame grilled chorizo ... Passion Tapas & Steak Address: 1061 Budapest, Liszt Ferenc square 10. Web: Click on the photo! 
The Ring Café & Burger Bar on the Andrássy street is one of the best burger joints in Budapest. The menu based on fantastic gourmet burgers, steaks and sandwiches.
The Ring is good place for the late wakers: their breakfast time is from 10 am to 2 pm! You can eat burgers from 12am but the kitchen has break between 4pm to 6 pm.
In the Ring, quality is always the best, the service is kind and fast. Our personal favorite is the Burger de Luxe with crispy bacon and Swiss cheese with the amazing home made French fries.
Ring Café & Burger Address: 1061 Budapest, Andrássy str. 38. Web: Click on the photo! 
The Sugar Shop is equal to temptation. So if you are on low-carb diet, you should not go closer than 50 meters. It's also close to the Opera in the 6th district Paulay Ede street 48. It's better if you know the address, just in case...
Everybody has a children inside his/her soul - the Sugar is the perfect place to let it out to play. The colorful candies, bubble gums, the marshmallows and lollipops literally cover the place so it is not too easy keep yourself in control.
Ths Sugar Shop has more than candies: they have 'handmade' icecreams, mini cakes, cupcakes, petit fours and pies. Every piece of dessert is delicious and designed. In this case we can't suggest favorites, it's impossible... [NB: Vera wrote this one - Aron]
Sugar! Address: 1061 Budapest, Paulay Ede str. 48. Web: Click on the photo! 
Szeged is also our partner for years. We usually visit them together with the masters and musicians every year and they always love it. It's located on the Buda side next to the Gellért bath.
Szeged is a (stereo)typical Hungarian restaurant, one of the best in the city. They make traditional Hungarian food from the best Hungarian ingredients. The specialty of the place beside the great meals is the great gipsy musicians and the folk show. (In the last year the members of the Otros Aires were sooo impressed, like Chicho in 2009...)
In Hungary the traditional fish soup ('Halászlé' in Hungarian) can separate family members and friends: we have two different methods to make fish soup in the country, the 'bajai' and the 'szegedi'. It's also really important where the fish lived, in the Danube or in the other great river in the Eastern part of the country, in the 'Tisza'. At the Szeged restaurant they make the 'szegedi' version. You should try it! After the soup the best is to order home made strudles ('Rétes' in hungarian).
Szeged Address: 1114 Budapest, Bartók Béla str. 1. Web: Click on the photo! 
In Budapest we have a certain special kind of pub called 'romkocsma' (literally 'ruin pub' - according to the LA Times 'living captives of kertdom'). These places insanely popular pubs are located in buildings which had been mansions a few decades ago but today just empty buildings waiting reconstruction. In 2001 they opened the first, 'Szimpla', which triggered a wave of others like it to be opened.
In Szimpla Kert you can always find art students, artists and tourists. Interesting retro style garden with special decorations like the old car and vivid and/or old furniture.
In the bar they have several type of beer, wines, coctails, liqueurs and 'pálinka' (special Hungarian spirit). They don't have main dishes but you can eat sandwiches (cold and warm) salads and eggplant paté. Tha place is always full and it's really nice to meet new people there.
Szimpla Kert Address: 1073 Budapest, Kazinczy str. 14. Web: Click on the photo! City & Fun
The Budapest Zoo opened in August 1866. The buildings were renovated many times in the last 145 years. The botanic garden and the zoo is a great place for a walk, it's located near the Heroes square, the Széchenyi bath and the Castle of Vajdahunyad in the middle of 'Városliget' which is a wonderful large park in the heart of the city.
If you like the sightseeing tours but you would like to spare your feet the Segway sightseeing tour is the best way to see every important place in Budapest. You can choose between a shorter or a longer tour in downtown or in the Castle of Buda or the combination of both.
The beautiful neo-Renessaince building of the Opera House was completed in 1844. The entrance to the foyer is decorated by landscapes from Árpád Feszty. The horseshoe-shaped, three storey auditorium is tediously ornamented; over seven kilograms of gold were used to finish its decoration. It seats over 1200 people; the ceiling is decorated with a fresco by Károly Lotz, depicting Olympus, home of the Gods.
Until now you could choose between touring our beautiful capital on four wheels or marvelling at the city from the deck of a pleasure boat. Now you don't need to choose: RiverRide is a special sightseeing tour on which you can see the sights of Budapest from a comfortable seat, first along its busy streets, and then, from one second to the next - to the gasps of some of your fellow travellers - you splash into the lapping water of the river.
Budapest without the Danube would not be Budapest, and whoever tries it once will never forget the magic of admiring the view while being gently rocked on the rippling waves. But taking everything in from the deck of a luxury coach makes the experience even more special.
After the watery adventure, climbing back to the rivershore, you'll find yourself once again in the hustle and bustle of the metropolis. The first tours of the special bus made the citizens really excited, everybody wanted to see it. I think you can imagine the feeling when you can see a bus in the middle of the river and you are not sure is it a hallucination...
The Gellért bath is one of the most popular baths for tourists staying in Budapest. The medicinal spring here was already famed in the 13th century. The spa is decorated with a wealth of original Art Nouveau furnishings, artistic mosaics, stained glass windows and sculptures, although the interior of the hotel built alongside has lost many of these fittings over the years.
Budapest is a unique city in more than one ways. For those who love spa and wellness, it is unique for being the only large city in the world, which abounds in fountains of healing water. 70 million liters of 21-78 Celsius warm thermal water spring forth daily from its 118 natural thermal springs.
The Széchenyi bath is one of the largest bathing complexes in Europe, the premier medicinal bath of Pest. Its thermal springs were discovered in 1879, they are the deepest and hottest ( 74 - 75 C. ) thermal wells in the capital. The neo - Baroque baths were built in 1913, the swimming pool in 1927. The open - air sections with their pleasantly warm waters are equally popular in winter.
If you would like a night off from tango you can visit the RAM Colosseum to watch a show. The Experidance Company is the resident dance theatre in the Colosseum, the only dance company to have it's own theatre. They will perform 3 different shows during the week.
The shows of the Experidance is fusion of the modern dance styles and Hungarian folk dance.
Experidance shows in RAM Colosseum:
Taxi
Taxi 2000 is our official taxi during the Danubiando Budapest Tango Festival 2011. If you want to travel safely and cheaply just call them.
Taxi 2000 has fix price for the guests of Danubiando. After registration, you'll receive the special code to use with the final programme around 15 August to travel always for just 164 HUF/km. Taxi prices are erratic and some taxi 'sharks' as we call them rip off tourist, that's the reason we have a special agreement with one of the largest taxi companies in Budapest. Should you experience any problems, if you used the code and remember the time and place you called Taxi 2000, we can help.
Taxi 2000 contacts:
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