How to save money in Budapest

Budapest is one of the cheapest places in Central Europe if you know how the locals do things.

Do not use taxis without company labels.
Do use the all night buses.
Always keep one menu card at the restaurant to know how much were you ordering for and pre-calculate before you pay the bill.
Try the local food at the market halls, self-service worker's restaurants (onkiszolgalo, kifozde), butcher stores (hentes) or university canteens.
Bring snacks to the bath houses.
Spend less than 2 hours in the bath houses and you have a refund of few hundred Hungarian forint.
Buy fashionable, good quality clothes at second hand stores for few Euros.
Drink your morning coffee at the historical cafe houses as there are free newspapers and magazines in English.
Look for free city views from the Gellert hill and the Castle hill in the inner city.
Enjoy the loveliest free organ music at the St. Stephen's Cathedral during the high Sunday masses.
Join the Free Budapest Walking Tour to learn about the history, society, architecture and what Hungarians are actually like.
Join the Free Communist Walking Tour to understand the daily life of the Communist and post-Communist societies and to visit the symbols of the "Soviet friendship".
Join the Free Jewish Quarter and the Best Pubs tour to learn about the Jewish heritage and to visit the hidden treasures of the area.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Do what locals do!

2. Eat what locals eat!

3. See things from the local's perspectives!

Resources

• Free Budapest Walking Tours