Using Ticket Machines in Budapest Metro

Video Transcript

"I'm Dante Mena, the author of the Adventure Hungary travel guide, and here on behalf of Expert Village. And we will learn a little bit more about how to get around in the city using the public transportation system. Once again, here we are in one of the metro entrances. And one of the things which we must always remember is to get those tickets. If you haven't got a pain star, or a local office, that you can see, then at every metro station you will also be able to find one of these ticket machines. The ticket machines are really handy. Yes, it can get complicated because the language is in Hungarian. And, although there is Hungarian, if you will look at the machine there's a British flag. And that tells you that the language is also in English. You press the button, and - bingo! - you have English. This will tell you the cost of the tickets, and of course, you can always pay by coin, by bank note, or also by credit card, including debit card. We place our card here, and you can see that there is a keyboard with a sequence of numbers, and you can also see that all of the major credit cards are honored at each of the stations of the BKV. Once again, don't forget that you can also use paper money. Now that does not necessarily mean dollars. In fact, the insertion slot for the paper money on the Hungarian machines are for the Hungarian forint. So you must carry Hungarian forints with you in paper notes to use in these machines at these slots. As you will note, at the bottom of the machine, you can see a window for change. And you can see the name change there, of course. And on the opposite side, you would pick up your ticket. The ticket will be dispensed after you insert the money into the machine or after your credit card is accepted by the machine after you press the code. Once again, have a good trip."