Budapest

I spent a lovely weekend in early December in the beautiful city of Budapest. Hungary’s capital is a favourite with unique attractions such as their thermal baths, beautiful buildings, great shopping and nightlife where their ruin bars a must do.

I was joined my husband and our friends, and we stayed in the Boscolo Hotel. This hotel is stunning, I love the Boscolo Collection of Hotels, once a palace it is one of Budapest’s top 5* hotels. A bonus of becoming a guest in the Boscolo is the world-famous New York Café is part of the building. Open to the public 7 days a week it can take up to an hour or more to get a table but if you are a hotel guest you get VIP access and skip the queue, a welcome bonus when the coffee craving hits.

As we visited in early December the city’s Christmas markets were in full swing. I was really pleased with the Christmas markets in Budapest, and found there was a large selection of hand crafted unique items for sale.

Budapest as a city is stunning, I was blown away by the history, beautiful architecture and sheer size of the city, it is huge! One weekend is simply not enough to see everything. The weather was in our favour all weekend, although it was freezing at night, the days were dry and crisp and we even had snow!

The thermal baths in Budapest are one of their main attractions, and I highly recommend a visit.There are many public baths located throughout the city open both day and night, the water is said to have healing properties and a trip to Budapest would not be complete without a visit to one of them.

The city is so big the best way to get around is the public transport, we used the buses all weekend, tickets were extremely cheap. Bear in mind, the currency was a little tricky to get use to but in general everything is very reasonable in price especially food and drink.

For night life you can enjoy some lovely restaurants for a nice meal or for something fun visit some of the Ruin Bars in the cities Jewish quarter.I would recommend you to visit the Castle, Hero Square where they also had an ice-skating rink, take a walk along the famous Chain Bridge and enjoy the atmosphere of this amazing city.

Budapest is great to visit year-round, I highly recommend this city and will return. If you would like help planning your own trip to Budapest I would love to hear from you get in touch anytime.