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Budapest Hop-on Hop-Off Tours - Convenient, Inexpensive Sightseeing

The Budapest Hop On Hop Off tours offer you practical and convenient city sightseeing tours showing you the most famous Budapest's sights. From The air-conditioned cool double deckers you can see and learn about Budapest's most important historical and cultural monuments.

Guiding is provided through headphones where you can select from several languages to listen to the guide.

No matter what's the weather like you'll be sitting comfortably in the specially designed sightseieng bus and enjoying the city's panorama. In nice warm weather the bus is open-air, while in bad weather you're protected from the cold and rain in the closed vehicle. You can hop on and hop pff at any stops you like.

 

Details and Booking of Budapest Hop on Hop Off Tours

Both Hop On Hop Off city tours last approx. 2 hours, you can hop on and join the tour or get off at any of the nine stops.

Your ticket (5000 HUF for adults , free for children) is valid for a 24 hours so you can join the sightseeing when it's most suitable for you during the 1-day period.

Book your Hop On Hop Off Budapest Sightseing Tour online.

1. Budapest Circle Sightseeing Hop On Hop Off Tour (orange PC)

Budapest Hop on Hop off Sightseieng tour by  Bus

This Hop On Hop off Budapest Tour includes 9 stops: you can join the sightseeing or leave at any stop you want.

Huge discounts (20-60 %) on admission to recommended places of interest at every stop (museums, thermal baths and restaurants).



The audio guide is provided in the following languages:

  • English,
  • Chinese,
  • Dutch,
  • French,
  • German,
  • Hebrew,
  • Hungarian,
  • Italian,
  • Japanese,
  • Russian,
  • Spanish,
  • Swedish

Departure:

  • 6. Apr, 2009 - 31. Oct: 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:30 (every day of every week)

  • 6. Apr, 2009 - 31. Oct: 14:00, 14:30, 15:00, 15:30, 16:00, 16:30, 17:00, 17:30 (every day of every week).

Price: 5000 HUF/adults, Free for Children


Itieneary (9 stops):

1. Start: Erzsébet square

Sights: Downtown Budapest, St Stephen's Basilica

Budapest bus sightseeing tour hop hop off Erzsébet square

Bonuses: 

  • National Lutheran Museum, (BONUS – 60% off the entrance fee),

  • Doll Museum (BONUS - 50% discount),

  • McDonald's (Budapest Sightseeing menu),

  • La Porta di Taormina Restaurant - ristorante and pizzeria at 6., Pesti barnabás utca, V.ditrict (BONUS - 20% discount),

  • 1 cup of hot chocolate,

  • Twice 1-hour river cruise in the daytime and at night,
     
  • Budapest Memento Park (BONUS - 1.500 HUF discoun ),

  • Half-day excursion to Szentendre BONUS - 50% discount),

  • Sightseeing tour by night on Land and Water (BONUS - 1.000 HUF discount),

  • Walking tour

2. Stop: Liszt Ferenc Square

Sights: Academy of Music, Budapest's  " Broadway" (Theaters)

Hop Hop Off Tour Budapest-2nd stop Liszt Ferenc tér

Bonuses: Opera House (BONUS – 600 HUF off the entrance fee), Cafe Miro (BONUS - 20% discount), Al Basha Arabian Restaurant at 9. Liszt Ferenc Square (BONUS - 20% discount).

3.Stop: Heroes' Square,  Art Gallery

Sights:  Museum of Fine Arts, Vajdahunyad Castle, Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden

Heroes' Square 3rd stop Budapest Hop Hop Off Bus tour

 

4. Stop: Széchenyi Thermal Bath

Sights: City Park, Amusement Park, Hungarian Circus

Bonus: Széchenyi Spa ( BONUS - 500 HUF discount ).

Széchenyi Thermal bath Budapest



5. Stop: Central Synagogue in Dohány Street

Sights: Jewish Museum, Jewish Ghetto

Bonuses:  Carmel Kosher restaurant at 31. Kazinczy utca, VII. district (BONUS – 20% off your food bill ), Rent a bike (BONUS - 20% discount).

Budapest Central Synagogue in Dohány utca

 

6. Stop: Gellért Hill

Sights: Panorama from the Citadel

Bonuses: Restaurant Citadel (BONUS – 20% off your bill ), Citadel Museums - Bunkers -Waxworks ( BONUS - 50% discount ), Gellért Spa ( BONUS - 500 HUF discount ).

Gellért Hill - 5th Stop Budapest Hop Hop off sightseeing



7. Stop: Funicular, Clark Adam Square

Sights: Royal Palace,  Hungarian National Gallery, Sándor Palace - residence of the President of the Republic of Hungary

Clark Adam Square Buda-7th stop

 

8. Stop: Castle district

Sights: Fishermen’s Bastion, Matthias Church, Hotel Hilton

Bonuses: Hospital in the Rock ( BONUS - 1.000 HUF discount ), Cafe Miro (BONUS – 20% off your bill ), Jam Pub ( BONUS - 20% off your bill ).

Fishermen's bastion in Buda Castle

 

9. Stop: Parliament

Sights: Hungarian Parliament, Museum of Etnography

Bonuses: Museum of Ethnography (BONUS – 200 HUF off the entrance fee ), The first Strudel House of Pest- Első Pesti Rétesház ( BONUS - 20% discount ).

Parliament of Hungary, Budapest

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2. Budapest City Hop On Hop Off Tour (red CT)

See all the wonderful landmarks of Budapest with this chic red double-decker and other specially designed sightseeing buses.

Your ticket is valid for 24 hours from the time of your first departue; you may hop off and hop back on the buses at any stop and whenever it suits you during the 24-hour period.



Departure:

2009 April through October: 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:30, 14:00, 14:30, 15:00, 15:30, 16:00, 16:30, 17:00, 17:30, 18:00.

Price: 4000 HUF, 3000 HUF for students

 

Languages:

  • English,
  • German,
  • French,
  • Spanish,
  • Italian,
  • Portuguese,
  • Greek,
  • Finnish,
  • Swedish,
  • Dutch,
  • Russian,
  • Arabic,
  • Japanese,
  • Korean,
  • Hebrew
  • Hungarian.

Book your Hop On Hop Off Budapest Sightseing Tour online.

Itieneary (14 stops):

 

Stop #1 József Nádor tér:

The tour starts in downtown Budapest, near most major hotels near the river Danube.

József Nádor tér

 

Stop#2 Dohány Street Synagogue:

The second largest Synagogue in the world, in the heart of the Jewish District of Budapest.
Central synagogue and Raoul wallenberg Memorial Garden, Budapest

 

Stop#3: Madách tér:

Accross from Városház tér and Deák tér, on Károly Boulevard.

Madách Square Budapest

 

Stop#4 Erzsébet tér

Right accross from the Le Meridien and Kempinski hotels.

Budapest Erzsébet tér Gödör Club

 

Stop #5 Andrássy út:

At the beginning of Andrássy Avenue, near St. Stephen’s Basilica.

Andrassy avenue-St Stephen's Basilica

 

Stop#6 Liszt Ferenc tér / Oktogon:

A busy intersection, with plenty of youthful restaurants, cafés and many people.

Liszt Ferenc Tér Budapest VI. district

 

Stop #7 (Heroes’ Square / City Park):

Hungary’s biggest square, complete with historical statues and famous museums. In the vicinity, the Budapest Zoo, the Széchenyi Thermal Bath, the Gundel restaurant, the Vajdahunyad Castle and many more attractions await visitors.

Heroes' Square (Hősök tere)

 

Stop #8 Keleti Railway Station / Hungaria Hotel:

The stop is located near Keleti Railway Station.

Keleti Train Station Budapest

 

Stop # 9 Astoria:

In downtown Pest, near the National Museum and the Synagogue.

Hotel Astoria Budapest

 

Stop #10 Chain Bridge / Funicular:

On the Buda side, at the Buda bridgehead of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, underneath the Castle Hill.

Chain Bridge (Széchenyi Lánchíd)

 

Stop #11 Castle Hill / Dísz tér:

On the Castle Hill, within walking distance from the Fishermen’s Bastion, Matthias Church, the Buda Castle and many other historical sights.

Buda castle

 

Stop #12 Citadel-Gellért Hill:

The highest point of downtown Budapest, with breathtaking views of the city and its river.

Gellért Hill, Citadel

 

Stop #13 Váci utca – Március 15. tér:

The stop is in downtown Pest, right at the main pedestrian shopping street, Váci utca, and a few minutes away from the biggest market hall in Budapest.

Váci Street Budapest

 

Stop # 14 Parliament Buildings:

The Parliament is Budapest’s most revered building in the government district.

Budapest Parlament

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