BUDAPEST TRAVEL GUIDE

This page is a guide only. The page contains recommendations from either TMs, Referees or Parents from previous seasons.  Venues or official hotels may change for the current season so we recommend that you check the reglement’s before confirming any travel arrangements and if you are booking hotels before the reglement is out we advise you may want to consider booking with free cancellation as it is not guaranteed that competition details will stay the same.

Background Info
Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest
Discover Budapest (visithungary.com)

Latest Foreign Office Travel Advice
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/hungary

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Visa Requirements
None (as of 16.05.2024)
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/hungary/entry-requirements

Passport validity requirements

To travel to Hungary, you must follow the Schengen area passport requirements.

To enter Hungary (and all Schengen countries) your passport must:

• have a ‘date of issue’ less than 10 years before the date you arrive. Passports issued after 1 October 2018 are now valid for only 10 years, but for passports issued before 1 October 2018, extra months may have been added if you renewed a passport early
• have an ‘expiry date’ at least 3 months after the day you plan to leave

Local Emergency Numbers
Telephone: 112 (ambulance, fire, police)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London on +44 020 7008 5000 (24 hours). You can also contact FCDO online.

Venue (Previous venue)
Gerevich Aladár National Sport Hall
Budapest, Istvánmezei út 3-5, 1146 Hungary

Venue for U14’s
University of Physical Education, Dr. Koltai Jeno Sport Hall (H-1123 Budapest, Csörsz u. 2-8.)

Nearby Supermarket (to venue)
There is a shopping centre next door to the venue with a supermarket inside. There are also numerous supermarkets within a 20 minute walk from the venue.

U14’s
Sarki Füszerbolt, Budapest Mészáros utca 12. 1016 (1 km from venue)

Hotels (Previously used)
Danubius Hotel Hungaria (1.1km from venue)
Danubius Hotel Arena (1.5km from venue)

U14 hotels – See reglements

Flights 
There are a good range of flights to Budapest Airport from airports across the UK.

Transfers
The organisers may offer a shuttle service which is one of the more expensive options to use (and therefore best for solo travellers arriving late).

Budapest has a fairly extensive and efficient public transport system. It is also cheaper than in most Western European cities. A wide variety of trams, buses, trolleys and metro trains run in the city. Night service is quite reliable, too. Be prepared for typical rush hours: vehicles are crowded and traffic can be rather slow.

The other options from the airport are

• the 100E bus to Astoria metro which is 3 stops to the venue.
• an airport shuttle bus which is a mini bus service which will take a group of people and make a number of stops to drop them off. This can be booked on arrival.
• App bookable taxis
• Airport taxis (most expensive)

The App to use  to plan journeys is BudapestGO This is a free app that lets you buy digital tickets, plan your trips and get traffic information for Budapest public transport. You can use your phone to board buses, trams, metros and even the airport shuttle bus 100E.

Bolt is the app for taxi bookings service.