Hungary Card : Discounts

Relax in the best way: Hungary Card is in your pocket, and your holiday budget never gets out of hand...

Please read this introduction carefully, and learn about all the services and opportunities that are available to you at a reduced price, or sometimes even free of charge.

How can you use the Hungary Card?

1) You may claim certain discounts simply by showing the card, taking advantage of the opportunity an unlimited number of times during the validity period.

2) Other discounts are available to you only a limited number of times. In order to take advantage of these reduced or free services, use the vouchers you find in the voucher book you received with the card. Each voucher gets you one discount - usually for one person, at times for everybody in your company. Just hand your card and booklet over to the service provider. They will tear out a voucher, and if applicable, stamp or date the remaining part. Please keep your card and booklet ready, as in case of a control it serves as proof of your eligibility. Reduced fare tickets are valid only together with the corresponding card and booklet. You can purchase reduced fare tickets or services, as long as you have a correspondent voucher in your book. Therefore, take the card and the voucher book with you every time you set out on a trip.


Examples of Discounts:

10 - 20 % discounts on accommodation
10 - 20 % discounts on restaurants
10 - 50 % discounts on museums entry tickets
10 - 15 % discounts in baths and thermal spas
10 - 100 % discounts for certain tourist services and events
20 % reduction on Well-PRess travel guides and publications
20 % discount on Lake Balaton boat tickets for two people.
50 % discount on the Balatoncard
15 % discount at FOX Car Rental

Other Cards:
Balaton Card: www.balatoncard.hu
Budapest Card: www.budapestinfo.hu

Where to buy a Hungary Card?

In the Tourinform Büros are available at www.tourinform.hu

National Circus Festival Budapest (January 24 - 28, 2008)

This will be the 6th time that Budapest hosts and organizes the International Circus Festival. Once again the task is to present the best of International and Hungarian circus arts, comparing the best performances of the exceptional talents appearing during the five live shows at the Capital Circus.

The Festival is a celebration, a unique event for the circus arts and a serious competition for the participating professionals. Many carriers have started right here, since producers, directors and agents are always searching for new talents and interested to discover acts for their shows. This event is held only every two years to guarantee exclusivity and maximum interests among the International circus community.

We are proud of the fact that Budapest is establishing itself as a circus city and its festival is more and more popular among circus lovers and professionals than ever.

Further information: www.maciva.hu

How to get there: walking distance from Heroes Square ( Hősök Tere) / Állatkerti körút (Boulevard), City Park (Városliget)

Magnificent Synagogue in Budapest

The Great Synagogue in Dohány utca (Street), also known as the Dohány Synagogue, or the Tabac-Schul, the Yiddish translation of dohány (tobacco), after the Hungarian name of the street, is located in Belváros, the inner city of Pest, in the eastern section of Budapest. It was built between 1854-1859 by the Neolog Jewish community of Pest according to the plans of the Viennese architect Ludwig Foerster. The synagogue neighbors a major Budapest thoroughfare expressing the optimism and the newly elevated status of the Hungarian Jews in the mid years of the 19th century.

It is a monumental, magnificent synagogue, with a capacity of 2,964 seats (1,492 for men and 1,472 in the women's galleries) making it one of the largest in the world. The building has a length of more than 53 meters while its width has 26.5 meters. The design of the Dohány Street synagogue, while basically in a Moorish style, also features a mixture of Byzantine, Romantic, and Gothic elements.

How to get there: It is 2 minutes walk from the central Deak Square, same distance from Astoria. Search on a map: junction of Károly körút-Wesselenyi utca-Dohány utca.

Close to this place in the Rumbach Sebestyen utca you can find gorgeous neglected other synagogue (Rumbach Synagogue). If you are lucky enough to find it hopefully the security guard admits you to admire the building inside. Guided tour with an expert also available from us. E-mail: danubebendtour@gmail.com