Budapest will soon be home to Time Out Market – the food and cultural market that brings the best of the city together under one roof, opening 2025 at Corvin Palace on Blaha Lujza Square. Time Out Market Budapest will feature 11 kitchens, three bars, five event spaces, and around 540 seats. Find out more!
Wherever you stay in Budapest, you’ll be near a decent bar, relaxing spa and recommendable restaurant. That said, some may prefer the residential quiet of Buda to the urban buzz of Pest, each side linked by metro, trams and buses, not to mention cycle lanes.
Use the BudapestGO app to buy tickets and plan journeys. Districts are referred to by a Roman numeral, some also by their historic connection to a Habsburg royal – for example, District VIII is Józsefváros, ‘Joseph Town’. District numbers are also the middle two digits within each Budapest postcode – book a hotel in 1071 and you're in the grittier end of District VII, reserve a room in 1065 and you're near the sights in District VI, and so on.
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Words by Peterjon Cresswell, original photos by Gábor Szabó, both based in Budapest. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines.