Budapest via Prague
1. I have been going to Budapest for a long time. I really liked the Parliament, especially in the evening. But, alas, the prices for a flight through Moscow have always been disappointing (especially on dates that are convenient for me). So I decided to just use the long weekend in May and took a ticket to Budapest via Prague. I chose a good stopover to take a walk in my favorite city. Almost a day was allotted for Prague - arrival at 6 am, and departure at 5 pm. Czech airlines, as always, did not feed. I found a "luggage guard" - a left-luggage office in terminal 2. Payment upon receipt of luggage, 150 kroons, you can also use a card. And with a light bag I drove to the Florenc metro station, and from there - on foot to the center. I have been to Prague more than once, so I just wanted to walk the streets. I walked, I looked, I admired. Good)))
I had a boarding pass issued back in Kazan, hand luggage (I'm not going for a long time). Therefore, at the airport, I simply went to control without additional registration. Flight to Budapest is also by Czech Airlines. I looked - few of us gathered in Hungary. *sighed. The plane also turned out to be small (I remembered how I flew to Penza on a Dexter ( ru/penza/blog-108266.html). The plane was not completely filled, four places - two chairs across the aisle, many were sitting without neighbors. But he made me sick. )
2. Budapest welcomed me. Beautiful airport, I liked it. On the advice of others (thanks, Internet! ) I went to terminal 2B in the SPAR supermarket. I bought yogurt, gave euros, change - in forints. I went to buy a ticket for a 100E bus (900 forints) for this "little thing". Not economical, of course. It is better to use 200E (350-450 forints), but this bus is with a transfer to the metro. After the motion sickness on the plane, I wanted to get to my room faster, especially since a quest with electronic keys was waiting for me. I remembered - the machine did not take a bill of 500 for. , Only a smaller one. So I just took the card. The queue, by the way, silently endured my transitions from one bill to another, and then to the card. On 100E - only three stops and I got there quite quickly to the Astoria stop, not far from Deá k Ferenc té r.
3. It turns out that I booked an apartment on one of the main streets - Rá kó czi ú t (via Booking). The owner of the mini-hotel sent very detailed instructions for using electronic keys - the entrance (a la front), the door of the apartment, the door of Margaret's room. I liked the apartments. There was almost everything for living - dishes, tea-coffee-cream, microwave, coffee maker, kettle, iron, etc. Even a bottle of wine (which I, inopportunely, forgot in the fridge). Windows and a mini-balcony overlooked the well (in St. Petersburg)). I could hear everyone, since I opened the window at night)))
4. The plans were to use a 2-storey City-sightseeing bus + a water excursion along the Danube. I won't tell much about Budapest. It must be seen)) It so happened that I didn’t manage to walk around the city for my own pleasure. Not scary. So, I will come here. The parliament reminded me of Milan's Duomo - just as airy blog-401412.html).
I rode a boat along the Danube, saw a floating bus, realized that I didn’t want to ride there correctly. All in all, Budapest is a beautiful city. There are places to go, see, walk. Attitude towards those who speak English poorly. - quite adequately tolerable)) The only thing that bothered me was the extra zeros on the banknotes. Denomination is definitely needed. You take a pie in a cafe, and it costs 1.5-2.0 thousand. But paying with a card is quite realistic - they take it almost everywhere. Cuisine (butter-sweet) - delicious. No diet, alas. Too tasty and enticing.
5. The weather was pampering for three days - warm and sunny. On the 4th day from the night it started to rain. Release of the room - at 10 am. There is no luggage room. I didn't want to walk in the rain. Past Astoria, she reached the Deá k Ferenc té r stop, where she calmly got on the 100E, bought a ticket from the driver. We drove sooo fast (in the rain). Return flight - Aeroflot. On-line check-in with seat selection took place in advance, so I just passed the control by showing the boarding pass on the phone. In the halls there are poles for recharging phones. Wi-Fi - with registration. For landing - 4 queues: Sky Priority, queue 1-2, then queue 3-4 (someone else was missed). All this was written on the boarding pass. Of course, I didn't have any notes. I approached the employees, they printed out a coupon indicating the queue number. In principle, it was possible to skip all these queues and then just go through.
So, I flew to Budapest. Well done. You can go there again - to get to know each other "with your feet", since I did not succeed on this trip.
Do not put all the photos) Do not reveal all the emotions)
Good trips to all of you, forum users))
