Frommer's® Budapest Day by Day

Robert Smyth

Wiley, Apr 15, 2009 - Travel - 192 pages

Budapest is the perfect destination for lovers of architecture, art nouveau as well as fans of opera and ballet. Day by Day show you the best way to see the city with thematic tours and bulleted maps.

The Best Full Day Tours around the main sites of the Castle District, Andrassy ut, The Opera House, Heroes Square and all the best places to stop for coffee while you're wandering around. Includes Special-Interest Tours for those interested in the city's Communist past, and its Revolutionary history, for kids, Art Nouveau lovers, Coffee houses, and steam baths.

• Details the best neighbourhood walks around the Castle District, around the Royal district and the Jewish area.
• Features outdoor visits to Margaret Island, City Park with its ice rink, zoo, circus and time wheel, to Tabany and Gellert Hill.
• Lists the best shopping around markets and malls and little Hungarian stores.
• The best dining experiences from Magyar cuisine to sushi; the best nightlife, arts and entertainment including opera, and the best places to stay
• Includes day trips to some of the best surrounding wine areas.

About the author

Robert Smyth is a Budapest-based British journalist who hails from the River Mersey directly across from Liverpool. He has been living in Budapest for around 15 years during which time he’s seen certain aspects of the city change beyond recognition, but can still find enough old world and quirky charm to keep him there. He holds a degree in Economics from the UK, which he followed up with an MBA at Budapest’s former Karl Marx University only to find that writing holds more appeal than the world of business. He has written print and online guides respectively for the Blue Guides and Whatsonwhen; he also writes columns on wine tasting for the local Englishlanguage press and is Business New Europe’s correspondent for Hungary. When not writing about traveling or wine, he likes to travel and taste wine.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Frommer's® Budapest Day by Day; Volume 99 of Frommer's Day by Day - Pocket
• Author: Robert Smyth
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Wiley, 2009
• ISBN: 0470744375, 9780470744376
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Travel / Europe / Eastern; Travel / Europe / General