BUDAPESTING 

1. - House of Terror

2. - National Museum

3. - Holocaust Museum

4. - Museum of Ethnography

5. - Ludwig Museum

7. - Budapest History Museum

8. - Museum of Fine Arts

9. - Zwack Unicum Museum

10. - Museum of Aquincum

11. - Ernst Museum

12. - Dreher Beer Museum

13. - Museum of Applied Arts

14. - Mai Manó Ház

15. - National Gallery

16. - Jewish Museum

17. - Statue Park

18. - Railway Museum

19. - Vasarely Museum

20. - Mucsarnok

21. - Natural History Museum  

1. - Gerbeaud Kavehaz

2. - Bookcafe in the Divatcsarnok

3. - New York Kavehaz

4. - Muvesz Kavehaz

5. - Muzeum Kavehaz

7. - Lukacs Cukraszda

8. - Central Kavehaz

9. - Gresham Kavehaz

10. - Frohlich Cukraszda

11. - Szamos Marcipan Cukraszda

12. - Ruszwurm Cukraszda

13. - Jegbufe

14. - Daubner Cukraszda

~ Római Part (3rd district)  Good and reasonable restaurants:

1. - Paprika étterem

2. - Menza

3. - Szent Jupát étterem

4. - Pozsonyi Kisvendéglo

5. - Koleves

6. -Frici Papa Kifozdeje

7. - Becsiszelet Etterem

8. - Apacuka

9. - Klassz

10. - Abszint

14. - Czukor étterem

16. - Szeráj

 

You can also eat at the following places:

~ all the Market Halls (Central, Hunyadi, Rákóczi, Batthyány, Hold)

~ Római Part with it's many nice little restaurants next to the Danube

~ in the batcher's stores they also often prepare food

~ in all the shopping malls there is big variety also

5th district (Lipótváros):

6th district (Terézváros):

• Kuplung, Sirály -> Király utca
• Tűzraktér -> Hegedű utca
• Instant -> Nagymező utca
• Most -> Zichy Jenő utca
• West Balkán -> Nyugati tér

7th district (Erzsébetváros):

• Szimplakert -> Kazinczy utca
• Vittula, Szimpla, Dupla -> Kertész utca
• Szóda -> Wesselényi utca
• Ellátó, Sark, Sixtus -> Klauzál tér
• Mumus, Barladino -> Dob utca
• Katapult -> Dohany utca

8th district (Józsefváros):

• Corvintető, Jelen -> Blaha Ljuza tér
• Apacuka -> Horánszky utca

Buda:

• Marxim -> Kisrókus utca
  
• Chachacha -> Déli Pályaudvar
• A38 Boat -> next to Petofi Bridge

Only in the Summer:

• Holdudvar -> Margaret Island
  
• Chachacha -> Margaret Island
• Zöld Pardon -> next to Petofi Bridge
• Rió -> next to Petofi Bridge
• Dürer Kert -> next to the City Park
• Romkert -> next to Erzsébet Bridge

1. - Castle District (the area upon the hill - surrounded by wall)

2. - Józsefváros (between József körút & Múzeum körút)

3. - Margaret Island

 4. - Jewish District (between Erzsébet körút & Károly körút)

5. - City Park

6. - Ferencváros (between Ferenc körút & Vámház körút)

7. - Belváros

8. - Gellért's Hill

9. - Víziváros (between the Castle and the Danube)

10. - Lipótváros (between József Attila utca and Szent István körút)

Historical Thermal Bath Houses:

1. - Széchenyi Bath

2. - Rudas Bath

3. - Gellért Bath

4. - Lukács Bath

5. - Rác Bath

6. - Király Bath

7. - Dagály Bath

8. - Dandár Bath

Summer Bathing Complexes:

1. - Csillaghegyi

2. - Római

3. - Palatinus

4. - Paskál

5. - Pünkösdfürdöi

6. - Csepeli

Aqua Parks:

1. - Aquarena

2. - Aqua World

Visit Budapesting's Tours out of the capital...

Historical towns: Pécs, Eger, Sopron

Best wine: Eger, Sopron, Balaton, Tokaj

Spa: Hévíz, Zalaegerszeg, Hajdúszoboszló, Bük

Medieval Castles: Visegrád, Sümeg, Csesznek, Tata, Boldogkováralja, Mogyoróska

Natural beauties: Balaton Upland, Tisza Lake, Zemplén, Danube Bend, Bükk

Royal Palaces: Gödöllő, Fertőd, Keszthely

Roman Heritage: Pécs, Szombathely, Sopron

Charmy villages: Balaton Upland, Hollókő, Szatmár, Somogy, Baranya, Zemplén

I think the best is to buy a travel card for 3 or 7 days:

• 3 days travel card - valid for 72H - 3850 Ft
• 7 days travel card - valid for 7 days - 4600 Ft
• Family ticket - valid for 48H for 1-2 adults & 1-7 children under 14 years - 2200Ft

• single ticket - if you just do 1 ride - 320 Ft
• transfer ticket - if you change once - 490 Ft
• 1 day travel card - valid for 24H - 1550 Ft
• 14 days travel pass - valid for 14 days - 6500 Ft
• 30 days travel pass - valid for 30 days - 9800 Ft
• 10 tickets coupon - 10 single tickets - 2800 Ft
  

The most important lines/routes to know about Budapest's public transport:

• the 3 metro lines:

• M1 (runs under Andrássy boulevard)

• M2 (east-west line, from KELETI station to the center and goes to Buda)

• M3 (north-south line, needed for going to the airport)
• all the 3 lines crosses at Deák Ferenc tér station

• important tram lines:

• tram 4/6 - runs frequently along the Grand Circular Road starts in Buda, goes all through the center of Pest and ends in Buda, in the night it turns into a night bus 906 - which does the same route

• tram 2 - runs along the Danube on the Pest side

• tram 19/41 - runs along the Danube on the Buda side

• tram 47/49 - connects south Buda with Deák Ferenc tér

• important buses:

• bus 7 runs east-west through KELETI station towards south Buda
• bus 16 takes you from Deák Ferenc tér or Moszkva tér up to the Castle District
• bus 27 takes you from Móricz Zsigmond körtér up to Gellért's Hill
• the combination of bus 200E and metro M3 takes you to the city center from the airport

• important suburb railways "HÉV":

• one train takes you to Szentendre from Batthyány tér
• another one takes you from Örs Vezér tere to Gödöllö