August 12, 2012

Streetwise Budapest Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Budapest, Hungary - Folding pocket size travel map with metro map

Streetwise Budapest Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Budapest, Hungary - Folding pocket size travel map with metro map

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Streetwise Budapest Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Budapest, Hungary - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro map including lines & stations

This map covers the following areas:
Main Budapest Map Front 1: 17,000
Main Budapest Map Back 1:11,000
Budapest City Center Map 1:11,000
Millennium City Center Map 1:17,000
Budapest Metro Map

People say Budapest is the Paris of Central Europe. Maybe that statement is true because it combines a combination of western luxuries, architectural beauty, and cosmopolitan European traditions. But this baroque city is still connected to its Eastern European heritage with the steaming baths, incredibly complex language and lusty cuisine.

Budapest straddles a curve in the river Danube which bisects two distinct parts. The east side is known as Pest and the west side is known as Buda, hence Budapest. It s a very logical, well laid out city.

Castle Hill is the premier destination for visitors and contai ns many of Budapest’s most important monuments and museums, and great views of Pest across the blue Danube. Pastel houses lining cobbled streets and stone balustrade overlooks give this citadel a fairy tale quality, while bullet holes from the unsuccessful 1956 uprising pockmark many buildings.

The main map of Budapest covers a large part of the central city in detail and is fully indexed with hotels, sites, architecture, metro stations and parks. The City Center inset map expands the old city grid and enables you to stroll the warren of old streets and absorb Hungarian history and culture at your leisure. The inset map of Budapest Metro facilitates your travel throughout the city.

One example of the importance of on site research: when this Budapest map was first conceived in the early 1990’s we ran into a unique problem with sudden unannounced street name changes. Streets named after heroic Socialist revolutionaries were changed without notice. The streets were ren amed after heroes of the Hungarian National Liberation. Other maps who rely on out of date documents for updating still reflect the old street names. Imagine publishing a map and unknowingly using names like Karl Marx Ave. and Lenin Square. Whoops! Fortunately, with our STREETWISE® Budapest Map, we adhered to a policy of physically researching and updating the city, thereby avoiding these sorts of mistakes.

Our pocket size map of Budapest is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Budapest map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Budapest map today and you too can navigate Budapest, Hungary like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

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August 10, 2012

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Budapest

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Budapest

List Price: $ 25.00

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DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool, a practical resource while traveling, and a keepsake following any trip.



All DK Eyewitness Travel Guides to cities now include a new durable, oversized pull-out map with useful transportation information, a distance chart, a street and sight index, and practical information for getting around the city.

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August 07, 2012

Budapest

Budapest

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1986. Second Edition. Kossuth Printing House., 64 pages, mostly Photographs. 1 lb. (Large 10.25 x 8 x .375 inches Hardcover). Budapest in 93 Colour Photographs by Peter Dobai, ISBN#9631324451

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November 20, 2011

Le Méridien Budapest is in the heart of the Pest side of Budapest

One of the first of the 5 star hotels in Budapest located extremely centrally, just near the British Embassy. Just a few minutes walk to the well known Vaci ut shopping street.

Rooms are spacious and comfortable. Most have good sized modern bathrooms, with both bath and separate shower (great water strength!). Service is good. The restaurant is also very good. Best of all the have a reasonably sized swimming pool at the top of the hotel (indoors) as well as sauna, steam room and treatment centre. For me this is a big plus.

You can get some very good rates by booking ahead, online (using hotel's own website), depending on time of year.

We have stayed here on about 5 different occasions, usually for 4 to 5 days.

We actually last travelled in December 2008 ! But are going again next week, so will add any updates if appropriate!