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This morning Sziget organizers have announced 24 acts performing at Sziget Festival 2013 in August this year. The current lineup also includes one major headliner, Blur. Between August 5th and 12th Óbudai Island will hold the best festival again welcoming several hundred thousand guests from around the world. So here are the 24 newly announced performers: Skunk Anansie Alex Clare Chase & Status live Tame Im ...

Today the Balaton Sound Festival organizers have pumped out a few acts for 2013 festival down at Lake Balaton (Zamárdi) which will convince you of going there in case you are into electronic music. In addition to the previously announced performers some really high quality names have been revealed today on the Balaton Sound Facebook page and you can get ready for the following acts. The Prodigy Wu-Tang Clan ...

After last years award as "Best Major Festival" for the Sziget Festival in Budapest this year Balaton Sound Festival in Zamárdi has been awarded as "Best medium Festival" by the European Festival Awards. The city of festivals or in this case rather the country of festivals has succeeded again and brought home an award from a great show. You wonder why Balaton Sound was awarded? Well if you haven't been ther ...

Imagine 7 and a half days of festival with 379.000 visitors coming from more than 70 countries watching 1.000 acts, bands, artists performing live in 60 venues 24 hours per day on an island located in the middle of one of the most historic cities in Europe - Welcome to Sziget Festival in Budapest! These are the stats from the Sziget Festival 2012 and below you can find the video summarizing all this in a 7 ...

Update - Announcement of the Winner Dec. 17th 2012, 21:39 I am happy that I could announce the winner of the Budapest Photo Calendar a few minutes ago. The happy person is @kvosburg1 - CONGRATULATIONS - according to Twitter a "dental student, traveler, sweatervest enthusiast" located in Budapest, Hungary (I am a bit sad though that the calendar didn't go further out in the world). I have contacted her via d ...

I have just read an article in the print version of Budapest Business Journal (the article is not yet available online) about new "waiting facilities" at Budapest Airport for travelers of low cost airlines Wizzair, Ryanair and Easyjet. In order to avoid bus transfer to your aircraft these 3 airlines will make you wait in tents ,without any "hygienic or comfort facilities", as BBJ calls it, so no toilets, no ...

Balaton Sound organizers have released a summary of the 5 day Festival in Zamárdi at Lake Balaton on YouTube showing the best acts and the most outrageous masses. The clip is a good memory for all participants of the biggest Hungarian electronic festival and probably brings up nice memories about the time at Lake Balaton. In terms of location the Balaton Sound Festival is for sure unbeatable and also the li ...

I have mentioned tram line 2 in Budapest already among my 101 things to do in Budapest (Point 72.) as a great way to see the city with tight budget. Around 300 HUF for the ride among the Danube shore on Pest side and you will see great sights such as the Parliament, Buda Castle, Matthias Church and much more. National Geographic has collected the Top 10 tram rides across the world and place tram Nr. 2 in Bu ...

There is this rule in Hungary that if there is a bridge holiday, connecting a public holiday to the weekend to have 4 days off, instead of working on Fridays you need to work on a Saturday before or after that long weekend. Many people take that day off but also people come to the work place. Since many people took a day off the offices are half empty anyways and you cannot rely on the fact that for example ...

Recently there has been a Facebook post by Balaton Sound revealing the date for Balaton Sound Festival in Zamardi 2013. According to that the Festival at Lake Balaton will take place between 11th and 14th of July 2013 on the lake shore in Zamardi. It will be big again and we will most likely see big acts such as David Guetta or Paul Kalkbrenner as the years before. Probably there will be a day 0 again to ge ...

The 20th Sziget Festival is just a few months over and the show continues. As of November 2nd you can purchase tickets for the Sziget Festival 2013 in Budapest in the regular ticket places as well as online. The sale starts with nice early bird tickets so if you plan to visit the Sziget next year anyways this is your time to purchase tickets. The prices are close to the past event and the tickets will have ...

After the closure of Terminal 1 of the Budapest Airport four months ago due to the bankruptcy of Malév the building is now used as an event space with more than 2000 square meters of available space. Additionally to this unique event space there are more than 400 parking places available, it is fully accessible for people with reduced mobility. Basically this space can hold big events such as car shows or i ...

Sad news for all kids today, the Amusement Park (Vidámpark) in Budapest will close its gates permanently as of November 6th 2012 as I just read on Caboodle. The park is close to bankruptcy and the renovation would cost around 1bn HUF. City leaders are pro amusement park in Budapest but would prefer an entirely new park together with a private investor. [clear] The closure will only be beneficial for the Zoo ...

The organizers of the Budapest Marathon have published some news on their Facebook page saying that participants of the 2012 marathon (you need to have a valid start number) are obliged to get 50% discount on five different sights in Budapest. The discounts are valid for different time periods and might be interesting for participants from other countries and cities but also for locals one or the other savi ...

A study conducted by STR Global about room rates, occupancy rate and revenue per available room in 31 European cities and countries has revealed that hotels in Budapest are among the cheapest in Europe. According to the study Hungary is placed in 28th place when it comes to the room rates which means that hotels are the 5th cheapest. Hungarian hotels have generated a total revenue of 74 billion HUF in the f ...

The Budafok Wine Festival (Budafoki Pezsgő- és Borfesztivál) is a, compared to the large Budapest Wine Festival, small and familiar comming together to taste the best wines from wine makers mainly from Budapest and surroundings. Budafok is the 22nd district of Budapest and most wine makers in the Budapest wine region are located here. You will most probably miss the biggest and most famous wine makers on th ...

A recent study by AVD (Automobilclub von Deutschland) about petrol prices in Europe has revealed that Hungarian petrol is slightly cheaper than the European average, at least when it comes to "Super". A liter of Super gasoline is 5 Euro cents cheaper than the average in Europe (Europe 1,61 Euro, Hungary 1,56 Euro). The highest prices are in the Norway with a whooping 2,11 Euro per liter whereas the lowest p ...

A survey from June conducted by PwC has resulted in a 60% drop in car sales in 2011 compared to 2008. This year the expected new car sales number is 46.000 units which is no big change compared to the 2011 actual sales of 45.000 units. Main reason for this drop is of course the economical situation as well as the new car tax and car dealers are not expecting any improvement before 2014. These numbers go wel ...

You want to see Europe's Best Major Festival, the Sziget Festival, 5 days live and not miss one act? Than you should head over to the official Youtube Channel of the Sziget Festival where you will be able to stream the 3 biggest stages (Pop/Rock Main Stage,World Music Party Main Stage and the A38 stage) live on your computer or even mobile / tablet and watch top concerts such as Placebo, Korn, Hurts, Deus a ...