Colabs Shared Office Budapest

If you are running a small business from home but you are missing the collegial environment of an office I have a superb solution for you. A shared office in Budapest. Prices for offices, even though office buildings are built one after the other, are quite high and most of the time not affordable for small business owners. The solution of a shared office is perfect for everybody who wants to get out of his or her home.

Now with Colabs this shared office soltution which is gaining more and more popularity all over the world has opened up in Budapest. In a top spot you can have office space together with others, even meeting rooms and much more. Additionally you can use the internet, printers and much more to feel more like being in your own office.

From 10:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m. (closing hours are very flexible) you can work in an office together with others who like you have a small business but cannot afford, or don’t want to, an own office.You can rent space there for a day or a month and even meeting rooms which are not too expensive.

Colabs is located in district 5 in Budapest so very central, right behind the Parliament on Szabadság Tér. This is the banking and political district of Budapest where many banks and other businesses have their offices. To see some images of colabs’ shared office solution please visit their Flickr account. So if you fancy to work among others instead of your own home go and check it out.

Address:
Irányi utca 3.
1056 Budapest
Or visit the Colabs website

Hungary has three major mobile phone providers. These three split up the market. Market leader is T-Mobile formerly known as Westel. Vodafone and Pannon are close behind. If you decide to get a mobile phone we recommend to take the provider your friends use because the minute fees within the network are cheaper than to other networks. Further there is no major differnece between them but have a closer look at the 3 major ones.

• T-Mobile

V. Petofi Sándor u. 12.
Phone: (+36-1) 266 5723
Website

• Pannon GSM

Budaörs Baross u. 165.
Phone: (+36-20) 930 4000
Website

• Vodafone

Váci út 1-3. (Westend City Center)
Phone: (+36-1) 238 7281
Website

Next to regular mobile contracts you can also get mobile internet access in Hungary from all these providers. As I said before there is no major difference in the providers, all are reliable and work perfectly fine all over the country. The fees and minute prices are changing day by day so it would be useless to publish them here but you can find them on the websites.

As in other countries in Europe some providers sell exclusivly mobile phones like the iPhone at T-Mobile, the Blackberry Storm at Vodafone and so on. So if you fancy one of these phones you will not have much choice.

The listed adresses above symbolize the headquarters of the three mobile phone providers. You will find shops all over the country. In every shopping center you can find a major store and even in supermarkets you can find shops. If you come over to Budapest or Hungary for only a while it is recommendable to get a prepaid card from one of the providers. The minute fees are nearly the same, you don’t have to sign a contract and you can start immediately calling people.

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From all over Europe it is possible to fly with low cost airlines to Budapest. But don’t expect too low prices and of course look at the hidden costs. Many of these airlines work with methods that make the price no so low anymore. For example Germanwings asks for 5€ per extra lagguage. All airlines add the airport fees and taxes. In most cases the really good offer you see in the beginning is a medium price in the end. Additionally go and book your flight as early as possible because with every day the prices go up.

Below you find a list with all cheap airlines flying to Budapest and all it’s departure cities.

Air Berlin

With AirBerlin you can fly from and to the following cities:

• London
• Paris
• Palma
• Dortmund
• Düsseldorf
• Cologne
• Hannover
• Hamburg
• Berlin
• Nürnberg
• Salzburg
• Zürich
• Munich
• Paderborn
• Münster
• Rostock
• Leipzig
• Dresden
• Erfurt
• Frankfurt.

For further information about a flight with AirBerlin to Budapest please visit the Air Berlin website.

easyJet

With easyJet you can fly from and to the following cities:

• Berlin
• Bristol
• Dortmund
• Geneve
• London
• Newcastle

Check out the easyJet website for further information on flights to Budapest with EasyJet.

Germanwings

With Germanwings you can fly from and to the following cities:

• Köln / Bonn
• Stuttgart

To book your flight or gather further information check out the Germanwings website.

Wizzair

With Wizzair you can fly from and to the following cities:

• Amsterdam
• Barcelona
• Burgas
• Brussels
• Corfu
• Frankfurt
• Herakleion
• London
• Malmö
• Palma de Mallorca
• Paris
• Rhodes
• Rome
• Sofia
• Split
• Stockholm
• Warsaw

For more information about the Hungarian low cost airline please visit the Wizzair website.

Sterling to Budapest

With Sterling you can fly from and to the following cities:

• Copenhagen
• Stockholm (Arlanda)

Get more information on flights to Budapest with Sterling on the Sterling website.

Aerlingus

Wit Aerlingus you can fly only from Dublin to Budapest. Therefore please visit the Aerlingus website.

Ryanair

With Ryanair you can fly from and to the following cities:

• Bremen
• Bristol
• Dublin
• East Midlands
• Frankfurt (Hahn)
• Glasgow
• Liverpool
• London

Additionally with Ryanair you can fly to Lake Balaton from the following cities:

• Frankfurt (Hahn)
• London Stansted

For information about flights to Budapest or Lake Balaton please visit the Ryanair website.

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Car rental is an essential part of many peoples holidays whether it is simply for transportation within the city or for planned day trips in the country side to hire a car in Budapest makes sense. To hire a car in Budapest I recommend you to choose the easiest way and rent the car online from home. You can be sure that your car is at the airport or in one of the city center rental places. To rent a car in Budapest is ideal if you want to be flexible and maybe see some sights and cities outside of Budapest. If you stay within the Budapest city center during your trip I recommend not to rent a car because you will spend half you day in the traffic which is quite high in Budapest and have trouble finding parking places in the city so rather use the public transport.

Nevertheless you are much more flexible with a car and if you plan to go for trips to Szentendre, Visegrad, Esztergom or to Lake Velence or Lake Balaton. In this case a car is really recommendable because you will reach your destination much easier and faster. Also interesting is to hire a car from the airport to get into the city fast and comfortable even though you probably get cheaper to your hotel if you book an airport pickup before you arrive.

There are many dental clinics in Budapest and Hungary who focus on customers from all over Europe. A dental clinic in Budapest usually has more visitors from Europe than from Hungary because for Hungarians it is too expensive but in the same time the dental treatment is very cheap from British, Germans or Austrians. There is not ONE dental clinic in Budapest, there are loads of them and thus it is hard for us to point one out. If you have any experience with a Budapest dental clinic please let us know and we will review it.

Nowadays you find nearly everywhere internet cafés as well as free and paid hot spots in Budapest so if you are around with your mobile device than you won’t have any trouble to be online. In the touristic areas you will find a lot of internet cafés but here are some that I know.

• Cyber Sushi Internet Café

Gabor Aron U. 74-79
3-6 terminals. Full café facilities

• Café Eckermann

Andrassy Ut 24
3-6 terminals. Full café facilities

• Easynet Internet Center

Vaci u. 19-21 (Millenium Center)
16 terminals.

• Budapest Net

Kecskemeti Ut. 5
30 terminals. Coffee machine, soft drinks

• Teleport Internet Café

Vas ut. 7
10 terminals.

• Haloterem Internet Café

Vizmalom Stny 8
6 terminals.

• Vista Internet Café

Paulay Ede Utca 7-9

• Mathias Rex Internet Café

Baross Ut 4

In Hungary there are as everywhere several internet providers for your internet access at home. Which one you choose probably depends on the package you prefer and the speed you’d likke to have. I have the 8mbit/s package by T-Online / T-Com or whatever it is called nowadays and I am quite satisfied with it. So go on an check out the internet providers in Hungary.

• T-Online

T-Points in Hungary: List
English website 

• Euroweb

Website 

• GTS-Datanet

Website 

• Inter.net

Website 

• UPC

Website 

When traveling to Budapest you already have thousands of choices on what to see, where to eat and what to do during your stay in the capital of Hungary. The Budapest Card gives you very good discounts on several activities you can do in Budapest (see a full list below) and therefore narrows your choices down a bit, which doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything what is not featured in the Budapest Card.

Included in the Budapest Card is a unlimited usage of the Budapest public transport system, which is the most effective way of traveling through the city. The regular fee for a 72h ticket is 3850 HUF (which is approximately 12 Euros) and makes already 75% of the entire price of the Budapest Card which in the 72h version is 5200 HUF (approx. 16 Euro). Just by using the public transport it almost justifies the entire Budapest Card but there is of course more to benefit from.

The Budapest Card gives you discount for more than 100 services within the city such as free or discounted museum entrance and other cultural programs, reduced price on selected Budapest Sightseeing Tours, discount for restaurants, car rentals, spas and baths in Budapest and on top of all that a travel insurance for the time.

For Online purchase of the Budapest Card click Here. Now have a look at the full list of discounts, it is long but have a look what services you actually save money on before you come, I bet there are several services which are on your to do list.

Overview of reduced services with the Budapest Card:

Transport and airport transfer

• Free Budapest Public Transport with the BKV Zrt. (All buses, trams and Metro lines)
• 20% off Airport Train Transfer
• 10% off the Budapest Airport Transfer Minibus
• 30% discount for the Memento Park Direct Bus Transfer
• 25% off all Regina Rent a Car rentals

Budapest Sightseeing Tours

• 1.000 HUF off the Absolute Walking Tours
• 2.000 HUF off the exciting Budapest Segway Tours
• 1.000 HUF less for a Yellow Zebra Budapest Bicycle Tour
• Get 10% discount on Budapest Jewish Quarter – WWII Ghetto Tours
• 10% less for the entrance at the Fishermen’s Bastion
• Enjoy the Hop on Hop off bus for 10% less
• A Special price for the Legenda Sightseeing Cruises
• 10% off the Opera Tour
• Special price for the Hungarian National Gallery Panorama Terrace
• Programcentrum Budapest City Tour with 30% off
• A whooping 2.400 HUF discount on the City Tour + Parliament
• Nice 15% off Uniquebudapest

Spas and Baths in Budapest

• 10% off for Aquaworld
• 10% less at Gellért Thermal Bath and Swimming Pool
• 10% at Király Bath
• Another 10% off for Lukács Bath
• 10% Massage in Budapest Medicinal Baths
• 10% off at the Palatinus Strand
• 10% less for the Római Swimming Pool
• Rudas Medicinal Bath and Pool for 10% less
• 10% at the Salt cave
• 10% for the Széchenyi Spa and Swimming Pool

Budapest Activities

• 10% – Botanical Garden
• 20% – Buda Castle Labyrinth
• 15% – Budapest Funfair
• 20% – Cave tours
• 50% – Challengeland Adventure Park
• Children’s Railway *Special price*
• 30% – Family cycles
• 25% – Hospital in the Rock (Don’t worry, its a second world war museum)
• 15% – House of Hungarian Wines
• Hungarian Railway History Park *Special price*
• 100% – Ice Rink in the City Park
• 30% – Memento Park
• 30% – Margaret Island Athletics Centre
• 20% – Millenaris: Palace of Wonders, House of Future
• 10% Pál-völgy Cave
• Discount at Tropicarium
• 15% – Yellow Zebra Budapest Bike Rental Hire
• Special price at the Budapest Zoo
• 20% – Zwack Unicum Museum and Heritage Visitors’ Centre

Museums in Budapest

• “Arany Sas” Pharmacy Museum 20%
• Ady Memorial Museum 20%
• Aquincum Museum 20%
• Béla Bartók Memorial House 38%
• Budapest Exhibition Hall 50%
• Budapest History Museum – Castle Museum 20%
• Ernst Museum 20%
• Exhibition House of the Budapest Gallery 50%
• Exhibition of the History of Aviation and Space Flight 20%
• Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts 20%
• Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum Special price
• Ferihegy Aircraft Memorial Park 20%
• Foundry Museum 25%
• György Ráth Museum 20%
• Historical Clothing at the Dollmuseum 28%
• Holocaust Memorial Center 50%
• House of Royal Wines and Cellar Museum 10%
• House of Terror Museum 20%
• Hungarian House of Photography Special price
• Hungarian Jewish Museum Special price
• Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism 20%
• Hungarian National Gallery Special price
• Hungarian National Museum 20%
• Hungarian Natural History Museum 20%
• Hungarian Sport Museum – Sportagora 100%
• Hungarian Transport Museum 20%
• Imre Varga Collection 50%
• Jókai Memorial Room 20%
• Kassák Museum 20%
• Ludwig museum 20%
• Mafia Museum Special price
• Medieval Jewish Prayer House 20%
• Miksa Róth Memorial House 20%
• Municipal Gallery – Kiscell Museum 20%
• Museum of Applied Arts 20%
• Museum of Electrotechnics 25%
• Museum of Ethnography 20%
• Museum of Fine Arts 10%
• Museum of Flags 20%
• Museum of Hungarian Agriculture 25%
• Museum of Military History 20%
• Museum of Telephony 20%
• Museum of Textile and Clothing Industry 20%
• Nagytétény Castlemuseum 20%
• National Geological Museum Special price
• Pál Molnár-C. Studio-Museum 25%
• Palace of Art 20%
• Paprika Museum 10%
• Petőfi Literary Museum 20%
• Postal Museum 20%
• Semmelweis Museum of Medical History 20%
• Stamp Museum 20%
• The House of Hungarian Art Nouveau Special price
• Újpest Butterfly Museum 20%
• Vasarely Museum 10%
• Zoltán Kodály Memorial Museum 20%

Events in Budapest

• 14th Danube Carnival Gala 25%
• Budapest Jazz Club 10%
• Budapest Summer Festival 10%
• Danube Concert & Cimbalom Show 10%
• Merlin Theatre 20%
• National Dance Theatre 10%
• Nyugati Theatre 10%
• Organ Concerts 20%
• Palace of Arts 10%
• Rajkó Orchestra and Folk Ensemble 10%
• Ticket Office – Willy Fog Travel & Ticket Co. Special offer

Restaurants and Cafés

• Apetito Restaurant & Café 15%
• Apostolok Restaurant 15%
• Arany Hordó Restaurant 20%
• Bagolyvár Restaurant Special offer
• Bonfini Restaurant 10%
• Brasserie Cellar – Gerbeaud House 15%
• Búsuló Juhász Restaurant 20%
• Columbus Ship Jazz Club 15%
• Corso Restaurant 20%
• First Strudel House Café & Restaurant 20%
• Gellért Sörözö & Brasserie 20%
• Gundel Restaurant Special offer
• Hilton Budapest Restaurant and Lobby Bar 20%
• Karma Cafe & Restaurant 10%
• Kárpátia Restaurant and Brasserie 15%
• Kashmir Indian Restaurant 20%
• Matthias Cellar Restaurant 15%
• McKIWAN’S Sandwich Bar 10%
• Mediterrán Cafe & Pub 15%
• Mirror Café & Restaurant 20%
• Olive’s Restaurant 20%
• Oregano Restaurant 20%
• Peppers! Mediterranean Grill 15%
• Soho London Pub 10%
• St. George Restaurant & Cafe 20%
• VistaCafé Restaurant 20%

Other superb discounts

• Hungary Card 30%
• Travel Accident Insurance AIG Hungary FREE
• Tourinform Internet-point 50%
• Free exhibitions (no entrance fee):
• Baths Museum
• Bible Museum
• Dorottya Gallery
• Hercules Villa
• Heritage Gallery
• Kossuth Museum Ship
• Museum of the Ambulance Service
• Museum of the Fire Brigade
• Police Museum
• Reverence Museum
• Visitors’ Centre of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank

For Online purchase of the Budapest Card click Here

The Budapest Card is a product of the Budapest tourist office and was invented in 1997. The card offers more than 100 reduced services. The validation of the Budapest Card is either 48 or 72 hours and costs 5200 HUF or 6500 HUF.

This bank information might be only useful for expats or persons who stay for a longer time. If you don’t want to pay a lot of fees for your foreign bank card for getting money from the cash machine you should think of a card from a Hungarian bank.
Of course the variety of banks is very big but there are some major banks in Hungary where you can be sure that they have a lot of cash machines all over the country. 

We have listed all banks available in Budapest for you as a service but we recommend some banks to you where you can be sure that they have cash machines in Budapest otherwise you pay the fees for the bank as well.
The recommended banks are OTP Bank, MTK Bank, CIB Bank and Erste Bank.
Here is a list of Banks: 

Banks in Budapest

Általános Értékforgalmi Bank Rt. (General Banking & Trust Company Ltd.) 
V. Markó utca 9, Correspondence to: H-1991 Budapest, PO Box 150, Hungary, Tel: 462 7600, Fax: 462 7606, 

BNP Paribas Hungária Bank Rt.
V. Honvéd u. 20, Budapest, Tel: 374 6300, Fax: 269 3967, Telex: 22-2260 

Budapest Bank
XIII. Váci út 188, Budapest, Tel: 477 777, Fax: 450 6877 

CIB Bank
II. Medve u. 4-14, Budapest, Tel: 212 1330, Fax: 212 4200 

Citibank
V. Szabadság tér 7, Budapest, Tel: 374 5000, Fax: 374 5200 

Commerzbank Rt.
V. Széchenyi rakpart 8, Budapest, Tel: 374 1000, Fax: 269 4530 

Credigen Bank Rt.
III. Budapest Fényes Adolf u. 6-8, Tel: 453 5100 

redit Lyonnais Bank
V. József nádor tér 7, Budapest, Tel: 266 9000, Fax: 266 9150 

Deutsche Bank Rt.
V. Budapest Hold u. 27, Budapest, Tel: 301 3700, Fax: 269 3239 

Dresdner Bank Hungária
XIII. Váci út 20-26, Budapest, Tel: 465 5555, Fax: 488 1129 

Erste Bank
V. Hold u. 16, Postal address: 1372 Budapest, PO Box 420, Tel: 373 2400, Fax: 373 2499 

Eximbank Rt. (Magyar Import/Export Bank)
VI. Nagymező u. 46-48, Budapest, Tel: 374 9100, Fax: 269 4476, 269 5735 

FHB (Földhitel és Jelzálogbank Rt.)
XIII. Váci út 20, Budapest, Tel: 452 9100, Fax: 329 1004 

Fundamenta Lakáskassza
V. Váci u. 19-21, Budapest, Tel: 411 8181, Fax: 411 8101 

Hungarian Volksbank Ltd
II. Rákóczi út 7, Budapest, Tel: 328 6666, Fax: 328 6604 

Hanwha Bank Magyarország Rt.
VIII. Rákóczi út 1-3, Budapest, Tel: 429 9400, Fax: 429 9401 

HVB Bank Hungaria (Hypo Vereins Bank Hungaria)
VI. Akadémia u.17, Budapest, Tel: 269 0812, Fax: 353 4959 

HVB Jelzálogbank Rt. V. Nagymező u. 44, Budapest, Tel: 301 5500, Fax: 301 5530 

IC Bank Rt. (Nemzetkozi Kereskedelmi Bank)
VIII. Rákóczi út 1-3, Budapest, East-West Business Center, Tel: 235 7400, Fax: 266 6815 

ING Bank (Hungary)
VI. Andrássy út 9, PO Box 320. Budapest, H-1461, Tel: 464-464, Phone from Abroad: (36-1) 235 6777, Fax: 269 6447 

Inter Európa Bank
V. Szabadság tér 15, Budapest, Tel: 373 6000, Fax: 269 2526 

KDB Bank Rt.
V. Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 42-46, Budapest, Tel: 374 9900, Fax: 374 9999 

Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank (Commerce and Credit Bank)
V. Vigadó tér 1, Budapest, Tel: 328 9000, Fax: 328 9696, 

Konzumbank Rt.
V. Tüköry u. 4, Budapest, Tel: 374 7300, Fax: 374 7460 

Magyar Cetelem Bank Rt.
II. Csalogány u. 47-49, Budapest, Tel: 458-6080, Fax: 458 6091 

Magyar Fejlesztési Bank Rt.
V. Budapest Nádor u. 31, Budapest, Tel: 428 1400, Fax: 428 1490 

Magyar Kulkereskedelmi Bank (Hungarian Foreign Trade Bank)
V. Szt. István tér 11, Budapest, Tel: 269 0923, Fax: 269 0959 

Magyar Nemzeti Bank (National Bank of Hungary)
V. Szabadság tér 8-9, Budapest, Tel: 428-2600, Fax: 428-2500, 

Magyar Takarékszövetkezeti Bank Rt.
XII. Pethényi köz 10, Budapest, Tel: 202 3777, Fax: 356 2649 

Merkantil Bank Rt.
V. József Attila u. 24, Budapest, Tel: 429 7600, Fax: 429 7601 

OTP Bank (National Savings and Commerical Bank)
V. Nádor u. 16, Budapest, Tel: 353 1444, Fax: 312 6858 

Porsche Bank Hungaria Rt.
XIII. Fáy u. 27, Budapest, Tel: 465 4700, Fax: 350 5066 

Postabank
VII. Rumbach S. u. 19-21, Budapest, Tel: 318 0855, Fax: 317 1369 

Raiffeisen Bank
V. Váci u. 19-21, Budapest, Tel: 484 4400, Fax: 484 4444 17 

Westdeutsche Landesbank Rt.
VII. Madách I. u. 13-14, Budapest, Tel: 268 1680, Fax: 268 1933 

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