Bar Galaxia
Do NOT go there
Recently I have read on Johnnyjet.com a review about Bar Galaxia in Budapest which made me curious about this bar. So I searched further on Google for Bar Galaxia and found tons of information and frustrated people who went there together with girls and got ripped off. The price was between 50.000 HUF and up to 260.000 HUF for a couple of drinks.
Therefore I want to warn you not to go to Bar Galaxia in Budapest as it is obviously a tourist rip off place. The scheme is always the same. Tourists meet some beautiful young women on the streets of Budapest (mostly on Vaci ut) who want to go for a drink. Of course the girls pretend to not know a place but they always find the same bars which in this case is Bar Galaxia. The toursits follow them blind, do not wantch the menu and pay massive amounts in the end.
The bill is as I said quite high but as soon as it comes to the payment some nice bouncers appear in the bar and won’t let you go anymore. So basically you have to pay. The problem is that the prices are in the menu, which you never see, and if you come back with the police after your visit they cannot do anything.
So please avoid this and other bars. I found a list of bars in Budapest at the homepage of the Embassy of the USA so please do not go to any of these bars. Read my reviews about Bars in Budapest and you will not have a problem finding a good, reliable bar with beautiful girls from Budapest. If you got ripped off or want to read more information about Budapest bar scam than visit the Budapestagent.com Blog post to that topic.
Adress:
Bécsi utca 3.
District 5, Budapest
Careful with two Croacian girls that will bring you to Városközpont bar with outside elevator access, I end up paying 750 euros for a few drinks, the Scam bars in Budapest are dangerous and if you dont have the money they treat you to call the police, this ruin my vacation in Budapest
the same happened to me before some days with these 2 “croatian” girls and the bar with the outside elevator
The same thing happened to me, but the US Embassy removed it from the scam list. They probably got paid off by them or something. Stay away from this place.
WTF?!
Yep, just got me too. Two girls one young one older at a conference etc. I can remember the bar name but I’m sure it was one of the ones mentioned above. A few shots and drinks they order food and then I suggest going on to a different place. Then oh you want to pay cash follow me… I get dragged along to the cash point which sets more alarm bells ringing (I thought the scam was two girls getting a guy to pay for some food and a couple of drinks) but I do a conversion quick on the iPhone (thank you Mr Jobs) and work out I am about to pay 700 Euro! I freak out and tell them all where to go and demand a manager. We go back to the bar and the waitress who led me to the cash point goes away and returns in a business jacket ( WTF). The girls say ok we will split it and look all desperate and pull out some cash, “but there were three of us”. Yes, but we were not drinking molten gold! I take the “manager to the cash point again and tell her 25000 F (100 Euro) and no more. She yield and now I’m back in my hotel room, which I stupidly told them which hotel I am staying at, wondering if the corrupt police are going to show up and accuse me of god knows what
. I am a moron! Please learn from my mistake
the same …..only that i paid 150 EURO and also call the cops but they are in this shit together(corruption its huge in Hungary)…don’t go there…be aware…those stupid Hungarians reaps you off…i will never go in Hungary..its a shitty country…fuk them
Exactly the same thing happend to me… scenario for scenario. Two Croatian women looking to share a drink with. Equivalent of 500 EUROs for a couple of drinks. I would not recommend anyone to go to Hungary. Totally corrupt, the police are in on it. They know about it and do nothing.
I got scammed also – about 500 euros. But I did got little revenge on the bar, as I casually went in the next day, said that they owned me 100000 forints. After they started talking hungarian, I smashed tray of glasses to the floor. When the doorman tried to block the door, I kicked him in the groin, and fled the place. Travelling alone there wasn’t much else to do, since I didn’t get my receipt etc. But I managed to hurt them at least a little, enough for me to feel better.
I too am a gulible little git… Walking home to hotel after a long day at office feeling tired and got asked for direction froms these two girls asking for directions to Besci Ut – not realising where it was – helpfull as I am – I looked it up on my GPS and realised it was just a couple of meters away – alarm bells should be ringing by now, but they were friendly and good talkers so I end up going with them to Galaxia, sit down have two bottles of small wine and two shots of some schnaps – two and a half hour later I am leaving and presented with a bill equating to 230000 Forint… Wanting to pay with my credit card the machine in conveniently out-of-order so am frogmarched down to the nearest ATM machine where cash is withdrawn bill settled and I walk home. damn, do I feel sick to my stomach having paid close to 700 Euro for some mediocre drink and food.
DO NOT GO TO THIS PLACE OR BE HELPFUL AT ALL TO ANYONE ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS… IT WILL BE A TRAP – and before you know it your bank account/credit card is haemoriging money…
Why don’t anyone throw a molotov cockatil into those premisses – preferably with the owner and accomplishes present in the premisses…?
Vampires are alive and well in Budapest.