Acqua calda scorre sotto due terzi del suolo ungherese: ci sono più di 120 fonti nella sola Budapest, ci sono meravigliose spa in ogni dove; storici bagni turchi, spa in stile art nouveau e moderni parchi acquatici.
Esiste un fantastico sito sulle spa, in inglese e tedesco, dove potrete sapere qualsiasi cosa in merito, dalla composizione dell’acqua fino agli orari di apertura. Guardate anche la galleria fotografica e vi verrà voglia di visitarle tutte quante! Sotto, vi fornisco la mia opinione personale riguardo le principali spa. Potete anche aprire la mappa per vedere la loro collocazione in città.
Potete noleggiare i costumi da bagno e gli asciugamani ai bagni ma non aspettatevi l’ultima moda. In molte piscine dovrete indossare una cuffia nelle vasche da nuoto ma non in quelle termali. E’ possibile effettuare dei massaggi nei bagni, chiedete alla biglietteria il costo e la disponibilità.
Bagni Gellért
I più famosi, le piastrelle di maiolicae i mosaici, la piscina termale in stile romano e la sfarzosità generale danno luogo a un’atmosfera senza pari. La piscina scoperta ha una macchina delle onde! Edificio stupendo, ma anche la spa più costosa e la più presa d’assalto dai turisti.
Bagni Széchenyi
Diverse piccole piscine coperte e tre piscine scoperte in un magnifico allestimento di lusso, nel mezzo del parco cittadino. Guardate i giocatori di scacchi a mollo mentre godete dei benefici delle fonti termali. Con getti d’acqua e un idromassaggio, è gettonata dalle famiglie.
Terme Rudas e Bagni Turchi
Al lato Buda del ponte Elisabetta, proprio poco più avanti dei bagni Gellért, questo bagno è stato ristrutturato di recente. Aperto agli uomini tranne il martedì, in cui è aperto alle donne. E’ aperto a entrambi i generi il venerdì e il sabato notte, dalle 22 alle 4 e la domenica dalle 6 alle 17.
Bagni Lukács
Al lato Buda del ponte Margherita, una bellissima spa che vanta il più alto livello di quoziente intellettivo tra i nuotatori: è il luogo prediletto di scrittori, giornalisti e politici. L’acqua è davvero efficace – vi basti leggere le molte targhe appese alle pareti dai pazienti, in segno di riconoscenza.
Bagni Király
Costruiti nel 1565 dal pascià turco di Buda, questo grandioso bagno è una vera perla per gli appassionati di storia ed è anche eccezionale per rilassarsi, in media vi sono solo poche persone dentro. Bagno turco, bagno di vapore e sauna, giorni riservati agli uomini e altri alle donne, entrata mista il mercoledì e la domenica.
Bagni Dagály
Questo bagno è il più vicino a Budaveg, giusto al ponte Árpád. Possiede un’ampia piscina, due bellissime vasche termali e molte piscine scoperte in estate. Posto delizioso, frequentato solo da tranquille persone del luogo. Imperdibile con i bambini in estate!
Bagni Palatinus, Római e Csillaghegyi
Tre fantastiche piscine all’aria aperta con vasche per nuotare, vasche scoperte e alcune dotate di grandi scivoli d’acqua. Palatinus è sull’Isola Margherita, perciò vicinissima a Budaveg. Quasi come una vacanza al mare, grande divertimento per tutta la famiglia! Guardate su questo sito per i dettagli o chiedete a me.
I nostri ospiti hanno commentato nel nostro guestbook:
We had an absolutely brilliant time in Budapest… it has been both our favourite holiday yet!
Zsofi, thank you so much for your invaluable help in getting us acquainted with the city… you have been an excellent hostess to us. I would definitely recommend the 3 hour guided tour with Zsofi at the beginning of your stay. It proved to be a really useful way to learn your way around the city and Zsofi is a very knowledgeable and experienced guide.
Visitors to Budapest should definitely try out one of the gorgeous spas. We went to Szechenyi Baths near City Park and didn’t want to leave!
The apartment is fabulous, much nicer than it appears on the webpage, and so spacious and nicely decorated. We both feel so, so “at-home” here in Budapest! It helps if you get Zsofi to mark out the locations of the veggie restaurants on a map for you (it makes then much easier to find) Also, make sure you try out the new “Sunny Tastes” restaurant on Rozsa utca (Ask Zsofi!)
They serve gorgeous pizzas and nice traditional Hungarian Style dishes, and it’s completely vegan!!!
All in all we have had a fantastically memorable and enjoyable time.
I sincerely hope that Budaveg proves as successful as it deserves to be… it is a wonderful idea!!
See you again…
Jess and Ian xxx
We had a nice but too short time in Budapest. The apartment was lovely and cosy (and good exercise as we only used the stairs!!!)
The metro very easy to use; even walking around was not too bad.
Thanks to Zsofi and James, we’d love to come back sometime!
Brigitte and Chris Ireland
Ps: Try the Lukács Spa in the early morning on a weekday – it’s a small but great place and a refreshing way to start the day (40 minute walk – not bad).
Wonderful apartment, wonderful city. Was like having a home away from home!
We ate very well here, there is much for veggies. Our tip: go to the spas, they are fantastic and the 7 day travelcard is great value for money.
Thanks for everything Zsofi!
Sarah + Andy UK
We have really enjoyed our 9 days here. Budaveg is not just a self-catering apartment but is a vegetarian resource and we have benefited from Zsofi’s helpful information on veggie restaurants, cafes etc. All of you reading this will no doubt appreciate how great it is to go out and have real choice and not have to settle for bland veggie options when you never know what’s in it or how it’s prepared. We tried most of the veggie restaurants on the list and mostly we recommend Vegetarium (as it has air-con, you can drink beer there and the food is good), Napfényes Izek (which has more atmosphere + the staff are friendly, the food is good, lots and all vegan – very nice was strawberry soup) and falafel café (if you like to eat salad + falafels – this place is really fab – about 20 salads, very informal).
We got most of our fruit and veg at the local market which is cheap, fresh + open everyday. Turn right at main door, at 1st junction turn right onto Victor Hugo, walk to end of street, go under underpass passing metro entrance and up and arrive in market (in the tacky eighties building you can’t miss)
Sights: Margaret Island- very relaxing cycling and swimming in “Palatinus” (would be good for kids if you have some)
House of terror – yes controversial but very effective and memorable
Statue Park – great raw material but they haven’t really decided what to do with it – but still worth a visit (take a hat if sunny as not much shade – no need for direct bus – rip-off!) Easy to get tram (we had travel card) and bus (500F return)
Museum of Applied Arts – nice building and lovely folk art exhibit now till 27 July ’05 – upstairs in card exhibit is some stuff for kids (v. small). As with all museums (except Fine Art Museum) good to get photo licence (normally about 400F) as postcard selections are inadequate.
Museum of Ethnography – free but hot! – interesting Hungarian folk costumes, tools and installations
Széchenyi Baths, near zoo – fab building + hot spas (one over 30oC) – worth going for experience + atmosphere though Margaret Island baths are much more spacious.
We also enjoyed coffee in the ‘Gerbaud’ (Vörösmarty Tér) making 2 coffees last forever (it’s quite expensive) whilst sketching everyone else soaking up the atmosphere amongst velvet curtains + chandeliers – we read the service was slow but this was not true. It was full of tourists so no need to be posh to go there – they served us!
Another highlight was the ‘Pushkin’ cinema – opposite the Astoria – studenty picture house showing some English films with Hungarian subtitles.
Time to sign off now – hope you have great time here at Budaveg – thank you to Zsofi.
Isla and Seth from Bristol UK
Dear Zsofi, Lovely flat, good facilities, central location. Thermal baths at City Park were so relaxing, first time we’ve ever visited a ‘spa’, not many in England. Had a tasty lunch at Falafel, and also went to the ‘Sunny Tastes’ and Wabisabi. A trip to Szentendre by boat was very pleasant.
Thanks
John and Sandra, East Midlands UK
Aprite la mappa google di budaveg per vedere dove si trova l’appartamento e i luoghi d’interesse, e ricordate di prenotare un tour guidato per la vostra vacanza! Se avete domande, contattateci via email o facebook, o chiedete ciò che volete via formspring, siamo sempre lieti di incontrare e salutare viaggiatori vegetariani!
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