Family Trip 2024 - Budapest is such a beautiful city, the Budapest card helped us so much, specially with the transportation being included. transportation system in Budapest is very easy and great

Great time saving card - Great experience with the card, made using public transport really easy. Buses don’t really check for tickets but the metro can have inspectors you just show the card to, very easy to get into the included museums aswell and definitely a time saver.

Couples - Bought the card on arrival at the airport. Little disappointed with the minibud service from the airport. We waited an hour for a shuttle. Used the card for all public transport, river cruise, funicular railway and Luckas bath. Have a shuttle booked for return journey to airport. Use the free visits to places and the trains and metro. We navigated the public transport really well. Hopefully will not be late picking us up. Worth it to us.

Good card. - Use of card is easy and transportation a breeze, but the directions for obtaining the card are confusing. It says they can be delivered to your hotel, but you still have to go somewhere else to register for them, but that turned out to be wrong! So we did extra steps for nothing.

Countercurrent - I have read many extremely negative reviews about Card. We did the 72 h and on balance we saved so mine is a positive judgment. Unfortunately many top attractions such as Parliament are excluded from free and discounts . Overall if you visit museums and various attractions and get around by public transport do it.

Budapest card - helpful but not a money saver, a few glitches to iron out - I bought the 72 Plus card for a three-day trip. I built my itinerary around the card and calculate that I broke even, so it was just about worth it from a financial point of view. It was mainly helpful to me in structuring my trip and not having to mess around with buying and validating public transport tickets. As others have said, it's not a massive money saver and would require you to jog round a lot of attractions in order to see the benefit. However, I probably would have never done a walking tour if it hadn't been free and I probably wouldn't have gone to the Lucaks baths either, so it was a spur to do a few things I wouldn't have otherwise chosen. A few glitches that need to be ironed out - some, but not all, attractions require you to get a ticket from the booking office even though entry is free with the card, and it's not clear which attraction operates which policy, meaning that I queued unnecessarily for tickets when all I needed to do was show the card at entry. Also the Minibud airport shuttle experience was quite poor - it's advertised as free with the 72 Plus card but I couldn't book a transfer before my arrival as you need to have the physical card (which you collect on arrival) so had to pay for a taxi (I was arriving late at night so didn't want to faff around finding my way to my hotel). For my return leg I found that I couldn't book online without going through a payment process and no one replied to my email query so I ended up having to telephone. That was fine but I didn't receive any confirmation following the call, which my hotel said was wrong, so rung them the next day to check and it wasn't clear whether they had my booking, which made me somewhat anxious that the shuttle wasn't going to arrive. It did, but the driver seemed unhappy about my using the card and frogmarched me to the Minibud desk on arrival at the airport. I still don't really know what that was all about but it wasn't a good experience and the process needs to be clearer. The same goes for using public transport - I used the trams and had no idea whether I should swipe the card or whether I just needed to show it to an inspector (it turns out the latter is acceptable). These are all things that many travellers want to know beforehand. To be fair, the Minibud issues were partly at the Minibud end but there's definitely some improvements to be made.

Do your math carefully before buying it - We wanted to do the standard 72h one, but before buying it we did some calculations to understand if it was worth it and, in our case by NOT doing it we saved around 60 euros. The only thing is that the card includes unlimited transport, so if you are a tourist who prefers to get around the city by public transport it could be considered, but even in this case there are other passes only for public transport which are decidedly more convenient than the Budapest Card. .

Disappointing and expensive - Disappointment. The cost is not worth the use that can be made of it. Many important monuments such as Parliament, Synagogue, Fisherman's bastion, Matthias Church, St. Stephen's Church, Opera House, are not included. It does not allow you to skip the queue, as happens with other cards in other European cities. The directions on how to use it and where are unclear. Convenient for public transport but in the end there are much more convenient season tickets.

Useless Budapest Card - One of the most useless thing you can buy for trip to Budapest. This card is way much overpriced. Please carefully study the list of places that are included for discounts before you even buy it. It refers mostly to the places that are looked for by tourists the fewest. The only thing that is really useful is free public transport but that's something you can get way cheaper buying an ordinary ticket.

card budapest - A real rip-off, if you really want to buy it, take the plus 72 and pick it up at your destination, the info on the site is wrong with the risk of getting fines.