The Budapest Card and BudapestGO App: Discounts and Freedom of Movement - For me, the Budapest Card has two main advantages: Free admission to a variety of attractions (you can find the full list on the Budapest Card website) Unrestricted access to Budapest's public transportation system If you need to pack a lot into your time in Budapest, then relying on public transport is a must. And the Budapest Card allows you to forget about buying tickets or worrying whether you can board a certain mode of transportation. It gives you the freedom to move around the city with ease. And don't forget to download the free BudapestGO mobile app. It will help you plan your journeys, finding connections from anywhere to anywhere in the city. The combination of free entry to attractions and unlimited public transit access makes the Budapest Card an invaluable tool for making the most of your time in the Hungarian capital. It removes the hassle and uncertainty, letting you focus on exploring and experiencing all that Budapest has to offer.

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.

Budapest is great! - Budapest is a wonderful city with so much to see. Don't end up in the hospital! My husband was in the hospital for 3 days. The staff was good,the facility ugh!

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.

3 days in Budapest - We purchased the 72-hour card online and picked it up at the airport. It was definitely useful for getting around by public transport but of all that is called "free" mind you that it is only if you buy the 72 hours plus (more expensive, 99€ and if you stop for the weekend is definitely expensive) The main attractions are not included, such as the Parliament, the great Synagogue, the Basilica of St. Stephen, the church of Matthias, all monuments worth visiting. Then yes they offer free entry to the Lukacs spa but even there they did not tell us that apart from the two baths on the 2nd floor, super crowded, there was a nicer sl ground floor pool, certainly larger and less crowded. If I had to make a suggestion: no to the card yes to the daily or cumulative tickets for 10 rides... the cost will never reach the cost of the card

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.

No perks, no access anywhere that's not already free. - Don't purchase, everything on the card is already free. Sonthe only thing you are paying for is transportation, which is quick and easy and also 10x cheaper. You're welcome!