Booze Cruise! Dance away a night on a Booze Cruise in Budapest among UNESCO World Heritage sites: floating boat, boozing folks, dance floor all year round.
Bath Party! Besides the ruin pub crawls and parties at the bars, check out if the thermal bath party is something on your to do list: Budapest bath parties are one of a kind spa parties with laser rays, electronic music, and thousands of party goers all year round in Szechenyi Baths.
Ruin Bar Party: Just simply go to Instant Fogas party place on a weekend (Friday or Saturday offer the most lively nights. If you would rather get introduced to the nightlife in Budapest ruin bars with a friendly guide, you can book a Budapest pub crawl to your preference.
Cool & Daring
Cool Outdoor Adventures in Budapest
Palvolgyi Cave – photo by termeszetvedelem.hu
Normafa hill is on the outskirts of Budapest among green hills, host to the popular Kalandpalya Obstacle Course Park with various levels and rope constructions among the trees. Great for letting your adventurous spirit roam while tackling obstacles. In winter sleighing and skiing is an option too.
Caves and Labyrinths under the Buda Hills
Buda Castle hides a complex cave system under its bulging belly. You can take a leisurely Cave Tour in the Buda Castle (40 or 90 min underground walk), or visit the nuclear shelter in a guided tour, called Hospital in the Rock (also in the caves).
If you’d prefer something sportier involving climbing, ropes, etc. Budapest is still a super cool place: without leaving the city, you can venture into the depths of karst caves, like the Palvolgyi Cave, which is a fascinating dripstone cave, and also the longest one in Budapest (more than 20kms). Budapest offers 3 hour Guided Cave Tours, which run almost every day for the brave ones!
A part of the huge cave system continues below the Buda Castle Hill too, where an exciting Labyrinth awaits the visitors with its interesting history and exhibitions.
Cool Selfies from Atop in Budapest
Budapest Fisherman’s Bastion BRC
Cool Photo Opportunities in Budapest
Take a cool selfie from some of the most amazing attractions in Budapest.
Budapest Eye – Ferris Wheel in the hear of the city
Citadel with the Statue of Liberty– the fortified fortress of the Austrians to watch over the Hungarian rebels. Big Bro is watching you.
Elisabeth Lookout Tower – back to nature, tower over the green tree tops covering romantic hillsides in Budapest
Normafa Chair Lift – each bench seats two on this classic open air chair lift of the Buda Hills
Cool – Just Cool …Outside the Box
Cool Art in Budapest
Light – The Light Art Exhibition in Budapest is easily one of the top choices. It’s a mesmerising interactive experience where digital art meets light and sound effects surrounding you. For us, it was immersive and unforgettable. Venture into the darkness of the exhibition hall with an open mind. It will offer a special trip to the realms of light and darkness, shades and shadows. Playful at times, mysterious at other points or studious, observant (recalling bits and pieces of the sci-fi film Metropolis, Twin Peaks, a Documentary on Prisms, a private 3D Disco Snowglobe and more). It’s most importantly about you, so let yourself experience and get into the meditative displays. The exhibitions keep changing. Maybe it is your call. Maybe it is not. Worth a try, although some say it’s on the pricier side.
Retro – the pre capitalist years had an amazing range of consumer items. Take a time travel back to the retro items of the communist era in Budapest in the Budapest Retro Museum.
Get illuminated in the Future Park in Budapest! Originally planned for kids, but hey, who hasn’t got a kid inside? Colourful projections, science play house with lights, mystery and some psychedelic rendering of nature. Draw your animals and see them floating, walk on digital projections.
Segway Tours in Budapest
Segways are still allowed to roll in some of the coolest sites in Budapest. Check some of the best Budapest Segway tours for an unforgettable sightseeing
Room Escape Games– a wide array of games available for adrenaline seekers, parties, couples, and families, to get out of a locked room through solving riddles, finding clues to escape / save the world. Be part of a story, challenge your heads, and enjoy your heroic self in these fun games. Superb option on a rainy day/ night.
Invisible Exhibition – a place to try to go through an exhibition in complete darkness: you can experience what it feels like to be lacking eyesight while navigating through various rooms, guided by blind and visually impaired people. Millenaris Park in Budapest is the permanent home of this peculiar exhibition, which will broaden your horizons through ‘invisibility.’ If you have blind friends / relatives / acquaintances, you will be able to connect with them on new levels.
Horrible Histories has never gotten better in Budapest than in the nuclear shelter and WW2 underground hospital in the Rock Hospital under the Castle Hill. In addition, there’s the House of Terror museum in Budapest, the former site of interrogations in totalitarianism behind the Iron Curtain for more horrible insights into the dark side of humanity. And you thought that we are living in strange, dystopian times? Guess you are right.
At any rate, there are some amazing vehicles to try in Budapest. We would mention the Segway again, it just feels under your feet so right. But vehicle nerds will like the Railway Museum too, or the tiny Underground Museum.
Cool with Animals
The Cat lovers place is the Cat Cafe (called, confusingly, the Budapest Cat Museum, but it’s not really a museum, more like a cat petting paradise. Small and cozy with lovely cats to pass you on that calmness and warmth that will charge you up like a nice hot cuppa).
