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		Welcome to Budapest.GayGuide.Net, Hungary

This gay & travel guide website is made and permanently updated since 1998 in Budapest, Hungary, in Central or Eastern Europe. At least twice per year we visit every place listed on this page and search for new places; we call every phone number and double check every detail. We hope it assists you to you in discovering this town. We enjoy to go everywhere and we are happy to share all the information with you to help you having a pleasant, uncomplicated and safe time without the hassle to figure out everything on your own. Where to go when? Do you need to bring towels to the bath house or not? If you find anything that is not up2date please contact us rightaway. Tell us everything you know and we will go there and include it to this page. If you take pictures in Budapest contact us as well. We may use them for this page. We try to describe every place as detailed as possible because we want you to know what to expect before you go to a venue where you have never been before. Also we list entrance fees and other prices. We also have a list of places and groups that do not exist or are not gay anymore (You may find them still listed in other guides). Support us today. Since 1998 we update this website and reply every email. This is a volounteer service and you can support it making a donation using your credit card. PayPal is our authorized payment processor. The credit card transaction will appear on your bill as 'PayPal'. PayPal protects your privacy and security. You choose the amount of your donation: Budapest is the capital of Hungary with appr. 2 million people living here. Best time to visit is from early April to middle of November. During the past few years, an interesting and lively gay scene has emerged in Eastern Europe, especially in Hungary. Budapest ("Paris of the East") has always been known as a gay metropolis in Eastern Europe. However, you will not find gay bars and dance clubs or cafés for a specific audience (like a leather bar, a rent boy bar, a bar for chubbies, etc.). Everyone goes to the same places (age or preference doesn't matter). All of the bars (except some baths) are in the center of Budapest's Pest side, in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th district. Buda is hilly and residential, Pest is flat and the lively part of the city. All gay accommodations listed in our guide are in the center of Budapest's Pest side and we believe staying at gay accommodations makes it a lot easier to get access to Budapest's gay life than if you stay isolated at regular hotels. At check in the staff will take the time to give you all the infos that you need to get started. Our Budapest Gay Guide has also info about baths and saunas, restaurants, media, groups and associations, condoms and lubricant, AIDS, events and gay pride, cruising, sex shops, escorts, laws plus gay listings for Hungarys countryside and links. Since low cost airlines started flying into and from Budapest there is no low season anymore and if you like to have a chance to choose your accommodation we recommend to book early. Low cost airlines operating in Budapest are Smartwings, www.smartwings.net (Flights from/to Dubai, Madrid, Prague); Wizzair www.wizzair.com (Flights from/to Barcelona, Bourgas, Brussels-Charleroi, Corfu, Crete Eindhoven, Gothenburg, London, Madrid, Malmö, Milan, Naples, Palma de Mallorca, Paris, Rhodos, Rome, Stockholm, Tirgu Mures, Varna, Venice); Easyjet www.easyjet.com (Flights from/to Berlin, Dortmund, Geneva, London, Paris); Ryanair www.ryanair.com (Flights from/to Bristol, Dublin, East Midlands, Glasgow); Air Berlin www.airberlin.com (Flights from/to Berlin, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Muenchen, Lodon, Mailand, Faro, Zurich); Germanwings, www.germanwings.com (Flights from/to Athens, Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Faro, Hamburg, Krakow, Leipzig, Lisbon, London, Marseille, Munich, Nice, Rome, Rostock, Salzburg, Verona, Stuttgart, Zurich); Norwegian Airlines, www.norwegian.no (Flights from/to Bergen, Bodo, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stavanger, Stovkholm, Tromso, Trondheim and more); Jet2com Airlines, www.jet2.com (Flights from/to Manchester); Air Lingus, www.aerlingus.com (Flights from/to Dublin); Air Baltic, www.airbaltic.com (Flights Kaliningrad, Riga, Vilnius); Brussels Airlines, www.brusselsairlines.com (Flights from/to See webpage); Isr Air Airlines, www.israirairlines.com (Flights from/to See webpage) The chapter general tourist info gives you country facts (climate, time, money, national holidays); Info needed to travel to Hungary (visa, airlines, trains, busses, ships and cars); travel in Budapest (map, public transport, taxis, rent a car, lost and found); and about communication (telecom, internet, dictionary, translations, interpreter, radio, TV) plus useful addresses (embassies, health, shopping, postal service, laundry, museums, galleries, tourist info) plus general links. There is more we can do for you. First you should download and print the pdf file that we prepared and that includes all the info. Then you should subscribe to our newsletter. Don't worry, we send newsletters no more than four times per year. Next subscribe to the Gay Budapest Yahoo Group. Use the mailing list to introduce yourself to other users of this site and let others introduce themselves to you. Share info and experiences, and meet online before you maybe meet in Budapest. You may oder books and maps online. You may also get latest event info for the period you stay in Budapest, and we can email you info about the next gay pride. We have a great fluent English and German speaking gay tour guides who can take you around. They can make it easier for you to discover the city and the gay places and can answer all your questions. And we offer translations of texts and interpreter for meetings. If you like this website you may donate for this website. Every (also small) donation will help to keep this site alive and to add more content in the future.