Budapest Essentials Private Tour (Highlights and Hidden Sights)

Name: Budapest Essentials Private Tour (Highlights and Hidden Sights)
Brand: Budapest Locals
SKU: 169189P1
Price: 98.65 USD
Rating: 5.0 (697 reviews)

Badge of ExcellenceBudapest, Hungary

3 hours
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Get an overview of Budapest's most important sights and landmarks on this private guided tour. Tick off a variety of top sights—such as St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Parliament building, Liberty Square, and the Chain Bridge. As well as city highlights, the tour introduces you to hidden gems that you might not find if exploring alone.

Tick off lots of top Budapest sights in a short space of time
Go inside one of the city's most beautiful buildings—St. Stephen's Basilica
No need to bring food with you—snacks are included
Exploring the city with a guide saves hours of research time

What's Included

Walking tour with a licensed tour guide
Skip the line entry and guided visit to the St.Stephen's Cathedral
Home-made strudel in the Strudel House
Coffee and/or Tea
Free map and many recommendations for your stay

Private transportation

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

InterContinental Budapest
Budapest, Budapest Budapest Apaczai Csere J.U, 12-14, 1052 Hungary
Meeting point is in front of the main door

End point

Budapest, Deák Ferenc tér, Hungary

What To Expect

Szechenyi Lanchid

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Shoes on the Danube Bank

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Hungarian Parliament Building

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Liberty Square

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

St. Stephen's Basilica (Szent Istvan Bazilika)

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Gresham Palace

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Jewish Quarter

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

The Tree of Life

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Szimpla Kert

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation

Most travelers can participate
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

Operated by Budapest Locals

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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Reviews

5.0

697 reviews

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Wonderful tour with an exceptional guide!

Laura_G, May 2024

Eszter was an exceptional guide -- engaging, warm, witty, and deeply knowledgeable about Budapest/Hungary history and culture. We had interesting conversations as she showed us around the city, and she gave us recommendations for the remainder of our visit based on our interests. Highly recommend!

Great Walking Tour!

Christina_K, May 2024

Andi was a fantastic tour guide! She was very informative and knowledgeable. Definitely recommend doing this tour on your first day so you can get the lay of the land and local restaurant recommendations!

Well worth it!

Bill_K, May 2024

Great historical perspective and stories from Estzer. Since she grew up in the area we were able to see places you would t have with a bigger tour.

Highly recommend this tour while in Budapest

linda_g, Apr 2024

Petra took us on a wonderful tour of Budapest. We learned a lot of the history, and it was great to hear her take on some of the sights. Stopping off for some strudel was quite a treat, they were all very tasty.

Wonderful tour

Josephine_F, Apr 2024

Andi was outstanding. We had a little problem right at the start that evaporated in her capable hands. She showed us special, unusual things in the city that made the tour so memorable. She knew history, recommended restaurants, showed us how to get around, and took us to a very nice strudel house. Great value. Great experience. Thanks, Andi

Get a private tour and learn the city

Thomas_T, Apr 2024

The Shoe Memorial sculpture, the Liberation protest, and the Jewish Quarter. So much history that was explained and was related to today and the future.

Private tour experience with impeccable knowledge

Michelle_D, Apr 2024

Petra was incredibly knowledgeable on the history for entire area. We enjoyed the one on one personal experience vs an unbearable large group setting that you don’t get the same experience when having to compete with stranger's. We ended the tour with a sit down coffee and strudel at a local cafe. Highly recommend this tour to enhance your knowledge of the city.

Excellent

Patricia_H, Apr 2024

Budapest is a city with so much history and beauty. Andi our guide was excellent! Her knowledge and professionalism made our tour even more enjoyable! I highly recommend this tour and Andi!

Amazing tour and tour guide. Highly recommended

Caroline_E, Apr 2024

Easter was an amazing tour guide, taking time to tailor the tour to our requirements. She told us loads about what life has been like in Hungary over the decades, not just about the buildings and statues that we passed. Strudel house stop was also a winner

Excellent Tour and Guide

Mark_F, Mar 2024

Andi was awesome! Great tour, saw a lot and learned a lot! We had been on a morning tour, told her what we had seen, she adjusted and took us to things we had not experienced in the morning! Excellent tour and guide!!

Awesome excellent tour

Alfred_B, Mar 2024

If we could give more stars we would. Our guide Anita was beyond great. Being in Budapest for the first time we had a ton of questions. Anita answered all of them and made us feel so comfortable and confident going out and exploring the city by ourselves later on. Absolutely recommend you book a tour through them.

Guided tour of Budapest

Christopher_B, Mar 2024

Our guide Andi was fantastic. She did a great job throughout and provided a great local knowledge to the city. Would recommend her to anyone

Great Introduction to Budapest

Wendy_N, Jan 2024

Very nice tour with Andi. A nice introduction to the Pest side of Budapest and oriented us to the city. Andi was very engaging and provided lots of great information about the history of the city. And the streusel visit was great!

Great Tour.

Ethan_W, Jan 2024

My family and I booked this tour for our only full day in Budapest. The tour lasted a little over 3 hours, and I think we really hit a lot of the highlights of the Pest side of the city. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable and she did a great job of explaining the history of Budapest. We all had a very enjoyable time.

Just book! Wonderful learning and eye opening experience!

Sharon_C, Dec 2023

10 out of 5 stars. I absolutely enjoyed the tour. Orsi introduced me to the starting history of Hungary to current cultures. I learned so much about Budapest and Hungary. I'm thinking about learning more about it when I go back home. Since it's private tour (solo traveler), the walking pace was manageable. I loved the strudel stop and coffee stop. I highly recommend the tour especially if you don't know much about Budapest and Hungary. My guide Orsi explained a lot of things that I would not have known if I walked around by myself. So much to learn and see! 3 hours went quickly. I'm really thankful that Orsi was the guide. Thank you!

Wonderful!

Juanita_L, Dec 2023

Excellent!! Petra, our tour guide, was fabulous, even tho it was pouring rain, she made the best of the situation. She shared so much information with us, which we greatly appreciate. The history was all very interesting, we loved the stop at the strudel house (delicious), and we loved the tour of the Basilica. Petra has been great and she was the memorable part of this tour.

Best Tour Guide

Diane_T, Nov 2023

Eszter was the most wonderful tour guide. Very knowledgeable and just a really nice person to spend time with. She was a wealth of information. Really enjoyed the strudel stop as well. I would hire her again when we are back in Budapest. I would give her more stars if I could!

Love the strudel

Bow_A, Nov 2023

Love the tour. It was so chill with good friends, no rush. Good guide tour, Andy. Love the strudel during the tour.

Excellent personal service by the tour guide

Leo_M, Nov 2023

Excellent description of history of Budapest, esp. the Jewish ghetto, and the important cathedrals and gov’t buildings.

This tour is a must!

Cianella_T, Oct 2023

Andi is very knowledgeable about the history of the country as well as hidden places that you normally would not see. Since we had taken a similar tour the day before, she made sure that we did not waste our time visiting the same places and took us to places that we hadn’t been before and did everything she could to make the tour different. She even gave us recommendations on places to go to for a night out and local places to eat. Andi really went above and beyond to make our tour worthwhile. She is excellent!!! We highly recommend her.