The Rough Guide to BudapestWhen Steinar and I were visiting Budapest this summer, Steinar bought the best travelling guide I have seen for Budapest so far and I have seen a few! It’s the “THE ROUGH GUIDE to Budapest“.

Rough Guides has managed to build up a community of travellers reading their travel guides and comming with suggestions for improvements and corrections to parts that are outdated. And for a big city as Budapest, there will always be things in travel guides that are outdated. As the authors of the guide have a focus on how you can get to Budapest cheaply, I started the e-mail with some information about the new commercial airport by Balaton, and the two flights Ryanair has from Stansted and Hahn to this new airport.

If you are visiting Budapest, you must visit one of the many coffee houses in the city. New of this year is that New York Palace has opened. More then worth a visit if you ask me.

The third tips I came with, was about Goethe Institute having moved away from the State Opera House. It was a really nice cafe and I was frequently visiting it before going to the Opera. Great coffee and German newspapers. It was also a place where many backpackers met. A true loss for the area.

I will spend parts of the weekend relaxing and reading through the book, and see if there is more that I can contribute with.

One last thing, a few of the travelling guides are available as PodScrolls for your iPod.

Update – September 2nd:

I got a real nice answer from Rough Guides, here is parts of it:

Thank you very much for your email and for your comments and information regarding the Rough Guide to Budapest. I have passed your email on to the authors of the guide who I’m sure will refer to it when preparing the next edition.

Guess I have to buy the next book then, just to check if my name is in it!