July 9, 2013 - Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Budapest

This is Erzsebet Square

This morning Roger and I walked over to what I thought was Erzsebet Square but was not.  I had wanted to try to book a tour to Eger that I had seen online but could not book it online since I could not print vouchers.  This is another reason to book stuff ahead of time at home.  But on our way back we found some people selling Hop-On Hop-Off bus tours.  We picked up the information and took it back to the apartment.  We all agreed that this is what we should do so that we could get a better idea of what we wanted to see and where things were.  Well when we went back to the people we talked to, which was two different companies they got into a bidding war and we went with the Red Bus, which the nice thing about them is that their buses had a cover over the top so you weren't sitting in the sun all day but I think the better deal would have been the Blue Bus and later we also saw that there was a Green & Pink bus also.

If you can look past the grit and grim of the big city you can see some beautiful old buildings.









But they are doing a lot of road work all over the Pest side.

The Parliament building, looking from the Buda side is absolutely beautiful.

But not so much from the Pest side.

We look forward to going to the castle tomorrow.  This is the front view of the Fishermen's Bastion and Matthias Church.

Well when we got back to where we started on the first bus, we went back to the apartment to use the facilities and refill our water bottles.  On our way to catch the other bus we stopped and had lunch at Burger King.  We walked a few more blocks to catch the other bus line.

 This tour went more along the Danube.


















 So we got more views of the bridges.

Then we took a boat ride, which was really a waste of time.











It was hot and crowded and didn't really show you anything that you hadn't seen from the bus.

When we got off we walked all the way back to the apartment.


I have to say the people here will go out of their way to help you.  We had two older women try to help us find things today or give us suggestions of things to see or do.  They were very sweet.