As there is only two months to go until our wedding and we are busy preparing for our very special day, we would like to provide you as much as help as we can for your visit.
Getting to Budapest, Flights, Time Zone,
There are various ways to arrive to Budapest from the United States. However, let us raise the attention to the two most popular options:
1. Flying to one of the European airports and then catching a connecting flight to Budapest
2. Flying from New York to Budapest directly with Delta Airlines, American Airlines or Malev - Hungarian Airlines. Any of the choices are great!
If you choose to have a connecting flight at one of the European airports, we recommend you to choose the major airports of Europe, like Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna: the most commonly used route to fly to Budapest from Washington, D.C. is via Frankfurt, Germany. However, you might also consider flying to Vienna and then taking a 3 hours train ride to Budapest on a comfortable, modern train. http://www.mav-start.hu/english/index.php Trains leave from the center of Vienna and arrive to the center of Budapest. However, you need to take a city-airport train between the Vienna Airport and the center of Vienna - called CAT http://www.cityairporttrain.com/ - and then take few stops by metro to get to the Westbahnhof train station in Vienna, where you will be able to to catch your train to Budapest. Trains leave every two hours 7 days a week. (We do not recommend however, catching a taxi from the Vienna airport to the Westbahnhof train station, since the Vienna airport is fairly far from the Vienna city center and you may face a very pricey taxi ride.)
However, to find the best price for your flight ticket, we recommend you to visit www.kayak.com - a popular and reliable website that we often use ourselves to buy our flight tickets.
Please remember that flights from the U.S. to Europe arrive the next day. So we highly recommend to leave extra time to get to Budapest and to leave extra time to reach your connecting flight as
1. Major European airports are fairly large and you may need to take a train to get from one Airport Terminal to the other.
2. You will be entering the European Union and so you will need to leave time to go through customs.
3. On a busy summer day connecting flights may be delayed as well.
4. Hungary is now holding the Presidency of the European Union, so there are more business travelers coming to Budapest, so flights will probably be more busy as well.
Please also keep in mind that Hungary is on a time zone that is six hours ahead to Washington, D.C., therefore you will probably face some jet-leg.
As a U.S. citizen, there is no visa needed to visit Hungary, if your visit to the European Union is shorter then three months.
Please let us know if you need any assistance in getting ready for your trip. It will be our pleasure to help you in any way we can.
Please check back for further details for your trip and about our wedding!
