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Revision as of 20:52, 11 June 2008

Budapest is the capital of Hungary.

Hitching out

M1, M7 West towards Bratislava, Vienna, Zagreb

<map lat='47.506534' lng='19.125824' zoom='10' view='0' float='right' height='270' width='350' /> When heading to west (M7 to Balaton or M1 to Austria and Slovakia), you should take a bus or something to Budaörs. There is a gas station with a lot of traffic to both motorways.

However I tried starting from inside the city a few times (between Moskva ter and Kelenföld), but I never got a lift, although there was a lot of traffic (really much) in my direction, and the place was good for stopping. So I have no clue, why don't want to pick up someone inside the city.

There's a good point inside Budapest also. It's in the above mentioned neighborhood Kelenföld, on the Budaörsi út (road). You can check the schedule on the homepage [1] of the local transport company, but the bus number 40, 41, 53, 139, 153 are ok. You should try on the OMV petrol station.

An other option to get to this petrol station is to take the tram 19 or 49, go to the last stop (it's in the front of small train station), then walk along the train station until the walking tunnel, go to the right inside the tunnel, on the exit walk straight until you see the highway, then go to right and cross the road by the walking bridge, go to left and walk in direction of the mcdonald (where the petrol station is).

The best is to use a sign "M1" or "M7", according if you want go to west or to south.

There is also another petrol station just ~5km further directly before the fork of the highway to M1 or M7. But it seems that you'll find less cars here than at the OMV petrol station.

There is another OMV petrol station which is even closer to the city center. It is situated at the beginning of Budaörsi út. You can reach it easily by taking tram no.61 from Moszkva Ter. Coming from Pest side you should take bus no.112. There is a lot of traffic to M1 and M7. It took us 20min to get a lift to Tatabanya. Our Hungarian friend told us that he never has to wait more than 30min.

M5 South towards Belgrade, Arad

First you have to get to Határ út. That's a station of the 3rd/blue metro. Take the bus red#94 (route) and go untill you see a citroen carmarket on the other side of the road. Here you can start to hitch. I recommend with a sign "Szeged", that's a bigger city near to the border. Another good possibility is to take Bus Number 84 from Határ út. This one goes straight onto the highway passing by a petrol station, where you can start to hitch. It was working really well last time.

6 South towards Érd, Pécs

To get out of Budapest, get to Móricz Zsigmond körtér. You can take tram #49 from Déli Pályaudvar/Southern railway station or take bus #7 from Ferenciek Tere. At Móricz Zsigmond körtér, which is the last stop, cross the street and get on bus #3.

After approximately 30 minutes, you’ll see a big shopping mall called Campona on your left. Get off at the next stop, Budatétényi Sorompó, which is just past the mall. After you exit, turn back and walk the way the bus just came. Cross the street at the first crossing to your right. There’s no street sign, so no name. That street has a railway overpass that crosses over it. Walk under the overpass and in a couple of minutes you'll arrive at a busy road. This is road #6 that goes south to Pecs. Turn right on that road and start hitching from that corner. It's got enough room cars to pull over right there.

If you get dropped off at Érd, you’ll find the highway (M6) and the normal road (6). The road is probably a better choice than the M6 since there's less traffic on M6 because there's a toll to use it and it only lasts till Dunaújváros which is 60 kilometres away.

For food, bathroom, and buses, get dropped of at the Tesco in Pécs. There's a bus station there.

The whole trip should be around 3-4 hours.

M3, E60 East towards Cluj-Napoca, L'viv, Kosice

E60 East towards Oradea, Cluj-Napoca

Take metro line 3 to the end of the line where you will find a bus station. Take the airport bus, it will stop at terminal 1, stay on the bus until the second to last stop before the airport. You will notice that the city ends quite abruptly, prior to this you will see a petrol station, this is the last petrol station for at least 10-15 km. From the second to last bus stop you will have to walk back to this station. There is no good place to hitch after this point for around 10-15km as the road is motorway. Later on there are more hitching opportunities and its easy to get dropped off somewhere useful. Alternatively outside terminal 1 of the airport is as good as most roadside locations however its probable that a only a proportion of traffic is travelling right out of the city.

M2 North towards Kraków, Warsaw, Poland

There is one straight road (no E77 / M2) from Budapest to Warsaw. In Budapest you should take a metro (blue line) and get out on second last stop (in north part of city). It is called Ujpest-Varoskapu. There is a river and road next to it. You can hitchhike there (there many bus stops and few gas stations) to Sahy (it's Hungarian-Slovakian border). Or you can then take a bus (96 or 104), go down at Foti ut (one stop before the last one I think). Here you'll be on the intersection of Vaci ut and Foti ut, you have a bus stop and then behind that you have an old abandoned bus stop with a huge space for anything to stop. That's where you hitch and usually wait just a couple of minutes.

In Sahy you will easily stop a truck to Poland (don't go to Slovakia, just hitchhike there to directly to Poland). Than you can go out in Chyzne (it's Slovakian-Polish border). Almost every truck there goes to Krakow but you can hitchhike to Warsaw as well. If you decide to go to Krakow, try to get to city center (railway station) and there you can ask people where is Aleja 29 listopada (in English it means 29. November Avenue) or you can take bus no 105 (there is bus stop next to railway station) and go there. You can hitchhike there but better is 2-3 km on north (it's the road to Warsaw).

Public Transport

Public transport in Budapest is really good. A single ticket is about €1,10 and it seems like conductors don't check the stamps (there seems to be no date/time information), so it might be possible to use them for a few days without getting caught. Buses and trams are less risky, but don't mess with the underground, there are inspectors posted at the entrance and exits to the platforms during all operational hours who will demand to see your ticket.

After you buy your ticket, you have to validate it. There are red machines on buses and trams that punch a hole in a different place on your ticket each day, which is how they determine if you validated your ticket that day (or at least not the day before...) I haven't had a ticket checked on a bus or tram yet, but if you want to be safe, hang around the machine and if you see an inspector coming, punch your ticket immediately. Inspectors are easy to spot, they're wearing uniforms and have badges hanging around their necks.

The old "I didn't know I had to validate the ticket" thing will not work with an inspector. The Hungarian transportation system is going bankrupt and they need those fines, so if you get caught without a valid ticket, you have to pay about €24.

(June 2008).
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