Easter Festival in Matyoland

Thinking about going somewhere for this easter?
Check out our latest offer , 4days/3nights in capital of 'matyoland' Mezokovesd only for 133euro with breakfast, accommodation, tour guide, airport pickup and free entry to the thermal bath.

Mezokovesd is a nice town only about 150kms from Budapest, has highway and train connection to the capital city.
Mezokovesd mainly known for its folk art, called 'matyo', so the people livin' here are matyos.
The matyo folk style is very rich in colors, but can seen only in museum or holidays like easter in real life.
The old part of Mezokovesd , the 'Hadas', with small peasant houses from the 18-19th centuries, is the major place of the easter events, like the traidional folk dance show and all the houses will open to see how its owner (usually a handcraft artist) do his/her job. You can see or try if you wanna.

Once you are tired of the folk stuff, jump into the relaxing hot thermal water at the local Zsory thermal bath and pool, or book one of our optional tour to nearby Eger, to see the fortress and the wineries, or Miskolc to visit the unique cave thermal bath and for a relaxing walk in the forest of Bukk in Lillafured.

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Hegyalja music festival tokaj

It is gonna be the 10th anniversary of the Hegyalja music festival
15-19th July 2009.

This is kinda like a 'small' SZIGET, held in the traditional wine region Tokaj in a summer camp on the shore of the river Tisza.
The directors made up a quite interesting list of concerts and bands like :
- Faithless, Machine Head, Basement Jaxx,Transglobal Undergound,Roni Size,N.O.H.A.
but there will be more rock concerts, trash metal bands, hungarians as well.
And many more not only music concerts...

You can put up your tent or looking for a nice hotel/pansion/guesthouse in the area.

How to get there? From Budapest by Intercity train to Debrecen (via Miskolc) or normal train to Miskolc with exchange to Nyiregyhaza. (cost around 3230-4800HUF depends on train).
Check timetable

Tickets : 4day pass - 17900 HUF (if you order now only 12500)
daily ticket - 6900 HUF
tent ticket is included in the weekly pass, other 900HUF (the number of tents are limited!)
children under 14 can enter FREE with adult supervision.

New attraction in Budapest

Hopefully from this summer, you can decide to do the sightseeing tour a bit different than before in Budapest, Hungary.

A hungarian company called RiverRide, purchased its first amphibious coach, so the first part of the tour is the same old routine, but than the bus simply splash into the Danube and works as a boat. After the watery expedition, the bus is going to climb up the rivershore and stuck in the traffic jam

The coach is a luxury tourist bus, normally run with gasoline, but has an additional engine, kinda like a speedboat, and the waterjet engine makes the bus as fast as a normal boat in the water.

You can save some money with the prices as well, since you have to buy only 1ticket, adults 7000HUF, children 5000HUF (HUF means hungarian forint).

Check out route

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Article about Tokaj wines at the Times

I found an article about one of the wine makers in Tokaj.
Check it out

How to get to Tokaj?

Michelin ratings vs. hurka & kolbasz

No good news, or at least nothing new.
None of the hotels, restaurants in Budapest gained a single Michelin star...but Nancsi Neni's Restaurant was in its good shape, as it has a recommendation (the only one in Budapest).

Check out Nancsi's Restaurant

That does not mean that chefs can't cook...try else than McDonalds
Want something authentical budapest style...eat at the butcher. Most of the butchers in Budapest offer hot sausages, hot paprika sidedish, slice of bread or hurka, grilled chicken.
Have a pair of Debreceni sausages with mustard and hot paprika or a pair of kolbasz (the hungarian style sausage) and hurka.

New routes for Malev

Malev, the Hungarian Airlines introduced its new summer timetable, including some new routes or more frequent flights.
New routes :
St. Peterburg Russia, 2 flight weekly,
Iasi Romania, 5 flight weekly till Jun, than 6, that's a new OneWorld destination as well
Amman, Jordan 2 flights weekly

More frequent :
Hamburg 2 times daily
Rome 2 times daily
Zagreb 20 times weekly
Thesaloniki and Tirana 13 times weekly
and more flights to Helsinki, Buchurest and Varna

Codeshare flight to Moscow with Aeroflot Seremetevo airport 2 times daily

And new summer destinations : Malaga (2times weekly) and Split (5times weekly)

MotoGP track won't open in 2009

Tamas Suchman said today that the MotoGP race in 2009 in Balatonring is not a possible option.
The project is 50/50% between the hungarian state and the spanish investor Sedesa.
But Sedesa, whom wanted to finance the racetrack from bank loan, did not ask for a bank loan by that time, so the hungarian state see the project will have a delay until next year.

The MotoGP track, so called Balatonring is going to be build near the lake balaton, heviz bath and flybalaton airport. Originally planned to be able to host MotoGP race in 2009.
The original plans should have to be revised anyway, since Flybalaton airport is closed due to weak traffic, as Ryanair cancelled balaton flights during winter, but it won't be working from spring as it seems. The company behind the airport has huge depts, and Ryanair is not sure to reopen the balaton route. The hungarian tourism organization also decided to support bus tours in 2009, rather than flying.

Train in the skanzen in szentendre

New attraction in skanzen , szentendre

New vehicle will help to discover the Open Air Museum, called Skanzen, in Szentendre, which's lying on 60acres from 8th April.
The old Ganz mototrain will go around on a 2kms long track , there are going to be 5 stops, the first stop is the main entrance of course.
The train will be authentic , as the mototrain from the 1920s, the conductors, tickets all will be the same as in the 1920s.

And a good news : the train is totally accessable by babystrollers, by wheelchair so you'd better go and check out the new attraction on the Easter Holiday, as there will be much more to see and do in the Skanzen.

more on Easter
more about the Skanzen