19.4.09

New article in the Telegraph

New article in the Telegraph in Uk about bathing in Budapest
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16.4.09

SZIGET 2009

The world economy crisis will drive SZIGET festival into some new areas in 2009.

The organizing team is counting on more foreign travellers to spend their euros in Budapest, so beside the airport link, they will send out ‘party-trains’ to Netherlands, Germany and France. SZIGET visitors can board on the trains and get the party feeling on their way to Hungary on train.

The Hungaricum Village is also gonna be a new attractions, it is a small skanzen like hungarian village on a 1 acre area with hungarian culinary, wines, handcraft arts and artists.

SZIGET 2009 will offer more VIP campsite than in 2008.

For foreign visitors SZIGET is going to offer more foreign concerts and bands , like Die Toten Hosen, Fatboy Slim, Armin van Buuren, The Offsprings, Placebo, Ska-P and many more

4.4.09

Balaton airport reopens

Balaton Airport in Sarmellek reopened on 4th of Apr as the Lufthansa charter arrived with 32 guests onboard.
Jonathan Moore, the managing director of the airport said they're planning more visitor this year than the 110.000 last year, although right now only the Lufthansa will fly to Sarmellek from Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Frankfurt 3times a week.
Beside the regular traffic, there are several charter flights only.
The Ryanair deal, which drove the majority of the traffic in the past, is still under talks.