Getting Around

Getting around Budapest is genuinely easy once someone explains the system, so consider this that someone.

This category holds the unglamorous essentials: airport transfers, the metro and public transport, taxis and which app to order them with, plus the things nobody writes about until they go wrong, like getting sick abroad or spotting a scam before it costs you.

No romance here, just straight answers from people who use this system daily. The scams piece is the one we send to every friend who visits, mostly so they stop hailing taxis off the street.

Read the airport guide before you land and the scams guide before your first night out. Everything else you can look up when you need it, which is the whole point of this section.