Americans FIRST Time in BUDAPEST Hungary 🇭🇺 | One of the Most Underrated Cities in Europe 

Now that we're spending some time in Central Europe for the first time, Budapest really set a high standard for us. We would love to return as soon as we can.

For HUF2500 ($7) a daily ticket is available, you can travel with the public transport system (trams, buses, metro, etc) limitlessly for 24 hrs. The Budapest transport system is one of the best in Europe.

I recently returned to the U.S. after two-fascinating years living and teaching English in Budapest. You did a commendable job covering the more important spots and foods for being there for the first time and a short tint at that. It is a truly remarkable city-and it manages to some extent to stay just under the radar. The prices are reasonable ensuring a great value and the history, museums, opera, etc. are some of the best in Europe. World class transportation system too!

Beautiful Budapest. Thank you for this wonderful video.

Köszönöm, olyan helyeket is bemutattak, amiket még budapestiként nem is láttam.... Grat!!! (És remélem jól érezték itt magukat...)

Budapest is one of the prettiest city in Europe . So much to see and do. “Fairytale “ city, my hometown.

I'm glad you enjoyed your time in our capitol!

Én Pestről menekültem vidékre, mert nem bírtam, hogy mindenhol csak beton van körülöttem. Most egy nagy tó mellett élek. Egy olyan helyre költöztem, ahol minden zöld, és reggel kukorékol a szomszéd kakasa. Imádok itt lakni, de ti olyan helyeket is mutattatok, amiket pestiként sem láttam soha - a romkocsmás rész például nálam teljesen kimaradt. Nyáron mindet meg fogom nézni, a macskás kávézót meg még hamarabb. (Hogy lehet, hogy még nem hallottam róla?🤔) Köszi a videót, nagyon tetszett! Remélem, hogy jól éreztétek magatokat.😊

Thank you for sharing your excitement and experiences in Budapest! It's always refreshing to see travelers exploring and appreciating the hidden gems of a city. Budapest is indeed a captivating destination with its rich history, stunning architecture, and unique charm. Your video title suggests that you find Budapest to be one of the most underrated cities in Europe, and it's great that you're shedding light on its beauty. Walking tours are an excellent way to immerse oneself in the atmosphere and discover the city's hidden treasures. I'm sure your video will inspire and inform others who may be considering a visit to Budapest. Travel experiences like yours contribute to showcasing the diverse and often underestimated beauty of different places around the world. Safe and happy travels on your adventures in Budapest and beyond! 🌍🚶‍♂

Hi, a few thoughts: The statues of the two presidents rather commemorate the visit. In the post-communist period, these two presidents visited Hungary. That cheese is actually túró. Túró is essentially one of the phases of cheese production. It is the phase when the pure milk protein is not yet pressed into a disk of cheese. I think everywhere that makes cheese knows what this thing is. There is another curd dessert called túrógombóc . Ego sum, via, veritas et vita", = "I am the way, the truth and the life..." 9:58 According to a story, the lions guarding the bridge have no tongues. Therefore, they cannot tell the secrets entrusted to them. :) 17:37 Sándor (Alexander) Palace. Here is the Office of the President of the Republic. That's why the military parade is here. The palace in Budavár is now being renovated and rebuilt at the same time. It was damaged in the Second World War, parts were demolished and rebulid during communism. Now want to rebuild the building complex to its condition before the Second World War. Dish 12 is not goulash, but stew. In Hungary, goulash is a spicy meat soup with vegetables. It can be hot or not hot, and it is customary to add raw salted ground hot chili to it. It was in the bottle. It is also available in stores under the name Erős Pista (Strong Stevie). It is worth tasting the food before using it, because it can cause a surprise the chili sauce. The Hungarian name for the pasta is nokedli. 24:51 the inscription on the red sign: We do not serve alcohol to guests under the age of 18 and intoxicated guests. Besides Houdini, there is also a Hungarian guy in Budapest. He is Béla Lugosi. There are also two statues of him, both in Vajdahunyad Castle. Both depict him in the image of his best-known figure. This figure is Dracula.

Thanks guys from Australia 🇦🇺 Budapest so beautiful l'm Hungry ❤

Ez egy nagyon kedves videó volt. Azt hiszem, hogy érdemes volna önöknek bejárni Magyarországot is.

Wow! What a trip , Love it ! Budapest is on my bucket trip list to visit. Thanks for sharing 🌍✈🥰

Thank you for visiting my beautiful city! ❤ 😘

We looked in to Budapest when we were talking about retiring abroad. So funny, Scott was answering comments while we were watching you and came across your comment. 😂

Happy to see you both enjoyed our city 🙂 my gf and I also love the Cat Café 🐱 if you ever come back here are some recommendations: Városliget (City Park - nice big park with museums and the hot air balloon and also Széchenyi fürdő - thermal bath) Hősök tere (Heroes square - couple of museums with great exhibitions and a big monument in the middle of the square) Pozsonyi utca and Újlipótváros sub-district (we live near to it, it's a quiet bit parisian style cute little neigborhood with less tourists lot of old bookshops and bakeries) Margit sziget (Margaret island - a little island between Pest and Buda with some nice places and it's mostly a park - a bit similar like Central Park in NYC) Duna korzó/felső Belgrád rakpart (it's a nice little riverside part next to the Danube river) If you like/interested in analog photography and old cameras, Café Analóg is a nice little shop/coffee place (they develop 35mm film, sell films, old cameras, etc) The Jewish quarter/Kazinczy utca is also a hip and nice part If you'd like to venture out from the city but only for a daytrip I'd recommend Szentendre which you can get to by HÉV (green public transport - it's kind of like a metro that runs on the ground). Szentendre is a beautiful, artsy small city with cobblestone streets, colorful houses and good food 🙂 Your pronunciation was pretty good but we pronunce the city like Budapesht (with an sh sound like in "short" or "share"). In Hungarian the "s" sound is written "sz" and the "sh" sound is written "s". Glad you had a nice time here and hope you can return soon 🙂

Thank you both of you for showing this journey with everyone! God bless you! Have a harmonious beautiful day! :)

Thank you for telling so many positive things of our capital city 🩵

I am a Hungarian living in NYC for 40 years….Americans don’t use that cheese in the strudel like in Hungary but in America called Farmer Cheese made by Friendship company and has the same taste like Hungarian 👌

I live in this city for 9 years now and this video made me realize how amazing this city looks if you see it for the first time

Welcome in Hungary. Margaret Insel and , Szentendre from 30 km from Budapest.

5:33 Actually that is not cheese in the strudel but túró. Turó is a central-European dairy product only so there is no word for it in English.Wwhen forigners ask what that is we usually call it cottage cheese or fresh cheese, but its not really a cheese. It's flavor is not salty and not intensive, quite neutral. It can be salty or sweet in different foods.

Budapest is one of most beautiful city on Globe..Hun-Hungarian history started before a cr.-500-for ever..

Looks like an interesting city, beautiful architecture !

It was nice to see Budapest from your perspective. Im Hungarian, but it was nice to see your videos, thank you!

Have you not seen the square of heroes? And the renovated park? "Varosliget" the m1 subway line? Lots of missed opportunities. On the other hand, it was a fun video to watch!

You just made me homesick. It warms my heart to see you smiling all over my hometown! :) Greetings from Sweden!

Super cool video. Many thanks. Enjoyed it very much. xx

You made my day with this video!

Langos is the most popular street food in Hungary.

Amazing video guys! Thanks for showing the world our beautiful city. Sometimes I forget how many nice places we have even as a local.

3:50 the statue of US Army General Harry Hill Bandholtz can be seen in the background.

Thank you for making this awesome video of my hometown!

Thank you for showing my hometown 🤙🏼

Great video! I was born and raised in Bp,and on the top of the usually places what you showed in the video....wich are beautiful make no mistakes!😀 you guys surprised me with some unique and amazing places over there. Like That burger place or the cat cafe. Good Job!

it's so reassuring to see positive foreign perspective of our beautiful city, thank you for liking it.

You went to my favorite places! 🎉 I love Budapest! ❤ The beef dish you ate during the day was pörkölt, not goulash (gulyás). Goulash is a beef SOUP with potatoes--which is what you had in the bread bowl. 😊 When you come back, show us a night view of the Castle, Parliament, and Chain Bridge. Thank you guys for this awesome video of my favorite city, and for your kind, sweet spirit. 😊

im glad you're enjoyed your stay in Budapest, if you ever going back to Hungary in the summer you should check out lake Balaton. thanks for the great video!

You made a beautiful film about Hungary. Thank you from the heart. ❤

woah interesting how tourists can show us locals new stuff, thanks for the great video.

Great video! You should try the cherry & poppy seed combo strudel - that's my favourite there ! ;)

thank you for the video! I haven't lived at home for nine years, but now I'm homesick! thanks again 🙂

Nice vlog. I love this city

Welcome in Hungary, hope you enjoyed your time with us. Great video you were at few of the most famous places. One thing tho. No hungarian people eat Lángos like that. (But could be good tho) we eat only one piece wich is much bigger then this, and you can choose multiple topping like chees, sour cream, garlic and for the hipsters ketchup. I usually choose chees, sour cream, and garlic at the same time. Lángos usually for breakfast, beach food or fast food not as a replacement for bread.

@7:01 Yes, that's in Latin and it's from the Bible. "I am the way and the truth and the life." (John 14:6)

Örülök, hogy tetszett a fővárosunk! :) Glad you liked our capital! :)

I am happy that you enjoyed the capital. What I miss is your impressions about the city and the people. You could make a video about that?

As a hungarian it was so nice to see my hometown through your eyes. Thank you for sharing it!

Thank you Cinthya and Eddie for sharing your excitement for our capital! I really enjoyed watching the video. There were some really small mistakes you made in the video, but overall it was amazing! Hopefully you can come back one day, there are so many things to see in the city! Have a great journey areoung the globe! 🌍🌍🌏

Glad to had you here! :) As a resident here, I always forget how beautiful this city is.

Liked your down to earth video. I live in the country in Hungary and didn't know about the street food court. Will have to look it up next time I'm in the city. Your Gulyas was definitely for tourists to keep it what you are used to. :) Gulyas is a SOUP with potatos not spatzle. Glad you liked it.

What a nice people. Welcome. Regarding the food, i can imagine that you really liked it. Interesting, as a Hungarian from Budapest, when i see american food, like T-bone steak, omg, that must be gorgeous too. I have to try it once.

Nice relaxing presentation of my city. Just a quick thought: when you are editing these videos check during exporting the video you pick the same framerate as the framerate of the original footage. It makes the video much smoother, and avoids the jerky jumps which is visible when you pan the camera.

It was amazing.thank you

It is good to see our city through someone else's eyes. It is a very nice compilation and I hope you will visit us again. Lángos is Hungarian street food, although we eat relatively simple versions. Many people just add salt and garlic. I prefer it with cheese and sour cream.

Beautiful couple. Thank you for your video, we are waiting for you to come back 💕💕💕💕

Örülök hogy rátaláltatok Magyarországra. Gyertek sokszor,sokan.Szeretettel várunk minden jó érzésű, amerikai embert.Ismerjetek meg minnél többen minket!

Hi, never sawn fried dough lángos to be used as such, for a burger side. Actually very unorthodox pairing. Being a hungarian I rather recommend lángos traditionally, with cheese and sour cream over garlic oil. If you want to eat good burger, better go for a traditional burger place. Also, stuffes cabbage goes with cabbage as side, also never sawn that mixed with lángos, really looks a 'touristy scam' food. Since one shop created the mixing of Kürtőskalács and Icecream for tourists (we hungarians never buy such), I cannot be surprised anymore on these 'special pairings of foods', but really makes our gastronomy look and feel like mixed fodder for live stock. Not to be negative, rather recommending a better choice for upcoming guests :) Always look for traditional restaurants, shops and so, to try out what is less "modern", less gastronomically disastrous.

Cancel Director Railway Station with M1 underground new station so amazing too! Or Underground no. 5 between Csepel to Szentendre above the Danube! MO tunnel across the mountains between Budakalász and M1-M7 motorway. It is a dream!

I live 10 miles from that region of Budapest (outside the city, in agglomeration), and I learn about some great places from American tourists videos! 😁 🤘🏼

Thanks for checking out Budapest, awesome! 20:00 I'm from Hungary but i never thought about making a burger with "lángos" as buns i have to check it out. We usually make the lángos flat and round like a pizza then rub it with some garlic and put sour cream and grated cheese on it, it's one of my favourites. The places you guys tried out for food are pretty expensive i have to say you can usually get comparable quality for half the price. Were they recommended by other tourists?

I'm a Hungarian living in Budapest for decades and I've had no idea there is a cat cafe in town. Also never heard about the Houdini House up in the Palace District. Also, I know about the existence of the New York Cafe, but I never imagined it to be such a popular hot spot?!

19:33 "there is just something in it which is... hearty" - yeah. deep-fried bread basically, but tasty for sure!

You guys are such a nice couple!Always welcome in Hungary!😃🥰I hope you guys left Hungary with good memories.🙏🏻

Hello Guys, good to see nice people like ya all....I hope ya had fantastic experiences while visiting our small country....but, if you wanna see the "reality of hungarian life"....ya gotta travel a slithly bit away from the capital city...to the east part. Get on the train and roughly within 2 hours you'll be in another world I promise that....😉 Sadly the majority of hungarian citizens can not afford to get into those places where you've been.....or they would be in a trouble at the end of the month to pay the bills.....😢😢

Oh, by the way, around 14:47, that place in the castle was used as a shooting site for the movie Spectral. And that bridge at 10:00 and the tunnel beyond, appeared in I, Spy.

Pro tip, there is a garden just 100m down the funicular, there is an elevator and an esalator and several normal stairs up. The other side of the hill is much les steap. There are several way up. The funicular is a turist trap.

There are museums, ; torture, jewish, stamp, history., etc. Gift shops w/chess sets. Bookstores, and locations used in films. The thermal baths are one thats popular and a few smaller ones. If you dine farther away from tourist spots it will be a more relaxed setting w/ longer wait time. Paprika is regular or smoked or spicy. There is local beer and hungarian wine also. Koszonom

Hello, I am from Hungary. I was born in Budapest and I live here. Its good to see you liked Budapest. I like also.

Szerintem nézzétek meg Csepelt is az egy gyönyörű hely 😂

Strudel takes a lot of time to prepare properly. Very few people know how to prepare it properly. Pastry shall always be slightly oily. If the pasty gets dry means a mistake in preparation. My great grandma was a professor of strudel pastry she always had some raw pastry in the kitchen before holiday family meals. It took days for her to prepare and hers were never dry and neither too oily. I am positive she had no clue what an excellent knowledge she had. As a child I thought there was somebody in every family who knew how to prepare these strudels. It took some time to realize hardly anyone could prepare strudel properly. Then she got old moved to my grandma’s home and stopped making strudels. I was so busy with my life I did not ask her to write down or give details of strudel preparation properly and she just suddenly died. I do hope one day I will pick up her knowledge and make her strudels the same way and taste she did.

Nice, you are wellcome in Bp after your travel too 😀✌️! But do not see the city from the danube by night, and was you mot inside the pairlanent building 😮 ?

Lángos-burgers sound (and look) like an abomination ... Other than that, this is a very nice video of my city - I'm glad to see you enjoyed it here. Some of the inaccuracies in your vlog have already been pointed out by my fellow commenters. Nevertheless, they do not decrease the value of your great work. Come back more frequently and enjoy. There's even more to this city with all the museums, thermal baths, city parks and whatnot. Greetings from the middle of the city - from the area of the West Railway Station. Another building worthy of checking out on your next visit, designed by the same Eiffel who built the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Cheers!

I'm not sure where you tried that "goulash", but this shouldn't be a stew, but a soup. So they either labeled goulash something completely different or I'm not sure what happened there. Goulash is a soup. The stew should have been called "marhapörkölt", which translates to something like a beef stew. Be sure to try a proper goulash someday, it's one of my favorite beef soups :)) Amazing video by the way. Hungary is a real treasure box... I'm living here expat since like forever and still have things to discover :D

Enjoy! ❤😊

Me and my husband are going to Budapest in 2 weeks time, im here to familiarize the city and get some tips from you guys, You have a very informative video, what camera are you using, the video has a very good quality.

Omg 8000 huf for the ride is crazy! I remember when it was around 50 for a ticket when i was a kid

22:37 That is pörkölt (stew), gulyás is a soup. I have no idea, why the world mix it up.

Top city and country not only in Europe but in the whole world

Okay, I didn't know about that langosh burger. 😂 Living so close to Budapest… 🤦‍♂

New York Cafe FYI - There is another entrance through the hotel next to it, you could have gone in that way and see it all inside. There's never a queue at the hotel entrance :)

Is everything they serve in that Cafe made of cats? That's AMAZING!

Very nice video. You've successfully found all the most expensive tourist traps. :D There are much more cheaper options for most of the places you visited. It is not goulash-stew, goulash is a soup. If it's a stew it's called pörkölt. Could you see how nice a not car dependent, walkable and human centric city could be? ;) At the Blaha Lujza square you were two corners away from the best Rock and Roll bar of the whole country. :)

That’s interesting how you see our city. Even the places where you eat and everything else. Particularly because you are from the USA. Inside the EU the experience is quite different being used to the European old city feeling and cultural things. You made a beautiful video guys.

The goulash stew is just normal stew, they just put the goulash there to make it more expensive. And there a lot of stuff like that on Budapest for tourism, even hungarians that born in Budapest think those things are real. Btw goulash is a soup.

I love this video! Thanks a lot! :) Strange things: - for at least 25 years, since I am aware of the world, Gulasch (gulyás, which is a soup) is still mistaken for Pörkölt (which is a Hungarian stew?) - lángos - It is what it is, with some toppings - please try with soured cream&cheese&garlic, but certainly not with hamburger meat. I might be a boomer :D Hope you enjoyed Hungary ;)

now it's time to visit Poland.all these countries are close to each other.

Welcome in Hugary. Budapest is really nice point to relax but the countryside is much better because of thermal spas and wines. We have colorful history, meeting point of different culture: hungarian, german, turkish, slavonien, austrian.

In my 58 years I’ve never used the funicular to go up Buda Vár (Castle). Whenever I show the castle district to friends or family from abroad, we go up the stairs from Batthany tér or from the south via the medieval Déli Rondella. Or even from Széll Kálmán tér via the Bécsi Kapu (Vienna gate). To avoid the crowds in the tourist season, it’s better to visit the castle district early mornings or later in the evenings. The paid upper walkway of the Halászbástya (Fisherman’s bastion) is even free and the lighted buildings look even more fairytale-like in the evenings. I do hate the touristy-fied traditional Hungarian foods and snacks; from the pizza-fied lángos to ice cream filled kürtőskalács. Lángos burgers? Miért, why? Also, lángos isn’t what it used to be, especially in BP … Love the video though 😀

Actually Bp is not underrated but its a nice catchy title indeed :) hope u guys had a great time here in my hometown! Cheers

Some people say it is more beautiful than Prague ... Prague is only more hyped up. I guess I agree...

Chimney is actually originally from Romania, from a zone named "Tinutul secuiesc", where ethnic Hungarians leave.

What you talking about, Budapest is one of the most popular cities in Europe 😂

19:00 Lango burgers? Os that what the placd is called?

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Seems you missed the Heros Square :P

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Thanks guys , love to watch videos about Budapest, your pronunciation is perfect. Just a little something... check your editing/recording frame rate on the camera, or pan a little slower, cause those panning shots made me really dizzy with the choppiness