Sarah is adorable: with twinkling eyes, a warm welcoming smile, and a truthful positive attitude about everything she explores. When I watch Sarah and Marek wander through this world we share, my day is brightened. Keep it up you wonderful travelers.
Well, guys you did not validate the ticket. You would be fined anywhere in the world with that. I was fined in Germany and paid 60 EUR because the control people claimed that I punched the ticket in a wrong way, and they were rude like hell. In Prague they fined me for crossing the street at a wrong spot. Things like that happen in big cities. It is a little bit spoiled from your side that you gave this so much significance, when it was obviously your fault. Plus the fine in Budapest is very low, less than 25 EUR. Sorry for your bad experience, but I lived in Hungary and I was fined several times as well, but that life. You can't pass there without punching the ticket.
I am so glad you moved on and continue to enjoy Hungry. Have a great time Croatia, I hope you are spending a lot of time there because it has so much to see and you are going to LOVE it! I did a solo trip to Croatia last year and it was the best experience and the Croatian were so nice.
I’m currently sat feeling a bit ill after a COVID jab - and wow this video has pretty much cured me on its own! So relaxing and yet so interesting at the same time, and I love all of the food recommendations (and the “just taken my first tasty bite” faces 🍰) So glad you decided to stay and have a great last day in Hungary!
Sorry to hear that you're feeling ill but we are so happy our video helped you feel better 😄 your comment just made our day! What helped us when we were feeling ill from our jabs was to regularly take paracetamol. Hope you feel much better soon 🙌🏼😊
If you dont validate the ticket you can use it again because its universal not ride specific. A lot of people tryed have free rides this way and only when they were caught said they forgot. So they are very strict about that. Turists has this mistake many times but the staff Usually More forgiving tovards turists. You got a strict one
It happened to us too! They get lots of money off tourists who don’t know you have to get your ticket stamped, such as shame as Budapest is a fab place to visit ❤
They do the same with Hungarian citizens and should continue to do so. These are the guidelines to follow. In this procedure, there is no such thing as a "target." I will check the rules and regulations before using public transportation in a foreign country. I'm sorry for your bad luck, but blaming the inspectors and accusing them of targeting seems a little naive. The fee amount can be contested, but that does not change the rules. Last month, I visited Prague, where you must validate your ticket in the same manner before using it, and the penalty is even higher.
@@zajecx I didn't argue with them, but in some countries they're more lenient, like they know your a tourist and just tell you how to do it properly and say they'll fine you if they see catch you again.
@@dcikaruga Hey, I think it would be nice if they could do that, and I'm all about being kind, but as a Hungarian, I can understand them. First of all, lots of locals try to get away without paying and pretending to be tourists or not speaking Hungarian. Second, lots of tourists feel entitled to not pay because they can escape easily and they leave the country in a few days anyway (I'm not talking about Sarah and Marek, just in general). Third, they don't let you validate your ticket if you forgot, because then people would just travel with one unvalidated ticket until they meet a conductor in a few days and validate it then, thus not paying for multiple rides (I know because I did that before on trams, I'm not always perfect either). Forth, BKK is operated buy the state and it's not a profitable business, so if they let people not pay for it, it would be even harder to keep it going. Fifth, and this is the saddest thing, conductors don't want to loose their jobs, they are afraid that someone will report them or that the person they let go is a tester and their employer will hear about it. All in all, I know that it sucks, especially when you didn't do it on purpose, but in the big picture it just wouldn't make sense to make exceptions because then where do you draw the line?
Goodie - how amazing and wise to continue and get the unfortunate ticket incident out the way and let the chimney cake and the layer cake be your last memories - so wise - well done. Goodie - we have only ever had chimney cakes once when we were in Georgia - oh my goodness - they are the best - and now we miss them - would love to know - - - in which country did you have the best one?
Thanks so much Riaan ☺️ I'm so glad we continued! Definitely better to have those sweet treats be our last memories 🤤 I would have to say that we had our best chimney cake in Poland but it all depends on the toppings and flavours you get so I can't really judge them all the same 🤔
When I was young I traveled the world. I've never been south of the Sahara in Africa but it is a place I'd like to go. My father visited South Africa for work and he loved it there. Luckily he had a week to travel on his own so of course he went on a Safari. His photos looked a little touristy but also very exciting. I would have been delighted to have joined him. But during my own travels I experienced so much. And one of the things that I learned was how to take shortcuts in order to do certain common things the proper and most effective way. The best shortcut in my opinion is to observe how the local people do things so you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time you face something new. For instance, you both were struggling with how to cut and eat that delicious looking Lángos. You tried cutting it with that insufficient plastic utensil set. You tried gouging it with that rubbery fork. You really struggled, basically attempting to invent your own way to gracefully slice and eat your Lángos. But did you notice that all around you were local Hungarians eating their own Lángos the way they had been taught to eat it since they were young. In other words, eating it "the right way" - by picking it up like a sandwich and taking a big bite out of it. I could see them doing it. They were right behind you. It's on the video, and you didn't catch it in time to eat it that way yourselves. I was crawling out of my skin as you still kept on trying to cut the thing. And all that I could think was "you two are better travelers than that. Look around you and imitate. Look around you and reflect." If you had seen them, and reflected them, both of you would have been quickly munching down on your tasty Lángos just like a local does it. Your Magyar aunties would have been so proud. You are both delightful to watch and I look forward to seeing more videos. Thanks indulging me. I'm a talker, but I'm also a big fan. I hope that some of what I said helps you during a future fork conundrum. Yours sincerely,. Me.
This is really good advice and we definitely should have taken a look around to see how the locals were eating, it would have saved us the struggle of cutting the Langos 😅 Thanks so much Eric, we will use this trick in future and we're sure it will save us some trouble 😄🙌🏼
I am not sorry for such tourists anymore, this happens all the time, there are literally dozens of videos about how public transportation in Europe works in English, they just don't care, so they pay. :-D
Thank you for the video very exciting I am planning to have my own knife and fork when I travel next time in Europe after this pandemic it will be helpful not to use the plastics right?🤣
loved your video. is it possible to get into places like restaurants bars shops and stuff like that without being vaccinated ?? i would appreciate and answer because im thinking of traveling there
Thank you so much! 😄 During our time there we weren't asked for any proof of vaccination to enter the restaurants but it would be a good idea to do more research because these kind of restrictions seem to be constantly changing and adjusting so it could be different now. Hope you have an amazing trip if you go 😄🙌🏼
Just to add a bit more, the only time we were ever asked to show either a PCR test or proof of vaccination was when we entered the country. But again, the best is always to research and find out the exact requirements when you are planning on arriving. This is the website that we use quite regularly 😄 www.iatatravelcentre.com/world.php
If you don't give him papers they will just call the police to take you in and get your information. Otherwise how would they just let you go with a promise that you'll pay and no ability to follow up especially if you are a foreigner that can just leave the country.
Hey, this is how the system works: they take your data and give you a check with a fine that you have to pay at the post office. Or you can pay right there, it costs a little less. (Anyway, and this is a loophole, officially the conductors cannot make you wait for the police if you don't give them your data, but I wouldn'trisk it.)
Hey, Hungarian here, let me help! :) So in Budapest you can use the same kind of tickets for all the public transportation: metro, trams, buses, trolli, etc.. You can buy like 10 of them and you have to validate one when you get on one of the public transportations. (Or you can buy monthly or daily cards and you don't have to validate those, I would suggest that for tourists.) The single tickets are only for one time traveling and you have to validate them when you want to use them. It's good for people who do not need a daily or monthly card because f.e. they only need the bus once, otherwise they go by car or whatever. I actually think that it's a good system, you can choose from multiple options, you can find information about it in English, it's just a quick research.
I don't understand the inspector on the subway ... Why he wants to fine a foreigner ... or I understand because he's a bastard. Good advice Never pay with cash, because it puts it in your own pocket ... Ask for a check, it will never be collected by Hungarians, not even by foreigners.
If he would let them go other tourists could have use same excuse. Also when you travel you see (or should watch) what other people do and that they mark their tickets. Penalty is high to discourage people travel without tickets again. I can buy a ticket and travel 100 x on same one and all the time use same excuse i didnt know and i am foreigner. Whats happend is sad but rules are rules for everyone.
I just can't imagine beying from country where people don't understand why time ticket has to be validated, it happens all the time with Americans, I just don't understand it. They really don't use public transportation at all in their home land? Because buy time ticket and validate it when you want to use it is how almost all public systems work, at least in Europe, but I don't really know how differently it could work. Yes, in the past, there was for example system that there was conductor and you had to pay some coin and then you could enter tram/metro/bus, but it's 21st century, it just can't work like that today, you have itegrated whole transportation system to one system with shared tickets, insert coin to barrier or to conductor in tram all the time would be ridiculous and annoying. I know it works like that somewhere in Ukraine or Africa, but you can't really expect such system in EU country, we don't even have enough workers for such system, that's why you meet ticket check only few times in month, this system is much cheaper than conductors in every tram or bus. The best thing is just use brain, when you buy ticket from village bus driver and you are literally in that bus, it's obviouse that you don't have to validate that, same like ticket from conductor in train or for tickets from place A to place B. But when you have time ticket and you can buy more of them, obviously, it has to be validated, just think about that please, it can't work differently. :-D Another thing which I don't really get is, you are saying how 20 eur is a lot of money, is it really a lot of money for English speaking tourist? I am just worker from Czech Republic and 20 eur is nothing for me, that's one visit in grocery store when you need something to eat for like 2 days, I see it in many videos from different countries, English speaking tourists care about few eur fine, omg. :-D
This is not entirely true. They bought the tickets, which they showed to the inspector. A normal inspector would have asked them to validate it afterwards, but the inspector saw that they were tourists and wanted to get money out of their pockets. It was a bastard.
@@P.B0209 Ofcourse, that would be nice from ticket inspector, but that's not their job. Imagine work like ticket inspector, you are meeting dozens of such tourists every day, you just can't send all of them to validator when they are already traveling half of the day on non validated 30 minutes ticket. This happens all the time and many of tourists are arguing with them which doesn't help. If they catched them directly down there in metro in station where they bought ticked than send them validate it would be ok I think, but if you catch them somewhere on exit, you can't know how long they've been traveling on that ticket.
@@Pidalin Ok this is logical, but it's ridiculous that the ticket is 300 Forints and the penalty is 8000... That's a joke. We need to build a better system.
@@P.B0209 I agree, it's ridiculous, penalty should be much higher. In Prague you pay 800 CZK (30 eur) when you pay it immediately and probability that you meet ticket check is low so many people just don't buy tickets and pay penalty time to time, if penalty in Budapest is 20 eur, then it's not worthy at all buying tickets. But if you mean like you need some barriers or something than no, no barriers and ticket check time to time is the best system you can have, if there are barriers or you have to always buy extra ticket or validate some one ride all the time in every vehicle, then people switch to cars because using of public transport won't be comfortable anymore. Like it is in most of western countries, when barrier doors hit your backpack for 10 times in one day, then you need really good self-control to not destroy that, our system is just better. We had barriers in metro in the past and they removed it becuase it didn't work, people were just jumping over and not paying.
@@Pidalin You sound like a really nasty person. Very aggressively talking down on two tourists who made a honest mistake . They tell you at the start they are on a budget but you act like all people should have xy amount of money. Just because the ticket inspector has a job they have to do they don't have to be an asshole about it. And let me tell you from personal experience as a Hungarian, that ticket inspectors here literally PRAY on tourists who might no know the rules. I have been stopped multiple times for inspections when i was talking English with exchange student friends. But never when i was talking Hungarian. And 99% of Hungarians would tell you without a fault that those who actually cheat on tickets are the locals not the tourists who are scared of fines in a foreign country. So the whole argument is just bullshit. Don't believe me? There is a fking movie (comedy/thriller) called " Kontroll " that was made on the joke /truth how Hungarian passengers evade tickets and fines in the metro lines and how they disrespect the ticket inspectors. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LMkkJbRJdiA.html Btw promoting more harsher penalties don't actually solve the problem of people cheating tickets. It just creates more elaborate and pro evaders.
No they messed up you need to validate it. I mean I could have an unpunched ticket in my pocket otherwise, never punch it and quasi always travel for free and just say "I forgot to validate it". It is not about honest people who do not know or forgot it.
@@katrinlausch3078 The system is stupid , because when u buy a trainticket its automatically validated. Why is this not possible in the city traffic ? When i would be the Controller i would say , ok u are from outside , udidnt know it , this time i let u , but next time u know , then u will be executet 😁
What is bullshitish about having valid ticket? It's not bullshit, just tourists are dumb. Ticket system is completely same in most of European countries and still, they are trying it again and again, no, not validated ticket is just not valid, don't try to explain it to ticket check that you paid. :-)
@@stechuskacktus4287 Do you understand what is time ticket? Train ticket is literally from place A to place B, obviously, you don't have to validate it, but when you have 30 minutes ticket, you have to validate it, logically, just use brain, it's completely logical. I don't understand why it is co hard to understand it for Americans or Australians, this is how 99% of transport systems on Earth work. BTW, you can buy even time ticket for train, in many countries, you have integrated trains to some city system so you can buy like 3 hour ticket for 8 zones and use it for trains. I know it's not always easy to understant, but when you have 30 minutes ticket, it just has to be validated, it can't work in different way, you could use that ticket milion times without validation.
Sorry the ticket inspector was out for your cash! He could have been more understanding, definitely will put tourists off visiting! Glad it ended well though with cake 🎂 🥮 xx
Thank you Rella ☺️ these things happen ☹️ we couldn't believe how strict he was, he wouldn't except any excuse even though it was an honest mistake... I guess all you can do is dust yourself off and learn from it AND the cake really helped 🤩
