Lonely Planet Budapest & Hungary: Lonely Planet's most comprehensive guide to the city (Travel Guide)

This was one of the two better guides to Budapest.It gives indications of where to eat, what to do, what to see, everything you need for a visit to this city.

The quality is great. Photos in the text, graphic design eye catching.I think it is slightly less informative than the lonely planet guidebooks used to be.For example in regard to entrance to some venues or baths I was hoping to find some info. In fact I checked first the DK guidebook and of course it didn't have such details but than I thought, lonely planet will tell me that but it didn't. Other type of details were how to use public transport in Budapest. The section how to get around is focused on Hungary and the one for Budapest are just few words. Of course I found it online but the guidebook didn't help.The new design seems quite messy as well. Each page has two columns one wider another narrower. The narrow one sometimes feels like a margin. It is easy to miss some info. It started to be more about watching the graphic design than finding an information.

A must have guide for any travellers backpack or pocket . Still one of the best travel guide publishers available and full of invaluable information. Lonely Planet deserves its place at the top of the travel guides tree .

As LP loyalist, been used to the original LP format that was easy to navigate with useful info. The new version of LP (the format) - they’ve made it pretty but it has lost the substance, ease of reading, and lots of info removed (e.g. hotels/ restaurants or neighbourhood recommendations). Very disappointed. Could rather go for Fodors/DK/Get your guide etc. am sure LP will lose its existing loyal user base that made it big in the first place

I love the Lonely Planet Travel Guides and I get one for every travel destination our family have been to. The plan is to have a shelf full of them that represent the places we've been.I'll never get over just how well these guides are put together and their quality is just superb. This one for Hungary is no exception

There are lots of travel guide brands out there these days, but Lonely Planet has always been one of the best. Improving over the years, they currently have an expansive library of guides to accompany you on your preferred destination, following roughly the same user-friendly format which has made them so successful.This guide to Hungary and Budapest is no different. Firstly, it is filled with useful and interesting information, and has gorgeous photography throughout to get you in the mood for travelling. Next, it is well-written in a fluid, informative, and engaging style. I pick up these guides for my own reading enjoyment, knowing that I'm probably never going to visit any of these places (unless Lonely Planet fancies sponsoring me for a trip - call me). If you are lucky enough to be heading to Hungary, then this is a great pre-read and pocket guide to bring along.Like other guides, it is broken into clear sections - a journey planner, a guide to some of the major areas and attractions, a toolkit giving information on the things you may need before and during your trip (how to get around, money, language, and a new section for LGBTQ+ visitors), and what they call the Storybook section, which is various personal nuggets from people who have lived or been there, mixed up in history, humour, and anecdote. Finally, there's a handy pull-out map of Budapest. If you're heading to Budapest or Hungary, this is nigh-on essential.

I've always lovely Lonely Planet guide, and while this guide is good and provides a lot of great info, particularly for trips to Budapest, but one thing that was in guides in the past that I particularly missed from this one was opening times/days for attractions/venues which meant we went to a gallery and it was the day it was closed fo course! Annoying. Fix that in future issues and it'll be back to its best. Still an excellent guide though.

I have a few Lonely Planets now, and they’re all of course excellent as you would expect from this publisher. This book arrived in perfect addition, aside from a minor print error on the last page in the book where the page hasn’t been cut quite right and is a little fuzzy. Regardless, that’s just excessively nitpicky on my end! And if you use this book while travelling, it will obviously end up a fair bit battered anyway.The book predominantly covers Budapest with fairly minimal detail on other regions of Hungary, so this book is definitely more for people who want to focus their trip mostly on the capital. I guess this is hinted at in the title, where Budapest is mentioned first. I would suggest the Hungary Lonely Planet book for those who want to explore further afield, but that book seems to be even slimmer than this one at 256 pages compared to this one at 304 pages, and it hasn’t been updated since 2015. Of course, there’s the internet, but I always thought the whole point of these books was that they would be sufficient in terms of information for planning and organising a trip.There’s still lots of information and the book functions very well as a springboard into ideas for your trip, but it doesn’t contain everything. I suppose it would be ambitious to include prices and opening times as one reviewer mentioned when these will change with the tourist seasons, but equally it would be helpful to have this information to plan a day trip on the ground. Again, the internet is required to ensure you have all the details you need. I do like how there is information on accommodation around particular areas of Budapest/Hungary as a whole with brief details on amenities and an idea of cost (as suggested by a basic rating of €€€, €€, and €) as well as suggestions on where to eat.