| Hungary | 36 |
| Budapest | 06 1 |
| T-Moblie | 06 30 |
| Pannon | 06 20 |
| Vodafone | 06 70 |
| Half price number | 06 40 |
| Free number | 06 80 |
| 1 min. Phone call within Budapest | 15 HUF |
| 1 min. phone call within the country | 25 - 70 HUF |
| 1 min. international call | 120 - 400 HUF |
Keep in mind: It is cheaper to phone at the weekend, on public holidays and in the evening!
Public phones are operated by 10-, 20-, 50- and 100-forint coins or T-Com phone cards. You can purchase phone cards at any kiosk, tobacconist, post office, petrol statiton.
For international calls you may purchase an international card which you can also use in other countries.
First dial 00, wait for the tone, and then dial the country code, town code and continue with the number.
Budapest numbers and mobile numbers have seven digits.
If you are planning to stay in Budapest longer than just a couple of days, you can buy a prepaid SIM-card from the local mobile operator to save on your calls home. There are three mobile operators in Hungary:
Dial 06 1 and the phone number to make a call from a mobile phone to landline phone.
There are post offices located throughout the city, you can post most items if you like. Most post offices are open 8-18. The main post offices with longer opening hours:
Internet cafés are highly fashionable in Budapest.
| 10 minutes | 100 HUF |
| 30 minutes | 200 HUF |
The following list details just some of the most popular locations offering internet access:
Hírlap means 'newspaper' in Hungarian. In these newsstands scattered about the city you'll find newspapers and magazines, public transport tickets and sometimes cigarettes. In some newsstands (those located in the busy city center) they also sell European and American editions, though the range of these editions is wider in specialized shops.
The accessible daily newspaper in English.
The second of Budapest's two English-language newspapers is a weekly geared towards the city's burgeoning transnational business community.
The magazine's Budapest franchise covers events and entertainment in the city for visitors and local people alike.
The magazine dishes up a good weekly mix of current affairs and arts and entertainment content.
Click here for international newspaper stands!
The Hungarian language is one of the most difficult languages to learn or even to understand. You will instantly recognize that Hungarian is like no other language you have ever seen or heard before. In fact, it is not even an Indo-European language. The only languages that Hungarian is supposed to be related to are Finnish and Estonian.
Unfortunately, for almost 50 years primarily only Russian was taught in schools as foreign language. English is the country's very distant third language after Hungarian and German - much of Western Hungary is geared to German-speaking tourists. In Eastern Hungary, however, even German can fail.
If you want to ask something in English, try to ask young people.
10 nicest words in Hungarian: cipőfűző, fülolaj, galamb, parázs, sáfrány, szandál, szellő, szivárvány, rózsabimbó, naplemente