Szentendre Half Day Sightseeing Trip from Budapest
- Location:Budapest, Hungary
- Duration:4 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
- TOUR Code:2420SZE
14 reviews of Szentendre Half Day Sightseeing Trip from Budapest
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An experience of old Budapest
Interesting old town and lovely ride back on the Danube.
Enjoyable, but I would have preferred to skip the visit to the diamond workshop and spend more time in Szentendre!
Good value guided tour with knowledgeable guide. Town was an interesting experience, and the Danube River cruise back was very pleasant.
To be recommended. However, we would have preferred a little more time sightseeing. Nevertheless, worth doing.
The tour was well organised, and we will now use Viator as our first choice for other tours.
Don't book on htis if you've gone on the Danube bend tour, as you've already done Szentendre. (local tour company) were very helpful and we substituted the jewish Synagogue and quarter tour AND the Parliament tour at no extra cost - both highly recommended, but a lot of walking on both.
A great disappointment! It wasn't clear where to begin the tour, the trip was boring, and the river cruise was boring, there wasn't anything to see, until we returned to the site of Parliament building.
Overall, I enjoyed this excursion, but we were very put off by the 'extra' (mandatory) stop at Caprice diamond store for a 'presentation' on our way to Szentendre. It took a whole 45 minutes out of an already short day, leaving us only an hour and a hlaf in the town itself! We even had to ditch our guide before the end of his walk-around because we felt so pressured to see as much as possible before having to meet up with him again.
I only liked one of the small paprika shops and coffee shops.
The main reason for the disappointing rating was that we were late setting off on the trip, as the bus was late due to a run round the city, but this could have been planned for. Also, the jewelry stop at Caprice was supposed to be 30 minutes, and we were over an hour, and therefore only got about 2 hours in Szentendre. The tour would be better without the jewelry stop, as this was not very informative and a very uncomfortable 'hard' sell. The time spent in Szentendre was very enjoyable, but too short.
The hour-long river cruise back to Budapest was not that interesting, and we had to be at the pier 30 minutes before the cruise started. This only left a little more than two hours at the town.
I there was a zero or minus star rating , this trip deserved it! What a waste of time and money. Town totally boring; walking up a flight of uneven steps and through a few cobbled streets was not as anticipated. There was absolutely nothing worth seeing and the only things open were stalls trying to sell cheap overpriced tourist trash along the route. I have seen better and more interesting places in the UK. We were not alone with this opinion, others of the party thought the same. Tour guide pointed out buildings of interest en route , only good thing about the trip. If you want to see the town TAKE THE TRAIN from budapest and at least you can get back when you have had enough.
It was not a good trip. One shop was worth visiting but we did not have much time in the town. It was a long bus ride for nothing, and we had to pay for a taxi to get back to our hotel.
