- Choosing wings
- To Budapest by land
- How to get to Heviz from Budapest airport
- The car is not a luxury
Lake Heviz in eastern Hungary is a famous thermal spa and a popular holiday destination at any time of the year. The water temperature in the lake does not drop below + 24 ° C even in winter, and dozens of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, endocrine glands and lungs are indications for treatment with its thermal waters. If you are interested in treatment in Hungary and you are looking for an answer to the question of how to get to Heviz, pay attention to both air transport and ground transfer.
Choosing wings
The nearest settlement to the lake is the small town of Keszthely, located five kilometers from the resort. The resort does not have its own airport, and therefore will have to fly to Budapest:
- The Russian capital and Budapest are connected by direct regular flights of the Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air. Planes take to the skies from Moscow's Vnukovo airport and land at Liszt Ferenc airport. Passengers spend 2.5 hours on the way, paying 180 euros for a round-trip ticket.
- With transfers, the neighbors of the Hungarians, Austrian airlines, fly the cheapest. A ticket on board Austrian Airlines will cost 185 euros, and excluding the transfer in Vienna, you will spend about 4 hours on the way. The flight starts from Domodedovo.
- Poles are not asking too dearly for their services. The round trip will take 3.5 hours excluding the change in Warsaw and will cost about 200 euros. LOT Polish Airlines are plotting their route from Sheremetyevo.
Residents of the northern capital will be able to get to Heviz and Budapest only with transfers. The cheapest option is a flight with Latvian airlines. You will have to pay about 210 euros for a ticket on board Air Baltic, the connection will take place in Riga. To fly through Moscow with Aeroflot is more expensive and not very convenient, since the airport will have to be changed in the capital. Turkish Airlines offers a transfer from St. Petersburg to Budapest with the only connection in Istanbul. The price of the issue is from 245 euros for a round-trip ticket.
To Budapest by land
If flying isn't your favorite pastime, travel to Hungary by train or bus. The first option is a branded train "Polonez" between Moscow and Warsaw, which starts daily from the Belorussky railway station in the Russian capital. The journey in a trailer car to Budapest takes 29 hours, and the cost of one full compartment ticket will cost you 180 euros one way.
Buses remain the cheapest means of transportation, if you do not take into account the special offers on air tickets and their cost from low-cost airlines. Buses from Moscow leave from the Rizhsky railway station, the route involves a transfer in the capital of Latvia. Everything takes at least two days, which, in combination with the price of 70 euros for a one-way ticket, casts doubt on the feasibility of this transfer method.
How to get to Heviz from Budapest airport
After landing in Budapest, head for Delhi City Railway Station for trains to Keszthely. Possible transfer options are taxi and public transport.
A taxi will cost about 20 euros and the trip will take no more than half an hour, since the airport and the city are only a few kilometers away.
Buses run from stops in front of all passenger terminals. If you decide to save every euro cent, choose the N200 route and pay 1, 1 euro for a ticket. Private buses will charge one and a half euros for the transfer. Airport Shuttle minibuses are even more expensive. After registering at the branded counters in the arrivals hall, you will pay about 6 euros for the transfer with them.
From Deli station, where you can get to the Budapest metro (the station you need is called Déli pályaudvar and is the terminus on line 2), you can take any of several trains heading towards Lake Heviz several times a day. The cost of tickets to the city of Keszthely is about 11 euros. You can book them on the official website of the Hungarian Railways - www.mavcsoport.hu. The site has a lot of useful information for passengers and train timetables, including. The English version is present.
In Keszthely, you have to change to a bus to Heviz, which covers a distance of 5 kilometers in a few minutes and 1 euro.
It is much more convenient to travel from Budapest to Heviz by bus, using the services of the Volanbusz company - you do not have to change trains. In the capital, you will have to find a bus station located at Könyves Kálmán körút 17. You can get to the station by trains on the blue line of the M3 metro. The desired station is Népliget. Trams of routes 1 and 1A and city buses of routes 103, 254, 901, 914 and 950 also follow there. The ticket price to the resort of Heviz is 12 euros, and the journey will take about 4 hours. You can get acquainted with the conditions of carriage of passengers by the bus company, find out the schedule and buy a ticket on the official website of the carrier - www.webelin.volanbusz.hu.
European transport companies provide excellent travel service for travelers:
- All buses are equipped with air conditioning and multimedia systems, dry closets and machines for making hot drinks.
- Passengers can take on board large luggage thanks to the spacious cargo compartments.
- Each seat is equipped with an individual socket for recharging phones and other electronic equipment.
The car is not a luxury
Not the most boring way to get to Heviz is to travel by your own car. The capital of Russia and the famous Hungarian resort are separated by about 2,150 km, and if you wish, you can overcome them in just a day.
An important note that you should pay attention to is the observance of traffic rules when traveling in European countries. Fines for their violation in the Old World are very significant for the family budget.
To travel on toll roads in the territory of some countries, a special permit is required. It is called a vignette, it costs about 10 euros for 10 days for a passenger car in each country where it is needed, and is sold at gas stations and checkpoints at border crossings.
You can find out if you need a vignette when driving through Hungary on the website www.autotraveler.ru. It also contains a lot of useful information about European traffic rules, parking, gasoline prices in different countries and the location of toll roads and their sections.
All prices in the material are approximate and given as of April 2017. It is better to check the exact fare on the official websites of the carriers.
