Budapest Sightseeing Tour by Bike

Budapest, Hungary

Budapest's sights are spread out, so getting around by bike is the best way to see the city. Peddling along bike paths is easier than walking, much more fun plus you'll visit places that sightseeing buses can never access.

While you cycle, your professional guide will fill you in on the Budapest's history to help you gain a greater understanding of the city.This is the easiest and most entertaining way to see Budapest and as an added highlight, you'll enjoy a typical Hungarian meal at the end of the tour!

The tour takes you to Budapest's main sights, and starts with a ride along the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Andrassey Avenue to  Heroes' Square. After a gentle ride through the leafy and relaxed City Park, you'll take a peep into Budapest's loveliest bath house - the Szechenyi Thermal Baths.

You'll see the elephants when you cycle past the zoo, then pass the St Stephan Basilica, Budapest's biggest church. After crossing Budapest's Chain bridge, it's an easy ride up Castle Hill to enjoy the view from a panoramic lookout terrace. From here, you can compare the flat Pest side of the city with the hilly Buda side.

This 4-hour cycling tour is mostly on entirely flat bike paths, so you don't need to be ultra fit. The tours are in small groups, ensuring a friendly and interactive atmosphere.

The tour includes two breaks. At the first break your guide will provide some welcome cold drinks while giving you hints on the best places to visit after the tour. A Hungarian specialty lunch is served at the end of the tour.

USD $31.81

Traveler Reviews

Review by: Jessica G	December 2011
Great tour and good fun. Bikes in excellent condition. Stopped at lots of places on route. Tasted thermal water. Lunch basic but quite tasty. Guide excellent and very helpful.

Review by: Rhiannon W	August 2011
We took this particular tour in late August 2011. I recommend it highly. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable and pleasant, with amazing English. Budapest is actually quite a large city, in terms of distance, and so touring by bike was ideal for viewing the city. We visited lots of the main sights, won't list them all as I'm bound to forget some!

Review by: Rennie S	August 2011
great way to see the city with an experienced guide

Review by: Dena A	August 2011
Great tour! We really enjoyed learning about the history of the city and the guides were nice and helpful!

Review by: Phillip T M	July 2011
Great tour. Our guide was very iinformative, entertaining and helpful. A enjoyable tour which we recommend to others.

Review by: Trina Z	October 2010
This tour was fantastic! Since Budapest is a large city split by a river, it was an excellent way to see it all! Akos, our tour guide, was extremely knowledgeable with the history of Hungary and Budapest. He was very friendly, patient, and recommended a great restaurant for us to try authentic Hungarian food off the beaten path at an inexpensive price. Most of the tour is easy biking both in bike lanes on the streets and in parks. There were several resting stops along the way and we even got to try drinking thermal water. There is an intense bike ride at the end that goes up the cobblestone road to the castle which was the most difficult part of the entire tour. This tour was one of our favorite memories in Budapest!

Review by: Nova F	September 2010
The places of visit in this trip were important sites to visit. Also there were many sites that we have visited. The guide is very nice lady, she gave as many information about the city. She also speak English very well. I recommend this trip for people that don't have many time in the city, and want to visit all must sites in short time, and to experience the local culture(a lot of local people use bicycle). Only one small remark about the quality of dinner (included in price): the dinner is in small restorant, and the quality of the food is not in high level. Definitely I very enjoyed.

Review by: Juan Tomas A, United States of America	June 2010
We really enjoyed this tour. We got to see eevrything we wanted to see in a fun way!

Review by: Jud P, United States of America	October 2009
our guide made the trip, she was wonderful

Review by: martin s, United States of America	September 2009
I gave them only 4 stars because there was not a choice with more stars. excelent, the best me and my wife loved it.The gide was super nice she knew everything about Budapest and the Hungarian old and recent history. After this experience was much much better than expected.

Review by: Martin S	September 2009
I gave them only 4 stars because there was not a choice with more stars. excelent, the best me and my wife loved it.The gide was super nice she knew everything about Budapest and the Hungarian old and recent history. After this experience was much much better than expected.

Review by: Kara S, United States of America	June 2009
Our Hungarian/Spanish tour guide was just a gem. He had an encyclopedic grasp of all things Budapest: past and present, historical, architectural and cultural. We stopped by a beer garden, had a wonderful lunch, and enjoyed an excellent afternoon of cycling around the city. The tour was scheduled for 4 hours, but our guide must have stayed with us until close to 5:00 p.m. He is a true ambassador for his homeland. This tour was excellent!

Review by: Charles G	June 2009
Our Hungarian/Spanish tour guide was just a gem. He had an encyclopedic grasp of all things Budapest: past and present, historical, architectural and cultural. We stopped by a beer garden, had a wonderful lunch, and enjoyed an excellent afternoon of cycling around the city. The tour was scheduled for 4 hours, but our guide must have stayed with us until close to 5:00 p.m. He is a true ambassador for his homeland. This tour was excellent!

Review by: Gary K, United States of America	August 2008
This tour was the classic combination of "good news, bad news". The tour itself was extensive, covering huge areas of both Buda and Pest. The guide was well-informed, and her English was excellent. Bike lanes on streets and sidewalks made getting around much of the city easy and convenient. But there were other places, where the tour went through very heavily trafficked pedestrian areas, where the pedaling was slow and difficult. It would have been easier to walk the bikes. It was in one of these that our guide lost one of the tour members, who found his way back to the start point two hours later. The tour also wrapped up with a very stiff climb up to Buda Castle. And the included lunch didn't come until almost 3 in the afternoon - which was a little tough for some of the older folks. The tour itself was great, but I would only recommend it if you're in pretty good shape. Bring your own GPS.

Review by: Karen H, United Kingdom	July 2008
Guide was on time, considerate of my lack of experience, knowledgeable and spoke excellent English, better experience than I anticipated, made our holiday.