Budapest Travel Answers

Hi Steven, I check for you on Deutsche Bahn, but they unfortunately also could not give any prices. However what I did discover is that from Budapest to Kiev the train takes anything from 24 - 36 hours depending on which one you catch. From Budapest to Lvov takes 14 hours and both have bed availability. I think flying would be better. Mariana

Cost to Kiev one way is app. 70 euro one way, Lviv app. 45-50 euro + sleeping car reservation (app. 15-20 euro). If you buy return it would be cheaper - 120/87 + sleeping car reservation(*2) Don't buy first class, since on this route second class sold 2/2 if you buy tickets for BP-Kiev car wagon (not BP-Moscow till Kiev). So this means, that you and you wife will be anyway alone in compartment ;) P.S. you travel from BP to Kiev much cheaper app. 30-35 euro/per person if you will make a change in Zahony and Chop - by this trick you don't pay international tariff and use cheap domestic Ukrainian tariff mainly

P.S. If you really want to fly, but do it as cheap as possible - you actually can use low cost airlines... Specifically for BP it looks OK BP-Dortmund by Easyjet + Dortmund-Kiev by Wizzair (connection works 4 days per week) Total price BP-Dortmund-Kiev one way can be as low as 40-50 euro BP-Cologne-Kiev or BP-London-Kiev looks less convenient for me...

Thanks for all the suggestions.. Just got this direct from MAV (Hungarian Rail0 Thank you for your enquiry! The one-way ticket from Budapest to Kiev costs 37,60 EUR/2nd class/person, 56,40 EUR/1st class/person. Extra prices: 4 bed sleeper: 19 EUR/person/way, 3 bed sleeper: 23 EUR/person/way, 2 bed sleeper: 38 EUR/person/way (with 1st class), 1 bed sleeper: 76 EUR/person/way (with 1st class). From Budapest to Lvov the one-way ticket costs 25,60 EUR/2nd class/person, 38,40 EUR/1st class/person. Extra prices: 4 bed sleeper: 15 EUR/person/way, 3 bed sleeper: 18 EUR/person/way, 2 bed sleeper: 30 EUR/person/way (with 1st class), 1 bed sleeper: 60 EUR/person/way (with 1st class). Our currency is 1 EUR = 298 HUF. Have a nice trip! Best regards, Noemi Kacsmarik administrator Railway Passenger Transport Co. MÁVDIREKT phone (from abroad): +36 (1) 371 94 49 phone (from inland) : 06 (40) 49 49 49 e-mail (information): informacio@mav-start.hu e-mail (suggestions, complaints): eszrevetel@mav-start.hu timetable and homepage: http://www.mav-start.hu/ on-line ticket: jegyvasarlas.mav-start.hu

Wow... quite strange. I'm 100% sure that this are incorrect prices for the ticket, while sleeper reservation looks OK For the very simply check - look at BP-Kiev here (elvira.mav-start.hu/elvira.d... - it gives r/t price, even last year made map of tariffs gives 95 euro for r/t (mav-start.hu/utazas/nemzetko... The biggest interest for me, where and how the person who answered your question got those prices ???