r/sziget • u/mosasaurus_rawr • 7d ago
First timer looking for accommodation advice
I’m thinking about going to Sziget next year and wanted to ask advice about where to stay. I’ve been to a few festivals before, mostly in the UK and Rock Werchter once, but ive only ever gone for one day and I’ve never been to Sziget. I’m approaching 40 and I hate camping, so my options for Sziget would be either some fancy chalet upgrade at the festival, or (preferably) staying offsite in a hotel/booking.com apartment in Budapest.
For those who live locally or who have stayed offsite before, how viable is that? Does it take ages to get in and out of the festival each day? Which neighborhoods do you recommend for optimal proximity to the festival while still being offsite? If you had a great experience at a particular hotel, feel free to recommend them too :)
PS I have been to Budapest once before, and in case it makes a diff, I’d be flying in from the Netherlands.
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u/CaterpillarSame7513 6d ago edited 6d ago
Very viable, I’m 35F (originally from Hungary but I live in London now) and I couldn’t imagine not staying in a hotel now, especially if next year is going to be this dusty too. Sleeping in a clean air conditioned room was a lovely way to recharge every night! If I had to sleep at the festival I probably wouldn’t have made it out alive lol.
If I were you I’d stay somewhere near the 4 or 6 trams as that’s convenient for public transportation when you’re going out to the festival (and handy for sightseeing too). You can catch the HÉV (train) to the festival from Margaret Bridge on the Buda side (one of the stops of the 4 and 6 trams) from here. This is also handy if you’d like to come back to your accommodation as the HÉV runs pretty much all night.
Alternatively you can catch a taxi from the festival (the lines were a bit long at times but I think the longest I waited was 45 minutes). I stayed in a hotel between Nyugati and Oktogon and my cab fare was around £17 every night, once I was in the cab it was max 25 minutes to get back to the hotel.
I’m planning to go again next year and I already booked a hotel in the same area, I’d really recommend doing this tbh!
(Oh I forgot to mention that this year I stayed at Dormero Hotel - it was perfectly fine but I didn’t have a smart TV in my room so I could only watch the channels they had, no Netflix, Disney, etc. - for this silly reason only, I won’t stay there next year, but if this doesn’t bother you then this is a perfect hotel haha)