See You Soon Budapest, Hungary
Another trip with a friend Jean to Budapest is coming very soon. Two more nights and we will be leaving for a 5-day trip to this city and other neighboring towns of Budapest. We will also have a short stop-over in Vienna. Some other places to be visited include Esztergom, Visegrad and Plattensee, called as Lake Balaton in English.
More travel updates after our trip!
Budapest during winter time.I was browsing in internet trying to find out the monetary unit of Hungary. Thanks to Wikitravel and xe.com for these infos below.
1.00 EUR = 269.839 HUF
Euro Hungarian Forint
1 EUR = 269.839 HUF 1 HUF = 0.00370592 EUR
1.00 USD = 187.351 HUF
US Dollar Hungarian Forint
1 USD = 187.351 HUF 1 HUF = 0.00533757 USD
Money:
Currently used coins: 5 HUF, 10 HUF, 20 HUF, 50 HUF, 100 HUF, 200 HUF
Currently used banknotes: 500 HUF, 1,000 HUF, 2,000 HUF, 5,000 HUF, 10,000 HUF, 20,000 HUF
Be sure when receiving change that all 1,000 HUF notes contain a vertical silver strip. Older notes without the strip are no longer valid. 200 HUF banknotes are also no longer valid, look out for these too!
Also, when receiving change from a taxi journey, make sure that the money is actually Hungarian. Some taxi drivers have been known to give unsuspecting passengers obsolete Romanian banknotes (lei).
Important phone numbers:
Police 107 Fire:105
