Tours to Hungary from Almaty: prices from 939,000 ₸

three out of five is mostly about Heviz, the lake is great but the infrastructure around it is a bit lacking. the travel agency got everything done quickly, the manager helped with the tickets, but the hotel I picked myself and messed up, it was a bit far to trudge to the lake every day. the water is warm, though the water lilies float right by the pier, you get in and they brush against your legs, slightly unpleasant, but overall the feeling is awesome like you're lying in a bath. I didn't really try the treatment, that mud stuff isn't for me, but I slept well in the evening and drank local wine which is decent. overall me and my wife went fine but I overpaid for those baths to be honest.

I was choosing for a long time where to go in March, to both swim in pools and see a city, in the end I settled on Hungary, Hajduszoboszlo — friends of mine just came back from there last year and were raving about it. Bought the tour at a local agency, everything was arranged quickly, without any hassle, so I went already with a full understanding of what awaits me

Had to urgently recover after overwork, doctors recommended thermal waters and the nearest normal option from what was found in the agency turned out to be Heviz. the lake is really warm, some kind of chemical stays on the skin and there's a sulfur smell, but the body let go by the second day, swimming in this steam is just space, only white water lilies everywhere get in the way and this impudent swan swam up to your hands; went for a massage didn't regret it, five-star delight, organization on point they didn't lose us anywhere even awkward to praise but you can really see the care. in the hotel they fed you well though not fancy but the fish was fresh, homemade goulash, came back a different person my back let go

Flew to Heviz with a friend, wanted to just clear our heads after work and also pull her out of the eternal mess at the office — she's in marketing, it's utter chaos there. The weather didn't cooperate, but even in the rain a couple of hours in the warm water – pure bliss, I totally melted, my back forgot what an office chair is. Took a slightly pricier tour than I planned, but once there I realized that this day without plans and google-maps was the best thing in the trip, so I flew back as a normal person)

Mom asked me to find a tour to Hungary with a flight from Astana, and that's exactly where I went in January. Read so much about Budapest that I decided not to overthink it and took what the agency offered. The manager picked out options for us and immediately mentioned the thermal baths, I understood why later. On the very first day we went to the market, all those paprikas and sausages lying in rows — eyes go wide. Fish soup in a pot, very spicy, but I poured myself a second serving, it was a good lunch. The bridge across the Danube, of course, is a whole other story — wind from the river so strong it blew my hat off. But in the evening when everything lights up, the city looks much cozier than during the day, even the big parliament building doesn't feel so heavy. I honestly skipped the thermal bath tour because you need a whole day for it and we only had three for everything, my sister later went deep into ruin bars instead. The weather was moody, but that didn't bother me — the trip totally worked out and definitely left a nice feeling. I'd absolutely come back to this place again to calmly check out some things in more detail.

Went to Heviz not for chillnig and excursions but to fix my back after a failed renovation – just threw my lower back out at the dacha, thought a banya would help, but the doctor said only water and silence. Took a tour with a flight, hotel right by the lake – from the window you can see steam hanging over the water, just the thing for my lazy ass. The water is genuinely weird, slippery and warm, you lie there like in soup, and after three days the pain started letting go, that I noticed for sure. Germans around are all hyper, gossiping at the edge nonstop, but you can just ignore them. The only downside – crowd like in a minibus at rush hour, hard to claim your spot on the pontoon, but for that kind of result I’m ready to shove with my elbows. I didn’t do the mud, didn’t sign up for treatments, just self-healed by the instructions from the internet, and you know what – I went home livelier than I came, even though before it I was on pills).

I was looking at Budapest from the side, because we arrived early and needed to kill some time before check-in — well, okay, but then in Hajduszoboszlo I realized that this is exactly where we needed to go. The water really smells like sulfur, at first I thought I wouldn't get in, but then I kinda got into it and sat there for half a day, my skin became smooth after it and my back stopped aching, I can hardly believe a simple vacation helped so much.

Trip to Hungary, to Hajduszoboszlo, turned out to be exactly what was needed after a long stretch of work. The drive here took a fair amount of time, but it was worth it, though I was pretty tired by the time we got there from Budapest. The thermal baths themselves are impressive of course, the water is genuinely hot in some pools and cool in others, I was swimming back and forth like a duck.. it's interesting to feel your body sort of reassembling itself after every dip. The hotel food was good, but the portions were kind of nervy — small, though you could ask for seconds, I was too shy the first time, but then I went for it and it was no big deal. walked around the city in the evening, it's really cozy, all lit up, though there weren't many people on the streets, mostly fellow resort-goers like us. Came back happy, my skin after the water was so smooth, like I'm twenty again, the vacation was a success, though I still have a grudge against the fancy thermal pools on Tuesday morning, because honestly how long can you wait for a sunbed

originally we just wanted a visa and tickets, and we'll figure out the rest ourselves i sat over websites for three days and lost it. went to the agency on the corner because a colleague did that and never complained. decided to take the whole tour without even looking at the program — i was already so done with planning anything myself. Budapest is beautiful of course, but i only exhaled when we checked in, the whole bus was shaking and i thought i'd get motion sick before the border (didn't). the first tour was fine, the second was straight up fire, the guide talked so cheerfully that i didn't even doze off even though i usually pass out after lunch. liked that they gave us enough free time too, didn't drag us around like we were tied to every column but showed us the main stuff and let us go. from the little things i remember that at the restaurant where they fed us dinner the napkins were paper and still kept sliding off my lap — that unexpectedly annoyed me more than the weather, which by the way was great. in the evening the boat ride on the Danube was nice, but i got so cold that i scarfed down the shashlik in a minute, even though i usually don't even like it)). came back home happy even for that money, gave it four out of five because on the first day check-in took us like forty minutes, but that's me just nitpicking

Dropped by to pick a trip to Hungary, because my wife had been wanting to see the parliament lit up for a long time and I decided to surprise her for our anniversary. The travel agency offered the best option for our dates right away, got everything sorted in about forty minutes, and the only document I brought was my passport — didn’t expect it to go that fast. Came back satisfied, soaked up the city, had coffee in every other coffee shop and never once regretted the money spent.

The heat was insane, even in the evening the air didn’t cool down, but the lake saved us — the water was like warm milk, and the best part is you just float on the water yourself, with zero effort, it’s so dense you can barely push your arm down. When the manager was setting everything up, she warned us right away about the healing mud and the sulfur smell, I thought it would be unbearable, but it was fine, tolerable, even kinda cool… they picked a hotel with dinners, Hungarians feed you well but it’s repetitive, goulash and paprikash every damn day, but the portions are huge. A couple times we took the bus to Budapest, bought a bunch of magnets at the souvenir shops and the thermal bath complex in the city didn’t impress us, way too crowded. Came back like a squeezed lemon but in a good way, my back stopped aching, my skin got smooth, though you get used to the conjuctivitis in a day.

Actually we went not for tourism but for a check-up at a clinic in Budapest, some acquaintances said they have the best vascular specialists there, we chose the hotel the travel agency recommended, it turned out to be more convenient being next to the hospital than I expected. All the procedures went fast, and in between we managed to go to the market and see the embankment — the city is beautiful even when you're running between tests and appointments. strange feeling, like I didn't rest but went on a business trip but a very productive one and at the same time I ended up terribly satisfied with it

Went to Heviz to give my back at least a bit of a break after endless sitting days at the office, chose this lake specifically because I'd read about its effects a year ago, and the travel agency just happened to have a convenient package without transfers. The thermal water really does wonders, though at first I didn't even believe two weeks in such a backwater could restore me this much, swam, walked around the park, and every night fell asleep like a log, came back feeling like everything inside had been reset, already telling all my colleagues we should go there together next year.

ya ugla-to ne znala kuda sebya det v noyabre kogda svalilas kucha del i prosto s podrugoy reshila sorvatsya v Vengriyu, v eto samoe Haydusoboslo s ego vody nashli u nas v odnom kazahstanskom agenstve offer normalnyy s vyletom iz Astany i vybor pal srazu tk u podrugi spina i vrachi skazali chto tut samyy luchshiy termalt v evrope krome togo davno hotela posmotret na stranu no v itoge vyshlo udobnee kupit vse v odnom meste i ne morochitsya. zhili pryamo pyat minut peshkom ot kupalen, voda priyatnaya hot i silno popahivaet seroy eta von znaete kak yaytsa dohlye do sih por pomnyu. i vokrug kucha starikov s idiotskimi shapochkami dlya plavaniya, no glavnoe gorodu posle vseh protsedur i ponimash vecherom tolko energiya hleschet, vernulas i budto zanovorodilas hotya takih vau-dostoprimechatelnostey net no spayki na tele proshli i ya stavlyu pyat.

I was buying a trip to Heviz, I needed to urgently get away and clear my head after the divorce — I picked this lake because I heard it heals nerves better than any pills. The water is really strange, warm and kinda oily, you lie in it and feel your body just letting everything go on its own,— everything was arranged quickly, the manager picked up the phone, her voice sounded pleasant, and so she was, no questions came up!

такое сезім, мырау басқа әлемге түсіп кеткендейміз, ұшуы бәрібір ештеңе емес. көлдің өзі мынау таңғаларлық, суы жылы әрі қандай да бір майлы секілді, жатасың да жай ғана жатасың, тіпті қозғалмайсың да. күн сайын екі-үш сағат шомылдым, терің бүріскенше — бұл рахат, бірақ ыңғайсызы, купальник үнемі дымқыл болып жүреді. ортасында суы ыстығырақ, шеттерінде салқындау, өз аймағыңды тауып алуға болады. қалашық кішкентай, екі кеште бәрін аралап шықтық, көше бойында лилиялар өседі — әдемі, бірақ анау гүлдердің тозаңы, жоқ, шынымен түшкіргің келеді (ал маған тағы да бордюрмен жүру де зәрігер болды). Будапештке экскурсияны отелден алдық, бір күнде Балықшылар бастионын да, парламентті де көріп үлгердік, өте қарқынды болды. енді үйде отырып фото парақтаймын, күлемін де ойлаймын — қайтадан барғым келеді, әрі суды жақсы көретіндердің бәріне айтамын, бұл дәл сендердің меснто.

сәуір әрине маусым емес, бірақ Хайдусобосло жаман емес, термалка жылы тіпті сырты салқын болса да, саябақта субұрқақтардың жартысы әлі қосылмаған. қалашық кішкентай, турды ұшып кетуден бір апта бұрын алып едім, өкінбедім, венгр тағамдары шынымен ауыр, гуляш үш күнде мезі қылды, бірақ көшедегі глинтвейн құтқарып жүрді. сондықтан төрттік, басымен демалғысы келгенге таптырмас нәрсе, нюанс іздемесең...

Rest in Hajduszoboszlo — almost ideal. The thermal pools are genuinely huge, the water is hot even in April, though the weather was cool (+14 only, but we were fine). And the town is so quiet, not many tourists, but that's more of a plus than a minus, because you can stroll around peacefully everywhere. Liked that next to the hotel there's a bunch of little cafes where they serve goulash right in bread, and that was the most filling thing I ate all trip... The water, it's different by temperature — you go into one zone, it wakes you up and then across the road you run to another pool to warm up, funny little brain game. The room itself in the hotel was simple, but the balcony faced the park, and listening to birds in the morning while you drink coffee — that's just right, though the bed creaked a bit. Went for one day to Debrecen with the market and the big church, but honestly got more tired than I'd like, though I did appreciate the boiled corn there. Organization of the whole trip — no hiccups, everything was exactly as written in the program, even the transfer arrived on time (usually rare luck, usually you wait an hour). The price seemed fair for that amount of spa treatments and that whole hajduszoboszloish relaxed vibe of theirs. already booking myself a week there for autumn, to repeat the water fun with pleasure

Lake Heviz thermal lake is genuinely something else, spent basically a week straight in the water, even though I can't really swim, but you don't have to there, you just float in that warm sludge and bliss out. The bottom is muddy, it squishes under your feet, creepy at first, but you get used to it, and after that kind of soak your skin turns literally silky, no cream will hydrate it like that. We went on a day trip to Budapest, the city is beautiful of course, but I spent over half the time in the Szechenyi thermal baths, because our Russian banyas after those just seem like a sauna in a basement. We got there on our own by bus from the hotel, bought tickets at the kiosk, and almost mixed up the direction, there's a real trouble with the schedule, every sign is in Hungarian, but the locals helped us out, kind people. Went for a dip in the lake even when there was snow on the ground, that's just a steam boiler in the freezing cold, tons of emotions, only one downside, all my clothes got soaked through with artifical sulfur smells, my jacket still stinks in the car, but for an experience like that you can put up with it.

We flew to Budapest to handle an inheritance after my uncle through a local agency, and since we were at it we decided to walk around the city, we had three days and I even specially took vacation time. Everything was great, only a couple of times the breakfast at the hotel was already cold, but that's a small thing that didn't ruin it, but what views from the Fisherman's Bastion, I couldan't get enough.

The Danube at night is just absolutely something else, all the lights like a New Year tree, I just stood there staring, didn’t even want to blink. The Parliament is so huge, and it reflects whole in the water, I was taking photos until my phone died, good thing I brought a power bank. I never even got out my swimsuit, even though I went kind of for the thermal baths, but we walked so much that by evening my legs were buzzing, we just plain didn’t make it to the pools. But the coffee there is incredible, in some tiny pastry shop around the corner I got three cappuccinos in a row, cookies were free, is that not happiness. The manager from the agency suggested getting a tourist transport pass, I almost said no, and with it we covered so many places in a day that without it it would’ve been a disaster. Plus she also sent me an app for the city map, in advance, so I never got lost and even a couple times played tour guide for other lost tourists (cheeky of me of course). The chain bridge is pretty, but damn, at rush hour so many people flood across it, you wouldn’t believe, but from the top you see everything at once, I liked it. On the way back I flew with a bunch of treats and marzipans, ate half on the way. I rested so well that this recharge will last me till the end of the year, came back happy!

I booked a tour with this agency to Budapest after my friend bragged about their prices for Europe, and ended up packing my suitcase the very next day. On the spot everything turned out even better than in the pictures: we managed to get into the Szechenyi baths and climb up to Fisherman's bastion, though without a tour, on our own — the view from there over the Danube is just mind-blowing. Came back with a pile of souvenirs and burned shoulders, but that's because I forgot my sunscreen, and the trip itself was worth every tenge and I'd give the organization a ten out of ten, if I could))

The thermal complex is impressive in scale, I didn't even expect there to be that many outdoor pools, steam over the water and all that, honestly zoned out for four hours until I froze to the bone, and then just lounged in a deckchair with a book until evening. Hungary in March is the shit for those who want to actually treat themselves, not just swim; the manager at the agency picked a hotel with decent spa services, though the food at the restaurant felt too greasy for that kind of regimen, but that's just me nitpicking.

me and my wife were running around getting our passports done and we decided, since we were already there, to grab something warm for february, the choice fell on Hungary because the manager recommended this Hajduszoboszlo and the price turned out reasonable., while we were doing the paperwork I was really worried they'd lose the application but we got there and everything went totally smoothly. the only thing is the hotel had just one working elevator and you had to wait like five minutes but that's such a small thing compared to how great we swam in the thermal baths and stuffed ourselves with local langos, I don't regret going at all and I'm ready to do it again right now)

I was in Budapest in December, and the city really is like a fairytale — Christmas markets, mulled wine, the whole center is glowing. The manager picked us a hotel with a view of the Danube, and without any extra questions, she just got what we needed right away, for which she deserves a special thanks, though the tour of the parliament inside turned out to be, like, very quick. Came back happy, but with a feeling of not having walked enough — the city doesn't let you go, and that's, perhaps, the best recommendation.

kak zhe vse-taki povezlo chto vlyapalsya v etu poezdku… Vengriya v dekabre — eto ne plyazh konechno no Haydusoboslo menya vytaschil iz zimney toski — v termah voda realno goryachaya, ruki dazhe pokrasneli, poka sidel na bortike. snachala dumal pyat dney eto mnogo, okazalos malo: hodil po parku, dyshal etim vozduhom (nemnogo neprivychno pahlo seroy i esche chem-to vrode mineralki). vecherom v gorode narodu pochti net, v restorane nasheludili gulyasha bud zdorov, portsiya na troih takoy ya i odnu osilil cherez silu no eto zhe turizm. bez mashiny osobo ne razverneshsya, taksi vyzyval paru raz i eto byl edinstvennyy prokol — zhdal minut dvadtsat kazhdoe. zato v otele polotentsa davali svezhie kazhdyy den i ne podglyadyvali, kogda ya v kupalnike k basseynu shlepal. v obschem vernulsya dovolnym kak slon: spina perestala skripet, spal kak mladenets, a banku s mestnoy solyu domoy priper — podruge na mylo)) bron delal v Kazahstane cherez agentstvo, vse proshlo gladko, bez nakladok)).

flew with a layover in Istanbul, somehow it just happened that we spent five hours in the airport, but overall not deadly. Heviz is this lake, warm, the water like fresh milk and healing, swam to my heart's content, though the sulfur smell made my eyes sting at first. on the way back I was already thinking how to get home, and now I sit and remember that peace, it really helped, I'll give it five plus..

Мамыр айында Венгрияға осындағы агенттік арқылы бардым, Хайдусобосло — бұл кәдімгі от, жай курорт емес. Күні бойы термальды бассейндерде отырдым, су шынымен емдік, тіпті терісіміз жібектей болып кетті, дегенмен мен мұндай нәрселерге әдетте сенбеймін. Менеджер құжаттар мен ваучерлерге тез көмектесті, бәрі анық, жүйкесіз — таң қалдым, әдетте турагенттер ақша төленгеннен кейін сені ұмытып кетеді. Кешке саябақта серуендедім, онда балаларға арналған қандай да бір анимация және сыра ішкен немістердің көптігі, бірақ батқан күн керемет, ауасы моншадай. Қайтарда риза болып ұштым, бір ай санаторийде жатқандай демалдым, күшім шынымен қайтты. Жалғыз кемшілігі — қонақүйдегі жастық ыңғайсыз еді, бірақ бұл ұсақ-түйек, осындай әсерлер үшін бес балл да кәдімгі нәрсе)

vzglianula na parovoz i poyala, chto ne zrya taskala dolgo vybirala etot tur v agentstve. paren' razobralsya mne vse pokazal po karte, dazhe prines butylku vodi kogda ya zapuhalas' posle mosta, otduhala dubai? net, poehali v budapesht i eto luchshe chto so mnoy bylo v mae — goryachaya voda v termalkah s-pod otkrytogo neba eto voobshche drugaya vselennaya

Went to Budapest, five days, and you know, genuinely awesome, I was dreading those morning bus sightseeing trips, but it was worth it – the whole city like on a palm, and the Danube, and those bridges… then separately went to the market, stuffed ourselves with langos, sat right on a bench and burned our fingers, unbelievably tasty..