28 December, 2018
Destination Profile
Smack bang in the heart of Europe, Hungary is a mishmash of history and language that's bound to impress. It's likely that cheap flights to Hungary from USA will jet straight into the capital of Budapest, where broiling spas and Habsburg palaces are the perfect welcome. From there, you can break away to the award-winning wine country of Tokaj for tastes of the country's finest tipples. You can go to Balaton Lake to soothe yourself in mineral bathhouses. You can visit elegant Eger or Szentendre, where cobbled lanes and domed churches ooze Magyar heritage. Most tickets on this route will involve a stopover along the way, with average travel times anything between 12 and 25 hours from departure to arrival.
You can soothe away the hangover in the Szechenyi Thermal Bath, where elegant Art Deco halls hide natural sulfur pools.
The buzz of Budapest is hard to ignore. Hit the city to drink uber-cheap beer, munch on paprika-infused goulash, and see handsome Habsburg castles.
Lake Balaton is home to age-old mineral spas and some pumping shoreline resorts that really burst into life during the summer.
No airlines fly direct between the United States of America and Hungary.