Hi,
I'm taking a river cruise that ends in Budapest. We'll be taking the train from Budapest to Vienna afterwards. For those of you who have taken the train from Budapest, is there a self service ticket kiosk that is in English, or will I need to buy tickets from the window? Will the ticket sellers speak English? I intend on learning enough Hungarian to make the ticket purchase, but wanted to be sure just in case.
Joe,
I was in Budapest about 4 weeks ago. Buying train tickets was not the easiest I've seen. There was a self service kiosk, but I'm not sure if it had English instructions as it was not working that day.
However, I just printed out the train schedule for that day ahead of time, highlighted the one I wanted, and handed it to the person at the window. She got the train tickets to me with no problems. From my experience, some of the ticket sellers speak no English, and some speak just a bit, but if you have the highlighted schedule it should be fine.
Thanks for your help Randall! I'll follow your suggestions.
buy them at the station, or go to a tourist info desk where they will help.
