Booking a hotel online can be a risky business if it turns out that the photos have been enhanced and it’s actually grubbier, smaller and less friendly than it looked. But all is exactly as it appears at the Adina Apartment Hotel Budapest in the capital city’s District XIII, where a nine-month, room-by-room renovation is nearing completion, making everything spick and span.
Mauritius – A place that calls you back the moment you return home
The island of Mauritius and its surrounding islets were formed by volcanic activity millions of years ago. The island is part of the Mascarenhas archipelago, which was formed as a result of volcanic eruptions. The island's topography and features are the result of these ...
Inspirations endure at Lika-Senj County event
It was at a lunch date on November 7 when the hospitable Lika-Senj Tourist Board, alongside the Croatian Tourist Board, gave a splendid presentation of their lesser-known county at the deluxe Matild Palace Marriott Bonvoy hotel in Budapest. The 50 or so guests were ...
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Two cities, one European celebration
In 2026, the cities of Trenčín, Slovakia, and Oulu, Finland, will jointly hold the title of European Capital of Culture, an initiative of the European Union. On Tuesday, November 4, they presented their title-year programmes together at the Council of the European Union in ...
Neighbouring Trenčín a European Capital of Culture in 2026
One of the two European Capitals of Culture in 2026 will be convenient for Hungarians, across the border in the Slovakian city of Trenčín. A symbolic countdown to January 1 was unveiled on Friday evening, October 31, with the launching of a spectacular show ...
Tourist arrivals top high base
In July 2025, nearly 2.5 million guests spent around 6.7 million tourism nights at tourist (commercial, private and other) accommodation establishments. Tourist arrivals were up by 1.9% and tourism nights down by 1.4% in number compared to a year earlier. In January-July 2025, the ...
Direct flight to connect Budapest and Philadelphia from 2026
“This is not the final goal—more US-Hungary links are coming,” the economy minister said.
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Ecoboo – Where barefoot luxury meets eco magic
At least once in everyone's life, it is a must to dive into the crystal clear waters of the magnificent southern seas, swim with fish of all colors of the rainbow, ocean turtles, dolphins and sharks, be caressed by the warm wind coming from ...
Sovata and the Ensana Bradet Health Spa Hotel
Salt and sun promise a better body at Bear Lake
I’m going to live to be 100 (only 24-and-a bit years to go). I seem to be healthy enough (just a stiff back now and then; must exercise) and here I am at one of the healthiest spots in all Europe, Lacul Ursu (Bear ...
A splendid weekend getaway at Croatia’s Krk island
The time-honoured Krk Island sits in the northern Adriatic Sea, 50 kilometres from Rijeka, the nearest city on the mainland. Krk is the most populous island in the Adriatic region with some 20,000 people and comes as a popular tourist destination.
Croatian cuisine – in clear line of sight from neighbouring Hungary
Mali Lošinj, the capital of Lošinj Island, is a splendid locality 125 kilometres south from Rijeka, the nearest city on the Croatian mainland. It is also known as the “Island of Vitality”. Within the last 140 years, this Northern Adriatic terra ferma in the ...
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A symbolic impression of Ukraine's second city in suburban Pest
Little Kharkiv tucked away in Thököly Road
A place I was fortunate to travel to this year between pandemic lockdowns was Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the east of the country. And it's interesting that since my return to Budapest there have been certain moments back home when things suddenly spring ...
Szolnok with an unexpected Estonian twist
A tale of two Tallinns
This wintery, restricted-action January I yearned for a day out. It did not matter where. In haste, I took the first train out of the city and went to Szolnok. I had no real aim in mind other than to be the mere tourist ...
Tower top matches famous Hollywood film
A touch of “Vertigo” at Polish church
With all respect to the Polska Parafia Personalna w Budapeszcie, which translates as the Polish Personal Parish in Budapest, whenever in line of sight of this Kőbánya landmark it is the tower top that gives the surreal but impulsive take I always have here ...
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Travel writers organisation returns to the road
Promoting tourism in post-plague times
It was a case of “worth the wait” when the Croatian sector of the Fédération Internationale des Jounalistes et Ecrivains du Tourisme (FIJET, World Federation of Travel Journalists and Writers) held its annual Marco Polo awards ceremony in Zagreb on December 9, having had ...
Szolnok with an unexpected Estonian twist
A tale of two Tallinns
This wintery, restricted-action January I yearned for a day out. It did not matter where. In haste, I took the first train out of the city and went to Szolnok. I had no real aim in mind other than to be the mere tourist ...
A symbolic impression of Ukraine's second city in suburban Pest
Little Kharkiv tucked away in Thököly Road
A place I was fortunate to travel to this year between pandemic lockdowns was Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the east of the country. And it's interesting that since my return to Budapest there have been certain moments back home when things suddenly spring ...
