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01
Oct

Sunday Brunch & Advent Concert at Corinthia Grand Hotel Budapest

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Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal in Budapest

If you like brunches and want to get into a festive mood before Christmas Eve, you can enjoy the popular Sunday brunches at Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal in Budapest. Their event, the ‘Advent Sunday Brunch and Classical Concert’ is on December 23 in 2012, on a Sunday.

More info:

Sunday Brunch: from 12 pm until 4 pm
Advent Classical Concert: from 3.30 pm until 4.30 pm
The brunch seems to be a good deal, really good value for money considering:

  • the wide variety of international cuisine
  • the open bar: free flowing of champagne, house wines, beer and soft drinks
  • Live entertainment: Xmas concert
  • the exciting games and toys for children
  • Free parking in the garage

Excellent value for adults at HUF 7,900 per person, even better value for kids (6 to 14 yrs) at HUF 3,950 and best of all under 6’s who go absolutely free.

Events at Corinthia Hotel Budapest 2012

Christmas Tree Lighting Sunday Brunch
2nd December
Christmas tree lighting in the Main Lobby
at 12.00 pm with children choir
Brunch in the Brasserie and Atrium Restaurant,
from 12.00 pm until 4.00 pm with live music

Christmas “Hütte”
2nd-24th December
Atrium II. side entrance, from 12.00 pm until 9.00 pm*
with delicious sausages, strudels, fruit loaf, beigli, home-made Christmas biscuits, hot tea and chocolate and cinnamon mulled wine
*on 24th December from 12.00 pm until 4.00 pm

Santa Claus Sunday Brunch
9th December
Brasserie and Atrium Restaurant, from 12.00 pm
until 4.00 pm with live gipsy music
€32 | 9,120 HUF per person

Advent Sunday Brunch
16th and 23rd December
Brasserie and Atrium Restaurant, from 12.00 pm
until 4.00 pm with live gipsy music
€32 | 9,120 HUF per person

Advent Classical Concert
9th and 16th December
Atrium II. from 3.30 pm
The concert is free of charge

Christmas Eve Buffet Dinner
24th December
Brasserie and Atrium Restaurant, from 6.00 pm
until 11.00 pm with live classical music
€48 | 13,500 HUF per person

MENU / SALADS
Green asparagus salad with truffle dressing
Creamy potato salad with crispy bacon
Herring salad with green apple and fresh herbs

APPETIZERS
Serrano ham and sliced honeydew melon
Pork and duck rillettes with croutons
Fresh seafood on ice

COLD CARVING
Vodka marinated Norwegian salmon
Fresh beef tartare

SOUP
Seafood chowder
Chestnut and celery cream soup

HOT SELECTION
Mangalica pork medallions
Monkfish medallions with seafood paella rice
Braised red cabbage
Fish and seafood Indian curry
Traditional Christmas turkey with chestnut

DESSERT
A wide selection of home-made Christmas delights.

Christmas Day Brunch
25th December
Brasserie and Atrium Restaurant, from 12.00 pm
until 4.00 pm with live jazz music
€33 | 9,400 HUF per person

Christmas Day Buffet Dinner
25th December
Brasserie and Atrium Restaurant, from 6.00 pm
until 11.00 pm with live classical music
€35 | 9,900 HUF per person

Oyster Market and Buffet
26th December
Brasserie and Atrium Restaurant from 6.00 pm
with a special oyster selection and a glass of sparkling wine
€13 | 3,700 HUF per 3 pieces of oyster
€17 | 4,800 HUF per person for the buffet

Table reservations and further information:
+36 1 479-4800 or cuisine.budapest@corinthia.com

Table reservations and further information: on the Corinthia Hotel website

01
Oct

Children Folk Concerts at the Christmas Markets in Budapest

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Madardal folk music band at Budapest Christmas Fair

Madardal folk band is one of the dozens of live concerts you can enjoy at the Christmas Markets in Budapest.

Madardal folk music band at Budapest Christmas Fair

Madardal folk music band at Budapest Christmas Fair


Most of the concerts, which are absolutely fun with toddlers and little children take place at the Christmas Fair on Vorosmarty Square Budapest, but there are many concerts by the Basilica Xmas Fair too (St Istvan Bazilika), at weekends on the Obuda Advent Market, etc. The concerts last until December 24.

Usually the last concerts take place around 10-11 am, as do the children shows at Christmas (e.g. Nutcracker has several versions in the city of Budapest during the Advent period, from puppet shows, to puppet and actor to ballet shows)

Venue: Vorosmarty ter Budapest, District V (at the end of Vaci utca shopping street, close to the Chain Bridge)

Here is a bit of taster of the Madardal folk music band, and their special ways to invite the children and adults to dance around, which is good, it will make you feel warmer at the Xmas market! Just go with the flow. This video of the children folk concert was made in the 2011 Christmas Fair on Vorosmarty ter.

21
Sep

Budapest Christmas Market Video

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This is one of the nicest, though low key, video about the traditional Budapest Christmas market on Vorosmarty Square in Budapest, Hungary. The video film (made in 2011) captures the little stalls and the surrounding buildings and sights very well, but on the calmer side of the Xmas market, when there are fewer people at the popular fair. The Christmas markets in Budapest usually start to get crowded after working hours (5-6pm) on weekdays, and, of course, at the Advent weekends.
Vorosmarty Sq Christmas Fair is crowded despite the fact that the other big Xmas market by the St Stephen’s Basilica is literally five minute walk.

Tip: when is it worth visiting the Christmas Market in Budapest?
If you want to avoid the crowds, go in the morning, around 10am, or at 2pm the latest. This way, however, you will also miss the Christmas concerts on the square, which typically start at 5pm and 6.15pm on weekdays 9on Vorosmaty Square).
So the questions is what is more important to you: the calmer markets with less crowds or the live music and entertainment, and to see the buzzing night life of the Budapest Christmas markets.

18
Sep

Erzsebet Square Christmas in Budapest

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As Erzsebet Ter (Elisabeth Square) is one of the central hubs of the city of Budapest, no wonder that there are several events, programs on this square during the Advent weeks before Christmas too.

First of all, there is a smaller scale Budapest Christmas Fair on Erzsebet Square, which seems to be merged with the Christmas stalls of the Fashion Street and then onwards to the big Budapest Christmas market on Vorosmarty Square. These three Xmas sights are in theory 3 separate events but fuse into a continuous Christmas festival by proximity.

Then there is the Budapest Design Terminal, a center of contemporary design with frequent installations, exhibitions and fairs. Budapest Design Terminal Christmas comes in early December every year.

Club Aquarium, the underground trendy club on Erzsebet Square offers various programs and concerts for the younger generation, with hiphop, rock, punk, world music, rap, etc. events. Some of them are directly Christmas themed, but most simply offer the daily clubbing experience as a focal point of Budapest downtown nightlife. Here is a nice photo of the club / bar at night in chilly December weather in Budapest (in summer picture this place with hundreds of people happily enjoying the summer evenings with drinks and chats)

Elisabeth Square Budapest at Christmas

Elisabeth Square Budapest at Christmas – Krisztian Bodis Photography


In the background of the photo, you can see the domes and towers of the biggest Catholic cathedral in Budapest called the St Stephen’s Basilica (Szent Istvan Bazilika) where there is the Budapest Basilica Christmas market, within a few minutes walk from Erzsebet Square and Vorosmarty Square.

15
Sep

Kiraly Bath at Christmas

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Kiraly Bath Budapest

Is Kiraly Bath, one of the most popular Turkish baths in Budapest, open during the Christmas holidays? Can you visit the thermal pools and enjoy the thermal and pool facilities?

Kiraly Bath Budapest

Kiraly Bath Budapest

Yes, Kiraly Baths is open at Christmas and on New Year too, though the opening hours are somewhat changed on the public holidays in winter.

Many Budapest travel guides say that Budapest is quiet or dead at Christmas, but this is not true any more.

Kirlay Baths, similarly to the two big baths in Budapest, Szechenyi Baths and Gellert Baths, is mostly open throughout the Christmas holidays, with the following opening hours:

Planned Christmas opening hours 2018

  • Dec 24: Closed
  • Dec 25: Kiraly Baths is open from 10 am to 6 pm
  • Dec 26: opening hours from 9 am to 8pm (all pools and the thermal section with saunas, steam rooms, plunge pools, thermal pools in Kiraly thermal Baths)
  • Dec 31: open from 9 am to 6 pm. Enjoy some amazing days in Budapest in a stunning historical building (the old Turkish baths have been expanded with more modern pools and facilities of course)
  • Jan 1: Kiral bath is open from 12 pm (noon) to 8 pm. Visiting ‘the Kiray’ is a nice way to get over the New Year’s Eve party symptoms (hangover, stress of the new year, etc.). As Kiraly has not been restored yet (unlike Rudas, Gellert or Szechenyi Baths) it is the most authentically ruinous and historical baths currently in the city of Budapest

Kiraly means King in Hungarian, say kee-raay

The opening times above have been basically the same at Budapest Baths for the last ten years or so. If you are planning your Budapest Christmas trip for 2018, you can count on the baths staying open on the public holiday dates in December and January in Hungary.

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