Transport - Budapest - page 434

Boat
Throughout most of the year passenger ferries run by BKK depart from alongside the A38
club boat in south Buda up to 10 times a day Monday to Saturday and head for IV Árpád út
in north Pest, a one-hour trip with eight stops along the way. Tickets (adult/child 750/550Ft)
are sold on board. The ferry stop closest to the Castle District is I Batthyány tér, and V
Petőfi tér is not far from the pier just west of Vörösmarty tér. Transporting a bicycle costs
400Ft.
Bus
An extensive system of buses running on some 260 routes day and night serves greater Bud-
apest. On certain bus lines the same bus may have an 'E' after the number, meaning it is ex-
press and makes limited stops.
Buses run from around 4.15am to between 9pm and 11.30pm, depending on the line. From
11.30pm to just after 4am a network of 40 night buses (always with three digits and begin-
ning with 9) operates every 15 to 60 minutes, again depending on the route.
Following are bus routes (shown with blue lines on most Budapest maps) that you might
find useful:
7 Cuts across a large swath of central Pest from XIV Bosnyák tér and down VII Rákóczi út
before crossing Elizabeth Bridge to southern Buda. The 7E makes limited stops on the same
route.
15 Takes in most of the Inner Town from IX Boráros tér to XIII Lehel tér north of Nyugati
train station.
86 Runs the length of Buda from XI Kosztolányi Dezső tér to Óbuda.
105 Goes from V Deák Ferenc tér to XII Apor Vilmos tér in central Buda.