Travel Reference
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Consider buying a rechargeable SIM chip, which will reduce the cost of making local calls.
T-Mobile, for example, sells prepaid vouchers for 4050Ft, with 2700Ft worth of credit. Top-
up cards cost from 1500Ft.
The following are centrally located offices of mobile-phone providers:
Fri, 10am-5pm Sat; M3 Ferenciek tere)
203; 10am-9pm Mon-Sat, to 6pm Sun; M2 Széll Kálmán tér, 4, 6)
fl; 10am-9pm Mon-Wed, Fri & Sat, from 8am Thu, 10am-6pm Sun; Nyugati pályaud-
var)
Phonecards
(
www.nolimits.hu
)
come in values of 1000Ft, 2000Ft and 5000Ft and are available from
post offices and newsstands. As elsewhere, public phones are rapidly disappearing with the
advent of cheap mobile-phone calls and Skype.
Time
Budapest lies in the Central European time zone. Winter time is GMT plus one hour and in
summer it is GMT plus two hours. Clocks are advanced at 2am on the last Sunday in March
and set back at 2am on the last Sunday in October.
The following times do not take daylight-saving times into account.
CITY
NOON IN BUDAPEST
Auckland
11pm
Bucharest
1pm
London
11am
Moscow
2pm
New York
6am
Paris
noon
