Rather than being locked in to anything, we took the metro and checked out a few hotels for ourselves. In the end we ended up at one of the recommended hotels anyway. Its called the Cosmo Fashion hotel on the pedestrian street Vaci utca. The hotel is in a great location and when we mentioned the tourist info desk at the station, we got it for just 50 euros per night (including breakfast). Its by far the nicest place we have stayed to date.
It has rained most of the time we've been here, but despite that, its been a pleasant stay. The buildings are just as ornate as in Paris and its easier to get around. Also the people are friendly and helpful (that's very unfrench). Because it was raining, we spent almost a whole day inside the Gellert bath house. We spent one day wandering around the flat area(Pest) and another on the other side of the Danube in Buda which is hilly. It has a castle district enclosed by a wall. We also walked up o the citadel (800 steps - Ingrid counted). It is essentially a German bunker, built as the Russians were approaching in WW2. As you walk around the city, you can still see bullet holes in buildings from the war.
Just about every building has two carved lions and a few carvings of topless girls. We had coffee in the grandest coffee shop in the world. It is called the New York coffee shop and was built in about 1896. The coffee and cake cost about 30 euros, but it was worth it.We originally planned to go to Krakow, Poland next, but there was servere flooding in that area.
For our train to Bratislava, Slovakia, we just rocked up to the station at about 10:00. Unfortunately the next train was not until 13:28.
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