14 min
45 min
M1 · M3 · 4 · 6
32.5 / km²
15
9
1,250
+28% vs city
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Staying in Terézváros
Terézváros is a wedge of Pest built along one street. Andrássy út was laid out to imitate the Champs-Élysées, and under it runs the M1, the oldest metro line in continental Europe, which drops you at the Opera, at Oktogon, at Heroes' Square and at the Széchenyi baths without ever changing.
That is the case for staying here. You are 10 to 15 minutes on foot from District V, you have the Opera, the ruin bars of District VII one street south, and the baths at the far end of your own avenue. Rooms cost roughly a third less than the same room across the Small Boulevard.
What you give up is the river - there is no Danube view in District VI - and quiet, if you book badly. The lower end near Király utca shares its nightlife with District VII, Oktogon is a permanent traffic junction, and the underpass at Nyugati tér is the one spot in the district Wikivoyage tells you not to look lost in.
What works
- M1 runs the length of Andrássy út from the centre to the Széchenyi baths
- 10 to 15 minutes on foot to Deák Ferenc tér, all of it flat
- Rooms roughly a third cheaper than District V for the same distance
- Restaurants and wine bars priced for locals in the streets off Andrássy
- Nyugati station gives you the airport train and every domestic line
What does not
- The Király utca end is as loud at weekends as District VII, because it is District VII
- Oktogon and Teréz körút are busy roads and the flats above them hear it
- No river frontage at all, so no Danube view at any price
- The Nyugati tér underpass is unpleasant late at night
- Andrássy út addresses are grand outside and often unrenovated inside
The main feature of Terézváros is Andrássy út, the avenue built to emulate the Champs-Élysées of Paris.The subway at Nyugati tér collects different types of people; it is generally not risky because of heavy traffic day and night, but try not to look very "lost" there.