35 min
50 min
M4 · 4 · 6 · 19 · 47 · 49
2.3 / km²
6
6
285
−5% vs city
Counted from OpenStreetMap and Inside Airbnb (CC BY 4.0)
Staying in Újbuda
The bookable part of District XI is a strip about a kilometre wide along the river. Szent Gellért tér has the Gellért baths and the M4, Bartók Béla út behind it has become the city's gallery-and-wine-bar street, and Liberty Bridge puts the Great Market Hall and District IX eight minutes away on foot. It is quieter and cheaper than anything at the same distance in Pest.
Beyond that strip the district keeps going for another 30 km²: Lágymányos and the technical university, then Kelenföld, Gazdagrét, Albertfalva and the panel estates and shopping centres out towards Budaörs. Wikivoyage's own hotel listings for District XI include one advertised as 10 km south of the centre.
So the district name tells you almost nothing about where you will actually be. Check the address against Szent Gellért tér or Móricz Zsigmond körtér before booking, and remember that everything east of the river is a bridge away: the walk to Deák Ferenc tér is over half an hour.
What works
- The Gellért baths, the Rudas baths and Gellért Hill are all walkable
- Bartók Béla út is the best wine-bar and gallery street in Buda
- M4 runs from Szent Gellért tér to the centre in under 10 minutes
- Cheaper and quieter than any Pest district at the same distance
- Liberty Bridge gives you the Great Market Hall in eight minutes on foot
What does not
- Most of the district is suburban and 30 to 60 minutes from anything
- Over half an hour on foot to Deák Ferenc tér, and a bridge in the way
- Restaurants thin out fast once you leave Bartók Béla út
- The student quarter around the technical university empties in summer
- Listings say "District XI" whether they are on the river or in Gazdagrét
Luna Hotel, XI. Vegyész utca 17. (10 km S of centre, from 'Újbuda-központ' take tram 17, 41, 47, 48, 56 to 'Fonyód utca' and walk 500m)