Taxi drivers in Budapest
You must have heard that taxi drivers preying on toursists is one of the annonying things in Budapest. With a little caution you can easily manage not to fall victim to these suckers. The main rules:
- Use a taxi from a big company
- Order a taxi on the phone if possible
- Make sure the taxi you ordered picks you up
- Don’t take an offer form a taxi driver to visit strip bars etc.
- Try no to look like a fool and use common sense
Click to find out how and why.
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Not to pay for the ride with BKV (public transport) is possibly the most popular sport in Budapest. The word for travelling without a ticket is “bliccelni”, which means literally “to be like lightning” and comes from the German word “Blitz” (Lightning).
Legend says when the Romans wanted to conquer the land over the river they found a monster called Főz-Süt-Fűt living in the marshes of Pest. The monster didn’t fight the legionnaires, but he had them seduced with beauties from the East. The soldiers never returned to their camp and stayed on the left side of the river.

‘Bezzeg’ is a very heavily used Hungarian word that cannot be translated into English. Bezzeg can be used in the sense of “the neighbour’s grass is always greener”: