Brutal price rise in the Budapest baths from January – we show a trick to bypass it
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Budapest Hévizei és Gyógyfürdői (Budapest Spas cPlc.) announced its new ticket prices in effect from January. Spabook.net, a Hungarian bath and spa-focused website, analysed the prices and concluded that the rise would be significant, ranging from 10 to 33 percent. However, there is a way to avoid the consequences. Unfortunately, it will not work for tourists coming to Budapest.
Gellért, Széchenyi, Rudas baths getting more expensive
Budapest’s most popular and historic baths will increase their prices the most in 2023, an analysis of spabook.net concluded. The entrance fee to the world-famous Gellért and Széchenyi baths will increase by 32.9 percent next year. The prices will be the following:
- Monday – Thursday: from HUF 7,100 (EUR 17,64) to HUF 9,400 (EUR 23.35),
- Friday – Sunday: from HUF 8,200 (EUR 20.37) to HUF 10,900 (EUR 27.08).
Meanwhile, in the Rudas bath, another famous spa in Budapest near the Danube River, you will have to pay HUF 8,600 (EUR 21.36) instead of 6,500. Over the weekend, the entrance fee will increase from HUF 9,200 (EUR 23) to HUF 12,200 (EUR 31). If you want a night bathing in the 450-year-old, one-time Turkish bath, you will have to pay even more: the fee will rise from HUF 9,500 (EUR 23.6) to HUF 12,600 (EUR 31.30).
In the case of the Lukács bath, prices will increase only by 15 percent, which is lower than the average inflation in Hungary. Other baths focusing on locals will not increase their entrance fees that much. Dandár will be 9 percent more expensive, and Paskál will be 15-17 percent more expensive. On weekdays, entrance fees will not increase in the Csillaghegyi bath. But at the weekend, you will have to pay 20 percent more. Pesterzsébet will increase its prices by 15-17 percent.
