Nostalgia trams, buses, and trolley buses began to commute in Budapest this weekend

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Nostalgia vehicles will carry passengers on spectacular routes in Budapest’s downtown from May until October. Here is everything you should know about the May rides.

The vehicles you can get on ran on the streets of Budapest decades ago and were part of the capital’s everyday life. Thankfully, experts managed to restore them.

All of them run on spectacular routes in Budapest’s downtown. For example, the N2 tram carries passengers on the Pest Danube embankment. It will touch the Hungarian Parliament, the illustrious palaces of the Pest embankment, the Vigadó, several magnificent bridges, and Budapest’s oldest church. Moreover, that route has been selected as the world’s top 10 most scenic, bkk.hu wrote.

Nostalgia tram and the exquisite Buda Castle Funicular

The N18 tram commutes on the Szent János Hospital–Széll Kálmán Square–Krisztina Promenade–Szent Gellért Square–Bartók Béla Street–Csóka Street route, which is also very spectacular on the Buda side of the city.

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The N19 tram will commute between the Deák Ferenc Square and the Szent Gellért Square in the Buda Danube embankment. You can discover multiple world-known Budapest baths, historic bridges and parks during your journey. Furthermore, you may change to the Buda Castle Funicular at the Clark Ádám Square.

Heritage buses in Budapest

N109 is a traditional Ikarus bus touching the Hungarian Parliament, the Danube Promenade and the Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Street. If the weather is fine it can be transformed into a Cabrio bus.

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BKK summed showed all the heritage lines in THIS map. In a lower resolution, you can check it out below. Some of them even reach the outskirts of Budapest.

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The N2 line operates from this weekend. The first day of operation of the N109 retro line will be 11 May. The N74 Nostalgia trolley bus line will start carrying passengers on 18 May. You may find all the dates below the aforementioned map on BKK’s website.

Here are the prices

Normal tickets and passes are only valid for the so-called retro vehicles (Ikarus 260 and 415 buses, ZiU-9 trolley bus, and the UV and MUV trams).

You must buy special tickets or daily passes for the nostalgia lines. The daily pass is valid on all heritage vehicles commuting on that day.

The routes are free of charge for children below 14. Tickets can be acquired via the BudapestGO app, at the BKK customer service centres and from the crew of the nostalgia vehicles.

A nostalgia ticket costs HUF 500 (EUR 1.3), while a nostalgia daily pass is EUR 5.1.

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