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The American Porthole Cruise Magazine: Budapest Is The Best River Port
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Would you have ever thought that American tourists think Budapest has the best river port? The American Porthole Cruise Magazine annually makes a list on the basis of votes of American voyagers about the best ports.
According to the list published in the February edition of the Magazine, Monte Carlo is the best European port while the best river port is in Budapest.
The Világgazdaság Online reported that the main source of income of the MAHART-PassNave Ltd. is from the welcoming and serving of hotel ships. More than 110 ships sail between Amsterdam – Budapest and Lower-Danube region and Budapest yearly. The ships usually remain in Budapest for 2-3 days’ long due to the change of tourists. Tickets can been purchased by travel agencies, one group of tourists can arrive here by ship and then fly home, while the another group arrives by plane to travel across Europe by ship then.
Receiving of these ships is a good business both for the PassNave Ltd. and Budapest as well. Those tourists who stay here during their voyage usually do a big shopping in the neighborhood of Váci Street and Nagycsarnok. During the changing period of tourists ships could be cleaned and refilled with fuel and the tourist groups could stay in hotels along the Danube bank. Besides, all the parties and cultural programs are organized by the Hungarian travel agencies and even the laundry is also arranged by Hungarian companies!
The Világgazdaság Online added that Gabor Spányik, the executive director of the PassNave Ltd. attempts to include even more Hungarian venues in the sightseeing programs. Interestingly, the capital’s ports receive as many ships alone as the rural ports altogether. The ships arriving from the Lower-Danube region dock in several venues and locations like Kalocsa, Solt and Mohács while the others ships from Western Europe stop in Esztergom and Visegrád. The vg.hu also mentioned that eventually the ship-tourism of Visegrád has increased whereas that of Esztergom has not decreased recently.