This is where you need a Covid certificate to party on New Year’s Eve in Hungary
New Year’s Eve is quickly approaching. There are only a few days left until the big event when we say goodbye to the old year and welcome in 2022 with a loud bang. But the fact that the coronavirus is still with us, it makes things a little more complicated than usual. Are you wondering for which events you need to produce a vaccination certificate? Find the answers below.
Hungary is relatively lax, considering the emergence of the new Omicron variant, but that also means that more restaurants and hotels can hold New Year’s Eve events. Although restaurants and hotels can normally welcome guests without restrictions or vaccination certificates, you still need to wear your mask when going to public places, but only until your food or drink arrives.
However, as a party can attract more people to a single location than regular restaurant dinners, you can face a few additional restrictions.
Hence, many restaurants and catering units have asked the Hungarian Hotel & Restaurant Association (HH&RA) to help them understand the exact restrictions.
According to Turizmus.com, the Hungarian Hotel & Restaurant Association (HH&RA) has written an inquiry to the Hungarian Department of the Interior to help shed light on the exact restrictions concerning New Year’s Eve parties.
Turizmus.com reported that the Hungarian authorities’ answer was the following:
Dance or concert events
If the main attraction of the New Year’s Eve event the restaurant or hotel holds involves partying and dancing, or listening to a concert, then by law, it is considered a “music and dance event” and have the following restrictions.
It is mandatory to have a vaccination certificate for
- anyone who visits an event at an accommodation where dancing or listening to a concert is the main attraction, even if it is combined with a dinner, regardless of whether they are staying guests or just there for the event
- anyone who visits a dinner at a restaurant that is combined with dancing or actively/purposefully listening to a concert
regardless of the size of the event or the number of guests.
Dinner events with live performance
According to Turizmus.com; however, if the main attraction of the event is a dinner, combined with live music or some other form of stage performance in which guests do not actively take part, then only the restrictions of a regular restaurant dinner are in place.
It is NOT mandatory to have a vaccination certificate for
- anyone who visits an event at an accommodation where a seated dinner is taking place without dancing, even if there is a live performance of any kind (live music, comedian, magician, etc.)
- anyone who visits a restaurant with an event similar in kind to the one mentioned right above.
You should also keep in mind that restaurants and hotels or other forms of accommodation can have their own safety precautions. We have only included some general rules; therefore, it is always worth getting informed about the event you are about to attend or contacting the establishment beforehand if you have any doubts.
The team of Daily News Hungary wishes all of you a Happy New Year!
Source: Turizmus.com
3 Comments
The amount of anti-scientific nonsense floating around is mind boggling. It would be hilareous if it weren’t so sad.
In any case, Happy New Year to everyone.
The vax is not working – mabe you haven’t heard. You can get and give Covid please explain the point-
Thousands have died because they did not act on early prevention. FaUci is not a medical doctor, some of the best medical doctor say it’s been a disaster -drugs like ivermectin were banned and pharmacy were not allowed to sell it along with other early prevention drugs-the daily stories not once was it even mentioned.
The vax is a dangerous drug especially for children -more will be hurt by the vax than Covid
TM, you are spreading fake news on a very serious matter, a flu which is still killing many and mostly it is people like you, non vaccinated ones, who are dying, every day many. Some of them abuse the hard working underpaid health care workers who try all they can to save them, and stubbornly deny the evidence until the very last moment, some others, the majority it seems, they repent and wish they had taken the shots so they could still breathe and have a chance to leave the I C.U. of the hospital on their feet…
Unfortunately, people like you who are against vaccines are not worth discussing with, you are all irrational and biased, therefore I will not list all figures and facts which go against the absurditues your write on this topic. I know you will not believe they are true. So, all I want to say is that you are spreading fake news. That is all.
Take the vaccine, people, and I am refering to actual ones,not to the Sino-water, at least you will have some kind of protection against the most severe stage of the infection.