The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1985 (12. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)
1985-01-01 / 1. szám
TRAVEL HUNGARY HUNGARY BOOSTED AS VACATION BARGAIN The travel sections of major metropolitan newspapers have recently featured articles about the tourist boom in Hungary. Last year, for example, Hungary was host to 50% more visitors than its total population. This incredible increase is attributed not only to the country’s many attractions, but also to the fact that travel to Hungary today is a vacation bargain compared to other countries around the world. Reporting directly from Budapest, for example, Leonard Scandur, the well-known Travel Writer, wrote: “You can buy a bottle of wine in Budapest shops for about a dollar. I partook in an outdoor lunch for three persons in a recomended restaurant facing the Danube which included bowls of hearty soup, chicken paprikas, stuffed cabbage, roast goose liver, noodle custard dessert, bottle beer, and mineral water. With the tip, the bill was less than $8. I sprung for the tab for six persons at Budapest’s best seafood restaurant in Old Buda. From soup to dessert, and including carafes of wine and serenades by a gypsy band, I blew $22. The taxi ride from the hotel to the restaurant — a 25-minute jaunt — cost me $2. But the best buy was a trolley car ride along the Danube banks. The ticket cost two cents!” In addition to praising Hungary’s rich heritage and many attractions, Scandur also revealed something very interesting. “The average American’s concept of Hungary as just another underdeveloped Iron Curtain country offering little for tourists,” he wrote, “couldn’t be further from the truth. This and other myths were dispelled for me during a two-week stay during which I found a thriving land rich with fruits of agriculture and products of high technology industry and a vibrant people imbued with an inborn love of the arts, a liking for Americans, and an impish attitude toward the Russians. I remember the answer I got when I first asked a Hungarian journalist how Hungarians compared Americans with Russians...” “We’re grateful to the Russians,” he said, “for liberating us from the Nazis in World War II. But we’re mad at the Americans for not liberating us before the Russians did!” The Abbey Church of Jók is one of Hungary’s most completely preserved Romanesque buildings WEEK-END IN BUDAPEST this WINTER ***Departures every Friday from Newark*** • Roundtrip air transportation to Budapest TRIP • Room accommodations at Buda-Penta Hotel INCLUDES • Buffet breakfast daily • All taxes and Visa fees • No advance ticketing requirements Only $629.00 per person, based on double occupancy »»SPACE IS LIMITED....SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY** Valid thru March 31, 1985 (Except December 21 & 28, 1984) F U G A Z Y INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL 770 U.S. Highway #1 North Brusnwick N.J. 08902 Call o'- Write 1-800-828-4488 (Out of State) 201-828-4488 (New Jersey) HUNGARIAN TRAVEL COMPANY Peter Gomori Director North American Division 630 Fifth Avenue Rockefeller Center ■ Suite 520 New York, New York 10111 Tel. (212) 582-7412 £ MALÉV Hungarian Airlines Közvetlen csatlakozás a tengerentúli járatokhoz Felvilágosításért és rezervációért forduljon: MALE-V Hungarian Airlines North American Area Management Room 2603, 630 Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center New York, N.Y. 10111 Tel: (212)757-6480 (800)223-6884 Page 10 Eighth Hungarian Tribe
