Hotel Polus (Hotel Pólus), Budapest, Hungary - some advice

At the beginning of September we had the idea to visit Budapest. After looking at several offers on tourist portals, with a fairly limited budget, we chose to stay in Hotel Pólus*** (1152 Budapest, Szentmihályi út 131). This hotel is located quite far from the center of Budapest, however, can be quite easy to get from it to the center using public buses BKV. The hotel is located close to the motorway and next to the hotel there is a large shopping center Pólus Center. This is in the case if we had somewhere to buy a dinner :)

I will not write here about the hotel - you can see the video that I shot during our stay in this hotel.

At this point I will focus on a fairly significant problem - how to get from the hotel to the center.

The hotel is located near the bus station aptly named Újpalota, Nyírpalota út‎.

To bus station is a few minutes walk.

There is only one problem in that a simple matter. There is no where to buy tickets for public transport.

Single ticket (vonaljegy) you can of course try to buy from the driver (the exact amount - ticket normally costs 350HUF - from the driver a little pricier), You can also find at the Pólus Center a small shop Inmedio.
All this applies, of course, about purchase single tickets, which are quite expensive for longer stays. We decided to purchase a 3-day ticket (4150HUF). The list of points where you can buy tickets is available here. We bought tickets at a small shop next to the post office on Castle Hill near the square Disz (Dísz ter) on the street Tárnok utca. That's the way we should go from the upper funicular station Budavári Sikló in the direction of Fisherman's Bastion (Halászbástya). At this point we had no problems with communication - saleswoman understand what we mean and we bought a ticket without a problem (in other places no longer needs this to be so simple - be prepare and have at least photo of ticket which you want to buy and show it to the seller :) I encourage you to plan your journey in Budapest by public transport using the website http://utazastervezo.bkv.hu/tervezo/index.php?lng=eng. Prints from this page really helped us to travel around the city. It is always good to have with you planned route back to the hotel.
Travel guides advises against traveling in Budapest by taxis - and already, in particular, stopping them on the street. If anyone needs to take a taxi - let it be ordered by phone (but who dare to talk to Hungarian by phone :)

I advise you to also bring along a smartphone with installed Google Translator software - can you set in the program, which languages ​​are to be used to translate offline (ie without connecting to the Internet) - the program then retrieves these dictionaries on the phone and will be using them in while we have disabled internet access. It is quite convenient solution and sometimes we communicated with sellers by writing on our smartphone texts and then translating them automatically into Hungarian.