Hobby trips

Stadium tours run daily at 11:00, 13:30 and 15:00, and museum tours at 12:00 and 13:30. Tickets are sold only at the museum desk on the day, card payment only, so arrive early; the stadium tour is in Hungarian with an English printed guide.

Ferencváros’s history from 1899, plus a tour of the home dressing room and the dugouts. Tours run hourly from 11:00 (closed Mondays) and the museum ticket includes the stadium.

An open-air collection of Soviet-era airliners, including a Tupolev Tu-154 you can walk through, beside the old Ferihegy Terminal 1. The season opens in mid-March; take bus 200E to the ‘Repülőmúzeum’ stop.

Aeropark runs bus tours of the working apron, the Aeroplex maintenance hangar and the 1950 Terminal 1, with Aeropark entry included. Register online at least five working days ahead and bring the passport you registered with.

Budapest’s grand boulevard, with luxury flagships concentrated at its city-centre end near Deák Ferenc tér.

One of Central Europe’s largest flea markets, known for vintage clothing, jewellery and old textiles. Go early; weekends are busiest.

Hungarian designers, small concept stores and design shops along Király utca and the Gozsdu Courtyard.

European masters from Raphael to El Greco on Heroes’ Square, with Egyptian and classical galleries.

Hungarian art from medieval altarpieces to the 20th century, inside the castle palace.

A new building in City Park that curves up from the ground, with a walkable green roof and folk collections inside.

Sou Fujimoto’s leaf-like roof in City Park, pierced by holes for the trees. Interactive music exhibitions; good with children.

Hungary’s story from prehistory, including Ottoman-era objects, in a Neoclassical building.

Ybl’s restored neo-Renaissance opera house on Andrássy út. Take a tour, or see The Nutcracker in December.