3 Days Best in Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Whether you've got 3 hours or 3 days in Budapest, these suggestions will get you off on the right foot and on your way!

Call me a bum, but I definitely hitched a ride to Vienna first with Marc's basketball club on their way to their annual tournament. From Vienna, I took a just-over-two-hours train ride to Budapest-Keleti station. I only paid a total of 31 Euros round trip because I got the cheap city-to-city pricing ("Sparpreis" or "Sparschein") on the Austrian train website, oebb.at. There are also cheap plane tickets into Budapest, or you can opt for a pricier option and take a Danube River cruise into town.

Struggle through the math! Ultimately, I went with 160 Euros, and got about 50,000 Hungarian Forints for it at the best exchange rate place in the city: Correct Change. There are several Correct Change stores in the center, just find the one most convenient for you. I researched this for hours on the internet, and Correct Change has the lowest rates for both buying and selling those ridiculous Forints. After you exchange, revel in the fact that if all your savings were in Hungary, you'd probably be a millionaire.

Treestyle Hostel is seriously one of the best hostels I've ever stayed at, and the price was UNDER 10 Euros per night. In an all-female 6-bed dorm room. With our own private bathroom and an extra sink. The end of March during Easter vacation is not the high season, but it's not the low season, either! So besides the unbeatable value, the location was awesome, right in the heart of the Pest side, and everything was clean and relatively new. I found this hostel on booking.com, where I've actually been finding more and more of my accommodation options now that AirBnB is not as competitive anymore. You can use my referral code to book your next trip on booking.com, and we'll both get $20! Not a bad deal for either of us! ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).