Festive Family Trip to Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

In December 2024, we embarked on a memorable family trip to Budapest, a city renowned for its enchanting Christmas markets and festive spirit. As someone with a deep appreciation for holiday traditions, I was excited to revisit this beautiful city and share its charm with my family. We decided to drive to Budapest and although it was a long journey, the excitement of exploring this stunning city during the festive season made every mile worth it. Read on to find out about our festive family trip to Budapest.

Upon arriving, we parked our car in Anantara New York Palace Budapest Hotel’s garage as instructed by our hotel. To our delight, it meant that we had to walk through the hotel’s beautifully decorated foyer. We even managed to sneak a peek into the famous New York café. After we checked in into our hotel, we took a moment to relax before we were ready to take on festive Budapest and explore its Christmas markets.

We decided to walk towards St. Stephen’s Basilica so we got to see a few other major sights in Budapest such as the Great Synagogue. Our first festive stop was at Városháza Winter Park and its ice-rink. Unfortunately, ice-skating was too expensive so we moved on and took some photos with a very interesting Lego tram near Deák Ferenc square. Kids really loved that huge tram made entirely of Lego bricks apart from its undercarriage. I was happy to see a vibrant Christmas market at Deák Ferenc square which had plenty of food stalls and a cheaper mulled wine than other Christmas markets. The Fashion street with its high-end boutiques and sparkling Christmas lights and decorations in the shape of shoes and dresses was just around the corner of Deák square so we went there too. Kids immediately saw a huge Lindt teddy bear in front of Lindt shop so naturally we just had to go in and buy some chocolates. There was another surprise in the Fashion street; a huge Jeep in a window display surrounded by a Lego city. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).