Where a car takes you from Budapest
These are the day trips from Budapest on our own pages where a car earns its keep. Trains reach some of them; a car reaches all of them, on your own clock.
- Eger (Bull's Blood wine) Eger is Hungary's most famous wine town, the home of Bull's Blood (Egri Bikavér) and the Valley of the Beautiful Women, with 200 volcanic-rock cellars
- Tokaj (sweet wine country) Tokaj is the world's first delimited wine region, a UNESCO heritage zone north-east of Budapest known for Tokaji Aszú sweet wines and serious dry Furm
- Szentendre Szentendre on the Danube north of Budapest is a baroque arts town with the Szamos marzipan museum, Hungarian bistros on the riverfront and a Saturday
- Visegrád (Danube Bend) Visegrad on the Danube Bend is the medieval royal palace town where Hungary, Bohemia and Poland summit-summoned in 1335, with riverside Hungarian inns
- Lake Balaton (Balatonfüred) Lake Balaton is the Hungarian Riviera, with Olaszrizling whites from the Badacsony vineyards and grilled fogas at lakeside restaurants in Balatonfured
- Pannonhalma (Benedictine monastery) Pannonhalma is the 1000-year-old Benedictine archabbey north-west of Budapest where the monks pour their own wines and run a UNESCO-protected cellar
Booking a car in Budapest
We compare through one partner rather than listing every broker. Desks sit at the airport and in town, and the headline rate below is theirs, not ours.
- From
- USD 12.89 a day
- Desks on site
- Alamo, Avis, Dollar, Enterprise, Europcar, Green Motion, National, Sicily by Car
- Pick up at
- Budapest Airport
Rates are the partner's headline price at our last check (2026-10-02) and move with dates, car class and insurance. We earn a commission if you book, at no cost to you.