How to Spend a Rainy Day in Budapest

Here’s our roundup of the best indoor activities to make the most of a wet day in the city.
If you are a bigger group and need help in organizing an awesome day out, drop us a message.


If you want to cosy up at a tea or coffee house

- take in the surreal decoration at Csendes ruin café

- hug a teddy bear in the fairy-tale atmosphere of Rengeteg RomKafé

- pet some animals at the zoo café

- choose from an endless list of tea while chilling on soft pillows at Altair, a hidden,  loft-style teahouse

- enjoy some art and read the newest magazines at Kelet café and art gallery

- have a hot chocolate at Noir choco bar close to Liszt Ferenc square


If you're looking for a fun challenge

- play at Europe’s largest pinball museum! (email us for a discount if you're a bigger group!)

- experience the the Invisible Exhibition (for English tours you need to book 24 hrs in advance) where you are in complete darkness and have a blind guide that leads your group through different rooms and situations

- play an awesome escape game! Whether it's Star wars, The Labyrinth or Back to the future, use promo code B side tours to get 1000 HUF off. 

- beat the other teams at the board game café

- go bowling inside Mammut shopping mall

- try the ideal shooting activity without pain: laser tag!

- get creative: paint a famous piece of art while sipping on some coctails with Fessneki

- bring the artist out in you and spray paint a Trabant!

- get the ball into a washing machine or toilet at the minigolf bar! (email us for a discount if you're a bigger group!)

- the content you came here for: take photos in different thematic rooms at the Selfie Museum

- get that ball in the hole.. play pool !


If you need an adrenaline rush

- get down and dirty while adventure caving in the Buda hills!

- focus on your next step while climbing some walls

- grab the wheel and race against each other at a gokart center

- work on your moves at a pole dancing class

- take a ride on 11 different water slides at Aquaworld

- let your worst nightmares become reality at the interactive horror labyrinth! Email us for a discount if you're a bigger group

- go gun shooting

- try throwing axes

- jump up and down at a trampoline park


If you feel like relaxing

- choose one of the thermal baths of Budapest

- make it a spa day: play chess at Széchenyi thermal baths

- relax at the rooftop jacuzzi at Turkish bath Rudas

- get at ticket to the sauna world at local favourite Lukács

- make an appointment for a massage at the lesser-known Veli Bej spa


If you like exhibitions

- visit a museum that interests you: Ludwig Museum, Art hall, National Gallery, National Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Gallery, House of Terror, 1956 exhibition on Kossuth square etc.

- go on a guided tour inside the Opera house, Great Synagouge, Parliament, Music Academy or Hospital in the rock

- if you’re into photography: go to the Capa Center or the Mai Manó house


If you're looking for a gastromance

- grab tasty breakfast at Zoska or Szimply

- have a drink at the "blind bar" or have an "invisible dinner"

- wander around the markets of Budapest

- take a cooking class with ChefParade

- have a beer at Hunyadi home bistro or watch how it is done (website only available in Hungarian!)

- have dinner at a great Hungarian restaurant

- try our Gastromance tour


If you're into arts and theatre

- get a ticket to the Opera house or the Operetta theatre

- enjoy an organ concert or a choir sing at Matthias church or St Stephen's Basilica

- check online for the newest concerts in town

- catch a movie  (get a Hungarian friend to help you figure it out. "f" stands for subtitles!)

- lie down at the bed cinema in Buda


If you want to go out

- join an epic boat party (get 5% off with promo code B side tours)

- sing your heart out at a karaoke party (usually Sundays at Retox bar, after the infamous Jaeger train)

- dance the night away at La bodeguita del medio, or Fogasház

- have a drink at one of the ruin bars

- go to an open mic night