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The best train tours in Hungary

66 hotel-based trips in Hungary had enough verified data to score; hostel and self-guided rail-pass trips are not ranked here. The ranking below is fully mechanical; here is exactly how it works:

  • Eligibility: only hotel-based tours are ranked. Trips built around hostels or self-arranged accommodation are left out, since these guides recommend hotel-inclusive tours for the general traveller.
  • Rail share (35%): the percent of the trip actually on trains, from the itinerary.
  • Value (20%): price per day against the other hotel-based trips on this page (cheaper per day scores higher).
  • Data completeness (25%): full day-by-day itinerary, imagery, inclusions, and verified price.
  • Departure breadth (20%): how many months the operator publishes departures for.
  1. 1
    Grand Imperial Cities

    Great Rail Journeys

    80.8

    Twelve-day escorted rail journey through Vienna, Budapest, Prague and Berlin.

    Rail share
    65
    Value
    65
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    100

    12 days · from $3,483 ($290/day)

  2. 279.1

    Twelve-day rail loop London to Vienna via Berlin, Krakow and Budapest

    Rail share
    100
    Value
    95
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    12 days · from $1,674 ($140/day)

  3. 3
    Budapest Without Flying

    Tailor Made Rail

    77.6

    London to Budapest by sleeper train, three nights in Budapest, return via Munich

    Rail share
    100
    Value
    88
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    7 days · from $1,339 ($191/day)

  4. 11-day rail journey from London through Cologne, Berlin, Prague, Bratislava to Budapest

    Rail share
    100
    Value
    77
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    11 days · from $2,613 ($238/day)

  5. 575.4

    Twelve-day rail loop through Vienna, Budapest, and Prague from London

    Rail share
    92
    Value
    91
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    12 days · from $1,942 ($162/day)

  6. 6
    Fall of the Iron Curtain

    Tailor Made Rail

    74.1

    Self-guided rail journey through six Eastern European capitals tracing the 1989 fall of the

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    97
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    17 days · from $2,344 ($138/day)

  7. Eleven-day rail journey from London to Istanbul via Munich, Budapest, Bucharest, and Sofia.

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    94
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    11 days · from $1,607 ($146/day)

  8. 873.2

    Self-guided rail journey through 11 European cities in 29 days

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    92
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    29 days · from $4,287 ($148/day)

  9. Seven-day private train journey from Istanbul through Transylvania to Budapest

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    24
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    63

    7 days · from $13,850 ($1,979/day)

  10. 1071.1

    Self-guided rail circle through five Central European imperial capitals, Frankfurt to Heidelberg

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    82
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    16 days · from $3,489 ($218/day)