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The best train tours in Hungary
59 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 estimated share of itinerary days with a train leg (a share of days, not distance or time); trips not assessed are not ranked.
- 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.
Twelve-day rail loop London to Vienna via Berlin, Krakow and Budapest
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 95
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
12 days · from $1,687 ($141/day)
London to Budapest by sleeper train, three nights in Budapest, return via Munich
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 86
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
7 days · from $1,349 ($193/day)
11-day rail journey from London through Cologne, Berlin, Prague, Bratislava to Budapest
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 78
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
11 days · from $2,634 ($239/day)
Twelve-day rail loop through Vienna, Budapest, and Prague from London
- Rail share
- 92
- Value
- 88
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
12 days · from $1,957 ($163/day)
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 $2,363 ($139/day)
Eleven-day rail journey from London to Istanbul via Munich, Budapest, Bucharest, and Sofia.
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 93
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
11 days · from $1,620 ($147/day)
Seven-day private train journey from Istanbul through Transylvania to Budapest
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 27
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 63
7 days · from $13,850 ($1,979/day)
Self-guided rail journey through 11 European cities in 29 days
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 90
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
29 days · from $4,321 ($149/day)
Escorted rail journey through five Central European capitals by train.
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 64
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 13
14 days · from $4,242 ($303/day)
14-day rail journey from London through Central Europe to Budapest
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 76
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
14 days · from $3,376 ($241/day)