Planning your first trip to Hungary, please carefully look through the things dangerous in Budapest. You need to learn some negative sides about the city to avoid stress and pain. First and very important information: Hungary has its own currency known as Forint. It means you need either to bring cash from the country of your destination or to exchange it in Budapest. There are of course cash machines to withdraw money and possibilities to pay by card. The rates in different exchange offices are pretty the same.
Luckily the situation is quite better than in Prague. So the only moment which is dangerous in Budapest with money exchange is the commission you have to pay for the operation. Usually it is percent and it may vary from place to place. Point number two in the list of things which are dangerous in Budapest is pickpocketing.
There are many sad stories when travelers were robbed in city centre of Hungarian capital. And all of them do disappoint not because of the thing happens, but because people let it happen. Everyone knows about safety rules, but seldom follow them.
Believe me, Budapest is the very place where to examine yourself for attention and carefulness. But so many people I know who were not thought to following these simple rules and as a result they got into troubles.
The fact that Budapest is the capital of European sex tourism is known worldwide. Together with the people going to discover its history, there are those, who want to open the city from the other side.
