Badacsony Getting there & around

Getting there & away

There are three daily buses that go to Balatonfüred (544Ft, 50 minutes, 44km) and Székesfehérvár; other buses run to Budapest (2060Ft, three hours, 170km, one daily), Hévíz (423Ft, 45 minutes, 35km, one daily), Keszthely (363Ft, 35 minutes, 27km, one daily), Tapolca (241Ft, 30 minutes, 16km, two daily) and Veszprém (786Ft, 1½ hours, 62km, one daily).

Badacsony is on the train line linking all the towns on Lake Balaton's northern shore with Déli and Kelenföld train stations in Budapest (1828Ft, 3½ hours, 170km) and with Tapolca (182Ft, 20 minutes, 14km). To get to Keszthely (346Ft, one hour, 39km) you must change at Tapolca.

Passenger ferries between Badacsony and Fonyód run at least four times daily from late April to late October; there are eight ferries daily in June and September and nine daily in July and August. In Fonyód you can get a connection to Southern Transdanubia by taking a train direct to Kaposvár.

See Keszthely for information on the MÁV Nostalgia steam-train service between the two towns.