Going from Budapest to Vienna

I was working for a couple of days and I thought to myself that it's time for a little break. I have a good friend in Vienna and well Vienna is quite nearby Budapest so we thought why not. 

My best friend is visiting me from Berlin and she also wanted to check out the best city in the world by living standards aka Vienna and so I booked everything in advance and we packed our bags. 

I booked our tickets with the flixbus application and this time I even had two discount codes which gave me like 10% discount on each ticket. that really wasn't much since the ticket only cost like 18 Euros back and forth. So technically I played myself but let's not talk about that much. 

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I really like the convenience of booking through the flixbus application. I even have my credit card details saved on it and I just buy my tickets with a click. I probably shouldn't mention my credit card details on an online platform but hey I trust you all. (Please don't rob me) . So I got us two tickets from Budapest Nepliget to Vienna Erdberg. Our bus would leave at 7pm and we would reach by 10 pm there. It was a rather short journey and I was delighted because I don't really like long bus journeys. 

We left on a Wednesday; I have already mentioned how you can get to Budapest -Nepliget station but just for further clarifications I'm going to mention them again in this post. You can take the metro line M3 from any station and get off at the "Nepliget" station. that is the only way to get to Nepliget bus stop and probably the most convenient way unless you want to take a cab which I don't recommend it. 

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We reached quite on time and checked into the bus. We listened to audio books and novelty rap all the way and before we knew it we reached the city. At Vienna Erdberg we had access to the U3 metro line. We needed to purchase tickets first, so we headed to the ticket machine. The one way tickets cost about 2 Euros and some cents, I think they were 2.40 cents. We decided to buy the 24 hour vienna ticket which was about 8 Euros. That seemed quite reasonable and it was definitely cheaper than Berlin's public transport. I'm guessing we had a good start to Vienna. 

Our hostel was located near the Westbahnhof and so we had about 11 stations or so to go with the U3. In the next paragraph or so I'm going to describe my experience of staying at a hostel. 

So yea I know as much as I travel I have never stayed in Hostel before. It's just that I'm such a big fan of Airbnb and I always book rooms or flats through them. The prices are so just and I genuinely have enjoyed every single one of my stays. For example back in Croatia. I got a studio apartment for two for a night and it cost 30 Euros. It was centrally located and we had the entire apartment to ourselves. Now here we paid 16 euros per night per person. Yeahh... I know. And we had to share a 15 meter squared room with like 4 other people. So 6 people in total using a tiny shower or bathroom. 

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The first night we just dropped our bags at the room which by the way it didn't have any locks on the lockers. Apparently we were supposed to bring locks ourselves, like how was I supposed to know that? Anyways the staff hostel were the most responsive and they were extremely helpful.

Now the first night we came back quite late at around 2;30 am. by then everyone was sleeping in the room and all the lights were turned out. I was so freaked out because I couldn't even see anything let alone do anything in the dark. The were almost no space to move or change. My friend even had to climb on the top bed and she barely could manage it. With a lot of hardships we managed to get into our beds and we slept through the entire night. 

The next morning we woke up by the sound of 3-4 different alarm clocks, which by the way wouldn't stop ringing. I mean come on people, turn them off. The morning was much easier by the time we got up there was no one else in the room and so we had the opportunity to get ready by ourselves and in our own time. 

We left our stuff in the locker but I took all of my passport and money with me, I mean wouldn't wanna leave it all there. The hostel did offer breakfast for less than 5 Euros but we preferred to eat outside. As for the next night, we got to the room at 12 and the roommates were still awake which was a delight. We took a quick shower and by the time we went to bed they turned off the lights as well.

I think by the second night we were more used to the entire experience and so we adjusted well to the experience. I would say that, getting a hostel is a good option if you can't find any good airbnb places but if you can then please leave some privacy for yourselves.

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oh another thing about how wonderful the hostel staff were. So I left my wallet in the room accidentally and then I remembered that it might get stolen so I called up the hostel and they took it up from the room and kept it with themselves till I came back for it. I'm genuinely grateful for that. 

So yea, when coming back from Vienna, we reached the station about a minute late and guess what?? yeaps we missed our bus which was super unfortunate. We then couldn't find any return tickets and so we had to wait in the terminal for quite some time. Can you believe that they told us the return ticket costs 80  Euros?? when in fact we had paid 8 euros to go there in the first place?? 

It was unbelievable, I would rather stay in vienna with that money. Anyways we finally found one for about 19 Euros per person which was literally the price of the ticket we paid to get there in the first place. Anyways we came back with VolanBusz which I wouldn't recommend as much as Flixbus, we had about a half an hour delay which was unpleasant and the bus didn't have any Wifi. 

Anyways stay turned for the rest of my Vienna adventure. It'll be great. 

Cheers 

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