Lake Balaton

GROUNDHOG

Does anyone have experience of touring in Hungary, especially Lake Balaton area and is it safe to wild camp? If not any good touring sites?

Appreciate any information please.

Thanks.

pam2002

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zulurita

Hi,

I do not think you can wild camp in the area. We stayed at a campsite near Siofok and used camping cheques.

fatwallet

we toured hungry last september and used the sites out of the caravan club europe book lots of sites around the lake did not see anybody wild camping so i guess not aloud. the driving in budapest is crazy they don't have a minute to live. len

darach

Just drove through Hungary last week and travelled right down the top side of the lake, but we were in a car, saw loads of campsites everywhere, the whole area was pretty empty, probably the time of year. At the bottom end of the lake 5 kms north is a town called Heviz, which has a thermally heated lake, definitely worth going to and the town is nice and small and neat. Hungary is not an eastern block country anymore and we felt totally safe the whole time we were there. Budapest is a must preferably stay outside and bus or train in. But a lovely city to visit. If you want more info, come back to me and I will try to help.
Derek & Bel

cilkad

We were at the campsite in Heviz at the end of February and really enojed it (it's in the database). They accept ACSI card - 12 EUR. In the town we saw two signs for stellplatz as well.
We saw more campsites but they were still closed. Didn't see anyone wildcamping, though.
Regards,
Cilka