Daley Travels

So, assuming I make it through all the airports, the customs check-points, and I'm still somewhat coherent, I still have to get from the Budapest airport to the hotel downtown.

I remember Paris had a metro train station right at the airport, and we stayed in a hotel directly above the metro stop, so aside from juggling the baggage on and off the train, I managed. That seems to not be the case for Budapest. There would be bus transfers to even get to metro.  Sleep deprived, jet lagged, strange language, strange alphabet, not going to happen.

One of the reasons I'd like to take the metro, is that there is a 48 hr pass you can buy that would allow me to easily explore the city once I get settled in, and I still might, it's just that I would have liked to have this first transportation expense included.

My team leader for this Habitat for Humanity mission has said that we should take the taxi. She says they charge a flat rate, they have an easy access kiosk in the airport terminal. But there is really one thing I hate worse than foreign metro/bus systems, and that is a foreign taxi.  Sure, they say they have English speaking drivers, (which is big, because we don't have that in America) but I don't know how to whistle real loud, and I'm just a country boy in the big city.

Suck it up Daley.  I know, I know.