Budapest is a hugely popular stag party destination. It has a huge range of bars and clubs as well as a fantastic selection of activities to keep your stag party entertained all weekend long.
Discover the city’s famous Ruin Pubs, old mansions restored and decorated with wacky features. Or make the most of Hungary’s lax gun laws with our Shooting Guns activity.
Bar Crawls
Budapest may be known for its thermal baths, but it also offers a wild nightlife scene. One of the best ways to experience this is to take part in a bar crawl. A bar crawl is a tour of several bars and clubs at different predetermined points throughout the night. This is a great way to meet new people and experience the city’s nightlife in an exciting and unique way.
One of the most popular bar crawls in Budapest is the Alternative Ruin Bar Pub Crawl. This tour takes you to unique ruin bars that were once abandoned apartment buildings or factories. These bars have been transformed into quirky party hotspots that offer a fun and unique experience.
You’ll get VIP entrance to one of Budapest’s hottest clubs on this tour, and you’ll also receive a free welcome drink and unlimited beer, wine, and spirits. To make your night even better, you’ll get a chance to take a 1.5 hour river party cruise where you can enjoy the view of the nightly skyline and dance to a DJ.
Nightclubs
Whether you’re all about dancing till dawn or preferring a more low-key night out with drinks and dinner, Budapest has a clubbing scene that caters to your tastes. Ruin pubs skew more towards the bar end of the spectrum, but are full of funky vibes and a rowdy young crowd. Some like to rock out to tribute bands, whilst others offer an all-night dance experience.
Check out the awesomely named Ellatohaz, a labyrinthine student nightclub near Fullmoon hostel that offers karaoke, table games, and 5 different dance floors. Or try Cinema Hall, a club that attracts big name DJs and stag party groups who are all about the music.
Another top rated nightclub is Fuge Advar in the seventh district. This colourful ruin pub has an outdoor area, winter Fuge basement and is a favourite among hip locals. Alternatively, head to Kisuzem for an artsy atmosphere where you’ll find mural paintings of clashing styles and hang out with trendy locals over coffee or Zombie toast (pork brains on toasted bread). Or if you want to step up the ante a little, there are luxury clubs such as 4Play that have premium interiors and stunning girls.
Shooting Guns
Budapest is a real party capital that knows how to get stag groups going. The city is full of edgy bars that have taken over the ruins of old warehouses and buildings. Many of these bars are packed with stag and hen parties enjoying the electric atmosphere and cheap drinks prices.
Stag and hen parties visiting Budapest will also find that the cuisine here is very unique and delicious. There are plenty of dishes to try including Goulash that falls somewhere between a stew and a soup with carrots, potatoes, and a type of meat and is loaded up with paprika. Another popular dish is Toltott Kaposzta which has minced pork, rice, and spices wrapped in cabbage.
Getting to grips with a firearm on your stag do is a hugely exciting activity that will give you a massive adrenaline rush and feel like you are part of an action movie. This is a great way to break down barriers and create bonds with your friends before the big day. Make sure that you pre-book your shooting experience to guarantee entry and to skip the queue.
Food & Drink
Budapest has a growing culinary scene and some of the world’s most creative bar and restaurant designs. Ruin bars, for example, are working pubs, restaurants and clubs built inside derelict pre-war buildings and adorned with random bric a brac that looks like it was pulled out of a trash heap (which it often was).
Gastronomy aficionados can find updated takes on traditional peasant fare such as porkolt (beef stew) and toltott kaposzta (stuffed cabbage rolls) at modernist eateries. The city’s young crop of foreign-trained chefs also churn out sophisticated dishes with zeitgeisty Scandinavian and Asian techniques. Foie gras, sturgeon and mangalica pork feature prominently on menus.
Budget-minded diners should check out the wallet-friendly weekday lunch prix fixe at some of the city’s best restaurants, where main dishes cost around EUR7-15. The city’s best bakeries and cafes offer the decadent dobos torta, or “drummer cake”, with anywhere from five to seven layers of sponge cake and chocolate with a crispy caramel top. Budapest is also known for its stropachka, a thick soup-like pasta dish, and langos, a Hungarian street food staple that packs on the pounds with a trifecta of caloric ingredients such as fried dough, cheese and sour cream.
Stag Do Activities
Budapest is becoming a top stag do destination thanks to its world-class clubs, cheap drinks and myriad of unique activities. Shooting AK 47s into a ruined car and getting dragged around in mud by two strippers are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what’s on offer here.
For something a little different, try an escape room like Secret Lab, Motel or Serial Killer, where you’ll have to work together and solve puzzles in order to escape the room within an hour! Or get competitive with a go karting session, where you’ll be racing against your mates on indoor and outdoor tracks.
The food in Budapest is also worth trying, with many traditional dishes such as gulyas soup, paprikas and Gundel pancakes. If you’re a true foodie then you won’t want to leave without tasting the Hungarian speciality, goulash. This is a stew-like dish that falls somewhere between a stew and a soup and it’s delicious! It’s the perfect thing to warm you up after a night out.stag party Budapest
