WELCOME TO BALATON TRAVEL !

We welcome you completely quite cordially at the Balaton.

We are a travel agency on the south bank of the Balatons and would like you leg shapes of your vacation to be helpful.
In our offer you find to vacation homes, Holiday houses, Appartemens and hotel at the lake and in the naecheren environment. Read our offer thoroughly, It for your family and friends intends the correct to find.

We would be pleased, To be allowed to welcome it at the Balaton as a guest!

Our further services:

• Reservations of hotel, Lock hotel and pensions
• Long-term rent of houses and apartments
• Completeactive trips to Budapest, Puszta, Pécs, Vienna, Danube knee, etc..

Evening programs, like wine sample evening, Zigeneurabend, Cellar party, etc..

• In one week several times segeltour and Balatonrundfahrt
• Car hire
• Flugtickets and tickets
• Forma-1 maps in the advance booking
• Information
• Programs and trips such as Puszta -, Budapest travel, Zigeneuerabend, Wine cellar evening, Sail travel etc.. can you in our travel agency book.

For all we give our guests completely a Informationspackett (z. B. where a child physician is, in the city a dentist, a hairdresser, garage, a restaurant, a pottery. Which for meetings and programs are in Fonyód and environment, when the ship drives to Badacsony, etc..).

The equipment of the individual holiday houses is to be inferred from the description of house exactly. Please you consider also with each plant indicated allocation capacity. z means 6+2. B., that this house for maximally six adults and two children (of 3 to 12 years) is certified. More persons may not live there thus.

Whether there is shower or bath tub in the bath, turns out from the description.

The bedrooms are with beds and couches and/or. extendable single or double couch equipped. The beds are referred before your arrival.

The bedlinen is present and in the price included in all by us offered holidays objects. With a stay longer than 2 weeks a fresh laundry set is put to you at the disposal.

Kitchens and kochnischen have the equipment, you during your vacation need, cannot however naturally keep up with your kitchen at home. We recommend, own towels, To bring along Geschrirrtuechter as well as tischdecken from at home. The existing table-ware corresponds the Belegungskaspazitaet of the object. The filter coffee machine are present in all objects.

In some holiday houses the stairs are quite steep, for infants not always suitably.

Possible address changes are not excludable (and/or the holiday house is sold, Death, Illness etc.). In disem year we put new holidays object to you (the same quality for the same price) at the disposal. You are in time informed by the possible changes of the address.

Bring along of animals is not permitted all objects. Please you consider our descriptions. Domestic animals need you for the entry a valid international inoculation passport. Dogs are not certified at the beach and in the water of the Plattensse. The costs resulting for your four-legged favourite (2.5,- €/Day) you pay dog please in our travel agency with accommodation price.

The prices are week prices. In the indicated prices the following achievements are included: Living rent, River, Water, Gas, Cure tax, Final purification.Please with offers of compromise you consider, that it otherwise starting from 14 years approx.. 1,5-2,- €/DayPerson dependent on the resort in cash to pay must.

With the family houses the owner lives separated on property. It wants to disturb its guests in no way, noeuetigenfalls it can be helpful. In the description of house is find you, if the owner lives separated on property.

They receive short description of way from us together with the travel documents, the exact address of the holiday house. Key delivery always is in our travel agency. Please you consider, that the keys between 14.00 and 20.00 o'clock to be received must. The key delivery at a later time cannot be guaranteed. The departure must take place to at the latest 10 o'clock (aufgrund of the necessary final purification -. The tidy cleaning with departure is a matter of course.

By constant improvement of the infrastructure and extension of the bed capacities it can come in some places to building activities. Occasionally building sites from today can develop on tomorrow, or construction work is suddenly again taken up after long break. This applies both to private owners and to municipalities. We can on that unfortunately take no influence.

Distances: Lake, Business, Main street, Course. The indicated distances are Zirka data and most the shortest way to foot. The indicated distances to the lake do not correspond always the distance to the nearest bath possibility. Approximately around the Balaton line and a main street often lead along, in bank proximity so that noise disturbances always to be avoided cannot. The waterside property does not mean necessarily direct entrance to the water, since the Balaton is separate from the water often in the bank range by a reed belt.

Bathing and bath prohibitions

Bath prohibitions with tempest are indicated at the bath beaches and should be considered absolutely and. Due to its small depth of water the disk lake is often underestimated as harmless. With thunderstorm and storms, those usually from northwest direction come, however caution is required. The strong and short undulations can become dangerous also for good floats and Segler.

Recommendable to carry forward are mosquito spray and sun protective agents with high Lichschutzfaktor.

To change you know money in the travel agency, in the bank and in the Geldwelschelstuben. Since the course hardly differs with the different change places, you should not make the exchanges of money with strangers on the road. Money automats are available also.

The Hungarian currency is the Forint. Foreign exchange may be introduced without restriction and be implemented up to the same height again. Hungarian money may be introduced without restriction.

The opening times of business are different. In the main season many business opened also on weekend, D. h. They can buy after your arrival comfortably on Sunday, some business opened into the evening hours.

Hungarian road traffic regulations depends on that Geneva and

Viennese conventions, that is, to a large extent the same indications and markings are used as in the other European countries.

Please you consider: Nobody may drive also only with the slight trace alcohol in the blood a motor vehicle! The legal blood alcohol limit amounts to 0.00 % blood alcohol.

Driving with headlight low beam outside of cultivated areas is also during the day obligatory.

The creation of the seat belt is at any time for the passengers both on the front -, and on the rear seats obligation.

Children under 12 years may not travel on the front seat. Babies and infants should be carried on the rear seat in a special child seat. Inmittelbarere danger of accident is permitted horns in cultivated areas only with. Carrying a fall helmet is for motorcycles and bicycles with auxiliary engine obligation. You are particularly prudent, if you on the country drive: there are many horse cars, Truck and bicycles, sometimes without light.

Railroad overpasses are marked 150 meters first; you are careful, even if the white Blinklichtr indicates, that the railroad overpass is free. It is best, to slow down the speed nearly up to the stop.

Short lighting up with the headlights often means, that the driver right of way grants. Overhauling is in curves, before crossings, on Bahnueoebergaengen as well as up and/or. directly before pedestrian crossings forbade. In the cars only inserted mobile telephones may be used.

In their own interest using it the telephone only in exceptional cases, since the use of the telephone the attention the driver impairs. The use of a mobile telephone under all circumstances is forbidden to drivers of two and tricycle vehicles.

Following internationele practice exists increasingly, particularly in recovery and populated areas, a speed limiting of 30 kmh. Drive slowly, if you see such Verkehsschildern, since many children and pedestrians here is to be expected. Permissible speed within settlements 50 kmh, outside of settlements for motor vehicles and motorcycles 80 kmh, on motor roads 110 kmh, on motorways 130 kmh, for motor vehicles with trailer 80 kmh.
In Hungary the liability insurance is obligatory also on foreigners.
In an accident you must inform first the police.

In nearly each place there is a post office. The mail box are dark red in Hungary.

Telephone to Hungary: (z.B. Balaton Travel travel agency): 00 36 85 562-045.

00 (international call number) 36 (land number) 85 (local dialling code) 562-045.

Telephone to Germany: 00 49, then preselection, but without 0, then the direct-inward dialing.

Emergency calls: Police: 107, Accident: 104.

For European Union citizens passport or personnel from white is sufficient. The documents must be valid at least still 6 months. With stay from more than 30 days is police registration, from more than 90 days a visa is necessary. European Union defiency guarantees do not inform please before Antreitt of the journey with that Hungarian office for tourism.

Except the personal luggage can be duty-free introduced: Goods in the value of 19000,- Forint, as well as for persons older than 16 years 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 250 gram tobacco, 1 bottle wine and 0.25 litres of liquor, 250 ml Eau de Toilette, 100 ml perfume, small fresh meat and milk products.

Export: duty-free goods up to a value of 100000 may,- Forint to be implemented.

The characteristic meals of the Hungarian kitchen are with red Gewuerzpaprika, Bulbs, Tomatoes, Paprika prepared satisfying courts with harmonious taste: Gulyás, Paprikahuhn, filled herb krautwickel. Soup specialities are the spicy fish soup and the chicken soup á la Újházy. Under the teigwaren are noodles with quark, the vortices (with cherries, Quark, Poppy filled), the Schomlauer Nockerln and the Varganudeln (sweet, ueberbackene noodles) characteristically.

The most famous Hungarian wine is the Tokaji Aszú wave known as world famousness, the "king OF the wines, Wine OF the kings ", in addition, the talk wines originating from the AREA around Eger: Egri Bikavér (Erlauer bull blood) and Medoc Noir, the red wines of Szekszárd and the Villányer area as well as the weissweine from the area of the Balatons: Badacsonyer Riesling, Blaustengler, Grey monk are famous.
Hungarian one beer places: Turner, Aranyászok, Soproni Ászok, Borsodi.
Except the most famous Hungarian sparkling wine, the Toerley, still many other Hungarian products are available.

BALATON

The largest Seitchtwassersee in completely means - and basin came off due to the strong earth's crust shifts in the ice age, the surrounding landscape developed after the ebbing of the Urmeeres. In the primeval times the Balaton did not have an adjustment system, therefore its water level varied substantially. The Roman emperor Galerius left end of the 3. Jh. the Sio channel build, into the Danube leads. The air-lock ensures today still the adjustment. The largest supplying river of the lake is the Zala, underneath the city into the bay of Keszthely flows. The surface of the Balaton amounts to 596 square kilometers, the length 77 km, the width varies between 1,5 and 1,2 km. The depth of water amounts in the Durschnitt to 3 meters, with the Tihanyer well on 12 meters of the Balaton is the largest and most attractive erholungsort of Hungary, where one can all kinds of water haven huldigen. It is also a popular Angelparadies in the water lives Zander kinds of carp and several white fish places the small Balaton was once the open bay of the lake with the time it however by mud was filled up. The water of the river Zala flowed by the small lake into the Balaton, thereby the natural filter system of the lake formed. End of the past Jarhunderts was regulated the muzzle distance of the Zala by the building of dams drainage and thus the water purification function of the small Balaton was abolished. In the past years by establishment by large artificial lakes this

natural protective system was restored. 1350 hectares of this closed world form a protected area, in the open water and in the Roehricht u live.A. Heron, Silk heron, Seeraben, Spoon - and hood heron the Binnengelaende can be visited only with special permission, is however between Zalavár and Balatonmagyaród on a distance of some kilometers.

Balaton wants, that gets it with us!

FONYÓD

In the area of FONYÓD already urzeitliche peoples lived. The mountains of volcanic origin outstanding from the Balaton ordered a safe accommodation. In past thousands of years this area was repeatedly not habitable, but humans settled again and again. Fonyód is one aueh abroad adjacent well admitted, pleasant recovery city at the Balaton. The number of its inhabitants is with 5211 persons. The number of the constant inhabitants rose in the past decades gradually. Their name is mentioned the first time in 1082 a dated letter by king László. Their castle standing in the midst of a schilfigen sump was in the Middle Ages a in many places well-known "eagle refuge". In the battles with the Turks the settlement was destroyed perfectly. The normal life turned only in the second half 18. Century back. The 1861 finished railway line to the later development a large upswing gave. Rich businessmen promoted the development of the municipality to a well-known resort, those the beautiful situation of the settlement at the Balaton recognized. 1905 became it its own municipality, since 1989 it is a city. It belongs to the most popular resorts of the country. Over roads and with the railway is good it to reach. Among the well-known school institutions of the area that ranks 1989 finished king Mátyás High School, that the education does not only serve, but also a part of the local art life accommodates. For 13 years it is the scene of international Poetentreffs. Not far of the High School the Nyári (summer) is appropriate for gallery, those worked in Fonyód to the living person and different one, country-wide recognized artist accommodates. From the port annually the other bank visits and makes acquaintance with the ausgezeiehneten wines of the Badacsonyer of mountain area to 250000 humans with ferries. Because of the port is the angler island, before their banks more than 40 fish types are resident. The local restaurants expect their guests with many different

Hungarian and Balaton specialities as well as good wines. In the Fácános (pheasants) forest still former digging of the stake castle and the recently opened castle ditch are to be visited. The 150 years old cellar restaurant belongs to intact the monuments of the local people architecture remained. Several places of the city present the visitor with the most beautiful panorama of the country. The area of Fonyód covers 5354 hectares. A large part of it is covered with reed, in addition, the city has many parks and small forests. The city has altogether 2100 dwellings, single family houses form the predominant part. The hotels, Camping sites and private houses can accommodate 29000 visitors at the same time in the summer. The spring and summer festival of Fonyód and the people dance and horse horse dayhorse days in honours of Szent István, organized in August, the state founder, attract many thousands visitors. In Fonyód you can for years already on the always multicolored and weeks wimmeinden of buyers -, and arts and crafts markets refer fastidious and idea-rich gifts. Fonyód can be without a doubt at most frequented market happening on the whole south bank of the Balatons own to call. Twice in the week, on Wednesdays and Saturday, offer to you the salesmen and dealer on a constantly extending market area their goods. To procure know you daselbst clothing, Shoes, Plastic goods, Kitchen equipment, Electrical article and the most diverse souvenir articles. On the fruit and vegetable market our kleinbauern offer fresh fruit and vegetable and a broad pallet at cut flowers to you. In the considered market hall food becomes, freshput eggs, Meat and fish in each quantity to the available acquisition submitted. On the small animal fair all dogs and cats are ordered in front for examination, but one can do also some hamsters, Sea pigs, Chinchillas, Turtles and even waschbaeren ergattern. The small animal fairs are constantly supervised by an official Tierartz.

Worth seeing at the landing place:

• Double act by the sculptor István Kiss
• Intending column of the airplane pilot Antal Lányi, that for the first time the Balaton flew over
• Musikpavilon
• Panorama view with the northwest Zipfel of the lake of the height of the Valkó of lookout point out
• Unique panorama of the observation towers of the two hills Fonyóds
• Crypt mansion, a former weekend house builds for the eternal love "in the „indication"

Worth seeing mansion row in Bélatelep at the slope of the castle hill:

• Mansion of the Operettenkomponisten Jenő Huszka
• Mansion of the Ssektfabrikanten Toerley
• Gedenkobelisk for Manó Szaplonczay, the founder Bélateleps "Balaton wind", a Nymphenstatue of Mihály Pál
• Apostoli Doppelkeuz, established on the occasion of the thousand-anniversary
• Station of Bélatelep with a gedenktafel of the Urbadenden
• Water house in Bélatelep, a trade-historical architectural monument Remnants of the legendenumwobenen Palisadenburg of Fonyód from that 16. Jh.
• Zzweihundertjaehriges Kelterhaus, an architectural monument of people architecture

 USEFUL INFORMATION

 Several guests want to spend their vacation in peaceful surraundings. The sign of the distance gives information to you about the distance of the house and the main road and the railway, because they are extended to the shore - please consider the noise.

The maximum living accomodation of the houses are shown. Eg.: ' 6 + 2 ' means that a house is suitable for maximum 6 adults and 2 children (from 3 to 12 year-old children).

Our prices include the following:

-          the rent of the house for a week

-          consumption of electricity, gas and water

-          value added tax (VAT)

-          the last cleaning.

We signed accomodation where dogs are alloved. You have to play an extra charge (700 Forints/day) for your pet to your host on the last day.

The host gives you bedding clothes and he replaces it tidy beddings once in 2 weeks.
Please bring table clothes and dish cloth with you. You casn find dishes and cutlery in the kitchen. You can take up accomodation on the day of arrival from 14 p.m. to 20 p.m. After 20 p.m. we are unable to guarantee to give you the keys.

You have to leave the house at least at 10 a.m. on the day of departure.