Budapest – Europe’s Biggest Stag Do Destination
If you’re considering a in Budapest, you obviously love an inexpensive night on the drink and a right laugh together with your mates (you’re our kind of guy). The Budapest is consistently creeping higher and better up our top stag do destinations, seriously fashionable stag groups from everywhere Europe. Boasting huge, open-air ruin bars, stunning Eastern European women, filthy cheap booze (pints costing the equivalent of but a quid) and a few of the most important and best activities in Europe – it’s no surprise why.
Top 10 Stag Friendly Budapest Pubs and Clubs 2020
With open-air nightclubs, party boat cruises and pints for fewer than a quid, Budapest is that the jewel within the crown of the Hungarian nightlife scene. Here’s to getting ruined within the ruin bars.
1. Fogas Haz Complex
As far as quirky drinking haunts go, Fogas Has is actually on another level. The psychedelic, multi-colored Wonderland has recently undergone an enormous refurbishment and is now an amalgamation of the many different clubs which wont to rub shoulders within the city – making it Budapest’s largest ruin bar complex and one among the most important party spaces in Europe. The complex features a total of 4 bars, meaning you won’t be queuing long for drinks (beers are but a pound, just FYI) and there’s even a tavern terrace that you simply can spill over onto and luxuriate in a touch of drinking within the bracing open-air. The merge has done wonders for the city’s nightlife scene, with longer opening hours offered and fresh musical projects shooting up on different nights of the week.
2. Mazel Tov
Fill up my cup… Mazel Tov. This awesome Aladdin’s cave of a bar is slap bang within the heart of the Jewish Quarter, surrounded by other like minded bars, ideal for any stag do celebrations. The intimate Mazel Tov features a roof made entirely of glass & a floor of white pebbles – making it the brightest bar within the entire district. Deceptively small from the outside, stumbling across this bar is like stepping through the wardrobe into the enchanted, mystical maze of Narnia, and trust us, you won’t want to go away. Not only is it an excellent spot to sink a specialty beer & grab a bite to eat, but it’s also the house of the annual Jewish Summer Festival which is certainly worth a visit if you’re within the city during May.
3. Doboz
Literally translating as ‘The Box’, you’ll be surprised at how intimate of a venue this is often , despite its size. Doboz is perhaps the foremost tourist (and stag) friendly bar within the whole area, which says tons . The pub, club and cultural hub are so huge, we wouldn’t be surprised if you bought lost within its labyrinth – but you’ll be in no hurry to seek out its exit. With over 3,000 visitors through its doors per day, this huge space isn’t only a well-liked ruin bar but a tourist attraction in itself. Boasting eight rooms, all playing different sorts of music and even assumption to housing the oldest tree within the district (at a staggering 300 years old), it’s a Budapest Stag Do must-see. There’s even an enormous metal gorilla climbing the tree’s branches – first to identify him gets a drink bought for him from each member of the group; a minimum of , that’s our rule.
4. Szimpla Kert
If you haven’t already heard of them, ruin bars are taking up Budapest’s nightlife scene, not that we’re complaining. They’re basically quirky old spots like buildings and courtyards that are wrapped during a hipster-before-hipster-was-a-thing way. the most important and better of all the ruin bars need to be Szimpla Kert. it’s to be said, it’s simply exquisite (and not only because we will make that joke whenever we mention it), it really is that the ‘Mecca’ of all ruin bars. the huge , former factory has bric-a-brac lining the walls and ceilings and isn’t just a bar, but a live music venue, a theatre events space, and even an open-air cinema. You’ll even be sitting in sawn-off Trabant cars within the huge courtyard.
5. Hello Baby
Why, Hello there Baby… Located on Andrassy Avenue, right the Jewish Quarter’s perimeter, the high-end Hello Baby maybe a gigantic preserved 19th-century palace, and one among the foremost characterful and charming clubs on the entire city. Living for the weekend (we hear you) this monster of a club only opens its doors on Friday & Saturday nights, adding to its hype & exclusivity. This epic club is spread is over three floors and has impressive acrobatics, stone balustrades, balconies, projector displays and large transparent balloons suspended in mid-air. To top it all off, there are dozens of semi-naked girls dancing within the windows. Hello Baby, indeed.
6. Liebling
Kicking off the bouncing block of party venues on Akacfa Street, Liebling may be an excellent spot to start any Budapest bar crawl. With fairy lighting, sculptures, quirky wooden panelled staircases, shabby-chic walls, indoor plants, live music, and craft beer, Liebling encapsulates the very essence of hipster haunt. This neat rooftop ruin bar is widely referred to as the ‘warm-up act’ before party animals head to its larger sister bar, Fogas Haz. Whether you’re a devotee of fine wine, or simply want to urge tanked abreast of vodka, rum or whiskey, Liebling (literally translating as ‘my darling’), is certain to please all palates.
7. Peaches ‘n’ Cream
Only open Fridays and Saturdays, Peaches ‘n’ Cream lives for the weekend, and may you blame them? Located within the heart of Budapest’s self-acclaimed ‘downtown’, Peaches ‘n’ Cream is fashionable R’n’B loving locals even as very much like it’s with tourists. Unlike the edgy, grungy & hipster ruin bars, this haunt features a seriously VIP vibe & is more just like the clubs you’ll be wont to from back within the UK, with exclusive lounges, high-& drinks (with none but sparkler canons in them) & an elite crowd of thrill-seekers to match. This nightclub is such a lot of an establishment, it even has its own ‘I like peaches, I prefer cream!’
8. Bar Pharma
Like nothing else on the Budapest nightlife scene, Bar Pharma combines everyone’s favourite tipples with a complimentary side of science. Refreshingly different to all or any of the opposite bars within the Jewish Quarter, this one focuses on seriously quirky cocktails, instead of beers and traditional frocks, which are popular in extremely popular in Hungary. Showcasing specialist shots in medicine bottles & periodic tables lining the walls the bar offers state of the art drinks with a chemical twist.
9. Legenda Sorfozde Pub
If you haven’t already heard of them, ruin bars are taking up Budapest’s nightlife scene, not that we’re complaining. They’re basically quirky old spots like buildings and courtyards that are wrapped during a hipster-before-hipster-was-a-thing way. the most important and better of all the ruin bars need to be Szimpla Kert. it’s to be said, it’s simply exquisite (and not only because we will make that joke whenever we mention it), it really is that the ‘Mecca’ of all ruin bars. the huge, former factory has bric-a-brac lining the walls and ceilings and isn’t just a bar, but a live music venue, a theatre events space, and even an open-air cinema. You’ll even be sitting in sawn-off Trabant cars within the huge courtyard.
10. Amigo Bar
You may have chosen to celebrate your stag neutralize Budapest but you’re close to take a pit stop in Spain – hola amigos. Not just a poor man’s Hard Rock Cafe, this multi-level bar has foosball, billiards, live music, rock and roll artefacts on the wall and unbelievably cheap beer (or should we are saying , cervezas?). It’s an excellent place to urge tanked up – and practice your GCSE Spanish – before heading out into the majestic ruin bar scene.
