Hungarian Parliament tickets: UK visitors pay 14,000 HUF, double the EEA price, and book only through jegymester.hu

💡 The Short Version: UK visitors pay the non-EEA price of 14,000 HUF (about £32), double the 7,000 HUF EEA price. Advance tickets are sold only on jegymester.hu, the site the Parliament names as its official seller, and a limited number of same-day tickets go on sale at the Visitor Centre. The tour takes 45 minutes, with a guide or audioguide in English. Arrive late and entry may be refused with no refund, and visits can be cancelled up to the moment of admission for state events. Or book a tour: GetYourGuide’s Parliament entry ticket with audio guidead (from £37) is a reseller’s listing of the same visit, about £5 above the official price.

The tickets, compared

Official prices from the Parliament’s price list, converted at about 434 HUF to the pound. The non-EEA price covers visitors from the UK, the US, Canada and everywhere else outside the European Economic Area. Anyone claiming a discount shows proof at the entrance.

• The prices rose on 1 January 2026. The non-EEA ticket was 13,000 HUF in 2025 and the EEA ticket 6,500 HUF.
• The EEA price is for EEA citizens and residence-card holders. The Parliament checks proof of eligibility for every discount at the entrance.
• Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

How to buy

• Online, in advance: jegymester.hu/parlament is the only official online seller. The Parliament says advance tickets are not sold at its ticket office, and that it takes no liability for overpriced or counterfeit tickets bought on other websites. Other ticket sites turn up in search results, so go to jegymester.hu directly.
• On the day: a limited number of tickets go on sale at the Visitor Centre on Kossuth Lajos tér. Do not count on them.
• Discounts online: if you buy a discounted ticket in advance, you show proof of eligibility when you enter the building.
• Languages: the 45-minute tour runs with a guide or an audioguide in English, Hungarian, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Audioguide-only tours cover 20 more languages.

Tours worth paying for

The official ticket is enough for most visitors. The tickets below are on GetYourGuide, which is not the Parliament’s official seller. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

Entry ticket with audio guide

From £37 · 4.5 stars from 6,134 reviews · 1 hour

Budapest: Parliament Building Entry Ticket and Audio Guidead lists the same visit. The Parliament’s own price is 14,000 HUF, about £32, so this costs about £5 more. Buy it only if you want to pay in pounds and see availability at a glance; otherwise jegymester.hu is cheaper.

A city tour that includes the Parliament

From £55 · 4.4 stars from 2,027 reviews · 4.5 hours

Budapest: Grand City Tour with Parliament Visitad combines a guided sightseeing tour with a visit inside the Parliament. It costs about £23 more than the entry ticket alone, and that buys the rest of the half day. The listing shows the departure times.

The Parliament from the river

From £10 · 4.3 stars from 24,971 reviews · 1 hour

Budapest Parliament Panorama Cruisead is a one-hour cruise past the building, with no entry. It shows the riverfront façade, which the tour does not. Low water has disrupted some Danube boat services in 2026, so choose a date the listing shows as available. Danube river cruises compared covers the others.

The Parliament’s river front, seen from a boat on the Danube. Photo: Ank kumar, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What to see

The route is fixed and guided, so there is no order to choose. The Parliament’s own description of the 45-minute walk runs as follows.

1. The City Side Staircase. The tour climbs the gilded City Side Staircase XVII, one of the building’s 28 staircases, to the main floor.
2. The Grand Stairway. Ninety-six steps under red carpet lead from the main entrance to the Dome Hall. Károly Lotz painted the ceiling frescoes, and eight granite columns of four tonnes each hold the space up.
3. The Dome Hall. The Hungarian Holy Crown and the Coronation Insignia have been kept here since 1 January 2000, guarded round the clock by the Crown Guard. It is the one room where photography is banned.
4. The Lounge of the Chamber of Peers. Zsolnay pyrogranite sculptures line the room, and the carpet is the largest hand-knotted carpet in Europe, in turquoise.
5. The Chamber of Peers. The former upper house, with Slavonian oak panelling, gold decoration and a horseshoe of seats for 453 members.
6. The Béla Neÿ Hall. The red star that was once set in the cupola, a copper statue that served as a lightning rod and a 1:100 model of the building, beside screens that show spaces outside the tour.

The Grand Stairway, under its painted vaulted ceiling. Photo: Suicasmo, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What to skip: nothing on the route, and no extra ticket is needed for the interior. The outside is free: the façade along the river is best seen from the Buda embankment and from Fisherman’s Bastion (see Fisherman’s Bastion and Matthias Church).

Hours, rules and getting there

• Be on time. The Parliament says a late arrival may be refused entry, with no replacement or refund. It also says visits can be cancelled as late as immediately before admission because of parliamentary or state events.
• Security: everyone is checked before entering. Large bags, parcels and anything that could injure are not allowed. Hand luggage may hold one colourless, non-alcoholic drink or liquid medicine in an unbreakable plastic bottle of up to 0.5 litres. Anything else goes in the cloakroom.
• Photos: allowed everywhere except the Dome Hall.
• Dress and conduct: dress appropriately. No flags or protest objects, no symbols of dictatorship, no raised voices, and no eating, drinking or smoking inside.
• Access: the building is accessible. Wheelchair users should tell the Parliament in advance at tourist.office@parlament.hu.
• Getting there: the Visitor Centre is on Kossuth Lajos tér, at the Kossuth Lajos tér stop on metro line M2. Tram 2 runs along the Pest embankment past the building. Budapest public transport has the fares.

The Parliament is not on the Budapest Card, so the sums for the card leave it out. St Stephen’s Basilica is the next sight to book, a short walk away: see St Stephen’s Basilica tickets. The Hungarian State Opera tours, the House of Terror and the Dohány Street Synagogue are the other fixed-hour sights, and Buda Castle and the National Gallery is the day on the other bank. For the rest of the city’s bookings, see what to book before you go to Budapest. 3 days in Budapest and Budapest in one day build the plan round the bookings. To sleep within sight of the dome, hotels near the Hungarian Parliament lists the hotels, and where to stay in Budapest compares the areas. Danube river cruises show the façade from the water. For a bath after the tour, Széchenyi Baths and Budapest’s thermal baths compared have the prices and rules.