Hungary travel tips

Hungary travel health

Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Hungary, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Hungary: Budapest.

Required to enter

Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.

Recommended

  • Routine vaccinations up to date
  • Tick-borne encephalitis for forest and countryside walking

Emergency number

112

Care for visitors

Good and affordable

EU/EEA and Swiss visitors are treated on the same terms as residents with an EHIC or GHIC card; UK visitors use a GHIC. Everyone else pays, and travel insurance is worth having for the repatriation cover rather than the treatment.

The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.

The guides in Hungary